Stock Trading Using Planetary Time Cycles
Stock Trading Using Planetary Time Cycles
Disclaimer
This book is written to inform and educate the reader as to the methods of W.D. Gann as well
as my own studies in the area of technical analysis as applied to the various stock and
commodity markets with the use of astronomy, astrology and the general study of planetary
movements and their effects on those markets. No representation is made that this is a
complete study or that you will be a successful trader or forecaster using these methods.
These methods have been reliable in the past in my experience but the future evolution of the
market and in particular computer driven buy and sell programs Will undoubtedly have some
effect on these 'natural inclinations' and cause delays, or perhaps modify the expected results.
In my opinion these astronomic cycles are the primary cause of market fluctuations but the
investment world at large will obviously disagree. In any event a rational person can make his
own judgments and this is a good beginners guide as to how planetary forecasting and trading
is done.
The enclosed computer programs are not guaranteed to run on all computers or be free of
potential 'bug's but are only included with the book to make it easier to teach and learn the
methods demonstrated. I believe they will work on most computers and have sent out similar
programs for over a decade to dozens of countries With only small problems such as changing
the currency system in the operating system to a U.S. decimal one. Should you have a problem
l will try and fix it for you but I would also recommend that if you are a serious student that
you purchase a commercial product as there are many available at reasonable prices (like Solar
Fire Gold @ $360 at www.Alabe.com).
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PREFACE
This book was never intended to be written as it contains knowledge that even in these
modern times is still fairly well hidden from the masses and is probably not even suitable for
some types of investors who are not willing to do the serious work entailed in working out the
forecasts and determinant factors in the market.
Nevertheless many books are now coming on the market and most claim to talk about
astrological trading or astronomic trading and I find most greatly miss the mark in teaching
exactly what W.D. Gann was doing most of the time. I do not profess to know everything that
Gann did, having only studied him for some 35 years and having incomplete records, and I do
not intend to teach the secret planetary rulership time cycles he obtained from the Bible as
that is far too complex an undertaking for an audience made up of the general public. What I
will teach herein is his general theory of the planets and some numerology and show how he
made many of his predictions and how you can do the same. This will be a basic book giving
you a good foundation to take the work to more advanced levels on your own. I will still be
giving my 'personal seminars' for individual students in New York, and this book only overlaps
perhaps 25% of that knowledge. While many will find the first dozen pages or more on the
Bible unnecessary to trading, I believe you need to get some basic background since all
planetary observations were written into the Bible in code, and while I don't reveal that code I
give some hints and suggest that a study of the Bible is a very serious undertaking whether you
have any religious background or not. In my numerous interactions with the public I have at
least a few times every single month, found individuals who would love to try to understand
the Gann methodology but are afraid of being chastised by their church or committing a sin. I
try to assuage those fears in that long preliminary introduction.
This book is not written in a formal style with set chapters and subjects but more of a stream
of consciousness teaching that will take you from the most basic fundamental laws of
astronomy to the more esoteric reasons for the Great Pyramid and its application to trading
stocks. I urge you to take your time and read everything and not skip around to just 'see the
pictures'. You need to understand the theory very well because it is very difficult at first to get
your head around the concepts of swapping time for price and translating planetary motion
into numbers.
If you don't really fully understand the theory you will make mistakes and not see the
correlations. I wrote this as I would teach it. If you skip around, you won´t understand it.
Many of you have probably read or heard about Gann's book 'Tunnel thru The Air' which is a
fictional romance but serves as a method to teach the secret codings found in the Bible and
elsewhere. I didn't want to get into those types of esoteric Masonic methods here but Will give
you some clues if you Wish to further the study. The book is based on the horoscopes cast for
each member introduced in turn. Those horoscopes are developed with the story line as when
his love runs away (Venus go retrograde), he can't find her but sees some look alike double
and goes to a clairvoyant to try and find out what's happening (Neptune conjunct Mercury, or
Venus ? I forget). She comes back (Venus goes direct). He builds a great space ship that shoots
down all the enemy war planes and names it 'Marie the Angel of Mercy' (i.e. Mars angle of
Mercury- that causes crashes in stocks), he take a plane ride to seven cities around the world
in seven days (the octave and Square of Nine since the longitudes of the cities are the literal
numbers on the cardinal and fixed points of the Square), and on all the key pages numbered
like 90, 100, 126, 144, 183, 270, 360 etc., all of which are key trading numbers, there is
information hidden on those pages. The Bible is the same with the Chapter numbers and verse
numbers all having significant meanings and are not just randomly put there in sequence.
Usually the numerological adding of the numbers will point to other chapters and the same
subject will be on that pointed page. The major pages and numbers like 3, 7, 11, 12, 19, 22, 26
all point to significant information and need to be focused upon. Many will find this odd or not
believable but the Bible is so complex it can really take more than a lifetime of study to scratch
the surface, and that's exactly what Isaac Newton and Goethe did.
lt has been said that the difference between man and the animals and lower forms of life is
that man can speak. Words are symbols that convey meaning apart from just a series of
letters. One level up from common man is the 'genius' with perhaps an I.Q. of 160 + and his
vocabulary may reach 30,000 words compared with the common mans' 5,000-7,000. The
additional symbolic interconnections allow the genius greater access to the higher realms of
thinking and consciousness.
One level up above the genius is the Prophet who deals almost exclusively in symbols. This is
beyond the realm of rational thinking and these people who wrote the Bible or walk the
streets today may to many appear to be deranged, but the true prophet has access to huge
amounts of interconnected symbolic information often beyond the intellectual scope of the
highly intelligent common man. It is because of this vast amount of information inherent in the
Bible written in this fashion by prophets, that it can be read and understood on multiple levels
of understanding.
The individual acquires what he needs according to his preparation. 'Seek and ye shall find,
knock and the door will be opened'. I bring this up since there is clearly a complete astrological
framework to the Bible while at the same time there is a literal, and an allegorical framework
to the spiritual life and the realms beyond death. One can read the Bible and get either.
Atheists only concentrate on the surface hidden codes of practical knowledge but never look
further, while the church priest or reverend just looks to the spiritual level. If you read the
begiming of the Bible in Genesis, God made the heavens and the earth and partitioned off the
heavens from the earth and the air from the water and the water from the land, and he made
the animals and fishes and man etc. This is an instruction manual on how to draw a horoscope
with a circle, then dividing in two, then quarters for the Air, Earth Water and Fires signs and
finally the l2 signs of the constellations. The 'ages' of men like living to 90 or 360 or 900 are the
revolutions of the earth in longitude lines to identify locations on earth where that story will
repeat as each new age (birth of a son or daughter) begins and then ends in longitude at that
persons age at death. This kind of interpretation was quite familiar to Gann and the early
priestly caste who kept the knowledge secret. The fact that it exists doesn't discount the
existence of the other interpretations especially if ones assumes it is divinely inspired. Recent
Bible Code books have shown it could be more of a 'computer' with skip letter information
coded in multi-dimensions like a cross word puzzle that could have answers for everything.
This is what Newton and Goethe discovered among others, and spent their entire lives trying
to decipher. My point here is just to try and pry your minds open long enough to accept the
hypothesis that planetary study as Gann did it with Bible cycles is not a bad thing just because
most don't know about it. Divine revelation is just that and only goes to those who seek and
are not afraid.
I wish to thank the following software products for the use of their charts in the various
illustrations:
Ensign Windows
Ensign Software
http://www.ensignsoftwarecom/
The vast majority of charts in this book were produced with Ensign
Windows, but I am often asked what software I personally use every day and I use several
products in addition to Ensign:
Tradestationï http://wwwtradestation.com/
Market -Analystï http://wwwmarket-analyst_com/gann-astro-edition
MetaStock : http://wwW.metastock.com/
Any of these products as Well as many others can be used With the methods described in this
book
Table of the discussion Topics
Introduction - The Bible .... ..10 1Jupiter & Saturn in the S&P ....107
Who was W.D. Gann? ...... ..19 Mars & Jupiter .... ._ 110
Basic Astronomy .............. ._ 24 Short Term Trading ll2
Price & Time Interchangeability... 30 Examples .... _. 122
The Earth, Sun and Moon ..... ..36 The Square of Nine 131
Basic Theory ...4O Angle Study 138
Zero Aries.... 42 Fractal Origins .....140
Gann's Charts ...49 Key Gann Course Excerpt..... 142
Introduction To The Computer Starting A Forecast .... ._ 145
Programs.... 57 Bonds .... ._ 152
Gann's US Steel Example... 78 Eclipses ....... ..153
The Planets And Their Cycles... 86 Summary 156
IBM Study with Saturn.... 91 Adjusting Time on Computer Programs
Trading Techniques .... _. 94 158
Gann's Soybean Chan .... .. 100 Note On My Personal Seminars..160
Introduction
Do Planets and Stars Affect Stock Prices? Should Christians and J ews and other religious
people study the planets?
The Bible
This book must start with the most frequent question 1 have had to answer over the years
which is "Does the Bible allow one to study astrology or the planets?"
While many who read this may not be religious or have knowledge of the "Old Testament" of
the Jews or the New Testament of the Christians the admonition against practicing astrology in
the Bible is so strict (an Old Testament capital offense) that many are very fearful of even going
near the subject so we should clear that up right away. Over the years I have seen hundreds of
traders inquire about Gann and want to learn more but turned away when they found out it
included a study of the planets.
Deuteronomy 18:9-13
When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the
detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son
or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in
witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone
who does these things is detestable to the LORD; because of these same detestable practices
the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.
You must be blameless before the LORD your God
2 Kings 23:5
He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to bum incense on the
high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem-those who burned incense
to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
And when you look up to the skip and see the sun, the Moon and the stars-all the heavenly
array-do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God
has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
There are many other similar passages that talk about astrology but in almost all these cases it
is considered evil because it violates the First Commandment of the Ten Commandments
Which is to Worship the one and only one true God and not Worship idols and false gods. In
ancient times almost all nations worshipped various 'gods' and with the Greeks or Romans the
planets were considered gods and there were temples to Mercury, or Jupiter or Venus and
most of the others.
Worshipping these planets as an ìdol or 'god' was strictly forbidden in the Bible and punishable
by death. On the other hand the Bible is full of references of God's handiwork in making the
stars and planets and calling them all by name and being proud of his handiwork. In the very
beginning of the bible in Genesis with the story of creation We find on the 4th day
Gen 1: 14-19
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night,
and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years15 and let them be lights
in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights
the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the
stars. '7 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, is to govern the day and
the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there
was evening, and there Was morning-the fourth day Clearly the Sun and Moon were to do
more than just light up the sky- they ruled, and Were signs for things to come. The planets we
look at in the stock market also serve for signs that something is about to happen. All Jewish
Rabbis have been trained in astrological methods and even the Catholic Pope has an
Observatory and at the Vatican has a tower with a 'Gann Square of Nine' type floor that is lit
up each day by the sun in its travels and it was through this means that Pope Gregory noticed
that the sun was not lined up on the first day of Spring and had to change the calendar to get it
back in line With astronomic time. I forget which Pope it was but one was asked the question
about the study of astrology and the answer came back that the study itself Was not a sin as
long as one accepted the fact the each man has individual free Will and that the Grace of God
can overcome anything. Obviously since God made everything including all the stars, planets,
and everything else in the universe a proper study of Gods design is a proper form
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Psalm 8:1-4
LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemíes,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
Psalm19:1-4
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice' goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
W.D Gann liked to quote Ecclesiastes which clearly states there is a divine
cyclic plan to life:
A Time for Everything
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to moum and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
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The Old Testament has elaborate rules for doing things and the Jewish calendar of holy days
and feasts is a Lunar calendar and all the stories like Noah and the Ark use moon cycles and
calendar days, weeks, months and years to describe cycles that meet stringent commands of
God so these time keepers of sun and moon and earth must be important because without
them nothing could be accomplished. Key feast days like Passover and Easter are centered
near the first day of Spring and the nearest full moon and can never be changed throughout
thousands of years. Certainly a study of lunations and eclipses could be said to be not only
useful, but ordained.
The basic difference between 'astrology' and 'astronomy' is that astrology presumes the
planets have direct effects on people and confer on them specific powers and abìlities while
astronomy is the straight scientific study of the planets as physical bodies that have
mathematically defined orbits and time period returns.
The distinction between the two is getting more complicated as we leam more about subtle
vibrations and frequencies. No one would doubt that the sun has a direct affect on life on
earth and without it we could not survive- from simple warmth and photosynthesis of our food
to things like dying in the desert of heat or getting skin cancer and dying. Obviously the same
sun can cause life and death.
