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 Concepts; the tools in Indicators; the theory in the traditions. Trader entries link, they do not duplicate.
How to find your way
| Step | Where | What you do |
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| 1 | Base vocabulary (buy, timeframe, trend…) | |
| 2 | Traders ← you are here | Choose a master |
| 3 | Tradition hub | Ordered book/method path |
| 4 | Operating techniques by phase |
Complete paths available
Dow — market movements and confirmation ✅
Entry Charles H. Dow → five-step historical path in Dow Tradition.
Hurst — cyclic analysis ✅
Start — Entry J. M. Hurst → complete path (Ch. 1–11 + appendices) in Hurst tradition.
Wyckoff — supply and demand 🟡
Entry Richard D. Wyckoff → path in Wyckoff tradition.
The gallery of the masters
The founders
| Trader | Period | The contribution in one line | |
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1724–1803 | The origins of candlesticks and sentiment reading | |
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1851–1902 | The first indexes and the grammar of trends | |
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1877–1940 | Tape reading, pivots — and the risk lesson | |
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1873–1934 | Supply/demand, market phases, the Composite Man |
The cyclic tradition
| Trader | Period | The contribution in one line | |
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1878–1955 | Time and price on the same footing | |
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1871–1948 | The Wave Principle | |
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1924–2005 | The measurable cyclic model — the house specialty |
The toolmakers
| Trader | Period | The contribution in one line | |
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1935–2021 | RSI, ATR, ADX, Parabolic SAR in a single book | |
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b. 1950 | The adaptive volatility bands | |
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b. 1938 | Market Profile and auction theory | |
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1920–1977 | The boxes: breakouts and trailing stops ahead of their time |
The systematics and the quants
| Trader | Period | The contribution in one line | |
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b. 1946 | Computerised trend following | |
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b. 1949 | The Turtle experiment: method can be taught | |
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b. 1942 | %R, COT, seasonality — a real-money record | |
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b. 1959 | Codified setups and operating routine | |
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1938–2024 | Renaissance: pure statistics, zero discretion |
The macro traders
| Trader | Period | The contribution in one line | |
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b. 1954 | Capital defence and 5:1 asymmetry | |
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b. 1930 | Reflexivity and the 1992 sterling trade | |
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b. 1953 | Selective concentration, never a losing year | |
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b. 1949 | Principles, All Weather, correlations |
The counterpoint: the investor
| Trader | Period | The contribution in one line | |
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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 — Indicators (the Wilder family, the Bollinger bands…)
- Foundations of each school — e.g. Wyckoff's Composite Man
- Technical glossary — e.g. FLD — Future Line of Demarcation for Hurst
Do not duplicate: trader paths link, they do not rewrite.
Sources
- Samuel A. Nelson, The ABC of Stock Speculation, 1903.
- J. M. Hurst, The Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing, 1970.
- Jack D. Schwager, Market Wizards, 1989.
- Biographical sources and primary works are listed in the individual entries.