During the UPW seminar, I decided to register for Tony's Mastery University program which includes the "Wealth Mastery", "Life Mastery," and "Date With Destiny" seminars.

        Soon after, I attended a four day "Wealth Mastery" seminar in 1998 in London. For a novice like me, who didn't even know what "bullish", "Bearish", "short", or "long" meant, the seminar sounded quite interesting. The chart patterns seemed mysterious and exciting, but without knowing at all how to interpret them. Though, it gave me the conviction that there must be a way to discover the hidden secrets behind those patterns.

        Then, I started to read several dozen books and attended further seminars, without any major breakthrough. With the time, I became more and more frustrated because no light was seemingly visible at the end of the tunnel...

       Luckily, it was in year 2000 that I listened to Tony's Power Talk audio tape with Robert Prechter. This sounded quite interesting and I ordered immediately the Prechter's book, called "Elliott Wave Principle". It was exactly the type of books I was desperately looking for. I read, or more precisely, studied it in three days without interruption. It was the first time that I could make sense of financial charts... Although the book explained in detail the chart pattern recognition, it didn't say much about order management, trading or investing.

        As a shy guy then, the moment of epiphany happened when I was on holiday in a Club Med resort in Spain in 2001. For the first time, I decided to write a book on investing and trading. This was a courageous decision. Though, my goal was then, to leave rather a legacy in the form of an academic book, with a lot of theory, but without specific practice, like so many "useless” books, you may find around now a days...

        It is after retiring in 2014 that I finally decided to write the Expert Trading System book. It took me some 18 months to finish it.


       For the first time, the strategy predicted the financial crises of 2008 with high level of accuracy just six weeks before Dow Jones reached a top on October 11, 2007. It then fell from 14,198 points down to 6,470, or some 54% loss, in a matter of some 18 months until March 6, 2009.

       The book in 2014 predicted for Dow Jones a historical top of 24,717, to occur after March 6, 2017. At that time, Dow Jones was at around 16,000 points. Actually, the predicted top occurred in November 2017, and since then Dow Jones fluctuates within a horizontal channel, let's say around 3,000 points above or below that price, most of the time. And since the top of January 26, 2018 at 26,616 points, Dow Jones evolves less than 10% above and below it, for nearly 34 months.

       Now that the historical top has seemingly occurred on February 12, 2020, Dow Jones is predicted to fall to around 5,837 points in November 2022 as a first priority.

       Note that the bull market since 2009 is mainly the result of numerous so-called Quantitative Easing (QE) measures decided by various world central bankers. However, these measures create a more and more disconnect between the real economy and the financial markets. As a consequence, the government's debt and the central banker’s balance sheets have meanwhile become huge bubbles, ready to pop up soon. As many say "Trees don't grow to the sky!"

       The burden of government's debt is currently sustainable because the central banks have artificially engineered an environment of close-to-zero interest rate. But soon, things are going to change, rather drastically.

       After the historical crash, with lesser severity though this time than the one of Great Depression, during which Dow Jones lost 89.5% from its top in some 34 months, a century long period of growth and prosperity will kick in.

       This book is the fruit of over 15 years of research and development by the author.