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Catalin Plapcianu
Quantifying Market Activity through the Squaring
of Multidimensional Pricetime
About the Author
The Institute of Cosmological Economics is proud to support the advanced research of Catalin Plapcianu - an engineer, mathematician and market analyst who brings original and sophisticated insights to technical analysis through the integration of scientific and mathematical principles with the most refined elements of Gann analysis. He develops complex algorithms distilling advanced Gann insights into algorithmic logic which is then used to generate automated forecasting and trading systems.
Biography
Catalin Plapcianu is a native of Romania. His first academic accreditation was a Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering from his homeland. Upon graduating, he relocated to Switzerland and completed a Masters qualification in International Business from Geneva's International University. After completing his Masters, he has maintained a basis of operations in Switzerland for some years while developing his interest and research in the financial markets, before returning to his home country where he now resides.
Preliminary Market Studies
His first exposure to the world of finance and markets was through fundamental analysis. Over the course of time he found that this approach to the markets did not fulfil his desire to understand and forecast future price movements. His natural propensity for engineering and mathematical modelling inevitably led him away from the world of fundamentals and into the more sophisticated mechanics of Technical Analysis. During this time, he received his membership in the STA and specialised in the work of Tom Demark and Trevor Neil, developing several research papers and technical indicators relating to their work.
With an established foundation in the mathematics and mechanics of technical analysis, he found that his natural intuitions and formative notions relating to market behavior were not adequately supported by technical analysis alone. He found himself seeking something deeper and even more powerful.
First Encounters with The Work of W.D. Gann
While studying materials in the STA, Plapcianu encountered some literature discussing the work of W.D. Gann and his spectacular results published in his famous 1909 Ticker Interview. Upon researching the legacy of the enigmatic Gann in greater detail, he realized that his intuitions of a deeper science behind the markets were correct. This breakthrough in his research lead him to an extensive search into understanding Gann’s real wisdom. During this time Plapcianu undertook and an exhaustive analysis of Gann’s past trades and gained unforeseen insights into many of Gann's mathematical, Kabalistic and astrological theories.
Collaborating with The Institute of Cosmological Economics
His research into the deeper facets of Gann's legacy eventually led him to the lesser known Gann works housed within the Institute of Cosmological Economics. He also studied the oeuvre of one of the leading Gann contemporaries, Daniel T. Ferrera, and various other historical sources within the ICE Catalog. As his studies revealed deeper insights, his ability to engineer accurate and dependable indicators increased significantly. After several years, Plapcianu approached the Institute of Cosmological Economics with a market forecasting and timing technique that was to become his inaugural ICE Publication: Technical Analysis and Time Projection - The Harmony of Mathematics and Nature.
Baumring Revelations
During the time of writing his first book, Plapcianu began a deep and dedicated study of the legacy of work of the most advanced scholar on the work of Gann - Dr. Jerome Baumring. This study set him on an 8-year journey into the deep mathematical, astronomical, scientific and esoteric concepts presented by Baumring leading far down the rabbit hole to the deepest levels of Gann analysis.
During this study, he would regularly hire professors in physics and mathematics to give him focused primer courses in various fields and specialties within physics and mathematics. Plapcianu feels that he has unravelled 40% of Baumring’s work so far, and he continues his research into the refined field where Gann and the cutting edges of scientific theory coincide.
Breakthroughs & Proprietary Indicators
After several years of this hard, dedicated work, often engrossing 18 hours a day for many months at a time for years on end, Plapcianu broke through to a new and deeper level of understanding in the relationship of space/time geometry to market phenomena.
These hard earned insights have enhanced his technical and creative faculties and are the driving force behind a unique and highly sophisticated series of proprietary indicators to forecast market movements with even greater accuracy.
Some elements of these indicators have already been deployed on the Bloomberg system for large institutional clientele, but he was dissatisfied with the cost of the Bloomberg and other institutional systems, so began developing his own stand-alone App to run his algorithms.
This new series of indicators are currently being redeveloped on a new platform by Plapcianu himself, who has spent the last year learning to program C# so that he could program his algorithms in complete secrecy and with total control of all processes. We excitedly await the completion of Plapcianu’s App programming project.
Publications
The Trilogy – The Square, The Triangle, The Circle
Volume 1 – The Square
Once the swings and turning points are thus mathematically defined, they can be identified as conical transformations of the circle, and the calculation of acceleration and deceleration rates for each swing becomes possible. Four types of nonlinear distribution in the extent of a swing will be presented and applied to the projection of hyperbolic acceleration/deceleration curves, which dynamically mold the curvature of future market action.
These hyperbolic curves consistently identify and capture large tradable segments of sequential swings in any market, on any time frame, from minute to monthly.
We are pleased to support the continuing hard for of Catalin Plapcianu and look forward to sharing his imminent release at the earliest possible opportunity.
WHAT OUR TRADERS SAY…
When I was able to get an early copy of Alex’s 3rd book ‘Music of the Spheres’ I was stunned by the amount and quality of the information he provides. Alex ties together astronomy, music, and correct scaling to provide a glimpse inside the market’s true structure. He clarifies the work W D Gann did a hundred years ago and then brings that work into the modern world where we can adjust scales and track planets with a click of a mouse button.
Mr. Straker is also a gifted and willing mentor if someone wishes to accelerate their learning curve with some one to one work with him.
I have read many books in 30 years of market study and was fortunate to be able to spend hours looking over the W. D. Gann archives in Nikki Jones' possession. I believe Alexander Straker has written material that will go down in history as the truly definitive work on understanding W D Gann. He also has shown how the original Gann methods can be expressed in greater detail with the use of computer chart programs.
Lorrie has a profound gift of seeing patterns and of perceiving the underlying order within whatever subject she directs her attention towards. Additionally, she has the gift of perceiving not only what is truly being said, but more importantly, what is not. She has taken on the works of W. D. Gann and Dr. Jerome Baumring in a total immersion. Her tenacity, will, and energy have been the sails, the current, and the wind of her voyage through the illusory and sometimes rocky waters of W. D. Gann.
Alex has shared a tremendous amount of knowledge invaluable to Gann students and traders. It is apparent that Alex has studied market behaviour with a great deal of enthusiasm for many years, and given considerable thought to distilling the essence of past and current masters to come up with his own unique theory about how it all fits together around the golden mean. His generosity in sharing his insights is only matched by the number of pages in this insightful volume!
I've covered a lot of material in many years of research, but never have I come across insights which more clearly point to an underlying mathematical structure to price markets which become discernible through proper scaling. Alex's scaling methods and insights are the best I've come across, particularly his angle-based approach. I'm sure that any serious student of Gann would be impressed with the unique insights generously shared by Alex and would find return for their investment in the scaling methodology alone.
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