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James Marsden Hurst 1924—2005

Hurst tradition

The theoretical and operational corpus of J. M. Hurst (1970): cyclic model, transactional timing, spectral analysis.

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Section dedicated to historical cyclic analysis according to J. M. Hurst, starting from The Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing (Prentice-Hall, 1970).

Menu → Market Cycles → Hurst tradition — Here you find the book path chapter by chapter. Base theory is in Encyclopedia → fondamenti; techniques by phase in metodologie; terms in glossario.

Wikiciclo builds this section chapter by chapter: each book block becomes linked encyclopedic entries. Raw source: 2026-06-22-book-hurst-profit-magic-transaction-timing.

Market Cycles — three areas

Area Hub Role
Hurst tradition ← you are here 1970 book path, chapter index Reading map
tradizione-wyckoff Wyckoff method Other cyclic/volumetric tradition
metodologie Operational techniques Patterns, timing, management, cases

Start here — golden path (Ch. 1–11)

If you are new — Do not start from the table below. Follow these nine entries in order: operating philosophy → compounding → four pillars → price-motion model → five principles → nominal cycles → envelope → nesting → chart pattern verification.

# Entry Ch.
1 operating-philosophy-hurst 1
2 compounding-and-trading-interval 1
3 four-pillars-hurst-system 1
4 price-motion-model 2
5 five-principles-cyclic-model 2
6 hurst-nominal-cycles 2
7 curvilinear-envelope 2
8 nesting-envelope 2
9 chart-pattern-verification 3

After entry 9 continue with trend lines, head and shoulders, double top/bottom, and the Perkin-Elmer case (still Ch. 3, in draft).

Profile: j-m-hurst.

Reading path by book chapter

Ch. Book title Wiki entries Status
1 Maximize Your Profits operating-philosophy-hurst, compounding-and-trading-interval, four-pillars-hurst-system ✅ golden path
2 Timing Is the Key price-motion-model, five-principles-cyclic-model, hurst-nominal-cycles, curvilinear-envelope, nesting-envelope ✅ golden path
3 Verify Your Chart Patterns chart-pattern-verification, trend-lines-and-channels-cyclic, head-and-shoulders-cyclic-origin, double-top-bottom, triangles-cyclic-analysis, case-perkin-elmer-1961, cyclic-moving-averages-hurst ✅ golden path
4 Timing Your Buys With Graphics graphic-buy-timing-hurst, envelope-construction-and-cyclic-state, valid-trend-line, edge-band-mid-band-timing, case-gruen-industries-1961 ✅ golden path
5 You've Made Some Money… profit-management-hurst, cyclic-cut-loss-hurst, trailing-sell-take-profit-hurst, envelope-non-real-time, short-selling-hurst ✅ golden path
6 Compute Your Way computational-methods-hurst, half-span-full-span-hurst, inverse-moving-average-hurst, case-alloys-unlimited ✅ golden path
7 Select and Track selection-and-tracking-hurst, total-scanning-stable-hurst, volatility-stability-screening-hurst, price-tracking-hurst ✅ golden path
8 Trading by Logic trading-by-logic-hurst, cyclic-market-state-hurst, case-screw-and-bolt-1968, trading-experiment-hurst-1968 ✅ golden path
9 Why Stock Prices Change why-prices-change-hurst, cyclic-motivation-x, historical-events-and-cyclicity-hurst, djia-spectral-decomposition-hurst ✅ golden path
10 Pitfalls cyclic-analysis-pitfalls-hurst, psychological-barriers-hurst ✅ golden path
11 Spectral Analysis spectral-analysis-hurst, fourier-analysis-hurst, ormsby-numeric-filters-hurst ✅ golden path
App. Appendices hurst-appendices, appendix-i-djia-spectrum-hurst … appendix-vi-prony-method-hurst ✅ golden path

Internal study sheets: raw/patrimonio-emiciclo/studio-hurst/.

What is NOT in this book (1970)

  • FLD (Future Line of Demarcation) — later Hurst / Cyclitec development
  • Phasing analysis — Cycles Course method (~1973)

Dedicated path: after-the-book-hurst → fld, phasing-analysis-hurst, eight-principles-cyclic-model-hurst.

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