“Just because so many people say that this is the way it's done, it doesn't make it right.”
Elias Scott Johanssen, better known as Eli Yans, is a musician, a qualified mnemonics teacher, and a photoreader, and used these skills to analyse more than two decades of behaviour from hundreds of financial instruments in the stock market.
Before becoming a successful trader, he, like so many beginners lost all his money in trading, in particular, Apple stocks. This led him to conduct his own research without the bias of the books, tutorials and traditional trading methods which so many traders have become accustomed to. This research led him to write his own personal trading manual which later became the basis for the book 'Applecore: Trade with extreme prejudice.'
“When you get to the core of a thing regardless of how complex it may seem on the outside, you will soon realise that it was always a simple thing to understand. All you needed was the curiosity and patience to analyse it."
When Elias was ten years old his father gave him a Rubik’s cube and after twisting it for a week decided that he would rather see how it works than attempt to resolve it the traditional way. So intead, he 'deconstructed' it. This seemingly complex toy on the outside was, in fact, simple at its core. When he realised this – and after three months of making drawings and taking notes - he figured out that there were only six pattern-based algorithms which would resolve the cube from any scrambled position.
This began a life-long obsession with how things work which would eventually lead him to study and 'deconstruct' the financial markets.
“If you push me into a corner,
I'll use the walls as a weapon."
Throughout his life. Elias has suffered from dyslexia and a speech disorder which was the target for bullies in his younger years. When he was pinned into a corner, he learned to ‘talk clear’ and ‘talk fast’ often avoiding many physical confrontations. But it wasn’t until he attended a Photo-reading course in London in his twenties when his ability to learn from books was greatly improved. Very quickly, the dreaded book turned from a thing which highlighted a learning disability to a long-lost friend who had a lot to say – and Elias was listening.
As his confidence grew, he realised that he actually enjoyed learning from books and talking to others about what he had learned - this sent him on a quest to become a teacher.
Over the following few years Elias studied neuro-anatomy, cognitive psychology, learning systems and mnemonics, contract law and the behaviour of the stock market – this was his most enlightening and exciting quest to date and was ultimately when the seeds were planted and the tree began to grow.
“The market is nothing more than a complicated game and all games have rules. And like some games the rules are not always obvious until you watch it being played for a while."
"It is much easier to learn from something when it is still. But observation is key to learning from anything that moves."
This was a lesson Elias learned the hard way when he lost his money CFD trading at the beginning of his trading career, and was the first time he felt ‘cheated’ by the books he had come to love. However, he also learned a valuable lesson - the mistake he had made was not that he was trading outside of his strategy, mis-timing his entries or incorrectly interpreting the ‘well-documented’ candlestick patterns, but it was that he had trusted what he had read and learned without question.
So, refusing to let the market get the better of him, and with a whole lot of redirected anger and frustration, he began a six-year labour of love which soon became an almost unhealthy obsession – to analyse the behaviour of the financial markets without the bias of the ‘knowledge’ which he had acquired from the many books he had read. This unbiased research led Elias to identify leading-following markets, cycles within cycles, times when specific behaviour patterns occurred, how volume ‘really’ moves the market, and how time itself sets support and resistance levels – not price.
Now, he presents his original, unconditional and unbiased research and analysis methods to corporates and individuals helping improve the technical analysis and trading practices of new and experienced traders around the world.
If you would like to arrange a private class with Elias or have him speak at one of your events, please get in touch.
Elias Johanssen
Elias Johanssen
“Just because so many people say that this is the way it's done, it doesn't make it right.”
Elias Scott Johanssen, better known as Eli Yans, is a musician, a qualified mnemonics teacher, and a photoreader, and used these skills to analyse more than two decades of behaviour from hundreds of financial instruments in the stock market.
Before becoming a successful trader, he, like so many beginners lost all his money in trading, in particular, Apple stocks. This led him to conduct his own research without the bias of the books, tutorials and traditional trading methods which so many traders have become accustomed to. This research led him to write his own personal trading manual which later became the basis for the book 'Applecore: Trade with extreme prejudice.'
“When you get to the core of a thing regardless of how complex it may seem on the outside, you will soon realise that it was always a simple thing to understand. All you needed was the curiosity and patience to analyse it."
When Elias was ten years old his father gave him a Rubik’s cube and after twisting it for a week decided that he would rather see how it works than attempt to resolve it the traditional way. So intead, he 'deconstructed' it. This seemingly complex toy on the outside was, in fact, simple at its core. When he realised this – and after three months of making drawings and taking notes - he figured out that there were only six position-based algorithms which would resolve the cube from any scrambled position.
This began a life-long obsession with how things work which would eventually lead him to study and 'deconstruct' the financial markets.
“If you push me into a corner,
I'll use the walls as a weapon."
Throughout his life. Elias has suffered from dyslexia and a speech disorder which was the target for bullies in his younger years. When he was pinned into a corner, he learned to ‘talk clear’ and ‘talk fast’ often avoiding many physical confrontations. But it wasn’t until he attended a photo-reading course in London in his twenties when his ability to learn from books was greatly improved. Very quickly, the dreaded book turned from a thing which highlighted a learning disability to a long-lost friend who had a lot to say – and Elias was listening.
As his confidence grew, he realised that he actually enjoyed learning from books and talking to others about what he had learned - this sent him on a quest to become a teacher.
Over the following few years Elias studied neuro-anatomy, cognitive psychology, learning systems and mnemonics, contract law and the behaviour of the stock market – this was his most enlightening and exciting quest to date and was ultimately when the seeds were planted and the tree of success began to grow.
“The market is nothing more than a complicated game and all games have rules. And like some games the rules are not always obvious until you watch it being played for a while."
"It is much easier to learn from something when it is still. But observation is key to learning from anything that moves."
This was a lesson Elias learned the hard way when he lost his money CFD trading at the beginning of his trading career, and was the first time he felt ‘cheated’ by the books he had come to love. However, he also learned a valuable lesson - the mistake he had made was not that he was trading outside of his strategy, mis-timing his entries or incorrectly interpreting the ‘well-documented’ candlestick patterns, but it was that he had trusted what he had read and learned without question.
So, refusing to let the market get the better of him, and with a whole lot of redirected anger and frustration, he began a six-year labour of love which soon became an almost unhealthy obsession – to analyse the behaviour of the financial markets without the bias of the ‘knowledge’ which he had acquired from the many books he had read. This unbiased research led Elias to identify leading-following markets, cycles within cycles, times when specific behaviour patterns occurred, how volume ‘really’ moves the market, and how time itself sets support and resistance levels – not price.
Now, he presents his original, unconditional and unbiased research and analysis methods to corporates and individuals helping improve the technical analysis and trading practices of new and experienced traders around the world.
If you would like to arrange a private class with Elias or have him speak at one of your events, please get in touch.
Elias Johanssen
Elias Johanssen