Traders and traditions

Cyclepedia organises knowledge around the people who built replicable methods: who they were, what they discovered, what today's students take from them. Every entry separates documented facts from legend — and where a complete corpus exists, the Start button opens the study path.

How to use this gallery — Here you choose who to follow. Neutral concepts stay in concetti; the tools in indicatori; the theory in the traditions. Trader entries link, they do not duplicate.

How to find your way

Step	Where	What you do
1	concetti	Base vocabulary (buy, timeframe, trend…)
2	Traders ← you are here	Choose a master
3	Tradition hub	Ordered book/method path
4	metodologie	Operating techniques by phase

Complete paths available

Hurst — cyclic analysis ✅

Start — Entry j-m-hurst → complete path (Ch. 1–11 + appendices) in tradizione-hurst.

Wyckoff — supply and demand 🟡

Entry richard-wyckoff → draft path in tradizione-wyckoff.

The gallery of the masters

The founders

Trader	Period	The contribution in one line
Munehisa Homma	1724–1803	The origins of candlesticks and sentiment reading
Charles H. Dow	1851–1902	The first indexes and the grammar of trends
Jesse Livermore	1877–1940	Tape reading, pivots — and the risk lesson
Richard D. Wyckoff	1873–1934	Supply/demand, market phases, the Composite Man

The cyclic tradition

Trader	Period	The contribution in one line
W.D. Gann	1878–1955	Time and price on the same footing
Ralph Nelson Elliott	1871–1948	The Wave Principle
J.M. Hurst	1924–2005	The measurable cyclic model — the house specialty

The toolmakers

Trader	Period	The contribution in one line
J. Welles Wilder	1935–2021	RSI, ATR, ADX, Parabolic SAR in a single book
John Bollinger	b. 1950	The adaptive volatility bands
J. Peter Steidlmayer	b. 1938	Market Profile and auction theory
Nicolas Darvas	1920–1977	The boxes: breakouts and trailing stops ahead of their time

The systematics and the quants

Trader	Period	The contribution in one line
Ed Seykota	b. 1946	Computerised trend following
Richard Dennis	b. 1949	The Turtle experiment: method can be taught
Larry Williams	b. 1942	%R, COT, seasonality — a real-money record
Linda Raschke	b. 1959	Codified setups and operating routine
Jim Simons	1938–2024	Renaissance: pure statistics, zero discretion

The macro traders

Trader	Period	The contribution in one line
Paul Tudor Jones	b. 1954	Capital defence and 5:1 asymmetry
George Soros	b. 1930	Reflexivity and the 1992 sterling trade
Stanley Druckenmiller	b. 1953	Selective concentration, never a losing year
Ray Dalio	b. 1949	Principles, All Weather, correlations

The counterpoint: the investor

	Trader	Period	The contribution in one line
	Warren Buffett	b. 1930	Price vs value: time as the edge, the opposite of trading

Connected encyclopedia

For every trader, Cyclepedia separates:

Shared concepts — market-cycle, trend, position-sizing
Tools — indicatori (the Wilder family, the Bollinger bands…)
Foundations of each school — e.g. Wyckoff's Composite Man
Technical glossary — e.g. fld for Hurst

Do not duplicate: trader paths link, they do not rewrite.