This is clearly more than simple astronomy and keeping track of the earth's movement in
relation to the sun. The moon likewise moves the oceans and all the sea creatures time their
life cycles to the moons travels so is this just astronomy or a kind of astrology? Hunters and
fisherman routinely plot the hours of the moon for the best times to catch fish or game
knowing the moons effect on them. It is not too far a stretch to think that the multitude of
quasars and pulsars and white dwarfs etc., all give off some kind of frequency radiation that
hits us and perhaps affects our chemistry, and furthermore a planet eclipsing such an energy
flow and blocking it off may well have a notable affect on human populations. These would be
physical scientific phenomena and not lie in the realm of religious worship of false gods
banned in the Bible. lt gets a little trickier when we see high correlations with planetary
placements at the time of birth and skills and abìlities people are born with. Could these
various subtle vibrations and radiations from space affect our DNA and genetic makeup so that
people may be distinguished by various
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happen far too many times to deny something is at Work but what that mechanism is, is far
harder to fathom. Carl Jung - Freud's early 'adopted son' and research partner, based his whole
practice on looking at the horoscopes of his patients before they came to him and already
knew what was their problem before they started talking about it. Fortunately we won't be
studying such here but only the correlation of stock prices and planetary movements and
these are very easy to prove without any question or doubt. After studying the issue for over
35 years it is my opinion that the correlation is nearly 100% and all stock market movement is
planetary or numerological, and the predictive mistakes one makes is only the result of the
very complex nature of having 9 to 11 planetary bodies to watch and some 81 to l2l pair
combinations of such bodies. Then there are the dozens of important stars. This is also filrther
complicated with the 'two and three body problems'. In other words we can easily conceive of
a pair of planets like Jupiter and Saturn that have an angular relationship but What about three
planets in different planes like Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus all in some sort of angular
arrangement? What about 5, 6, 7 or more such relationships? Human mental capabilities
cannot grasp such multidimensional factors so we Will miss many market turns When there
are numerous planetary influences. This is similar to being able to predict the tides at the
beach but if you have the annual 4th of July boat parade in some community wateiway going
by, the huge interference of Waves by the many boats create chaotic Waves and larger or
smaller cancellation Waves that would make it impossible to predict wave heights or high or
low tide on that date and place. ln the stock market We can't know all the possible planetary
influences but we can get a good visible grasp of their combined energy by plotting their
footprints (prices) on a piece of paper and using angle vectors and measured moves to get a
quick approximation of the sum total of all such influences. Using such geometric charting
vectors we can get an estimate of where the termination point may occur and then we can
look closely at our planets and hope to find an 'obvious' pair, let's say Jupiter and Saturn near
that date making some frequency angle like 90 or 180 degrees that would justify a prediction
of an energy reversal for stocks.
At least that is the theory. Shortly I'll show you many famous highs and lows in market history
that all have an exact such angle between two planets on the exact date of the high or low, but
before we leave the Bible for practical work we must get more background work done.
To begin, why would anyone even think to look at the planets to predict the stock market? We
do this out of habit since for tens of thousands of years mankind has looked to the stars to
interpret forecoming events. The Bible tells us of these events in many places like this:
Judges 5:20
From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.
Since the Bible was a source of power to protect the Priests from the secular ruling class of
kings or army generals a lot of that knowledge had to be hidden.
Some of the hiding was deliberate and some just divine intention. The Hebrew Bible or Old
Testament is what I usually refer to in this book and occasionally the New Testament or biblical
books written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the early Christians concerning Jesus' life
and Resurrection. Other holy works have planetary facts in them like the Indian Vedic writings
or the lslamic Quran, but I will concern our study to the western world and the Judeo Christian
traditions. I will just refer to the old and new testaments as 'the Bible' in this book. The oldest
books of the bible go back nearly 3500 years and the current 66 accepted books included in
most conventional versions were written by many people (33) spanning hundreds of years
(1400). The key fact we all must get our heads around in looking for planetary references in
the bible is that the bible is divinely inspired writing and therefore by definition, cannot
contain error. If we find planetary cycles here they MUST mean something. It is not my
intention here to teach religion or convert you but consider these facts. The Judeo Christian
bible is different from all others in that other bibles tell you how to lead a moral and righteous
life- a kind of philosophical approach to life like Budhism, while the Old and New Testaments
are Prophetic and are full of prophesy that has come out exactly as predicted many times
already and continues to unfold. Being prophetic, its' author HAS to be outside the bounds of
time as we know it, knowing the end from the begiiming and therefore while written by known
humans, the ideas flowing through them have to have come from a divine source and could
not have been fraudulently manufactured. Only a source that knows the details of the future
could weave all the coming future outcomes into a comprehensive document that is
predictive and yet numerologically precise. In describing some of these I will take the Christian
argument since it is so obvious and everywhere, but many events in the Old
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his only son- redeemed at the last minute with a the blood of a lamb (God the fathers blood
sacrifice of Jesus- the Lamb of God), to the exodus out of Egypt after salvation from the first
borns' death plague by putting the blood of a lamb over the wooden door sill (cross), to the
Psalms very accurate description of the death by crucifixion of the Messiah some 600-1000
years before it took place and describing in vivid detail a type of death not even invented yet
nor used except during a small sliver of time around the year zero. Or Daniels receipt of the
time when the Messiah Would be born 500 hundred years before hand and pointing to about
the year zero. We also hear the story of Joseph and his twelve brothers, the twelve tribes of
Israel and Jesus and his twelve disciples all reflecting the eternal twelve constellations of the
Zodiac. The Bible is also founded on the number seven and all sentences, paragraphs, males
and females, animals, generations and just about every other count is always a multiple of
seven. God makes the World in six days and makes the seventh the holy rest day as well as
seven weeks, years and seven times seven cycles. This alone is basically proof that no group of
people writing a document over hundreds of years could so construct the stories and coming
events to fit exactly within the context of a multiple of seven without a single letter error
(google Ivan Panin for a discussion of his lifelong mathematical dissertations on the number
seven in the Bible) Without Supernatural or divine help. In any event the prophetic nature of
the document and it's seeming divine inspiration and structure should make one take any
mention of planets and their cycles as a serious study. I forget where but it has been said that
God's words will last until the stars fall from the sky. This is literally true since the Bible itself
came from the stars and was written in the stars. It was written down by Moses - raised as an
Egyptian and 'learned in all their ways' i.e. astro star knowledge.
Acts 7:22
Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action
The 'story' of the Constellations and Gods' plan of a child redeemer from a Virgin birth was
plotted in the stars for tens of thousands of years before Moses wrote it down. Long before
the Egyptians and 10,000 BC there were fairly accurate constellations depicted and in the Arab
world the names of all the key stars were elaborate in detail enough to reveal much about the
story on a star by star progression through the sky. Skeptics and atheists will often point this
out and say
'as above so below' or the manifestation of each and every detail of heaven and the stars and
galaxies down into our earth and even our human bodies comprising the same ratios of star
dust and water and elements as in the universe, meaning that the 'story' of the Christ
redeemer written in the stars had to manifest into human form on every level of existence to
be a complete reflection of God's plan, and two, the TIMING of this act of incarnation into flesh
was set in motion from the beginning of time billions of years ago and marched to the perfect
rhythm of the planetary cycles so that the star of Bethlehem (sunnised to be Jupiter eclipsing
Venus while simultaneous eclipsing Regulus the 'king' star in the Sign of Judah in the Leo
Constellation while being dead stopped retrograde just over the town of Bethlehem (about 2
BC, as viewed from Jerusalem), and again some 33-34 years later (33 is the age of the sun-
symbolic of God) at the moment of Crucifixion on the Passover, Good Friday, April 3, 33 AD a
'blood' moon eclipse at 2 to 3 PM (the ninth hour-moment of death) and all these 'physical
planetary events' tie in the prophecies in the bible from hundreds of years earlier that also
calculated those date times.
Joel 2:31
The sun will be tumed to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the Lord.
Acts 2:20
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and
glorious day of the Lord.
Revelation 6: 12
l watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun tumed black like
sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon tumed blood red,
These prophetic verses and many others point to actual historical events that are timed by
planetary events taking place in the constellations that 'told' the same story as the bible verse
and the time cycle destined from the beginning of the creation of time. Much more could be
said but I only include these here to point to the possibility that bible study is serious business
and as we will soon see there are innumerable references to planets and their cycles and by
such inclusion must be important. Many of the smartest humans that ever lived such as Sir
Isaac Newton,
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meaning to different levels of capable understanding adults studying the same passage.
Obvious things like the twelve constellations, twelve tribes of Israel,
¿Exodus 24:4
Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and
built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the
twelve tribes of Israel.)
('pillars' are the separations between the house cusps on a horoscope) the twelve brothers of
Joseph and twelve disciples of Christ all point to the characteristics of each person with his
associated constellation, but others have made logical links between the Book of Revelation
and the human endocrine gland system believed in the East to be active during meditation. In
any event there is something for everyone in studying the Bible. In summary, the stars and
planets play key roles throughout the Bible and can be considered analogous to a computer
programmers code that has various 'loops' and functions to perform. God the master
programmer set up the stars and planets as the master code time keepers and after so many
cycles some event takes place and then loops to many more cycles until the next event. ln this
Way we look to the planets to 'serve for signs' because as they return, the events written in
their code is made manifest. We do not attribute godly powers to the planets but follow them
knowìng they 'time' everything precisely according to God's Will.
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William Delbert Gann who lived from 1878 to 1955 developed the most sophisticated
predictive methods ever devised using numerology and bible interpretation of astro events. He
made a huge fortune in the stock market for that time and it has been said he even bailed out
the great Jessie Livermore on one of his many bankmptcies. He published annual 'stick figure'
graphs of the coming yearly stock market pattern and for decades they Were Very accurate
and his predictions were almost always right, down to the day for the big beginnings and
endings of bull and bear markets.
Gann's annual forecasts:
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prices of $40 or $69 or $4.00 or 40 cents a bushel, $690, or the Dow Jones at 10600.
Square Of Nine arrangement: (odd squares, 9 ends first rung, 25 second etc.-odd numbers
squares go down to the left, even squares up to the right -but also called Square 0f19 since 19
x 19 = 361 so each number is close to a 1 degree correspondence of the 360 circle)
The translation mechanism was needed to be able to make predictive projections for filture
prices When a planet returned in the future to the same degree or When it hit another degree
like 40 degrees in the same row. Stocks often split or bought back shares so many correlations
had to reflect these fractional adjustments like 47 cents per degree or 1.2 dollars per degree
for a translation that worked.
That's where his 'timing angles` came in. The most basic one was a 1 x l or one
degree of a planets movement that was the correlation. Since the planets all had different
'speeds' and also went backwards or apparent retrograde at times, it was not a perfect
geometric grid that so many traders get trapped into constructing, and at the tenninal points
find that nothing happens (because the planet has stopped or slowed down and hasn't arrived
at the end point at the same time the drawn geometric chart gird angle arrived). The
advantage of these timing angles of l point per day, week or month (approximate average time
movements for several key planets) was that you did not have to look closely at the planets
every day and could do long term 'swing' trades as long as the prices went up closely
approximating the planetary angles. If a price started to diverge and break an angle it would
require that you look up the exact planetary position to see if it had changed or sped up or
down or was culminating in an angle with another planet and changing the direction of the
stock. You could also keep track of simple math like plotting a timing line starting at 'zero' price
below a high or low and letting the timing line go up one point per month so when it
intersected a price on the graph (but not necessarily the price of the stock) of $60 it was easy
to see it was 60 months or exactly five years from that origin high or low and the five year
cycle was often a strong terminal event.
Gann was adamant that it was not just astrology that he used but numerology and the two had
to work together. His construction of all the various geometric charts like the Square of Nine
were attempts to incorporate the ancient knowledge of numbers into the forecast. All great
men from the past were fascinated with 'magic squares` where all the rows and diagonals of
numbers added up to the same number and these had 'magical' powers. Here are two such
squares, the square of Saturn also called the Free Masons Square (5 is where G is), and the
Square of Jupiter. If you go forward several pages and look at his Eggs chart and the others you
will see similarities. The Saturn rows total 15, Jupiter 34.
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The real mystery is how he used these other than finding that each number in turn was a cycle
so on the Saturn top row a stock may move 4 weeks, then 9 Weeks, then 2 weeks (or days,
months, degrees), but the diagonal may move 4 weeks, 5 weeks, 6 weeks. Over the years I
have found too much slippage to find these of great use although I believe they are important.
There is no question, however, that the planetary movements in degrees is the key, these only
show possible terminal points but you can get there anyway using the planets and square outs
and measured moves to resistance points with other technical analysis tools.
These various methods were all part of what Gann called the 'Law of Vibration' which
encompassed both the astro and numerology. lt was further believed that everything was set
up in octaves- color, music, chemistry, and of course, the Bible (all have 7 primary and the 8th
is the new, the Square of Nine used to be called the 'Octagon' chart since if you put '0' in the
center, the first rung ends at 8). If you changed the spelling of your name you changed the
frequency of your life's pattern. That's why we name (if we are Wise) our children after the
'proven' names of people in the Bible. The 'music of the spheres' was the old world saying
linking the frequencies of the musical octaves to the planetary movements. The 'Vibration' of
life was to be found everywhere and especially in numbers that were expressed as planetary
orbits, or in the Bible where words and numbers are interchangeable, and old Gregorian
chants were actually precise words of healing frequencies of worship that were sung- 'only say
the word and I shall be healed'. Gann often took the numerology of the name of the stock he
traded and converted it to its numerological equivalent and applied planetary movement to
those degrees. In any event Gann experimented With a great deal of esoteric techniques but in
this work I will concentrate on the planetary movement and just use the numbers in the
Square of Nine and such as breakpoint frequencies for those degree movements.
I'll be referring to 'Gann' a number of times in this book and I have several original Gann
Courses. Each one is slightly different and one has a valuable key to
in this book and try and show you the real meanings behind his method. Since entire books
have been written about him I'll stop here for now with this brief biographical sketch and get
back to our developing the theory of how and why this all works.
Basic Astronomy
We first need to discuss some very basic ideas about planetary movements so we can explain
what may happen to a stock's price pattem if a planet changes speed or direction. For now
please just accept what I say as true and we'll prove it later but in order to understand the
theory we will develop you have to make a few basic assumptions. Before we do that we must
understand the concept of 'retrograde' or apparent backwards movement of planets. Basic
science tells us the planets circle around the sun due to the effect of gravity and from the suns
perspective looking out from its center the planets only go in one direction and never stop or
go backwards. This is called the 'heliocentric' viewpoint or for short helio. They also don't go
around in perfect circles but make elliptical orbits. An elliptical orbit is more of an egg shape
and Keplers basic laws tell us that in an ellipse a planet moves at a variable speed that will
sweep out equal space areas in equal time periods. That just means that if you are circling an
egg shape pattern that has a small narrow point on its end- with very little 'space', you will be
moving much faster then, because you must cover the same area distance as you would during
the time moving along the 'fatter' side part of the egg shape. The planetary orbits have points
in their orbits called 'perihelion' and 'aphelion' which refer to their closest position to the sun-
perihelion, and their farthest point away from the sun- aphelion. When they are near the sun
they move very fast and when farthest away they move very slow. The earth does the same
with its perihelion or fastest point near January 4th each year and the slowest and farthest
point July 4th (that is why the Masons set the US birthday to this slowest day of the year -long
term astrological progressions for longevity in its birth horoscope- 'a year for a day').
