This course would be best suited for:

• Beginners interested in trading
• Novice traders
• Professional analysts and traders

Course topics:

• Cyclic analysis – TIME is most important
• Using charts and cyclic tools
• Setting up a trading system
• Trading psychology

Detailed Course Contents:

Lesson 1: How Price Action Works, 2. From Cyclic Concepts to Trading Decisions, 3. Setting up the Cyclic Model, 4. Setting up a Transaction, 5. How to Deal with Tops and Short Selling, 6. Cyclic Analysis During a Transaction, 7. Terminating a Transaction, 8. How to Shape Strategy and Plan Capabilities, 9. Refining Your Capabilities, 10. A Reference Summary of Cyclic Analysis

Course instructor:

The Late J.M. Hurst

Time required to complete the course:

Approximately 300 hours

Additional comments:

Here is the essence of a recent Amazon listing about the Hurst Course:

Below is a partial review of the course by Edward Dobson, the President of the then publisher Traders Press. Those knowledgeable about the history and background of the study of cyclical price behavior in the financial markets know full well the tremendous value of the pioneering research done in this area by the legendary J.M. Hurst in the 1970s. His seminal work, The Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing, is a classic in this area and is held in the highest esteem by cycles enthusiasts. Few, however, are aware of the fact that Hurst, in addition to his classic book, also authored a full-fledged, fully comprehensive course, which teaches the student everything he or she needs to know to select and analyze data, produce trade signals, as well as enter, monitor and exit trades, based on the principles uncovered by Hurst’s incisive research.

The Hurst Cycles Course exposes the student, whether veteran trader or novice, to a method of trading based on the cyclic waves that underpin market price action. The scope of the training encompasses the entire gamut of activities required to make any market trade in virtually any time frame. The fact that price charts exhibit visible price cycles only a relatively small percentage of the time does not militate against this approach. In fact, it is precisely this reason that gives Hurst’s methodology its greatest value. Even when price is in a hard trend and does not exhibit an obvious cyclic pattern, it is underlain by a host of waves of various lengths and amplitudes. The author shows how these can be winnowed out of the chart, revealing their interrelationship with the price action and providing a remarkable amount of information about the history of the market, its current status and probable future.

In developing this course as an educational tool, the author has pulled out all the stops. No effort has been spared in bringing to the reader a full and usable understanding of trading on the basis of a cyclic substrate. The clarity of Hurst’s writing is no small part of the course’s value, even in the face of the fact that the text is loaded with newly coined special terms and labels. The illustrations are large (many oversized (A3) foldouts), cogent and truly necessary to the interactive style of teaching at the heart of this course. The student finds himself or herself repeatedly asked to perform learning tasks that clarify the material and will be used in actual trading.

History of this Material

Author J M Hurst is a legend to knowledgeable individuals interested and involved in the study of cyclical price movement in the financial markets. An aerospace engineer by training and background, he was the first pioneer in the computerized research into the nature of stock price action, devoting many years and over 20,000 computer hours to this study. His conclusions were first documented in this groundbreaking classic. This course has become a classic and it is held in exceptionally high esteem by serious technical analysts and market students.

• JM Hurst and Cyclitec Services produced the JM Hurst Course in the last 1960’s and early 1970’s.

In the early 1970’s this full-length course on cyclical analysis and on how to apply it to actual trading was published by Cyclitech Services.  Hurst taught the principles of this course in a series of seminars for a year or two. The material in this course is considered by many to be the clearest and most thorough material ever made available for those interested in learning about cycles and how to trade profitably with them. There were only 250 copies of the course ever sold. It was out of print for 25 years until about 1998.

• Ed Dobson of Traders Press obtained a copy of an original course some time after 1997 and made it available.

• Russell Wasendorf purchased Traders Press in 2009.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

http: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Wasendorf

Russell R. Wasendorf Sr. (born 1948) is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Peregrine Financial Group, also known as PFGBEST, a futures commission merchant (commonly known as a “Commodity Broker”) that filed for bankruptcy protection in Chicago in July 2012.

He was arrested in July 2012 following a suicide attempt. In September he pled guilty to embezzling $215.5 million from more than 13,000 customers over the course of 20 years. On January 31, 2013 he received a 50 year sentence for fraud, effectively a life sentence.[1]

Career

Wasendorf established Wasendorf & Son Inc. in 1980, renamed it Peregrine 10 years later and opened a Chicago office, according to the company website.

On July 9, 2012, the same day that the National Futures Association reported that Peregrine appeared to be missing at least $200 million in customer funds, Wasendorf attempted to commit suicide by asphyxiation outside company headquarters. Before doing so he left a suicide note admitting to embezzling from the company for nearly two decades, according to the FBI affidavit. “I have committed fraud. For this I feel constant and intense guilt,” he wrote in the note, according to the affidavit.[2]

The bankruptcy filing took place after Peregrine was put under investigation for a shortfall of at least $200 million in customer funds. The firm was also accused by federal regulators of commingling customer and firm money.[3][4]

Wasendorf was arrested and charged with making false statements to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). He admitted to stealing at least $100 million from his firm, according to an FBI affidavit that accompanied the criminal complaint unsealed on July 13, 2012, the date of his arrest.[2] He was convicted and sentenced to 50 years of prison and $215.5 million of restitution.[5]

Wasendorf is the author or co-author of six books about trading and futures, has been an investor in the BESTDirect Online Trading platform, and founded “SFO” (Stocks, Futures, Options), an industry magazine, in 2001. Wasendorf has engaged in charity work and won a number of awards for contributions to the community.[6]

Post 2009, Traders Press compressed the original 3 lever arch folders down to 2 and provided the audio on CD rather than the original 10 cassette tapes.

