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 Robert
R. Prechter, Jr., CMT, began his professional career in 1975
as a Technical Market Specialist with the Merrill Lynch Market Analysis
Department in New York. He has been publishing The Elliott Wave
Theorist, a monthly forecasting publication, since 1979. Currently
he is president of Elliott Wave International, which publishes analysis
of global stock, bond, currency, metals and energy markets. He is also
Executive Director of the Socionomics Institute, a research group. Mr.
Prechter has won numerous awards for market timing, including the United
States Trading Championship, and in 1989 was awarded the "Guru
of the Decade" title by Financial News Network (now CNBC). He has
been named "one of the premier timers in stock market history"
by Timer Digest, "the champion market forecaster"
by Fortune magazine, "the world leader in Elliott Wave
interpretation" by The Securities Institute, and "the nation's
foremost proponent of the Elliott Wave method of forecasting" by
The New York Times.
Mr. Prechter is author, co-author and/or editor of 13 books, including
Elliott Wave Principle – Key to Market Behavior (1978),
R.N. Elliott's Masterworks (1980), The Wave Principle of
Human Social Behavior and the New Science of Socionomics (1999),
Conquer the Crash (2002), and Pioneering Studies in Socionomics
(2003).
Since 1979, when he first addressed the subject, Mr. Prechter has been
exploring socionomics, the study and prediction of social trends in
light of the Wave Principle and its implications for the social sciences.
In 1999 created the Socionomics Institute, of which he is Executive
Director. The institute is an independent think-tank whose mission is
to develop socionomics as an academic discipline and to promote its
commercial application. Recently, Mr. Prechter has made presentations
on his socionomic theory to MIT, the London School of Economics and
academic conferences.
In 2004, the Socionomics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization,
was created to provide education and fund scholarly investigation into
socionomic theory.
Mr. Prechter graduated from Yale University in 1971 with a degree in
psychology. He served as the 21st president of the Market Technicians
Association, and is a member of Mensa, Intertel, the Triple Nine Society,
The Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society.
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