Richard Wyckoff noticed changes in the stock market in 1920, with more industries competing to lead the market compared to the previous decade when only a handful led market cycles. As diversity increased, he concluded he needed to consider more than just market action to identify future leaders. He began incorporating economic factors into his analysis as well, such as money, credit, and how they impacted business environments, as the economy expanded after World War I and new structures like the Federal Reserve took shape.
Richard Wyckoff noticed changes in the stock market in 1920, with more industries competing to lead the market compared to the previous decade when only a handful led market cycles. As diversity increased, he concluded he needed to consider more than just market action to identify future leaders. He began incorporating economic factors into his analysis as well, such as money, credit, and how they impacted business environments, as the economy expanded after World War I and new structures like the Federal Reserve took shape.
Richard Wyckoff noticed changes in the stock market in 1920, with more industries competing to lead the market compared to the previous decade when only a handful led market cycles. As diversity increased, he concluded he needed to consider more than just market action to identify future leaders. He began incorporating economic factors into his analysis as well, such as money, credit, and how they impacted business environments, as the economy expanded after World War I and new structures like the Federal Reserve took shape.
Richard Wyckoff noticed changes in the stock market in 1920, with more industries competing to lead the market compared to the previous decade when only a handful led market cycles. As diversity increased, he concluded he needed to consider more than just market action to identify future leaders. He began incorporating economic factors into his analysis as well, such as money, credit, and how they impacted business environments, as the economy expanded after World War I and new structures like the Federal Reserve took shape.
however, a start to some new exciting technological developments: the radio
would be introduced as the new communication medium. The year 1920 also experienced an economy that was slowing down, as a recession began to set in while construction and crop prices were falling, which back then were vital industries to the American economic landscape. Because the market reflected an outlook of slowing conditions, many leading stocks, as they do when the market experiences heavier selling rather than buying power, pulled back and fell with the market. A few of these were American Woolen closing the year at $601⁄2, which was off from a high of $165; Baldwin Locomotive, which closed 1920 at $86, which was off from a high of $1181⁄2; and Crucible Steel, which fell from a high of $278 in April to $75 by year-end, or a fall of 73%. This lat- ter decline shows how the prior steel leader was caught in an industry rota- tion that was just beginning. Early 1920 also witnessed a time when many racial riots were beginning to unfold in many major cities throughout the country. It would be a tumultuous beginning to a decade that was about to witness both historical highs and lows for the stock market.
Wyckoff Expands His Analysis
Richard Wyckoff, during his continued study of the markets, remarked in
1920 that the market was changing. He noticed how, after the war had ended, that there were many more industries vying for the lead in the market. This was in contrast to the preceding decade when really only a handful of indus- tries seemed to lead most market upward cycles. There also were more stocks to follow currently as diversity began to increase. As we will see he was correct in his thinking as more consumer-related industries began to crop up in addition to the existing industrial industries. Through his observation he concluded that he needed more than just pure market action to discover the real standout leaders for the future. Since the economy seemed to be in an early stage of expansion from a widening-out position and with recently enacted organized structures in place that had exertive powers such as the Federal Reserve, Wyckoff thought he needed to correlate many economic fac- tors into this study as well. He thought that money and credit issues should be considered for their impact on the overall economy and how they directly affected profitable operation environments for organizations. With this new