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“ P r e d i c t s . ”“Does it involve Fibonacci numbers?”“ N o . ”“Does it have anything to do with theworks of Elliott or Gann?”“ N o . ”“Or Andrews or Dow or anybodye l s e ? ”“ N o . ”“Is this a completelyoriginald i s c o v e r y ? ”“ Y e s . ”It all beganwith a phonecall I received inthe second week of September 1983.At this point I was getting interested and the answer to my nexttwo questions clinched it.“Why do you want to show me your discovery?”“I need a very large sum of money to begin another project.”“How will I know its value in order to make a decision?”“Come to Chicago and I will show it to you. At that point you candecide whether or not you want to buy it.”Several days later I caught the 8:00 AM flight to Chicago and Jimmet me at the airport. On the way to his apartment, I directed theconversation toward learning something about him.Jim Sloman is a very gifted person. His intellectual abilities werefirst recognized in high school when he placed among the top inthe country in a national exam given to all senior math students.Subsequently, he was awarded a National Merit Scholarship toPrinceton University where he studied math and physics in specialadvanced classes.Jim had done many different things since college, looking for anelusive fulfillment. He started out on the corporate ladder, becamea high achiever but felt that something was missing. He wrote anovel, and studied film directing at Columbia University. He hadbeen a stock broker and briefly a commodity trader, but he left thatprofession because he felt that he did not have the right temperamentfor it.7