Metodologías

Operational techniques to read charts, enter, exit, select issues, and manage risk — organized by work phase, not only by book chapter.

Menú → Ciclos de mercado → Metodologías — The «how to». Full book path is in Tradición Hurst; theory in Encyclopedia → Teoría cíclica; terms in Glosario.

Before you enter here

Prerequisite	Hub	Why
Trading vocabulary	Conceptos	Buy, timeframe, trend, stop…
Hurst cyclic model	Teoría cíclica	Ch. 2 before techniques
Golden path	Tradición Hurst	Ch. 1–3 read or in progress

Hurst — methodologies by operational phase

1 · Reading the chart (Ch. 3)

Goal: verify classic patterns have cyclic origin.

Entrada	Status
Chart pattern verification	✅ ready
Trend lines and channels: the cyclic origin	✅ ready
Head and shoulders: the cyclic origin	✅ ready
Double top and double bottom	✅ ready
Triangles and cyclic analysis	✅ ready
Cyclic moving averages (Hurst)	✅ ready
Case Perkin-Elmer (1961)	✅ ready

2 · Entry timing (Ch. 4)

Goal: buy at the favourable point of the cycle with graphic tools.

Entrada	Status
Graphic buy timing	✅ ready
Envelope construction and the cyclic state table	✅ ready
Valid trend line (VTL)	✅ ready
Edge-band and mid-band timing	✅ ready
Case Gruen Industries (1961)	✅ ready

3 · Position management (Ch. 5)

Goal: keep profits, cut losses, short.

Entrada	Status
Profit management and exits (Hurst, Ch. 5)	✅ ready
Cyclic cut-loss (Hurst)	✅ ready
Trailing sell and take-profit (Hurst)	✅ ready
Non-real-time envelope (Hurst)	✅ ready
Short selling according to Hurst	✅ ready

4 · Computational tools (Ch. 6)

Entrada	Status
Hurst computational methods (Ch. 6)	✅ ready
Half-span and full-span moving average (Hurst)	✅ ready
Inverse moving average (Hurst)	✅ ready
Case Alloys Unlimited	✅ ready

5 · Selection and tracking (Ch. 7)

Entrada	Status
Issue selection and tracking (Hurst Ch. 7)	✅ ready
Total scanning and the stable (Hurst)	✅ ready
Screening: volatility and stability (Hurst)	✅ ready
Price tracking (Hurst)	✅ ready

6 · Operational logic (Ch. 8)

Entrada	Status
Trading by logic (Hurst Ch. 8)	✅ ready
Cyclic market state (Hurst)	✅ ready
Case Screw and Bolt (1968)	✅ ready
The 1968 trading experiment	✅ ready

7 · Pitfalls to avoid (Ch. 10)

Entrada	Status
Cyclic analysis pitfalls (Hurst)	✅ ready
The psychological barriers (Hurst)	✅ ready

Wyckoff — methodologies

Entrada	Status
Five Wyckoff steps	✅ published
Four-phase price cycle (Wyckoff)	✅ published
Trading range (Wyckoff)	✅ published
Accumulation — phases A–E (Wyckoff)	✅ published
Distribution — phases A–E (Wyckoff)	✅ published

Full path: Tradición Wyckoff.

Post-1970 and other methodologies

Methodology	Entrada	Note
FLD	FLD — Future Line of Demarcation	Not in Profit Magic
Phasing analysis	Phasing analysis (Hurst)	Cycles Course
Spectral analysis	Spectral analysis (Hurst Ch. 11)	Ch. 11 — more foundation than method