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ICT, ancient wisdom and Wall Street: the hidden energies that drive the world’s stock markets
Orchestrated forces behind the movements of stock prices worldwide reveal themselves in geometrical patterns and number sequences which can be read as a language, says Dutch global markets analyst Herma Koornwinder
For decades, academics and the financial sector have used the principle that stock prices in the financial markets are set arbitrarily, that they are ‘random’ and unpredictable. They have relied, among other things, on the enormously influential ‘random walk theory’ of the American economist, the Princeton professor Burton Malkiel.
But the research of Dutch global markets analyst Herma Koornwinder shows the opposite of randomness: order. During the 50 years she has studied the markets, she has detected synchronous wave movements and unmistakable patterns in international stock price fluctuations.
At a seminar in the Netherlands as long ago as 1988, Herma tackled Professor Jan-Willem Goslings (1943–2011), then a director of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP (National Civil Pension Fund), over his view, based on his own research and his support of Malkiel (b1932)…
