|  Biography
of Robert R. Prechter, Jr.
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 Socionomic 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, Bob 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 Shakespeare Fellowship
and the Shakespeare Oxford Society.
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