Robert
R.
Prechter,
Jr.,
CMT,
is
founder
and
president
of
Elliott
Wave
International,
the
world’s
largest
independent
financial
forecasting
firm.
He
has
been
writing
market
commentary
since
1976.
In
1984,
Bob
set
a
record
in
the
options
division
of
the
U.S.
Trading
Championship
with
a
real-money
trading
account.
In
December
1989,
Financial
News
Network
(now
CNBC)
named
him
"Guru
of
the
Decade."
Bob
served
for
nine
years
on
the
national
Board
of
the
Market
Technicians
Association
and
in
1990-1991
served
as
its
president.
During
the
1990s,
he
expanded
his
firm
to
provide
round-the-clock
analysis
on
global
financial
markets.
Bob
has
written
13
books
on
finance,
beginning
with
Elliott
Wave
Principle
in
1978,
which
predicted
a
1920s-style
stock
market
boom.
His
2002
title,
Conquer
the
Crash
-
You
Can
Survive
and
Prosper
in
a
Deflationary
Crash
and
Depression,
was
a
New
York
Times
best-seller.
In
1999,
Bob
received
the
CSTA’s
first
annual
A.J.
Frost
Memorial
Award
for
Outstanding
Contribution
to
the
Development
of
Technical
Analysis.
In
2003,
Traders
Library
granted
him
its
Hall
of
Fame
award.
Prechter’s
current
interest
is
a
new
approach
to
social
science,
which
he
outlined
in
Socionomics—the
Science
of
History
and
Social
Prediction
(1999-2003).
This
two-book
set
presents
a
theory
of
endogenously
regulated
social
mood
and
its
manifestation
in
social
action.
In
July
2007,
The
Journal
of
Behavioral
Finance
published
“The
Financial/Economic
Dichotomy:
A
Socionomic
Perspective,”
a
paper
by
Prechter
and
his
colleague,
Dr.
Wayne
Parker.
Prechter
has
made
presentations
on
his
socionomic
theory
to
the
London
School
of
Economics,
Georgia
Tech,
MIT,
SUNY
and
academic
conferences.
He
recently
created
the
Socionomics
Institute,
which
is
dedicated
to
explaining
socionomics,
and
he
funds
the
Socionomics
Foundation,
which
supports
academic
research
in
the
field.
To
visit
the
websie,
please
click
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