Have you ever Wondered why different months have different number of days?
The sun must move exactly 30 degrees each month so in a fast January-February time we make
it up by only putting 28 days in February while the 'dog days' of lazy summer of July and August
have two long slow 31 day months. This also accounts
changing directions so the market either speeds up the existing trend or reverses it.
The resulting trend usually stays in effect until the July 4th change in orbital direction.
Historically if the market makes it as far as early February and hasn't changed directions from
November and December, then that same trend will last at least until Spring and usually July. If
it reverses in the first week or two of January it's usually a bear trend for six to seven months
to a year. You can imagine that if you have a timing angle or trendline that is plotted to a
planets speed, the price of a stock might touch this line at these times, and either break it
changing direction or bounce off it hard, accelerating the trend and confinning the existing
trend for awhile.
Retrograde motion requires two planets for differing perspectives since each planet only
circles the sun in the same direction but from one planet to another you might be at a point in
an orbit where the angle you are sighting along looking at the other planet might seem to stop
and go backwards. This is from the earth's viewpoint or 'Geocentric' - 'Geo'. Imagine two
'clock' patterns (see picture below) representing planets in their orbits as the numbers around
the circumference and each clock represents a different planet. If they are placed at a distance
and you are positioned at 3 PM looking at the point on the other 'clock' near 11 PM, and let's
say the second clock is position to the right and above your clock. If the speed of the other
clock is faster and your 3 PM position is not moving but the other one is relatively much faster,
then your line of sight will progress from its 11PM point to perhaps 2 PM and the motion will
appear to be moving from your left to your right.
Now as the other clock moves from 2 PM to 5 PM your line of sight barely moves and appears
to be slowing down to a stop even though the planet is still moving but just not 'longitudinally'
or sideways to your viewpoint, and then as the other clock moves from 5 PM to 10 PM your
apparent line of sight will now be backwards to your original direction when it moved from
11PM to ZPM. At some point your line of sight will again slow to a stop and then move right to
left again. Keep in mind that the planet is always moving in relation to itself but from your line
of sight it changes speed and direction. The curving line at the bottom of the exhibit is what it
would actually look like if plotted in the sky viewed from a side angle perspective.
That snakelike 'hook' in the middle is the retro and direct changes in viewpoint.
Remember the clock analogy uses circular orbits whereas the real planets are elliptical so they
could have long periods of straight line movement and then brief
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'jolt' of energy near these points as they change just like a sudden earthquake releases
pressure that's built up.
Above we see a representation of the translation of motion into a price chart as the
longitudinal (horizontal or time) sweeping out of area is translated into a price chart. The
principle is that 'vertical' stock price movement is due to sideways or longitudinal planet
degree movement, and the sideways or 'consolidation' price non-movement is due to the very
slow or stopped planetary movement. The 'difficulty' is that the up and down non symmetries
are not like pure sine waves but can jerk up or down very fast or take long slow creeping
patterns to go the same distance as the planet varies in speed. The moon can move 14 degrees
a day while Jupiter will take almost six months to move l4 degrees so the slopes of stocks
following those speed momentums will be quite different. Traders like 'steep' slope stocks for
fast percentage moves.
Once the stock origin low or high price is balanced with an equal amount of planetary
movement, the pattern is complete and a change in trend is expected.
This has been often referred to as 'Squaring the Range'. Technicians know this as taking an
angle from a low and when it intersects the high the distance up in price is proportional to the
time and a change in trend is indicated. We can now for the first time see Why 99% of traders
don't make money with these angle square outs-BECAUSE the planetary speeds represented
by their angles change speed all the time. Their static trendlines arrive at the top out of sync
with the planets degrees
20 days for Mars (about 1/2 degree per day) 10 weeks for Jupiter and 10 months for Saturn,
etc. Gann taught how to approximate these motions with timing lines of l point per day or
Week or month because these were close to common planetary longitudinal speeds albeit not
exact (Sun moves l degree per day, Jupiter moves about l degree per week, the moon 90
degrees per Week, Saturn one per month as does a sun-moon's full 360 cycle). The next
picture is from my Secret Science book and shows a range squaring of up 228 points and over
228 calendar days.
What I didn't show in that book was all the astro implications as shown here for the exact
same range to be 'squared':
You can see now that there is not just one square out, but one for each planet in turn, both
geo and helio. This is what creates 'fractal` patterns.
a distance of let's say 10 degrees MUST be equal to a change in vertical price distance of $10
(or because it's never easy- some translation of $10 to 10 degrees, or 10 cents or 100 pips).
This also accounts for the observation that bear markets move faster and are shorter than bull
markets- the 'rise' of the slow creeping bull market in TIME like 500 days, can be balanced
almost immediately With a 500 point PRICE crash in almost no time but the time and price will
be balanced requiring a change in trend and a new bull or bear market.
Time & Price lnterchangeability
Time Cycle Frequency is Part of Price
The above chart comes from my Market Technicians Association presentation and
demonstrates this idea that a horizontal time movement must balance with a vertical price. In
this case (to disguise the astro) 1 used months as a substìtute for planetary degrees and it
basically shows that a bear market low Price of 768.50 is translated into a Time period of
months. The translation was a decimal shift so 768.5 became 76.85 so it's like 10 to 1 instead
ofl x 1. We see that from a bear
Another way of describing this was revealed in my Basic Day Trading Techníques book, when I
revealed my 'TCB' or Time Conversion Bar technique to change time into price and price into
time. Here the unit of time is variable and depends on the scaling of the chart but you would
try it with precise planetary
movements first.
We see here first the horizontal Time to the top becomes a 'hanging bar' of vertical Price and
the subsequent correction goes to that magnitude equaling the horizontal time and the
vertical price. These techniques from many of my prior books are disguised for the uninitiated
who are not aware that the word 'time' or 'cycle' refers to planetary longitude. We'll be shortly
using planets for these square outs but for now just remember the key principle that you can
1) Square the high, 2) Square the low, or 3) Square the range, and these ranges can be both
price ranges and time ranges. Only at equilibrium will a market be capable of reversing.
Here l show a heliocentric (viewed from the sun's perspective) longitude increase of every 90
degrees of the planet Mercury starting at a major low on the S&P. The 'arrows' show each 90
degree movement segment and we used 90 here since that is 1/4th of the 360 circle and a
natural resistance breakpoint. We can see a correlation and see that if we just randomly
bought or sold the trend emerging at each date with a trailing stop, we often could see a nice
profit. It is also curious that 4 x the 360 circle of Mercury or a distance of 1440 degrees was a
major top to the day. Simple astro cycles usually come from such individual planet movements
or angles between pairs of planets. The 'fast' moving planets like the Moon and Mercury give
numerous reversals while very slow moving planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and farther out
give reversals only every several months. For example it takes Jupiter a full year to move 30
degrees and Saturn about two and a half years. These are often typical bull and bear market
swing lengths.
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Here's a picture of Saturn having moved 30 degrees geocentric (earth view) from the March
2009 low to the next major low in October 2011. This 30 degrees is the length of a full Zodiac
sign or l/12th of the 360 circle. Knowledge of this point resulted in a great trading opportunity.
Note the importance of 30 degrees from the Bible dividing the Constellations 360 degree circle
into 12 parts (tribes- if you go to the book of Numbers in the Bible you will find how many
minutes and degrees each of these 'tribes' have).
The next chart is also of Saturn and shows a Saturn 'planetary trendline' constructed by finding
out how many degrees the planet moved to the end of the year and adding that amount to the
low price and cormecting a dot at the terminal point and drawing a line in between to make
the trendline. You can see prices bounced off this trendline and as long as they stayed above
this 'average momentum` movement of Saturn, the long tenn trend was considered up.
Trendlines like these do not show cycles but time period proportions of up so many price
points during that many planetary degrees. 'Square Outs' or reversals in long term trend
(cycles) usually come when major harmonics of the price and the time coincide, as this next
page picture of Venus squaring out the 2009, 666 price low demonstrates. The price high was
created as Venus completed the exact move of 666 helio degrees from the origin low of 666
price for a perfect balancing of time and price equal to 666.
How long is a Bear Market? Well that depends on the planet. For Qualcomm it Was exactly 45
Degrees of Saturn Geo (1/8th of 360). The 'double bottom' the following year Was the exact 45
degree Helio movement.
go back and review the basics of the planets, their orbital periods and how we keep track and
calculate their movements each day.
The Earth, Sun and Moon
The Great Pyramid
ln that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the
LORD at its border. It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt.
IS ,19.19
(note Isaiah 19 i.e. 19 x 19 I 361, Sq 9. and double l9- ALL Bible chapters and line numbers have
meaning, often coding a planet to be found at a future page referenced by the chapter and
paragraph number numerology- special numbers 11, 19, 22 - Uranus is 19 Astronomical Units)
2160/360 =6, 7920/360 222, 1080/360 23, 5040/360 =l4, 3960/360 :11
The ratio of the moon to the earth is 3:1 l. Did you ever gamble with dice?
7,11? 7!:7*6*5*4*3*2*l 25040 radius of earth and moon.7 to 11 factorials = 11*10*9*8 = 7920
diameter of earth. The Square of 19 (another name for square of Nine) is named because the
sun and moon cycles or lunar calendar repeats exactly every 19 years. The Square of nine is a
flat two dimensional representation of the Pryamid.
Gann's numbers: 2160/90:24, /60=36, /45 =48, /30 = 72, /15 =l44, /7.5 I288 etc. All these
lengths of the diarneters and distances of the Earth, Sun and Moon show up in Gann's favorite
squares. Most planets when moved these distances show resistance.
Radius Earth 3960,diameter 7920, moon radius l080, diameter 2160
Almost all time on earth is determined by watching the sun or moon or both.
While the earth is the 'planet' actually moving, by convention we look at the sun as if it was
moving and the earth stationary since that is our perspective. ln most astrological almanacs or
ephemerides we see the sun listed but not the earth. For thousands if not tens or hundreds of
thousands of years, mankind has studied the sun's apparent movement closely. Stonehenge
and innumerable pyramids around the world Were used to get the exact and precise first day
of Spring each year.
Enormous amounts of labor and energy and projects taking decades to build were used in this
effort. Why? Why was it so important to know the exact position of the sun and know the
exact precession of the equinoxes which takes almost 26,000 years to complete? Planning for
the agriculture season is the usual simple explanation but laboratories like Stonehenge or the
Pyramids also calculated planetary orbits and eclipses and all kinds of relationships to the stars
particularly the three star belt of Orion. lt will take many more years to decipher the true
meaning of all these efforts but suffice it to say the locations of the planets and stars must be
very important to mankind's survival. The Great Pyramid hints of vast information stored there
for future use. We do not know who built it or exactly when because 'recent' history like 2500
BC as a starting date don't fit the facts or
so that information may be passed forward in time to distant future periods when the
inhabitants of the earth will evolve to the point of understanding. Only a massive stone
structure could weather the climate and earth changes over thousands of years to come thru
intact. No wonder Isaiah says it was built by God and stands as an altar to Him. lt is located at
the exact land mass center of all the earth and at the longitude of 29.9792 N in the middle of a
desert. Why? The speed of light in meters per second is 299792458, this exact longitude
number, and that cannot be a coincidence. Do you really think some Pharaoh in 2,000 to
10,000 BC knew the speed of light? How was he able to exactly replicate the position of the
three belt stars of Orion on earth while at the same time giving the diameters of the earth and
moon and their distances to the sun as well as the perfect elliptical orbits of Mercury, Venus,
Mars and Saturn and perhaps many others? No, the builder of the pyramid knew much more
than we do and wanted to point us to the stars and the 'math' behind their time cycles. lt is
also exactly aligned to N.S.E.W. and that's hard to do but is also one of the very few places on
earth where 'True' North and Magnetic North are the same. Modern day enginecrs say even
with their modern day equipment they can't achieve the accuracy of these N.S.E.W.
constructions nor reproduce the Pyramid.
The perimeter of the Great Pyramid is 9131 x 4 =365.24 since the earth circles the sun in
365.2422 calendar days, however, prophetic time as mentioned in the Bible uses only 30 days
to a month and 360 to a year. This is part of the tradeoff between pure numbers (God) and
numerology, and the representative force of energy in a physical world- the planets, and their
decaying slow down since their origin. Lunar time is used in the Hebrew Bible and other
religions and sometimes a mix of soli-lunar full and new moons. The moon makes a complete
360 degree circuit to touch the same star every 27.322 days and this is very precise so you can
count 27.322 days for a thousand years and not be off much at all in knowing where the moon
will be. The moon and the sun come together for a new moon (moon conjunct the sun) or a
full moon (moon opposite sun) every 29.53 days.
