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Day Trading
Day Trading
Day Trading
Approaches to trading begin with choice of a time window. Day or intraday trading focuses on short term swings, generally not holding positions overnight. Although Gann, trading before the electroinc age, did not favor short term trading, his techniques do work on this level, since similar patterns exist on every time frame whether very small or very large.
Swing Trading
Swing Trading
Swing Trading
Swing Trading works with short to intermediate term swings, usually with time periods from a few days to weeks, following a general changing trend and trading in each direction. Most systems consider position reversal, and try to trade short and long as the market changes direction. Gann taught swing trading first, with its relatively easy methodology.
Rosicrucian
Rosicrucian
Rosicrucian
The highly spiritual Rosicrucian organization developed in the 17th century, with great figures like Robert Fludd and Francis Bacon. This society followed high ideals, joining magical & cosmological practices with geometric and Kabbalistic systems. Rosicrucians were known for preserving ancient wisdom along with works of healing and helping humanity.
Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory
Non-linear dynamic mathematics, known as Chaos Theory, seeks order in seeming random patterns, exploring subjects like Fractals, System Mechanics, Lorentz Attractors, and more. Dr. Baumring originated the idea that Chaos theory provided insight into market phenomena, and later the great Mandelbrot tried to apply Chaos theory to the markets.
Codes and Ciphers
Codes & Ciphers
Codes & Ciphers
We have books on symbolic codes and ciphers from various esoteric traditions, including Masonic codes. Gann used codes in "Tunnel Through the Air", and encrypted his personal notes using a code called "Bell, Book and Candle". Gann enthusiasts study Masonic codes to help uncover his secrets.
Geometry
Geometry
Geometry
One of the 4 Classical Liberal Arts, geometry is a basic ordering principle of the universe. Market Geometry is the study of the markets looking at growth ratios and proportions of moves, structures, reactions, price levels and time cycles. Gann, a master geometer, used sacred geometry for market analysis via Gann Angles and his Master Squares.
Solar Theory
Solar Theory
Solar Theory
The Sun is the most dominant influence in our lives, and a primary source of influences from the cosmos transmitted to the Earth. Ancient and esoteric traditions had advanced theories of solar influence. We cover theories concerning all kinds of solar effects.
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The solution to Gann's Law of Vibration from the 1909 Ticker Interview. Penicka analyzes Gann’s exact words correlating them with the cutting edge science of Gann’s day to develop a system which identifies the “mathematical points of force” behind all market action. The Periodic Table of Elements determines a system of order based upon atomic structure which generates a master number set for each market defining its structure in price and time.

Sean Erikson, a trader and fund manager with 25 years’ experience, provides a set of powerful astro-tools for advanced swing trading based upon celestial mechanics. The key tool uses an astronomical component which consistently and beautifully predicts the angle of attack or slope of a forthcoming trend. This is combined with a simple astro-timing tool which indicates the next 1-3 turns out and a geometrical price projection tool which provides the two most probable price projections for each move.

Rundle’s expertise lies in decrypting the complex hidden codes that W. D. Gann used to veil his deeper secrets in his book The Tunnel Though the Air. People spend decades studying and attempting to decode the meaning behind this seemingly sappy romance/sci-fi novel, without realizing that it is really a scaffolding for a vast template of knowledge centering around cycles and astrological relationships.

Straker's Universal Golden Keys Series uses Circular Scaling thru Time-by-Degrees to provide the key to accessing Pendulum Motion in the financial markets. Straker reveals that the core of Gann Science is dependent upon specific, hidden scaling techniques needed for tools to work. He has cracked Gann's scaling system and shows how Golden Mean is hidden in Gann's work.

Sundberg's The Secret Science of Squaring elaborates a major series of insights within the field of W. D. Gann’s astrological market forecasting. Sundberg has rediscovered an approach to the application Gann's of astro-geometric price/time conversion and projection principles which operates to square price and time on market charts using a system of planetary geometry and astronomical timing.

Dr. Lorrie Bennett is one of the only Gann experts to have cracked the Law of Vibration! After 20 years of grueling research she discovered a complex code in Gann's texts which led her to the full solution. Following in Baumring's footsteps, Dr. Bennett lays out the science behind the Law of Vibration in an intensive 4 Volume Advanced Series revealing the Patterns, Numbers, Planets & Geometry behind Gann's secret trading system.

