About Jim Curry
As a child Jim Curry was always interested in numbers and games and 'how things work'. A child prodigy, at the age of 16 years old in 1982 he set the world record for playing the arcade game Pac Man - and, at the same age, actually co-authored a published book on the subject, titled 'Pac-Man Complete'.
Jim became involved in the markets as an investor in 1988; first in trading index-related mutual funds - then graduating on to trading individual stocks, futures, and options in the 1990's. "Like any beginning trader/investor, I went through all the books, indicators and gurus - but found them, for the most part, to be totally useless; in other words, a good way to lose money." It wasn't until the early 1990's that he stumbled upon a book/methodology that would change the way he looked at the markets forever. This book was J.M. Hurst's the Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing. "It opened up a whole new world to me - and made more 'sense' than any other trading book or analysis technique I had encountered - before or since." Hurst originally authored Profit Magic in 1970. The book was considered too complicated to understand for many, but Hurst's concepts seemed to make perfect sense to Jim, and he has since taken over a decade to decipher and uncover the methods that Hurst used to generate his predictions. "Much of the stuff that Hurst did was based on very complicated mathematical and spectral methods. However, if you do enough searching for something, eventually you will find what you are looking for. I had come up with my own methods for ferreting out time cycles; I spent endless years writing and rewriting my own programs - and, after a decade of trial and error, I got what I was looking for."
In 1998 Jim decided to put his cyclic methods to the test by entering the E-trade national options-trading competition, twice (his only two entries ever into the competition). In the first contest he finished in the top-10 out of over 150,000 entrants; in the second entry into the same contest, he just narrowly missed finishing in first place - over quadrupling a $100,000 account in the contest's short timespan. "Although I now rarely trade index options (opting now instead for the various index-tracking stocks), this convinced me that the methodology was sound. Since then I have taken the last few years to continually perfect and update the methods that I use. What you are seeing when you view my Market Turns outlook is a collection of 15-years of experience in both numeric analysis and spectral methods, and in actually trading the methodology each day."