Basically the moon returns to the same spot 27.3 days later but during that time of 27 days the
sun has moved 27 degrees further, so to catch it, the moon needs to go another 27 degrees
and moving about 13 degrees per day (360 / 27.3) it will take the moon another 2+ days, hence
the 29.53 average for both. All earth calendars
counting the moon phases and conjunctions with the sun. Feasts and holidays would then be
precisely determined for all time regardless of the day of the week or conventional calendar
date. If GOD wanted these holy days set to these planetary cycles then these cycles must mean
something and we should watch them in our stock market work. Basic Gann starting points
follow the sun through the Zodiac with each sign of the Zodiac being 30 degrees of the sun
(360 circle divided by 12 tribes of Israel) so we might expect a 'change in trend' every 30 days
and we look at counts of30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 210, 240, 270, 300, 310 and 360 days. To be
precise the sun doesn't move l degree per day but varies from about 0.96 to 1.02 and that's
why we juggle the number of days each month. If you are just counting calendar days on a
chart it is better to count 365.2422 / 360 =l.0l5 per day x 30 =30.43 days on average or divide
up the year in quarters or halves. Bond brokers will be familiar with six month coupon counting
of 181 to 183 day six month periods from January to July and July to December 3lst. You can
use actual 30 degrees longitude of the sun as opposed to calendar days if you have an
ephemeris or computer program. The computer program included with this book allows you to
get the exact degree count in degrees for anything making it much easier. There are two
factors in time, however, that must be addressed. We all know about calendar days and
'trading days' on our charts and keeping count on both actually work- the calendar 'real time'
planetary degrees, and the numerological number counts of the trading days. Gami believed
like others that God was numbers and 'spirit' was manifested into the world through
geometry.
There are absolute numbers and angles that create absolute breakpoints at number divisions.
Planetary degrees on the other hand are physical energy and that can vary slightly and
specifically with elliptical orbits. It may be likely that billions of years ago the 'created' universe
was set to a 360 degree circle with the earth 360 days, Venus, the Fibonacci .61 8 ratio or 222
days, and Mars twice the earth at 720 days etc., but over time the expansion of the universe
has changed these ideal periods a bit to 365, 225 and 687. By the Way, our ancient measuring
system of the foot and inch and one mile all derive from physical characteristics of the earth
such as the mile being exactly l minute of arc measured from the center of the earth along its
circumference measured from the poles (nautical mile). Who was smart enough 10,000 years
ago to know the exact circumference of the earth in order to
Dow Jones hourly chart with units of 10,000-15,000 and measure 'square outs' like 14,000
hours from a price of 14,000, you will almost always get a tum on the exact trading hour even
When you have unexpected holidays or exchange closings. The numbers themselves know the
count and are absolutes. The same thing will happen when you move the moon or sun or
anything else 14,000 degrees with the natural energies. It was noted that the 1987 crash
looked almost identical to the 1929 crash and it was also noted that the Jewish holidays fell on
the same dates in both years i.e. a lunar calendar was in play. There were 775 moons between
the dates and the 1929 high price was 386 (x 2 = 772) so there was a close time and price
square out proportìon in terms of moons.
Basic Theory
To make it easy to understand how all this planetary motion could affect a stock's price we will
make a mental construct that will help us understand it and whether it is right or wrong it will
help us get to a practical application. Let's assume for arguments' sake that the fixed stars
(billions and trillions of them) give off radiation and this radiation strikes us positioned here on
the earth. Let's further assume that these various types of star radiations can vary from being
hannful or beneficial and create moods in people of 'happy' or 'sad' or 'fear' and 'greed'. Now
our theory of planetary translation says that as a planet moves along in its orbit, prices tend to
follow it, and as a planet moves in front of a particular fixed star and blocks off its radiation
from hitting us, we might find unique positions in longitude where people are particularly
excited and stock patterns hit highs or lows and reverse directions. To follow this further
through our retrograde movements and speed changes, we would find variable energy 'hits'
from the stars and even stopping and going backwards through the same energy path. lf we
assume for a minute that the energy from the stars is fairly unifonn in intensity (which it is not
but for now let's assume it), we would find that as a planet slowed down to its retrograde
point we might get concentrated energy and if the energy was weak from that direction then
we might feel nothing, and if it was good we might feel very excited. If the energy made us feel
good and the planet was slowing down to a crawl, if we plotted this feeling as the stock price it
would go up into a parabolic
parabolic peak and reverse back down collapse. Keeping in mind that our theory says that the
stock price is being dragged along With the longitudinal space movement, when the planet
slowed down to a stop we should usually see no price movement in the stock. These are the
sideways consolidation areas at highs and lows with no vertical price movement. Once the
stock comes out of retrograde and starts to move again, then the price movement correlates
to this movement and We see the rise or fall in prices again on a proportional basis With the
planetary movement.
All stars give off energy but obviously our local star the SUN should be the biggest in fluence
along with our close planets before the very distant stars have much effect. Gann believed like
many others in an electro-magnetic life matrix on earth and the eclipses Were the engine to
make it Work. The earth is a big spinning magnet with nickel and iron at its core and as it spins
it creates a magnetic/ electric field to surround and protect the planet. As the moon covers the
sun during
cycles from 'new' moons or the special case of eclipses (a 'conjunction' in longitude may be a
vertical alignment of one planet on top of the other at the exact same horizontal longitude,
but an 'eclipse' is right on top of each other both a longitude line up as Well as latitude or
declination alignment). By the way, one of the logical points to a God 'created universe' theory
as opposed to a random evolutionary big bang event is the fact that eclipses occur at all. For an
eclipse to occur the moon has to be the exact apparent size as the sun as to cover it
completely and that depends on it having a size and mass that would put it in a stationary orbit
a distance from the earth that would give the appearance of the sun and moon being equal
size. This would allow for the electromagnetìc pulse during the transits. Very hard to believe it
happened by random chance. That's why Genesis says God made these two great lights.. to
serve for ..seasons. Cycles come from the conjunction point of the sun and moon and all other
planets. Religions count seven day 90 degree phases of the moon and monthly (moonthly)
cycles and yearly 13 month lunar years. (Ever play with cards? A deck is 52 cards-Weeks, 4
suits-Air, Earth, Fire, Water, 4 X 13 =52, sum the counts l to Ace as 13, l+2+3+4+5...l3=9l days in
a season, X 4 =364 plus the l Joker in a deck =365).
Starting points of cycles have always been a key issue. In the stock market most take a major
high or low as the start but often times, these are not exactly aligned with natural cycles and
may be off from several days to a few months.
From an astrological perspective there are basically three potential starting points.
The first is the start of the Zodiac at zero degrees of Aries, the second, planetary conjunctions,
and the third the 'birth' or IPO first date of trading for a stock.
Zero Aries
The first degree of Aries is a fixed point in the 12 constellations where by convention we start
numbering the twelve signs of the Zodiac of 30 degrees each.
Keep in mind that the 'Zodiac' or 'circle of animals' is the band of stars surrounding the path of
the sun or ecliptic, and the Width is 8-9 degrees above and below the suns path. Stars in other
parts of the sky far from the suns path are not part of our Zodiac and there are many other
constellations. By the way, if you go out at night and see a bright object and think it is a planet
know that it must lie
The problem one faces when sitting on a spinning rock like the earth is how do we determine
direction and get our coordinates to other stars and places in the heavens? Latitude and
Declination, or how 'high up or down' something is, is defined relative to the sun's orbital
plane and the earth's equator. You can see this rise and fall of 'height' as the sun comes up and
hits its peak overhead and then goes down. To find the east or west 'horizontal' coordinates
we use the suns annual crossing of the earth's equator on the first day of Spring. Finding that
one point and setting it to zero Aries- the start of the Zodiac, we can now label the earth 360
degrees east and west going 15 degrees every hour of the suns travel (15 degrees X 24 hours =
360 degrees). Based on this annual first day of Spring Zero point we can label directions for the
year, but since the earth is constantly spinning in a 360 degree circle every 24 hours, by
convention we have declared the 'zero' point of longitude markers on the earth to be
Greenwich England and our 24 hour time clock is set each day by the 'Greenwich Mean time'
passage thru the fixed point of the annual Zero Aries longitude (in ancient times it was
Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid). Since we use 24 hours to a day and the circle has 360
degrees we put longitude lines every 15 degrees on the earth's surface for our various time
zones.
As the earth spins and the sun moves west, we find New York 5 hours time difference from
London since NY is 75 west longitude and 75 / 15 = 5 hours time difference. These time
movements mean that every two hours or 30 degrees of time, a different sign of the Zodiac
will rise above the horizon (following the sun's path). These are daily time patterns and used
for intraday trading, counting 15 degrees of frequency every hour finding strong resistance
every 3 hours (45 degrees), 6 hours (90 degrees) and 12 hours (180). These are the 'diurnal'
cycles of the earth spiming 360 degrees in one day. More important, however, is the annual
cycle of 360 degrees of the earth circling the sun. We measure this with the sun against the
backdrop of the constellations and here the zero Aries point can only be found on one day of
the year- the first day of Spring or Vemal Equinox as the sun goes north of the equator (in the
northern hemisphere). It is this exact point of the crossing north of the equator that the
ancients went to such great lengths to define and consequently this sighting line to the
background constellation defined the zero point of Aries. While We call it the Vernal Equinox
and set the sun to zero Aries in our ephemerides, the actual point of zero Aries in the
Constellatíons was nearly 4000 years ago. On the first day of Spring now we are in late Pisces
going
(backwards) because the earth is tilted at a 23 degree angle to the plane of the sun and also
because of gravitational pulls of the sun and moon. Because of this the sun does not go
directly around the earth along the equator but slices up through the equator and around the
earth and only on the two dates of March 20, and September 23 is the sun exactly on the
equator, hence, the equal day and night lengths only on those dates and we call that Spring
and Fall. It is that one day 90 degree exact angle of the sun to the earth that causes life (Spring)
and causes death (Fall) regardless of temperatures. Since the earth is spinning with a wobble it
moves very slightly along the plane of the sun and the sun moves further along our equator at
a rate of about l degree every 72 years (Very important time cycle).
That would be a complete circle of 72 x 360 or 25,920 years to go around the entire twelve
sign Zodiac. This is coded in the Great Pyramid with the slope angle of 51.84 degrees or 2 x
25920: 5184. If we divide 25920 years by the l2 signs we get an average 'age' per Zodiac sign of
2160 years and we usually just say each sign of the Zodiac is about two thousand years. This is
likely the reason the ancients went to such great lengths to find the exact moment of the first
day of Spring and find the exact background star and constellation the sun was hitting each
year- to keep track of this huge master cycle of 25,920 years when everything would repeat
identically!
Eccl 3: 15
Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account
We are currently in the sign of Pisces, the Christian Age, or age of the Gentiles, coinciding with
the birth of Christ and HE left us the Vesica Pisces symbol of the fishes you usually find on car
bumper stickers of Christians that looks like a fish and represents the square root of three
taken from the interlocking midpoint of two circles of the Triune God.
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Matthew 12:39
He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it
except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
slow moving planets. It may seem strange that all these different methods of calculating
longitudes can give accurate results but strange as it seems they all work very well indeed.
They are perfect clocks and the numerology of their return positions almost always give the
desired and predicted result.
So now we have our starting point of zero Aries to measure from, we will now list our current
Zodiac that we will use:
degrees 0-29 Aries (note two possible numbering systems 1-30, or 0-29, recent conventions
start with '0' degrees as first)
30-59 Taurus
60-89 Gemini
90-119 Cancer
120-149 Leo
150-179 Virgo
180-209 Libra
210-239 Scorpio
240-269 Sagittarius
270-299 Capricorn
300-329 Aquarius
330-359 Pisces
Each degree is a number and when using stock or commodity prices that exceed 360 you just
start the next 360 increment up like 360 to 720, then 720 to 1080 etc. Remember our 'theory'
says that stocks are unconsciously traded by the masses who buy and sell at prices that
'gravitate' to the planetary locations. A planet at 34 degrees of the Zodiac would have a
tendency to pin stocks to a price near $34 or 360+34 = $394 or 720+34 = $754 etc.
You are probably already familiar with these symbols of the Zodiac but for our work it is much
easier to just stick to the raw numbers like 0 to 360 rather than trying to figure out in your
head the distance between 15 Aries to 12 Leo. If you list them as 15 and 132, we can then
easily see the distance is 132-15 2 117 degrees.
We'll be doing a lot of planetary movement examples to come but for now let's continue with
the basics and talk about 'frequencies' and resistance break points.
Most people are aware that we have 360 degrees in a circle (but why?), and since the planets
go around in a circle we should find 'breakpoints within that 360 range.
The basic approach has always been to break the circle into the '2' and '3' divisions.
This is represented with the typical 'Gann Emblem' - the circle, square and triangle
This is also the starting diagram for the Great Pyramid construction. Within the circle We have
a square and as the square is rotated Within the circle the four corners of the square tie in
points of the circle with 90 degrees and the triangle ties in the 120 degree points. If We list the
calendar dates around the outer circumference of the circle starting With the first day of
Spring as '0' then When can find annual dates that have harmonic relationships to each other.
The simple math to get the hannonics is to divide by 2 and 3 thus:
3 60/2:180/2=90/2=45/2=22.5/2=11.25/2=5.625 and
360/32120/2=60/2=30/2=l5/2=7.5/2=3.75. Each ofthese smaller divisions i.e. 5.625 and 3.75
are usually used to get the smaller harmonics of circular movement like a planet moving those
many degrees or a pair of planets having an angle of those amounts or moving those amounts.
In Gann's various courses he usually disguised the astrological parts but did demonstrate them
with 'days, weeks, or months' time counts and you were to figure out that these related to the
individual planets. In Gam1's course he states:
'The circle of 360 degrees when divided into its geometrical parts proves the reason of all
Resistance levels and measures time and volume as well as space very accurately. It is
important to divide the circle by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 12, to get the important Resistance
levels'.
The above math was usually set up as 'seasonal time periods' to look for changes taking the
sun as a planet and starting With March 20th as Spring and adding l/24th of a year or 15 days
or degrees as follows:
March 20 + 15 = April 6th + 15 = April 20th + 15 = May 6th...May 21, June 6, June 21, July 7,
July 23, Aug 8, Aug 23, Sept 8, Sept 23, Oct 8, Oct 23, Nov 7, Nov 22, Dec 7, Dec 21, Jan 6, Jan
20, Feb 4, Feb 19, Mar 6. In most years these dates will see market turns and if you check
them, many bull and bear markets start on these dates, but if you look at the other bigger
planets at these 15 degree breakpoints you get other turns sometimes much more powerful.
