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A Graph of the World’s Most Popular Stories, from Andrew Goodwin

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")"Kurt Vonnegut graphed the world’s most popular stories"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/09/kurt-vonnegut-graphed-the-worlds-most-popular-stories/) Has anyone made note of Vonnegut's thesis and applied it to intra day trading? I have done better than my average employing his Cinderella/New Testament pattern in my daily pattern work. It never passed my mind that these story pattern were universals of the human brain until seeing this article. ## Steve Ellison writes: To take chips from the public, much market commentary follows the "From Bad to Worse" storyline.