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On Volatility

Volatility is the first derivative of price, and it is the condition every signal operates inside.
Jack C Cahn 29 Aug 2026

Cognitive Homogenization and the Contrarian Edge

Machine-written analysis is narrowing the range of published opinion, which makes the other side of the trade scarcer and better paid.
Jack C Cahn 29 Aug 2026

EWT, the Great Phenomenological Enterprise

Elliott Wave read as description rather than prophecy, and what it is actually good for.
Jack C Cahn 29 Aug 2026

Predicting the Black Swan Financial Event

The claim that the outlier is forecastable in condition even when it is not forecastable in date.
Jack C Cahn 29 Aug 2026

Fractals and Market Self-Similarity

Self-similarity across timeframes, why degree is the whole point, and where the idea stops being useful.
Jack C Cahn 29 Aug 2026

Time, the Natural Order of Things, and Cycles

Why time is the ordering principle, why change clusters at natural demarcations, and what cycles can and cannot carry.
Jack C Cahn 29 Aug 2026

Your Personal Trading Environment

Five rules for the workspace and routine, plus the traits the successful ones share.
Jack C Cahn 29 Aug 2026

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The Contrary Thinker. Jack Cahn, CMT+. Trained under Bob Farrell at Merrill Lynch. Independent market research since 1989.