Gann always disguised his teachings with calendar dates since the Sun had the same degree on
each calendar date but he meant to use those degrees with all the relevant planets.
ln Gann's time everything had to be done by hand since there were no computers and the
easiest way to associate numbers and degrees was by constructing various charts in
geometrical shapes like circles, hexagons, squares, triangles and other arrangements. The key
again is that planetary and numerological degrees had to be associated with stock or
commodity prices so in the future you could predict a retum and return price when certain
numbers came up. Usually you would 'circle' the numbers of the major highs and lows in
history and ideally you would find them lining up in straight lines proving you had a good
correlation. Below are some of Gann's representative charts. They are only presented to give
you an idea of what I am talking about and their quality of reproduction is poor but enough to
give you the idea. With modern computers, just about any arrangement can be made in a few
seconds.
Gann's Charts
This first chart is one of Gann's favorites- the circle of '24' which nicely aligns every 15 degrees
of longitude and time with prices. Also note the square and triangle within the circle Which
could be moveable to quickly calculate those 90 and 120 degree points. You will note that all
charts start numbering from the 0 Aries, or March 20th time point. These 15 degrees segments
can also be used for hourly trading with the 'O' Aries at 6 AM, or ideally sunrise.
must go out and up to June in numbering sequence as it follows the seasonal Declination of
the Sun. (BTW, those first 9 numbers are literally the planets).
N
longitudes Will create resistance at the 15 or 45 degree angles. Note, however, in this chart he
is using 22.5 degree breakpoints, not 15 degree.
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Does this sequence look familiar? Next page is the Square of Nine in monthswith those dates
above highlighted. Do you now think you could predict the next couple of tums in the market?
These are Cardinal and Fixed Cross points on the Square of Nine. The key will be to find the
right starting point. Here it Was (not shown) October 2002 since that major low Was exactly
five years or 60 months to October 2007. Sometimes you find a sequence like this but you
must not label the first top as '1' but as here '60 or 61' to get the sequence to work. Sometimes
you can take a top to another top or bottom and measure the distance and assume that is the
'distance' between these 'rungs' on the Square of Nine. Knowing the numbers on that rung you
can then go backwards that amount to find the origin. Once We start Working with planetary
cycles it's much easier since some kind of aspect like Jupiter 60 Saturn might be
found at the top date and we can work backwards looking for Jupiter/ Satum at 45 30, 15, or
'O' to find the origin.
translation scheme of aligning a price with a planetary longitude. What is important, however,
is that at each of these angle 'anns' of each of these shapes we have frequency 'break point'
numbers, and we will deal With some of those later.
ln Gann's time you had to laboriously take an ephemeris sighting in the Zodiac nomenclature
and calculate by hand all these 15 or 30 or any degree distance and it took a long time. Now
We have computers and hundreds of years of data can be examined in only seconds. I have
included sum computer programs with this book to make these calculations easier.
conversion very easy and also gives you the planets both geo and helio for any date. Below is a
snapshot of the program:
The first thing to note is the date format '20l4.0l05' (top left text box) Which was January 5,
2014 for this snapshot. I use that format simply because it's so easy to strip off the digits and
do simple calculations. If you Want to input any date just put the four digit year then a '.'
decimal point and the two digit month and two digit day. Use a leading 'O' if the month or day
is a single digit. Those of you in foreign countries that don't use a decimal point but use
commas, may have to set your operating system software to US settings or formats. 1 will also
state here that these programs included with the book are only to help you understand the
material and make it easíer but no warranties are made that they will work on your system or
in your country or time zone. It is not my intention to sell you computer programs, but to
teach. If you have a serious interest you can buy other commercial products or see me for
other possibilities Many will Want to take these
circumstances. These are 'Windows' programs and usually w0n't work on a MAC unless its
Windows compatible and I doubt they will run in the small space environments of hand held
appliances. In regards the accuracy of the astrological calculations, I believe these are within a
minute or two of accuracy (there are 60 minutes to one degree) for plus or minus a hundred
years but some slow moving planets will be off a touch so don't 'bet the farm' on some exact
calculation you have made but let the chart tell you it is ready for the turn predicted.
Next to the date entry box you will note a row of planets and their individual degrees listed
below each name. These are the longitudes of the Zodiac on that date where the planet is
located. The buttons on the left side tell you if they are 'Geo' or 'Helio' calculations and you can
change them by just clicking those buttons and hitting the 'Start' button. The first left hand
column of the grid is a listing of '0' to '359' and represents the first full circle of the Zodiac
degree by degree and the second column starts with 360 and goes to 720 and so on for any
size number you may want. On the right side is a box where you can input any price and the
column after 1800 will show the 0-360 increments containing that number. You can input a
Dow Jones 'big' number like 15,000 or even any number like 17 and it will quickly find the
relevant listings. The last column is the key to the chart and shows the individual planet
longitudes where they show up in the number rows as you scroll down the table. On key cyclic
dates prices should gravitate to these special longitudes. In this snapshot we see Uranus near 9
degrees (exact was 8.74 rounded up- see top row listing for Ura) and it is listed in the
horizontal row that shows number like 9, 369, 729, 1089, 1449, 1809, and in the last input
column for 15,000, 14,769. These would all be possible numbers for highs and lows on that
date if the stock or commodity had an affinity for Uranus. At major highs and lows you will
note dozens of different stocks and commodities closing near these various numbers giving
strength to the forecast conviction. There are numerous other possibilities too,- remember
Gann had over 36 different conversion charts but this `1 to l' chart is a good basic start for us
to get a feel for what we will be looking for.
Let's see if there is any merit to this idea. We all know the big low on March 6, 2009 had a low
near 666 but the close was 683.38 on the S&P cash. Below is the
days the close will be on an almost exact number While on any normal trading day these
numbers will act like trendlines and prices Will bounce off them for normal support and
resistance within the day.
This next chart is the big low for Google from November 21, 2008 and the price was $247. 30,
and we can see helio Mars at 246 degrees.
Now if it was all just this easy we would all be billionaires but there is much more to it. If you
were to check out the top 10 highs and lows in history you might only find 3 exact hits and
another 2-3 that were off by 5 to 10 points-usually due to 'slippage', bad quotes and stops
being run. Not perfect but certainly worth checking on each day with this very fast and simple
program. The theory here is that the stock price is gravitating to the planetary movement or
location and what we have seen so far is just the absolute location on a single date. That is like
a trendline support or resistance point and you can get a reversal on a trendline or just a
bounce. To get big reversals you need 'equilibriun'. You may also need another translation
scheme. Many times the Square of Nine works better. Think of the famous Gann trade in
wheat on September 30, 1909 when he said 'I don't care where it is trading now (about $1.07-
$1.10), it must go to $1.20 by the close, if not, it will mean there is something wrong with my
system'- (my very general paraphrase of his comments.) Below is a very simple explanation of
wheat needing to line up with the calendar date of September 30th- Sun at 186 degrees and
straight down is the price translation into the number 120. Now I'll be the first to admit there
are a number of other ways to get this prediction and with Mercury
way of using the Square of Nine in vertical and horizontal rows to translate numbers, too.
I said that you need 'equilibrium', and Gann said there were basically three ways to get a price
reversal- 'Square the High', 'Square the Low' and 'Square the Range', To square something you
take a timing line like a trendline or planetary movement and move it l unit of time for 1 unit of
price. From a top of let's say 386 a 1 x 1 trendline going down and hitting 'zero' price Would
mean you are over 386 and down 386 and time and price would be at equilibrium balance so a
reversal is expected. The 386 number Was the 1929 high for the Dow Jones and if we use one
month per point, 386 months later was the very end of 1961 with the huge 1962
until it had moved 386 degrees and look for a turn on that date. (I always start with helio, since
it's a shorter cycle and Will hit first- geo can be almost a year later).
In the 1929 chart We see that helio Mercury moved 386 degrees to square out the top and
created another top on that exact date of December 9, 1929. The calculation is in the 'program
picture' and that comes from another computerprogram included with this book that Will be
explained shortly.
Let's look at our Google chart again for a nice example of this price equals longitude
movement equilibrium. Since we saw that Mars Was around at the low it might be an
important planet to try first. Let's start With the first major all time
off and runs quickly up almost $200. The next chart shows two snap shots of the prior
conversion program spliced together to show that I took the position of Mars at the origin top
date and added 747 to it, but remember when Mars goes past 360 it starts again at 0 so we
have to subtract two cycles of 360 and find the left over is 128.99 which it arrives at on
October 4, 2011. This was the 'old' laborious way Gann had to do it by hand, prior to
computers and soon I will give you another program that easily calculates distances to make
this a snap.
I'll introduce that other program at this point so you can think about upcoming examples and
see how you would solve them. I'll use this same Google example since it is fresh in your mind.
Below is a picture of the program that calculates almost everything you will need to know
about the planets.
At the top left we have a 'Start Date' and 'End Date' and to the right a 'Days' box. The program
only needs a start date and days number to run. 500 days is a default to give a quick look at
the next year and a half but you can input any amount like 2000 days or 30,000 days. Just keep
in mind that if you input 30,000 days (82 years!) it may take 40 seconds to a minute to wait
before you get the calculated answer since all calculations are done 'on the fly' day by day and
do not read a built in ephemeris. Usually day limits like 500 to 2000 will be done in 2-3
seconds. In this picture the days are shown as 1428 since I put in an end date of 201 1.1004
and then hit the button 'Auto Dates' which fills in the 1428 exact number of days needed. I
could have guessed or put in a big number like 5000 days but it is more efficient and faster if
you know the end date. To the right of the 'Days' is the 1st planet (Pl) and if you are only using
one planet this first box is all you need. The P2 or second planet box is used for pair
combinations and while this example shows number '2' for Moon that is not used since the
check box to the right by `Pairs' is not checked. If it was you would get all the angles between
Mars
you need to. Looking at the lefi text box listing for Mars We see the first column has the date
for each calendar day from this start date (only in my personal seminars do I give out the
advanced detailed programs with hours and minute by minute calculations- you can always
buy a commercial program else Ware if you Want to do the detailed work i.e. Solar Fire Gold
@$360-Alabe.com, the programs included in this book are only meant to explain the method
and be helpful). The second column has the day by day Mars longitudes. The first is 101.9921
and the next day 102.0978 and the third column shows the amount of distance moved from
the first day to the second of 0.1056 degrees of longitude. I have made all the degrees decimal
units so the math is easy. A typical astro program uses degrees, minutes (60 to a degree), and
seconds (60 to a minute), but my method is much easier. There is a scroll bar on the right of
the text box and if We scroll down to the bottom as in this next picture we get to our result:
accuracy at this point as later l'll discuss how to adjust some things but know that many
ephemeris's start at midnight and some at noon and sometimes you may want to start at the
market open or close. If you notice the small movement of Mars from one day to the next it's
not a big deal and I usually insist that you use these markers
ONLY TO WARN OF A NEAR REVERSAL and you LOOK AT THE CHART
to get the actual technical sign of a reversal like exceeding the high of the low bar, or for a top,
breaking below the low of the high bar and only then is your planetary indicator confirmed and
you act. Reviewing what we have done, we find we have calculated the distance of the
movement of Mars in a Geo system from the start date to the end date and found it to be 747
degrees of longitude. You can 'visualize' this distance as a horizontal distance from the top to
the October low, or you can visualize a 'zero angle' or timing line like Gann did starting a
trendline at '0' price under the top and seeing it creep up by the cumulative move each day
until when it got to 747 it would be at the same level as the top for a 'square out'. Most
traders, however, prefer to think in terms of trendlines that prices follow and bounce up off of
or break through. On this program there is a 'Trendline' box you check off to use and put your
starting price in. ln the Google case, if you remember from a previous example, the big low on
November 21, 2008 was $247, so let's put in this starting date and that starting trendline level
and see what happens. The picture below now shows the cumulative third column starting at
247 and increasing with the Marslongitude daily amount. This will result in a 'Planetary
Trendline' and we can take any end point calculation and put a 'dot' on our price graph and
draw a line between the origin and end point and get our trading trendline. ln this example I
only ran the program for 365 days so I could quickly go out one year from the low and the end
point trendline is 498.0759 (bottom line second picture).
The price graph of the Mars planetary Trendline looks like this.
Here We can see a Well fitting 'slope' Where a long tenn investor could stay long as long as
prices held above it, and we also see several touches to the line as well as a final 'kiss of death'
touch after it broke and tried desperately to get back above it but failed, confirming a
downtrend. If you follow that trendline to the very top right where it horizontally intersects
the all time high on the left at $747 we see a another top and a decline after that 'square out'
of the planetary angle timing line from the bottom to the top.
Let's now explore this programs features a bit more and see how We use pair combinations. In
this first example I have used Pl and PZ as the sun and moon.
The listbox on the left shows the suns details of its longitudes each day and travel movement.
You can see from the third column the sun moves about a degree each day as expected. If We
look to the second listbox for P2, the moon, We can see much faster movements with the daily
differential being nearly 13 degrees per day.
This being the case, note that with this program that only gives you day to day sightings and
not hourly or minute or minute listings, you WILL NOT be able to get an exact degree you need
like exactly 180 degrees longitude, but Will 'jump over' that number from 175.5631 to
188.2644 (2008.1 122 to 20081123 - middle
The third listbox on the right is where the angles between the two planets show up along with
the distance the two planets have moved as a pair from an origin point. The middle column
here is the 'angle' between the two planets and not the longitude. This is a number not a
physical location in space. Look at the first rows of listboxl and listbox2. The sun's longitude is
239.051 1 and the moon`s longitude is 162.6102 and the difference or angle between the two
is 76.4409. This 76.4409 angle is important because it has been amply demonstrated that the
combined cycle of the two planets have frequency effects at certain angles like 45, or 90, or
120, or 180. These are more like the tuning dial on a radio receiver that makes a specific strong
frequency come through. Remember our most basic angle between the sunand moon is the '0'
or conjunction and the 180 opposition or 'full moon' aspect.
