任何一个体系，其实都是由长时间的历史积累，往往是数代人的经验和知识，最后被总结出来，威科夫的方法，基本上是总结了美国1860年到1920年代那些杰出交易者的经验。

Wyckoff based the approach on his observations of the market activities of a group of better informed, more highly experienced traders/investors. They included James Keene, Jesse Livermore, Andrew Carnegie,