Part one: The logic of non-rational behaviour in financial markets -- Wholly individual or indivisibly whole -- Two's a crowd -- The individual in the crowd -- The systems approach to crowd behaviour -- Cycles in the crowd -- Techniques for forecasting crowd behaviour -- Part two: The dynamics of the bull-bear cycle -- The stock market crowd -- The shape of the bull-bear cycle -- Energy gaps and pro-trend shocks -- The spiral and the golden ratio -- The mathematical basis of price movements -- The shape of things to come -- Part three: Forecasting turning points -- The phenomenon of cycles -- The threefold nature of cycles -- Economic cycles -- Recurrence in economic and financial activity -- Integrating the cycles -- Forecasting with cycles -- Finding cycles: a case study -- Price patterns in financial markets -- The Elliott wave principle -- Information shocks and corrections -- The confirmation of buy and sell signals -- Part four: The trader at work -- The psychology of fear -- The troubled trader -- The psychology of success -- The mechanics of success -- Summary and conclusions.