Lunar calendars also list the phases or quarter moons of the 90 degree aspects. If We now look
at the last column of the last listing box we see the total movement of the angles between the
sun and moon since the starting date and on the 28th of
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(conjunction) and back the other side to 14 degrees totaling 90 degrees distance moved. These
distances can be used like our Mars trendline if we like.
One other anomaly to think about is the fact that the 'inner' planets (inner = within the orbit of
the Earth to the Sun or closer to the Sun than the Earth), can never appear farther than one
sign of the Zodiac on either side of the Sun because they are so near to it. These are only
Mercury and Venus. They do go around in a 360 degree circle over nearly a year as the Sun
does, but as a pair- either Mercury and the Sun, or Venus and the Sun, the angles as viewed
from the Earth never get much bigger than 20-30 degrees. This next picture shows a Sun,
Mercury, with the greatest angle near 19.3131 degrees on January 5th 2009 but these change
all the time (see chart at left for that day and see the spike high reversal and collapse).
These are called the "greatest east or west elongations' depending on which side of the sun
they are on, and usually the market always turns on these dates as it produces a kind of
slingshot from these extreme angles.
and 180. The angles above 180 are usually reduced to below 180 since once the two planets
are opposite each other they come back towards each other again.
Most of the major highs and lows in the stock market have a major angle between the 'outer'
planets (past the Earth's orbit) and most times the important ones are Jupiter/Saturn,
Jupiter/Uranus or Saturn/Uranus combinations.
The example of Google with a big low on November 21, 2008 will be used again since IBM,
AMZN and a score of other big name stocks hit their final lows on that date.
The picture above shows the same 2008.1 121 date using planets (6) Jupiter and (7) Saturn and
the top line of the third angle box listing shows the 120 angle on that date for all those lows.
Note that the 1932 low Was 40-41 on the Dow- a Square of Nine Cardinal point and 120
degrees is an odd square (@l2l), 135 degrees away for the translation.
The top on October 10, 2007 was a Jupiter 90 Uranus
This series of Jupiter /Uranus aspects continued throughout the next several years. The
secondary big top of May 19, 2008 Was a Jupiter 60 Uranus:
The ´final´ bear market low of March 6, 2009 was a near 45 Helio degree aspect of
Jupiter/Uranus:
Note the exact 45 was March 1st, but the actual low was March 6th. Why?
Usually there are always multiple planetary aspects at the big turns and on the 6 th was a Venus
'retrograde' - reversing directions. Jupiter/Uranus was still the driving force, however, because
of this strange but frequent translation of a planetary angle into a price. On the 6th, the
Jupiter/ Uranus aspect was 44.65 and the square root of that is 6.68 and the low was 666 to
668! The low was a numerological translation decimal shift of the square root of the angle!
Gann's US Steel Example
ln my early studies of W.D. Gann and his methods I never understood these numerological
translations of planetary aspects that he was using. The following is a section from Gann`s
original course:
'Figuring $100, or par, as a basis for stock prices and changing those prices to degrees, $12 1/2
equals 45 degrees, $25 equals 90 degrees, $37 l/2 equals 135 degrees, $50 equals lS0,$ 62 1/2
equals 225, $75 equals 270, $82 l/2 equals 360 (his mistake? should be $100=360?). F or
example: When a stock sells at 50 on the
Here's the US Steel chart for 2003 to 2006 and the exact low was a Saturn/Uranus 120 angle
helio. The timing angles drawn as l X 1 and 1 X 3 are Saturn/ Uranus helio angles and note the
EXACT high tick and EXACT low tick were on these angles. We also see the Mars/Uranus angle
at the low was 83.75 and the first top was 83.75 and the big top was 83.75. Another top was
129.53 Mars/Uranus and so was the next. The 74 degree angle also came out. These 'rulership'
planets and angles work forever, so once you do a little work and find them trading becomes
much easier. I explain these angles in the coming sections but note that you can draw a
'trendline' with the numbers of an angle, not just longitudes. Also note that precise and
specific angles at a low or high when returned to, become reversal angles.
What does this really mean? Literally he says that $50 is 1/2 of $100 on the Price scale and 180
is 1/2 of 360 on the Time scale. He implies that the price and time are related or as I have said,
the time (planetary longitude) is translated into a price on that date. Look at this chart of
Google which had its first all time high at $747. If you look at all those arrow markers showing
huge 'gaps' up or down on April 17th you will understand what Gann was getting at. The
number 747 when reduced to the 360 time cycle is 747-360 = 387 -360 = 27 as the time
number or equivalent longítude of the top. The Sun's longitude on the first day of Spring,
March 20th, is 'O' so 27 degrees later is April l7th. Every April l7th will be a
longitude that resonates with GOOG's all time high of $747, proving the time/price correlation.
This is where 'anniversary' dates come in. An all time high or low for a commodity or stock may
have been $9 and the translation might be 9 degrees (March 29th) or 90 degrees (June 2lst).
Every year that stock or commodity might see annual turns near that date because of the
historic price translation.
The major low in modern history Was July 8th 1932 so you might think the 'anniversary' date
of July 8th will repeat- and it often does- but from the above discussion we know that if the
Dow Jones price that date was $40-$41 then that is
This goes to the heart of all the various charts Gann used like the Square of Nine, or the
Hexagon Chart, or the Square of 24, etc. You need to translate the longitude or the number of
the aspect to a price number on the date the energy crystallized to get the forecast. Previously
I showed how Jupiter and Uranus created the October 2007 top with a 90 degree angle, and
the May 2008 top with a 60 degree angle and the big low of March 2009 with a near 45 degree
angle. If this 'translation' of angles into numbers and energies works then we should be able to
follow these planets into the future and see what happens on the next angle. The 'difficulty' is
that We have all these retrogrades and direct movements and when you use pairs of two
planets you get all kinds of retrograde movement possibilities.
It makes sense that if you are going down into an aspect and then a planet changes direction
with a retrograde or direct then the same angle number might yield a different outcome. This
change in direction can also be from going through a conjunction, like going 'down' into a '0'
aspect and 'up' the other side to the sameaspect. At the March 2009 low Jupiter and Uranus
were near a 45 (44.65) helio degree aspect, but a couple of years later after the conjunction
they again retumed to the same 45 (44.74 helio) degree angle on April 1, 2012 and on this side
of the conjunction it was a top (top right hand listbox in Planet program). I made this
prediction in real time a month ahead of time, for a cover article in Your Trading Edge
Magazine in 2012 because of this knowledge.
Here's the helio chart showing several frequency harmonic aspects creating
highs and lows and the return to the same big angle of the final low but this next time 1t was a
top since it was going in the opposite direction.
This idea of angle translations and retro and directs is why Garin said 'you can trade at double
and triple tops and bottoms but the fourth time almost always goes thru'. He was referring to
the fact that the retrogrades would take two planets thm a translation price and might come
back to the same translation two or three times as they went back and forth but there is
almost no combination of individual planets in pairs that can go thru the same degree four
times before it moves on for good.
You can trade then, because as they move on, the longitudinal planetary movement creates
price movement and you have a good trade. In Gann's courses he also said:
'The ancient hunters had a rule that when they were searching to locate an animal in his den,
they always followed his tracks backwards, figuring that it was the shortest route to his lair.
The quickest way for you to leam how to determine future market movements is to study the
past.'
What he is talking about here is the circular orbits of planets and the retrograde movements. If
you find the degree that made a top or bottom in the past, that top or bottom would most
likely repeat when the planet came back through that degree again. lf you follow technical
analysis you know that old tops become future lows, and past levels often become
consolidation levels when reached again. You may not be aware, however, that when prices
return to those levels it is often because of a planets retum to the same longitude translation.
Now that you know, you might
The Planets And Their Cycles
Let's do a little more background stuff now to complete our basic understanding of planets and
their orbits. The planets we work with are basically 1 1 in number: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Moon's node(s).
Genesis 37:9
Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Lìstenf” he said, “I had another
dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
(In the Bible there were two types of 'stars' - the regular stars and the 'Wanderers' or the
Planets- the 'lords'.)
While extremely important I won't be covering the moons nodes -south or north, in this work
but will leave that to another date. Just so you know, however, the 'node' is not a planet at all
but a location that moves. It is the point in the moon's orbit where it crosses the suns path or
ecliptic. lt is like the precessed point of the Vernal Equinox of the Sun. Because it does that, it
allows for eclipses to take place at a minimum of every six months and usually more when the
earth, sun and moon are all lined up on that axis plane point. The nodes, like the precession of
the equinoxes, only travel backwards and are slow moving taking about 18.75 days to move
one degree and 18.75 years to move 360 so they really do have a 'day for a year' biblical type
of rhythm. The eclipse cycles follow two time tables. The Saros cycle of 18 years and ll days,
yields the exact same eclipse so in the stock market on an eclipse date you can usually look
back 18 years to look for a similar pattern. The other cycle is the exact 19 year Metonic cycle
and that has eclipses too every 19 years, but not the exact same one. (BTW the 'Square of
Nine' is really the square of 19 i.e. 19 x 19 = 361. Also note in Islam the Quran similar to our
Bible which has the number '7'- the Sun throughout, the Quran is based on thenumber '19' -
the moon- all Mosques have a crescent moon at their top).
We will be working with the other planets and pairs mostly and they are listed in order of
distance to the sun and therefore relative 'speed' since the closer to the
Approximate daily speeds are l degree per day for the Sun, 13 for the moon, 4+ for Mercury,
1.618 for Venus (Fibonacci- Goddess of Beauty and Harmony), 1/2 for Mars, l per week for
Jupiter, l per month for Saturn, 1/3 per month for Uranus and very small for the others. It may
also be interesting to note that the days of the week are named for the planets, Sunday-Sun,
Monday-Moon, Tuesday-Mars, Wednesday-Mercury, Thursday- Jupiter, Friday- Venus,
Saturday-Saturn. These are the planets that are visible with the naked eye. (How did the
ancients know about the others? -They did!). Uranus is the 'Lord' or Christ (from an astro level,
remember the Bible is written with a good three or more levels of understanding depending on
your development). Uranus has an 84 (8+4 =12) year cycle so all 7 of the prior planets can rule
the 12 constellations in tum to complete the master cycle (12 x 7 2 84, also 12 x 84 =l008- ever
note the 1000 year cycles of religions?) You can run the program and see the daily change for
each of these planets in the cumulative distance column. These speeds change all the time and
aswe have seen, they often slow down to a stop going into a retrograde and then speed up
considerably when coming out. Their annual cycles are Sun- 365.2422 days, Moon- 27.32 days,
Mercury 88 days (helio,-Geo is close to sun's one year +- one month), Venus 225 days (helio),
Mars 687 days (varies a lot), Jupiter 11.86 years, Saturn 29.46 years and an evil sister to the
Moon (Moon about 27-29 days- Saturn 29 years), Uranus 84 years, Neptune 164.8 years, Pluto
248.1 years.
Because of elliptical orbits these are AVERAGE full cycle approximations as during any stretch
of time they may be moving many times faster or slower than the average. F or example while
Neptune moves at a 165 years rate and Pluto nearly 248 years, during the decade of the 1990's
Pluto was almost as fast as Neptune due to its orbital position. If you use the calculator and
put in l996.0l01 with planets 9 and 10 you will see they are very close in daily speed and yet
the orbits are 90 years different. Because of all this there is no solid rule of thumb you can use
to say a certain cycle is exactly so many days or years all the time. Certainly full moons and
such are extremely accurate and the Jupiter and Satum cycles enumerated in the Bible
(Jehovah and Yahweh) for thousands of years are very close, but in general it's always best to
do the calculations and see exactly where they come out. To give us a rough working idea of
planetary combinations we calculate their synodic cycles by the formulas 1/both = 1/pl - 1/p2.
This gets an
the next conjunction will occur about 19.85 years later. Just remember at any point within that
19.85 years stretch you may be at a retrograde period of one or both so you could be off by 3
to 6 months if you just divide the l9.85 year cycle into quarters or thirds looking for 90 degrees
or 120 degree aspects. This is why technicians will often say something like 'the cycle is 10
years plus or minus three months'.
This near 20 year cycle gives rise to the 'decennial pattem' where every ten years the pattern
repeats and one looks at the last digit of the year for the pattem.
This Would be like 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, for the 'O' digit or 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013 for
the '3'. These years usually have the same Jupiter/Saturn aspects during the year. Every 5 years
they are 90 degrees apart, and every 10, 180 degrees apart or '0'. You can get opposite
patterns with a 180 at ten and ten later get the conjunction, or a 90 aspect at 5 year and a 270
angle at the 15 year but the idea is to spot the 'vertical' price moves that arise from our theory
that as a planet or pair move through space the longitudinal movement will translate into a
vertical price move of equivalence (also my TCB idea). If you can find a year when the planets
go from 30 to 45 degrees then the next time they go from 30 to 45 the vertical priceheights
should be the same and you could forecast a percentage increase or decrease based on the
past. The problem of course is overlapping cycles of other planets from longer cycles like a
Satum / Uranus cycle hitting in the same year as a 10 year Jupiter/ Saturn. Then you have to
look closely to isolate each component.
There are a number of Ways to look at planetary cycles and compute them. We need to know
a few so we can estimate when a stock market return pattern may repeat for the next year.