A detailed exploration and analysis of W. D. Gann’s Mechanical Trading System illustrating Gann's trading strategy over a period of 15 years. Gann turned $3000 into $6 million over this period, producing a 1400% return in the first 8 months alone. This study provides the foundation that Gann required for ALL of his students before learning to forecast. These techniques still work today producing 570% return in the S&P in 2014 in 3 months!
W.D. Gann Works
W.D. Gann Works
W.D. Gann Works
We stock the complete collection of the works of W.D. Gann. His private courses represent the most important of his writings, going into much greater detail than the public book series. Our 6 Volume set of Gann's Collected Writings includes supplementary rare source materials, and is the most reliable compliation of Gann's unadulterated vital work.

How to Trade Like W.D. Gann - Part 1Gann's Mechanical System Applied to Today's S&P500A Trader's World Magazine Article

By Timothy Walker

Ask the average trader what the name W.D. Gann suggests and you’d probably get an answer like ‘Square of Nine’ or ‘Astrology’, or a comment about forecasting. While there is no doubt that such things formed an important part of Gann’s work, there is much more to his story than that.

Gann’s career in Wall Street spanned over 50 years, from 1902 to 1955. He was an active trader during that entire period, which saw two World Wars and the Great Depression. He began his career trading for his own account, and then, after some years set up an advisory service. He published annual forecasts on the stock and commodity markets and consulted with clients on the management of their trading accounts.

In 1923 he published the first of 6 books and also began to teach his methods to private students. Over the rest of his life he wrote many courses, covering both stocks and commodities. The first thing he taught his students was not how to forecast, but how to trade.

The basic theme of trading as Gann wrote about it was to buy when the market was going up and sell when it was falling. He was not a buy and hold strategist. His own research indicated that market movements are governed by cycles, which enabled a trader to determine in advance when these changes in direction should occur. This would enable him or her to change from a long to a short position or vice versa as close to the turns as possible.

However, it took a lot of study and work to master his forecasting systems, and so for some years he devoted his energies to designing a mechanical system which he could teach to traders with little or no previous experience. In 1930 he published this mechanical system for the first time, calling it the Method for Trading the Overnight Chart.

The rules of the trading system itself were fairly straightforward, covering 4 pages and consisting of 9 rules and an explanation of how to draw a swing chart. But he then went on to illustrate the system by applying it to US Steel, at the time the largest stock on the board. He covered over 300 trades spanning a period of more than 16 years.

At that time, it was not practicable to sell a course accompanied by daily charts covering such a long period, and so all the explanation had to be given in the text. This makes for pretty dry reading, to put it mildly. But it occurred to me that he must have had a reason for going over so many trades, and so I decided to search for the price data to construct the charts.

This was easier said than done. The archivist at the NYSE replied that they didn’t have data back that far. The US Steel Corporation itself, which is still listed, had data from 1950 onwards, which they happily shared. But this wasn’t a help, because Gann’s lesson covered the period from 1915 to 1931. Eventually the only solution was to go to the library and look up old newspapers and copy the data out one day at a time.

This was a time-consuming process, but what a gold mine of information this research revealed! Reading the text along with a chart started to reveal things about how Gann himself must have interpreted charts and therefore traded. Consider the following example. First the text:

‘May 3rd advanced to 60¾, the third top around same level, where we should either sell out and go short with stop at 63¾  or leave stop at 57½ [under the last swing bottom]. We sold on stop at 57½.

‘Decline followed, broke three bottoms made April 24, 27 and 30. We sell 200 shares more at 54¼. Decline continued to 48¼ where there were three bottoms, March 26, 31 and April 1st. Rule says, buy the fourth time with one point stop. We covered 300 shares short at 48½ and bought 200 at 48½ with stop at 46¾, which was one point under bottom of March 26th and April 1st.’

After several pages of this I start to go cross-eyed!

What he says is straightforward enough. The market had been going up for some time and made a triple top – either go short or wait for the last swing bottom to be broken. When it broke more support, add to the trade. Then, when it found support at the level of old lows, cover shorts and go long again.

But there was more to this trade than meets the eye, which only the price chart could reveal.

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The Buy and Sell arrows are located pretty accurately for the prices where the trades are indicated. If you look carefully at the bar for 10 May, you can see that the market made a very wide range that day. It opened at 53½ (prices in those days were quoted in 1/8 of a dollar) and then collapsed to 48¼, finally rallying to close at 50¾.

This example reveals a lot about Gann’s thinking as a trader. When the market is falling heavily and everyone is panicking, he is telling us to look for a buying opportunity. As soon as the market enters a zone of support he is ready to cover shorts and go long. He acts 2 ticks off the intra-day low. I’m not sure how many of his beginner students would have felt comfortable trading this way!

