Robert Prechter

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There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Thinking
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I have never seen a market unfold in other than an Elliott Wave pattern.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Patterns
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Traders take a good system and destroy it by trying to make it into a perfect system.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Perfect
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Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Men
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The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Moving
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I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that has followed. They are simply ignorant about it and don’t know what happened or what is happening. They think that prices go up rather than that dollars go down.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Thinking
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The target for a retracement following a fifth wave often is doubly indicated by the end of the preceding fourth wave and the 382 retracement point.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Often Is
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The Nixonization of Obama has started. The Hooverization comes next.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Next
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From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.
- Robert Prechter
Collection: Government