One interesting way to think about planetary returns is to see if a planet can come around and
be at the same spot on the same day of the year i.e. conjunct the sun. This takes multiple
revolutions but many have fairly reliable cycles that can be useful: Moon 19 years (eclipses),
Mercury 79 years, Venus 8 years, Mars 79 years, Jupiter 83 years, Satum 59 years, Uranus 84
years, Neptune 164 years and Pluto 247.7 years. These can be used for quick 'guesses' of
where the planets were hundreds of year ago. ln ancient times Ptolemy used some other
cycles which are still of some use: Moon 4 years, Mercury 10 years, Venus 8 years, Sun l9
years, Mars 15 years, Jupiter 12 years, Saturn 30 years, Uranus 90
years earlier Was the top July 20, 1990, and retumed to the same degree on July 20 1998 at
the same time Jupiter Was going retro and at the price of the Dow Jones i.e 26 X 360 =9360,
Jupiter Was @359.
The other system that has great merit is the Indian Vedic system of cycles.
These are as followsz Sun 6 years, Moon 10 years, Mars 7 years, North Node 18 years, Jupiter
16 years, Saturn 19 years, Mercury 17 years, South Node 7 years and Venus 20 years. We are
currently (I believe) in the 19 year Saturn cycle (note prior Jupiter 16 years straight up from
1984 to 2000) that started in March 2000 with the first three year sub cycle Dasha of Saturn
running to March 2003. We Won't see a real bull move until after 2019 which ties in with the
100 year master cycle and the end of WWI and the rise of the Communists. These Indian cycles
total 120 years or twice our master 60 year cycle.
You should always look back these numbers of years when constructing a forecast for the
coming year and look for similarities. If you see some, then you look for specific planetary pairs
and aspects occurring then and repeating now.
Cycle:
5 years Possible cause:
7 years,7 1/2 90 degree Jupiter/ Saturn
10 years Uranus 30 deg.,Sat 90 deg.
12 years,12.46,12.78,13.81 years 180 .lup/Sat,120 deg Sat
15 years Jupiter,.Iup/Plu,Jup/Nep,Jup/Ura
20 years 270 Jup/ Sat, Mars,180 Sat
30 years Jup/Sat
33 years Saturn
33.42 years Sun
35.87 years Saturn/Pluto
45.362 years Satum/Neptune
60 years Sarum/Uranus
84 years
3x Jup/Sat, also 1*' 7 planets return
Uranus
Note that the 60 year cycle is a 'master' cycle Where all the seven planets the days of the
Week are named after, return to the same signs of the Zodiac. The 60 year harmonic where
they all come back to the same sign is very important and you should watch the 120 and 180
year multiples as well.
Gann was a master at getting BOTH the price and the time predictions right and he drew
annual 'stick figure' diagrams for the upcoming year that were quite accurate. I don`t expect
you to be able to do that right away but just finding the angles and aspects should at least get
you to find the dates of the turns. You can often get the targets With 'measured moves' or any
of the other myriads of support and resistance methods I explain in my other books. Usually at
a top, you Will be at resistance and at a planetary tuming point and the trade becomes
obvious.
them with my Planet Program you will often find the underlying cause which is the going back
and forth thru the same time zone of a planetary movement and the vertical degree
translation that makes the pattern is just following our rule that the vertical price movement
must be equal to the time movement. Usually the pattern forms from a retrograde and coming
out of a conjunction or opposition of two planets Which then go back thm the same degrees.
Once the planet springs out of those critical degrees the fast forward movement makes the
price action move point for degree, and those pattem 'target' projections can often be met.
IBM Study With Saturn
The very best Way to study the planets is to overlay about a year of data With an individual
planet like Saturn and label the highs and lows With the degrees on those dates and Watch in
the future when the planet goes back thru those same degrees again. We will do that now
With the chart of IBM using Saturn and see if We can see any relationship of the price
movements with Saturn's degree movements:
backwards and then forwards again. The up/down correlation of retro and direct doesn't
always last long as you can see in the mid section where longitudes go higher but prices go
lower. This is often when the longitudes of Saturn 'change sign' from one sign of the Zodiac to
another- they alternate being good and 'bad' and even specific degrees within a sign can be
good and bad but this is far too complex a discussion for a book like this. Your approach to it
might be to track and record a full 360 cycle of something small like helio Mercury and try and
find repeat high and low spots for the exact same repeating degree each 360 cycle.
The key observation here is the translation into prices of degrees which is our whole theory.
Note on the left the first rally from 205.62 to 204.88 and later the drop from 204.88 to 205.62
when going in the opposite direction. The price verticals are about the same and directions
correlated i.e. going backwards goes up in price, going forward, price goes down. When
examining the 'verticals' of price don't be too critical as there can be 'slippage' and stops run
on spike bottoms or tops (and other planets involved), but basically the closing levels will equal
to the same approximate price differentials. Also note the attempt of the second 205.62 to get
to the level of the first 205.62 on a horizontal price translation to that degree.
We can also see increments of 10 a.nd 15 degrees to other critical spike price areas and we
would watch those harrnonic degrees for potential changes. Keep in mindthat these big spike
reversal areas to exact degrees can be terrific options trades with only a day of risk of either
being right or wrong. We can see in this first exercise a correlation of longitudinal degree
movement being translated into prices and pivots.
Now let's go to our 'equilibrium' principle that reversals come when prices are 'squared out'.
Here's Satum again on the same IBM and we attempt to square the first major drop but it Was
so big we can't do it all in one snap shot so I only show the 1/4th, 1/3rd and l/2 parts of the
square out range. Note ALL of them resulted in reversal trades.
We set my program to the low date (20l2.07l6), and then look for the 6.94, 9.25, 13.87 and
18.47 cmnulative harmonic distances of the 27.75 whole range (below is the first l/4th- 6.94
degrees moved).
scalpmg based on these pr1nc1ples Below 1s a Mercury Hello trendl1ne on the 60 minute
chart of the S&P from the recent major low and plotted To draw it I Just ook a spot po1ntl1ke
January 7th and cumulative degrees of 1825 (mcludlng the low the market reacted to that
trendl1ne and how you could have had confidence of support when pr1ces h1t 1t That was
because it was 'tested' previously with the
square out causmg the most recent htgh when this trendline squared the prevrous top level
S1nce that square out worked, you knew the trendhne was leg1t1mate and would provrde
support Here we are squaring out ranges w1th a timing line
Above is a long term daily of Apple with Mars/Jupiter trendlines. These are constructed from
taking the cumulative distance the angle has moved from the low and add that to the low. I
took a 'sighting' for April 6, 2012 and got the numbers (last right hand column for angles- but
note in left hand column the Mars individual trendline was 672 and the market eventually got
to that area a few months later) and put an 'X' on the chart on that date and price and drew
the trendlines thru that. The lower angle is a 1/2 x l so I took the total distance of 570degrees
and subtracted the trendline low of 82.57 to get the 'net' movement, then I took l/2 of that
and added back the low of 82.57. That lower trendline caught the major correction very nicely.
Note how the steeper angle caused 'gaps' every time prices touched it, validating it, and then
when the horizontal to the first top squared the angle, ít created the final top. The low was
also timed by a horizontal square out of a prior high and the lower angle coming up. I used
Helio angles here since they always go forward and not backwards like the Geo ones and are a
bit better for forecasting, but you could plot out the geo and all its twists and turns and they
would work perfectly too. Note that these angle are the CAUSE of the technical
for what they can do and you will be able to apply principles you may be using now with angle
crossings, and squarings, but with these more accurate lines, get much better results.
The most basic concept presented here is the correlation of planetary movement and stock
price translation. As a planet moves, stocks move in relation to that. The only difficulty we face
is what planet do we use? Or what pair of planets? Gar1n loved to teach using calendar days
and seasonal trends relating to the 45 degree movements of the Sun starting from the first day
of Spring, because the Sun is very important. We have a tendency to use the outer planets
which move very slowly to time our bull and bear swings of several months to years but the
Sun gives good results most of the time. The next chart shows CME Group (old
Chicago Mercantile Exchange) with several swings demonstrating a price low or high and
moving the Sun that many degrees to the next point. Let's first look at the swing labeled '3'
with a $45 low on 20120803. If you put this date in your program and scroll down 45 degrees
moved for planet 1 as the Sun (Geo) you Will get September 18-19 for the square out and that
was a near perfect example of what we are looking for- starting with a low, calculating a high
date based on the low price
2011.1 108. Here the calculated 49 degree distance (low'?) comes out at a lower price but a
relative high since a few days later there was a dramatic shakedown plunge to the final low for
the swing. Why? This is a case of watching for other planets that could interfere with our
forecast. The Sun worked, but the close planets to the Sun, namely Mercury and Venus had
nearby square outs and they hit too. If you put that 201 1.1 108 date in the program and use
Mercury for Pl you will note that after it started, it went into a retrograde pattern on
November 24th (which WAS the first low) and then it came out of retrograde on December 15 th
(max degrees down and the next low-same translation price level), then made it to the target
of 49 degrees on January 25th- a staging area for the big breakout a few days later.
If you use Venus next you will find that it's calculated low was the same December 15th low as
Mercury. So in this example we see that all our principles
so you aren't surprised. If you work thru this example you will see that not just the $49 and 49
degrees square out worked, but also the peak points of the retrograde and direct points. These
create a magnetic shift which affects psychology so you may want to 'scroll thru the year' and
write down these max and min points for closer examination.
Example 'S' on this CME chart also shows a frequent result in that you can geta 'midpoint'
instead of a high or low at the calculated end point. ln this case the square out date came back
to the same level and while it could have been a double top, in most cases it is a mid point or a
multiple point. To find its length you take the distance from the last high to the low and that
amount is added to the calculated square out date to get the projected level. In this case if you
measure with your fingers it looks like a l/3rd distance and it goes three times that amount to
the final top, but in any event it's fairly reliable in that you will get at least a doubling of the
amount below the last top added to that top.
This 'problem' of having overlapping planetary cycles is not as frequent as you might think and
mostly affects short term moves of a week to a month. This is why Gann frequently said to buy
at a safer level of a secondary test of the low a few days later. During that amount of time, you
see, the Moon, Sun, Mercury or Venus, would move enough to square out stocks selling in the
mid ranges like $25 to $100 (Sun 30 degrees per month, Moon 360 per month, Mercury 120
Helio, Venus 50), while 'big' planets like Mars, Jupiter or Saturn only move a degree or two for
a whole month and their square outs can take many months or even years to arrive from a
past high or low price. You will have times during the year, however, when a particular week or
two will have a number of cycles from the past like a Jupiter 120 Saturn from 5 years ago while
a Jupiter 12 year return to the same degree or a Mars 90 Jupiter cycle may all hit together and
you must sort them out by using past patterns and measured moves. Gann didn't worry too
much about this problem since he dealt mainly with long tern cycles and was a swing trader
holding positions for weeks to months at a time with big stops. If he entered on a big Saturn or
Jupiter square out, he knew that there was nothing big that could come in for a square out
near that date that could destroy his trade. A Moon or Mercury 'little' cycle may put minor
pressure on his price but it would take a 'big' planet like
degrees, Saturn would only be back at 7-10 degrees and would need another 20+ months to
catch up to 30, to reverse the long term trend with its square out of the same price. Knowing
this he just went long with a stop and used a Saturn trendline of 1 point per month to visually
inform him if he might be getting in trouble with something he overlooked. The CME chart
below shows a similar approach. Using the final low of $39.60 on 2012.01 l l, I put on the
Saturn helio trendlines by checking on 'Trendline' and putting in the low price and then just
scrolling down to an easy chart point to mark. Since July 1, 2013 was a vertical price grid on the
chart and I needed a price point of 56.73 for that date, I chose that and put an 'x' there and
then did a 2 x 1 by doubling the degrees moved for the next 'x'. I also put on a Jupiter Geo line
since that fit the chart perfectly, and to show you other things that may be at work. These
trendlines are extremely easy to use as all you have to
do is check the trendline box and put in the low and choose an 'End Date' for some easily
identifiable point on your chart and hit 'Auto Dates' to get the exact days to run (not shown
here). You can then quickly run thru ALL Pl planets with the up/down toggle switch and see the
end point at the bottom of your answer box listing.
these long tenn trendlines but they are meant for really long tenn investors with a decent stop
below the angles, and not just day traders who would be using very short term angles in those
areas like a moon or mercury line. On my program I only used the l x l trendline automatically
but if a slow moving planet barely moves, you would simply uncheck the trendline box and
take the total degrees moved to your sighting date and multiply that distance by 2, 4, 8 and 16
and then add the origin low back in.
Gann's Soybean Chart
I'm sure many of you may have seen this copy of Gann's original Soybean chart which shows
his hand plotting of Jupiter and Mars reaching a conjunction on
December 1, 1948 at 273 degrees longitude or 3 degrees Capricorn and creating a market top
(verify this for yourself with my Price Converter program for that date and a price of 273- it
shows Jupiter and note this is a small 'bug' in that the
be caused by the Mars/Jupiter conjunction, he went short with a stop. I have circled his planet
glyphs and his 'Jupiter 30 Sagittarius' marking shows he was thinking a change in sign for
Jupiter by writing down the 30th- last/first degree. In the above chart please note that the
intersection point of the two planets on the conjunction date did not result in a sudden and
swift crash. Gann had to wait at least another week to know if he was right and wouldn't be
stopped out. I only mention that as his reputation has grown to outlandish proportions and he
may not have been as great a day trader as many suppose. He was a great trend follower and
very good forecaster, but many of his forecasts were wrong and he had to trade accordingly.
Of note on this chart is a second Jupiter trendline (not highlighted) - look for the parallel line
below Jupiter and starting near October l and the low near 238. This is a geo Jupiter trendline
and you can recreate it using my Planet program with the trendline checked and Jupiter. Note
that this trendline caught the first drop from the calculated high. Also note a trendline coming
down from the high tick and that trendline intersects the early October low price just under
the second Jupiter trendline that caught the low. That was a trendline square out.
I have seen this chart in many other courses on Gami and most of the time I find that the
authors entirely miss the key points about what it's all about. First 1 would note that not just
any Mars/Jupiter aspect will trigger a move in Beans.
