FSC Techsignal Buy-Sell Cycles Network
Introducing the FSC Techsignal Cycles Buy-Sell Signal Generation and FSC Firebird Elite Trading Platform.
Our buy-sell signal generation is based on time-tested, statistically proven, and scientifically rigorous mathematical algorithms, many of which have been in use at government and university levels for decades now.
We draw on an almost century-old intellectual heritage and academic lineage of research and original ideas. This pedigree of knowledge has culminated in the present software devopment and the algorithms that now form the backbone for signal generation, trading and our cyclic investment concepts.
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Wesley Clair Mitchell
(August 5, 1874 - October 29, 1948)
Our study of cycles began much earlier than our founding in 1941. One of original steering commitee members was Wesley Clair Mitchell, the founder of the National Bureau of Economics in 1920.
One of the most prominent American Institutionalists, Wesley Clair Mitchell almost singlehandedly constructed its concern with "business cycle" analysis. Mitchell was a professor at Columbia and one of the first directors of the New School for Social Research (from 1919 to 1931).
Mitchell founded the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in 1920 in order to pursue quantitative studies of the U.S. business cycle for which that organization has become renowned. His life-long interest in business cycles culminated in his authoritative opus with Arthur F. Burns, Measuring Business Cycles (1946). His two other books on business cycles (1912, 1927) give a view of Mitchell at his best. His students, which include Simon Kuznets, carried on much of Mitchell's work into the post-war period.
In 1934 he was a co-speaker with G.T. Whitaker at the Hitchcock Lecture Series at Berkeley, which is when it is probable he was exposed to Whitaker's work "The Calculus of Observations" (1924). This work made its way into our research at the Foundation and has been a part of our computer algorithms since the days of Fortran and our first cycles analyses programs coded at the University of Pittsburgh by Dr. James Vaux in 1964.
Dr. Julius Bartels
Julius Bartels (August 17, 1899, Magdeburg – March 6, 1964) was a German geophysicist and statistician.
He was awarded his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1923, then worked at the Potsdam magnetic observatory as a post-doctorate. In 1928 he was named professor at Eberswalde, teaching meteorology. He became full professor at Berlin University in 1936, and director of the Potsdam Geophysical Institute. From 1931 until the second year of World War II he was also a research associate at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He collaborated with Sydney Chapman to publish the two-volume work Geomagnetism, a definitive reference on geophysics.
Following the war in 1946 he became professor in Göttingen. He was also a director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics of the Stratosphere between 1955 and 1964. From 1954 until 1957 he served as president of the IAGA. Between 1960 and 1963 he was vice-president of the IUGG.
Among his contributions was the development of the Kp Index, and he suggested the existence of "M-regions" on the Sun that resulted in geomagnetic activity. These coronal holes were later confirmed by the Skylab mission. Finally he also helped initiate the International Geophysical Year, which took place in 1957.
Dr. Bartels statistical test for periodicity, published at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1932, was adopted by the Foundation decades ago as the best single test for a given cycle's reliability, robustness, and therefore usefulness in prediction.
Richard T. MogeyFoundation for the Study of Cycles (Executive Director 1989-1997 - Head of Research 2003-Present)
Richard Mogey, one of the world’s foremost living authorities on cycles, has been studying cyclic activity in disciplines from natural phenomena to financial markets. He is a direct heir to the philosophy of Edward R. Dewey who founded the Foundation for the Study of Cycles.
From 1988 to 1997 Mr. Mogey was the Research Director, Executive Director, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Economist for the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, Inc. He was the chief statistician and economist at the Foundation from 1989 to 1997. He created and co-authored two magazines for investors, Business and Investment Cycles and Cycles Projections, and was responsible for the editorial content of the popular journal, Cycles Magazine.
Mr. Mogey is now Chief Voluntary Officer and Research Director of the Foundation and is helping lead the Foundation into the 21st Century.
From 1997 after his retirement from the Foundation he served as chief economist for Iris Financial Group in
He has lectured at the
He has a BA in Philosophy and Classics, Magna cum Laude, from the
He is now the lead developer of the Foundation’s updated cycle analysis software, Techsignal, and co-architect of the FSC Techsignal Firebird Elite Trading Platform.