Sep

17

Beautiful article:

RIP Vic Niederhoffer, by Peter C. Earle

Unfortunately for me, I don't have a comprehensive understanding of all the Niederhofferisms. I understand hoodoos, flexions, LoBagolas, constructal numbers (not so much though I'm familiar with Professor Adrian Bejan's work).

Could someone help elaborate these two?

"agrarians" & "constructal numbers"

Andrew Aiken responds:

agrarians = believers in egalitarianism, "the idea that has the world in its grip", and leveling
constructal numbers = significant numbers in the price pattern of a series, a generalization of support and resistance. They reveal a structure in price action.

Alex Castaldo expands:

"Agrarians" or "Agrarian Reformers" was a sarcastic term used by Vic to refer to Mao Zedong and his followers, and by extension to others who are Communist. In a wider sense it also could refer to American leftists who due to a lack of common sense refused to believe that Mao was a true Communist in the 1940's and 50's. They believed instead that Mao was an "agrarian reformer" who was trying to improve Chinese agriculture by making various "reforms" in the countryside, rather than a brutal collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet style.

I don't know whether Edgar Snow used the term "agrarian reformer" in his famous book Red Star Over China (1937) or not, but he is an example of the kind of naive America supporter of Mao that Vic had in mind. It is not a term that you hear much nowadays.


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