Having an opportunity to see the actual chart, shows us that there was more to Gann’s consideration in this trade than the simple rule of seeking support off the most recent bottoms.  The chart includes two key 50% support levels which Gann does not mention in the text, but he would clearly have expected his students to be aware of, one from the current campaign and the other from the all-time high. He makes extensive use of 50% levels in the lesson, as he stated that you could make a fortune in the markets using just that one rule alone.

This example also reveals that he was teaching his students to follow the market during the trading session. This is something that he would change his mind on later in his career, but there are numerous examples of him acting intra-day in this lesson. Gann himself was an expert tape reader and traded on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, so these insights help us understand some of the techniques he would have used.

There are many little gems like this one scattered throughout the lesson, and I found so many of them that I decided to write the lesson up as a book and include charts of every trade. This way anyone could follow the rules and strategy that Gann presented and gain a deeper insight into his thinking and trading methodology.

As an example of how his method would apply today, let us consider a chart of the e-mini S&P 500 futures contract.

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Gann wrote his lesson for stocks trading around 50-200, so we have to make some assumptions to adjust for a stock index trading at 1800. You would have to test these to work out the optimum numbers, but for this exercise, I am going to place stops 5 points above swing tops or below swing bottoms. Gann’s pyramiding rule was to add half the position size every so many points. I will use 50 points here. We will take an initial trade size of 2 contracts, based on Gann’s risk management rules of only risking 10% of one’s capital on any one trade, which would require a capital of $50,000.

We will assume that we have been trading the S&P for some time and simply pick up the trades from the beginning of 2014. As the New Year dawned, we would be long at around 1788 from 18 December. This trade was stopped out around 1812 on 13 January. Profit 24 points x 2 contracts = 48 points. As the system requires us to reverse positions we will be short 2 contracts at 1812 with the new stop placed above the 31 December high.

The market continued sideways for several days more. Gann was careful in such situations not to bring stops too close, so he would have left them above the 31 December high. An additional contract was sold at 1762 on 29 January.

On 3 February a special rule was triggered. Gann didn’t even mention this rule at the beginning of his lesson and it is only in the trade examples that it becomes apparent. We would exit all short contracts at 1736 (total profit 178 points) and go long 2 contracts at that price.

Although the market went a fraction lower on 5 February, Gann’s rule for stops would have kept the long trade intact, and we are placed to take the full benefit of the strong rally that followed. An extra contract is bought at 1786 and another again at 1836. All 4 contracts were stopped out at 1860 on 12 March. Total profit 346 points.

Total profit on 3 trades is 572 points or $28,600. Thus the return on our $50,000 capital over the first 3 months of the year, without deductions for commissions, was 57%. But don’t forget that we are only trading with 10% of our capital in this example, so the returns on the actual “at risk” investment are much higher.  If we consider that our initial investment was approximately $5,000, and we generated a $28,000 return, we actually produced 570% on our initial investment in only 3 months! Not bad for a relatively simple mechanical system…

Currently we would be short 2 contracts at 1860. Again being careful not to move stops too close in a see-sawing market, the initial stop above the 7 March high would now be moved down above the two swing tops on the 13th and 21st.

This, of course, is a paper-trading example only, but it serves to illustrate that the rules Gann wrote almost 90 years ago can still be applied profitably by a trader in the 21st Century.

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Commodity Trading
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Hasbrouck Forecasts
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Space-Time Forecasting of Economic Trends, Lost Archives of Muriel & Louis Hasbrouck. A highly important market research breakthrough theory! The Hasbrouck Archives contain 40 years of accurate financial forecasts, based on a Theory of Solar Space/Time Field Forces influencing space weather and markets! A 90% accuracy record!.
Market Timing
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Market Timing
The two fundamental elements of reality are space and time, and of the markets price and time. Gann always said that Time is the most important variable. If you know exactly WHEN to place your trades, when the market will turn, top, bottom, react or breakout, you will be able to trade or invest with great precision.
Baumring Science List
Baumring Science List
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In the 1980’s Dr. Jerome Baumring, created an advanced course on the scientific cosmological system behind Gann’s Law of Vibration, including over 100 important works. These ranged from core works that Gann himself studied relating to Natural Science and Philosophy, to valuable works in alternative or lesser known scientific traditions.
Vortex Systems
Vortex Systems
Vortex Systems
The vortex, a key element of 19th century aether physics, was critical to W.D. Gann’s market science and was taken up by great thinkers like Walter Russell and Edwin Babbitt. Vortex and Toroidal energy theory provides a dynamic space-time model of energy fields from human and plants to planets, suns, solar systems, and galaxies.
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