My Most Important Discovery by Edson Gould
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- EDSON GOULD
I have hundreds of pages of Edson Gould’s “Findings & Forecasts” articles and special reports. It’s possible that some of these articles don’t exist outside of my library. This is the master technician that taught me how to interpret the stock market. Prior to reading Gould, I was a follower and didn’t know how to PREDICT the stock market.
- Edson Gould was acknowledged as the greatest technician of the 20th century by Institutional Magazine.
- Gould was described in 1977 by Forbes magazine as the “dean of technicians.”
- Gould appeared three times on Wall Street Week. Louis Rukeyser welcomed him on November 12, 1976 (with guests Bob Nurock and Marty Zweig):
- “If there’s a technical market analyst in Wall Street with a better track record than Edson Gould, we haven’t found him yet in seven seasons of looking….his forecasts…have an immediate market impact that no other technician can match.”Gould’s popular fame has centered on some of his uncannily accurate stock market forecasts. These forecasts were presented in major reports which he issued for the year ahead. Some of his better known forecasts were:
- In 1962, Gould predicted that the DJIA would rise another 400 points but the great bull market that had started in 1942 would end in 1966. The bull market expired on February 11, 1966 at 1001.11, having risen from 93 in 1942.
- In October, 1972, with the DJIA at 940, he said the DJIA would rise to 1040 – 1050 by year’s end. The DJIA rose to 1051.70 on January 11, 1973.
- On January 16, 1973, in a “special sale bulletin” he urged subscribers to sell, believing the bull move that had started in 1970 at 800 was over. By December 1974, the DJIA plummeted 497 points.
- In November, 1979 in his report titled The Sign of the Bull, he wrote: “The ‘unexpected’…is an intermediate-term DJIA move over the next several years to the 1200-1400 level, with an eventual move up to the 2500-3000 level by the mid-to late-1980’s.” These levels were reached in 1989. In The Sign of the Bull, he concluded: “[T]he…years ahead are quite likely to produce a new and exciting period – one that should meet the expectations of even the most optimistic bulls.” We know what the stock market did after 1982.
- Gould’s interest in market forecasts can be traced to his early career. In early 1935, he told Barron’s editors that 1937 would see a bear swing. The DJIA fell 32.82% in 1937. He wrote articles, published in Barron’s in 1937 and 1941, under the name of Edson Beers.
- Barron’s wrote:
- “In the spring of 1937.…Mr. Beers was practically the only one to write back that all purchases should be postponed until later in the year. His forecast of a bear swing during 1937, incidentally, was first made to Barron’s in early 1935.”
- dubbed “The Wizard of Wall Street”, by Time magazine, during mid-1970s
- The Market Technician Association Annual Award winners are nominated for their life-long outstanding contribution to the development and widespread acceptance of technical analysis by institutional practitioners and individual investors. The 1975 winner was Edson Gould.
- EDSON GOULD ARTICLE – My Most Important Discovery (193?)
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December 24, 2021 at 6:49 AM
Ed was married to my grandmother Bea I spent every summer with them at the farm in New Ringgold p.a..Ed and I fed the ducks everyday then he would go straight to his desk he was the quietest person ever always nose to desk.
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July 23, 2014 at 7:17 AM
Hi Bob
Some interesting posts on Gould, Tops and Bottoms
Thank you
Regards
Bob Collett
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July 22, 2014 at 3:15 PM
QE is a fundamental, but the crowd reliance on QE is psychological.
The way I have always looked at QE is all that money had to find a home and the stock market was the ONLY good game in town, certainly not interest bearing other than junk bonds, but junk carries a significant measure of risk, unlike T-Bonds. But there was also investment in distressed home real estate. So I look at QE as floating some parts of our economy. The FED seems to think that it’s not needed any more, but it’s very likely the market will take a significant dip because of fear of QE withdrawal. A bounce after that could tell us if this bull market has legs for the future. That would be interesting.
I don’t think we have a public crowd reaction going presently. We certainly have a buy the dip mentality among those who are the main participants in this market. I think the participants are institutional and not public. But regardless of whoever is in charge of the market (institutions) will be wrong at the market top or bottom. It just works that way.
Significant public participation is still missing from this market after being hit with 2000-2003 and then 2007-2009. I’ve heard many surveys where man in the street thinks Wall St is fixed and they (public) can’t make money.
In 1999, the crowd reaction was very much in effect and it was so obvious that if anyone took a moment and looked around, they couldn’t miss it. Most didn’t stop and look around. I know of no one that listened to me. They were ALL stock market geniuses and I was just a party pooper.
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July 22, 2014 at 2:45 PM
Thanks Bob I guess Gould would say that today the crowd psychology would be the Fed backing the stock market with QE? Will be interesting to see what happens when QE is done and if it stays done?
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