Traders Press has now ceased operations.

• Current faithful reproduction

Some of the work put on some of the A3 charts by the original owner of the original course obtained by Dobson was distracting at best and misleading at worst.  This old doodling and marginalia has been electronically cleaned off, as have some other ‘blemishes’.  The material is therefore closer to the original in these respects than provided by Traders Press.

When you copy a copy there will be degradation and this is certainly the case with this reproduction.  But rest assured that this in no way detracts from the quality and clarity of the material presented in the course.  There are no issues with the written word but some of the ‘blank’ chart sections have faded grid lines.  The main material shown on the charts remains clear and readable.

Please understand that the publisher has studied this course and uses this material to trade for a living.  This material is too valuable for it to be lost and so this reproduction is provided for those seekers of truth and knowledge about how markets work.  Dare to, if you care to!

Get Rich

This is not a get rich quick course.  It takes about 6 months to work through.  One cyclically aware, active and experienced trader completed the course in about 3 months of focused and dedicated study.  It is like doing a University degree.  You need to put in some serious study.

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The advent of accurate and continuous equity price histories made possible the study of equity price movement as a function of time, independent of all other variables.

Early studies of such data produced the conclusion that equity prices vary in a random, hence unpredictable, way.

This conclusion has been replaced in the last decade as evidence mounts that equity price variation is ordered and quasi predictable.

The relationship between past and future prices is found to be complex and nonlinear. Current simplified models represent price movement as consisting of a linear combination of wave functions with specific and consistent interrelationships. This viewpoint has led to the development of the Wave Theory of Price Action.

From this Wave Theory, a body of practical application methods called Cyclic Analysis has been evolved which permits a fully integrated and wholly technical approach to the problem of trading and investing successfully in the stock and commodity markets.

This approach features the following unique capabilities: prediction of price-reversal timing, prediction of the price at an anticipated reversal, estimation of the extent of the price move expected to follow a reversal, and evaluation of a transaction before entry in terms of risk and profit potential.

Cyclic Analysis methodology has been field tested since 1971, and computerized analysis aids are available.

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For many years I have heard how valuable the work of J.M. Hurst has proven to those interested in the use of cycles in the pursuit of market profits. Many Traders Press customers have advised me how valuable any material would prove to them that would shed any additional light on the work of Hurst. It is with great pride that we present the work of Brian Millard, Channels and Cycles, which clarifies the original work of Hurst as well as updating it and bringing it forward to the present time. Millard, like other market technicians such as Jim Tillman and Peter Eliades, found the work of Hurst of such seminal importance in influencing his approach to market analysis that it became the cornerstone of his methodology. It is hoped that this work will prove valuable to the members of the investment comunity who are interested in the application of cycles and the work of Hurst. 255 pages. It should also be noted that Traders Press has recently reprinted the full-fledged training course on cycles authored by J.M. Hurst. This extensive course, which consists of 10 lessons encompassing nearly 1,600 pages (including hundreds of 11×17 foldout charts) and 11 audio tapes, is the most comprehensive and practical material available anywhere for those interested in understanding how to use cycles to their benefit in investing and trading. It shows how to actually apply Hurst’s methods to actual trading situations, including actual buying and selling rules and applications. A fuller description of this course is available by clicking here: J.M. Hurst Training Course, and is available exclusively through Traders Press.

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Can a $10,000 investment yield $1,000,000 in a year? In five years? If so, what is the risk involved?

These are the kinds of questions to which this work is addressed. Such fantastic results are possible in the stock market. Individual issues fluctuate widely enough and often enough to permit this and more. Techniques are presented here that put an average yield on invested capital of 10% per month, well within the realm of possibility. Compounding profits at this rate, such a yield can return $1,000,000 on a $10,000 investment within 50 months.

An actual trading experiment will be described using these principles which produced an 8.9% yield per transaction–every 9.7 days. Such a yield, if continued, compounds $10,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months. If such results can be attained in the market — why isn’t everyone doing it?

The answer is complex, but the elements are simple: effort, knowledge and psychological barriers. Any goal this worthwhile requires time and effort. Most investors, amateur and professional do not have the kind of analytical background needed to shear through rumor, opinion, and adage to get at the basis of why stock prices change. And finally, even with knowledge in hand, many investors lack training in the emotion-logic balance required for success.

Nevertheless, all of these obstacles can be overcome. It is the purpose of this book to provide you with the essentials. The results are yours if you care to apply yourself with sufficient intensity. Investment operations will be presented here in a deliberately unorthodox manner. We will turn our backs firmly on all cliches, adages, and market lore that will not withstand critical scrutiny. Where necessary, we will not hesitate to form new ones that do fit the facts.

You will find here that the big money in investing stems from the principle of “profit compounding:—of short-term trades. It is further shown that this potential cannot be exploited in an optimum manner without a large improvement in transaction-timing capability that cannot be achieved using tradional investment methods.

You will be exposed to: a concept of profit maximization; a model of stock price motion with prediction implications; an explanation of why chart patterns form—and how to use this knowledge to your profit; step-by-step methods for using the price-motion model to generate definite “wait,” “buy,” “hold,” “sell,” “sell short,” “cover short,” and “protect profit” signals; an explanation of why moving averages work and how to design your own for use in transaction timing; a complete trading method: how to select issues, how to analyze them for action signals, and how to improve your chances of turning and keeping a profit; the extent to which you should be concerned by chance factors, whether or not you should sell in case of war or financial crisis; the reasons why psychological considerations can affect your profits and what you can do about it; an introduction to numerical analysis and spectral analysis, upon which the results on the book are based.

The problems of trading techniques and methods are dealt with directly. Enough methods and references are included to permit further research if desired.

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