There are many planetary aspects that can be active. The key is to let the geometry of the
chart point you to the right planets. If you start near that October 1, 1948 low near 238 with
my program and use an end date near the December 1, 1948 conjunction and check the
trendline box, you will be able to see a trendline on Mars that almost exactly fits the slope of
the price data. That is a key that Mars is active and is being followed. You do the same thing
with Jupiter and although the slope is not identical to the price the intersection of the
conjunction of Mars on December 1st coincides with the prices indicating the geometry of the
energy present.
Now let's look at a personal letter of Gam1's to a student to try and get some more
information. In a section on Coffee forecasting he states:
"from the low prices on Coffee
1931, April 16, to August 7, 1953 Mars has made 12 round trips.
1954, October 29 Mars will be opposite or 180 degrees from its place on April 16, 1931.
1936, October l to September 19,1953 Mars made 9 trips of 360 degrees each.
1954, December 9 Mars will be 9 1/2 round trips or opposite its place October 1, 1936.
1940, May 15 to June 12, 1953 Mars made 7 round trips or complete cycles.
1954, April 9 Mars is 7 1/2 cycles or opposite its place on May 15, 1940.
Due to the retrograde position of Mars, it will again be 7 1/2 on July 7 and on August 17, 1954,
or the third time in opposition to its own place, which is very important.
1940, August 19 to September 15, 1953 Mars had completed 7 round trips.
Note low on Coffee on that date.
1954, December 4 Mars 7 1/2 round trips or opposite its own place on August 19, 1940."
You can quickly prove these calculations yourself with my program and see that they were Geo
and exact.
What we are to learn from this is that Gann didn't fool around with the small stuff- no 30, 45,
60, or 90 degree angles or such, but the entire full cycle of 360 degrees every 1 1/2 to two
years and occasionally a half cycle of 180 degrees. The 180 is due to the fact that many full
cycles may be low to low prices and perhaps this year is a high which Would be opposite the
low longitude. The 'big' reversal and endings of bull or bear markets were caused by complete
cycles over several years. This is also similar to What I mentioned previously about planets
coming back to the same degree on the same day of the week. In traditional astrology it is
important to find events that recur in the same 'house' positions or sections of the Zodiac like
one at 30 degrees and one planet at 210 or opposite. An opposition at 60 and 240 might not
yield the same result even though the same aspect. You may want to test the synodic period
time cycles backwards to test this. When we
made on those dates that might be retuming with this cycle. Mars conjuncts Jupiter usually
every 2 years, to 2 years, 2 months so that may be a cause of the well known 4 year cycle too
(although the moon also has a 4 year cycle). Gann also had a number of '7' cycles -his 'death
zone' and that may be important for full cycle analysis.
This next chart is an updated version of this technique showing Why Schlumberger topped
near April 11, 201 1 when Jupiter and Saturn were in opposition in Geo. The straight Jupiter l X
l translation trendline worked but the second bottom with a steeper 4 X 1 Saturn angle ran up
to intersect that date near the opposition. The stock price could have gone a bit higher based
on the trendline intersections but time - the 180 degree opposition, came and ran out the
clock so the stock had to reverse. Usually you start your trendlines from each low and follow
them up while looking for an 'obvious' pair aspect but you can also 'reverse engineer' them by
finding the aspect first and making some 1 X 1 or 2 x 1 type planetary trendlines and run them
backwards from a likely resistance level near the aspect and see if they go to the origin point in
the past to confirm the projection.
These converging angles are Gann's 'Tunnel Thru the Air' as one interpretation, when they
culminate the energy to a point and the market collapses.
On the next page is another example using the U.S. Dollar Index. This one shows a couple of
astro and numerological correlations that created the big low.
Many times a price will square out when an angle number is equal to the price like the
Uranus / Pluto one here. lt works well here because there is also a corresponding 4 X l Uranus
angle that brings the two dates together. There is also a historic correlation with bonds,
currencies, and inflation themes with Saturn and Neptune, and on the low date they had a
major 135 degree aspect (note the Dollar price @72-73 opposite 133-135 on Sq of 9). That
same aspect caused the all time high for Gold on the same date and these two went in
opposite directions (gold near 1890 is opposite 73 on Sq of 9).
You can always (and should) have you timing angles on your charts well ahead of time so you
know where the market could rally to or collapse to in a bear market. Timing Angles are just
plotted out with several observations every couple of years either helio or geo or both and you
draw lines through those sighting points. If the angles are too steep or not steep enough you
can make parallels, and 2 x l's or 4 X l's to find a fit. Remember it's not so important that you
get the exact longitude to be hit with the prices because it's a translation scheme of planetary
movement into prices so a 2 X 1 or 4 X 1 angle is a translation rate and if it fits the chart slope
it still represents the planets energy and once some aspect to another planet arrìves on that
trendline you will see the square out.
Below is the S&P since the 2009 low and the early phase was Venus and since then Mars. A big
correction now could reach down to the Jupiter 4 X l near 1300-1400. A real 'bear' market
(Satum-the bear) could go to 900.
The second chart shows some down angles with Satum and the October 2002 low perfectly
caught the 2009 low with a l X l declining angle (remember back when Í took the 768.5 2002
price and moved the decimal point to 76.85 months and got the 2009 low?, well Saturn moves
about 1 per month and this angle of Saturn hits the exact price- this might be a case where
Gann would combine numerology with planets). For these declining angles, you just uncheck
the trendline boX on the
Planet program and subtract the distance moved from the original price. OR put the original
price in as a negative number i.e. '-768.50'. For a 2 X 1 you double or halve
The chart is confusing but close examination will show that many aspects did hit very close to
major turns for the year. The geo shows many three time repeats of the same aspect because
of the retrograde and direct motion and they varied as to which were the most important. The
helio aspects seem to be better from a basic 'forecasting' viewpoint. The helio 45, 120, 135 and
180 seem to give pretty good general long term forecasts but the geo's are good also. The
partial problem with
those influences. It is much easier to forecast individual stocks than a broad general market
like the S&P whose various groups like chemicals, steels, technology, drugs, finance etc., may
all be going in different directions, often flattening out the general market, while individual
stocks just go up or down and aren't averaged together in an average.
I mentioned previously that the 'starting point' for cycles was a very important consideration.
The conjunction of the sun and moon each month has always been such a starting point ever
since laid out in the Bible. The idea that this is an electromagnetic pulse mechanism has been
used by astrologers for ages with eclipses and similarly the conjunctions of the big outer
planets. In traditional astrology you erect a horoscope for each new moon to see what will
happen for the next 30 days, while at the quarterly ingresses of the Sun into the Cardinal Signs
(Spring, Sumer, Fall, Winter), that predicts what will happen over the next quarter.
These are examples of the aforementioned electromagnetic pulses. In the above chart of the
S&P We started with the 'O' conjunction aspect to get pulse harmonics at the aspect points,
and the only alternative would be to start from the high price.
For now We'll work With the conjunction point to start but remember many of these are
NUMBERS or aspects and only the conjunction is a LONGITUDE. This is why the conjunction is
so important. All other 'aspects' like 60 degrees have the two planets 60 degrees apart but
neither is located at the 60th longitude of the Zodiac- it's just a 'difference' between the two
locations. The 60 is just a number and the individual planets can be almost anywhere. Now we
will try moving the individual planets of Jupiter and Saturn a number of degrees from this
special conjunction starting point and see if distance movement makes a difference. In this
next chart we see longitude distances from an origin and we still have 'hits' but only 60% highly
accurate and the others perhaps off by a week or two.
Below is the same chart again as seen with individual distances (J30G=Jupiter moved 30 Geo)
moved not from the conjunction, but using the all time high price as the starting point in 2000:
Slightly better hits but of special note is the fact that the entire bear market length was a near
perfect Saturn 45 degrees but specifically, a doubling of Saturn's location at the top. This is like
a stock going from $50 to $100 and meeting resistance. Longitudes when they double also
meet strong resistance. If you 'stand back' and look at this chart you might see an 'A' 'B' 'C'
correction from the 2000 top with the A being the 2002 low, the B the 2007 top and the C the
2009 low. I say that because the 2000 top and 2009 could be related.
Remember the low in 2009 was the angle between Jupiter and Uranus of 44.6 degrees and in
2000 the location of Saturn was 44.6 - numerology at work? Or coincidence?
Mars & Jupiter
The planet Mars has traditionally provided the 'energy' to the markets (martial arts, Warfare,
military etc.) and we saw in Gann's Coffee letter his use of full cycles of Mars, so let's look at
Mars and the S&P. The next chart shows the bull market in the S&P that started in December
1994 and it clearly has a strong Mars influence first hinted at with the Mars trendline drawn
which is almost perfectly fitted to the slope of the market for the next four years. Starting with
the idea from Gann's coffee comments of using Mars with 180 or 360 movements we see in
each case a 100% perfect 'hit' correlation with the S&P. Since the origin was very close to a 90
degree aspect between Mars and Jupiter, we see Jupiter showing up at the major tums also.
Here's some other big angles With Jupiter and Saturn and Mars movements from the major
1987 top and We see again the power of Mars at the 180 and full cycle points.
resistance than planets since the large planets move so slowly they only move fractions of a
single degree during the day. The most used for intraday work are the Moon and Mercury
since the Moon can move from 12 to 14 degrees each day and Mercury (helio) can move 4
degrees and more.
Here we see a helio Mercury trendline starting at the low on a GOOG 60 minute chart, and
'squaring out' the high by hitting 920 which coincided with the second retest top at the same
level, which was actually created with the Mercury equilibrium of up and over 159 degrees
which was the range in price. This is a very quick analysis with these trendlines (took less than
a minute to complete) to show what may be at work. As long as a stock stays in a range of not
taking out the high or low price you keep doing range timing lines. In this case I took parallels
to the first l X l and started them under the point where they squared the top line. The 2 X l ( or
actually l x 2 depending on how you view it) was created by running a line from the origin low
to the second square out top. That was later moved over to the 'gap' area on the right so you
can see the effects of these angles and how the stock reacts to them. Note that all these timing
angles were constructed from the first impulse wave up and they still were good five months
later.
impact than just 45 or 90 degrees, here's the same chart with Helio Mercury 360 multiples,
and now we can see why that first top near $920 came out- it was 360 from the second low
back. Note the major top in the middle of the chart in July. It had two square outs of 360 (the
last major low) and 720 (the far left major low).
These combined cycles created the biggest top and a decline for a full 360 Mercury cycle
down- not illustrated but prove it for yourself (it's the 720 which was a 360 to that top).
Just tick off the 'Trendline' box and put the low number in it and either pick a date in the future
to get the cumulative trendline point or as in this example I scrolled down until I saw the price
of the high i.e. a square out, to get the date -August 25, 2013.
Here's another Euro chart with decimals moved.
translation is slightly off or the top price should have been a touch higher (would make the
'early' misses push out a bit and be in sync). One common mistake traders make is always
assuming that the top or bottom tick is correct or that it ties in with the cycle. Sometime a
market may top early but the cycle that is causing it comes a week later even though the
market is too Weak to make a new high. You must always be ready to make adjustments and
let the chart tell you when it`s time to reverse. These 'cycle' studies should just get you to 90-
99% of the way to the turn and the rest is tape reading skill, strategy (puts and calls, futures, or
buy and wait) and executing when the chart give a technical reversal signal. Sometimes people
say to me 'my calculation was off by two days- what good is that?' My response is usually do
you really want to go back to your moving averages and MACD stuff and get chopped up every
day? What's the alternative? This stuff can be deadly accurate if you wait for the good cycles
you have laid out and prepared ahead of time. Any small 'wiggle' by the moon can be traded
but it must be kept in perspective. Usually at the big turns there are multiple hits like above
with the moon square out from the high (far right), while the prices are hitting the Venus
timing angle, meaning prices are also a harmonic of Venus's longitude movement
costing you dearly if you are short. You have to let the technical chart confirm the natural cycle
like a 'low of the high bar' breaking for a sell or the 'high of the low bar' exceeded for a buy. In
this modern age of massive computer algo trading and 'flash' trading you can't expect the
planets to exert too much influence on a 15 minute chart, but if a major 360 degree of
something or 90 degrees of Saturn comes out, it will usually be seen within three days at
worst.
This next chart of Wal-Mart shows a couple of techniques at work. The helio Mercury line was
too fast (not shown) except for the first week or two but the geo Mercury was a good fit but
you should plot it yourself to see that it started off and shortly turned retrograde causing the
1st spíke high and that first little dip into July and then went direct very fast catching up to the
$79 top by August 8th (I say you should plot it to see that the line drawn is a straight line
representation and not the actual day to day position). That 'Moon 360' area shows where the
Moon had moved one cycle and you can see the start of a sideways resistance at that price
translation on that moon degree- it lasted until about 540 degrees (360 -l-180) of the Moon-
this is 'cycle' resistance when a cycle comes to an end. Usually each 360 cycle meets resistance
and even if the trend continues higher, the stock may try and base or consolidate at that
resistance in time. On the right side of the chart we see the same effect with the 360 H
Mercury which formed resistance for the secondary top. I drew a trendline from the low to the
price on the date H Mercury hit 360 to 'test' resistance and as you can see from the 'lip' of the
gap, that trendline was active and would likely work. Note this is not a trendline of l point per
time but a trendline from a low to a time cycle top that in theory has a translated price on that
date. Sometimes these kinds of trendlines can tell you what your translation should be per
unit. When planets move 360 or a full cycle they often form several days of a top or bottom
resistance area and not always a sharp 'v' shape reversal. The Jupiter trendline was a long term
bull angle which once broken led to a major decline which hit bottom on the date the Jupiter
timing angle squared the $79 top.
As we examine this chart of WMT we see the common uses of trendlines (support and
resistance) and timing angles- the Jupiter line intersects the high and creates a low. Let's take a
closer look at this key principle and see why most technicians make mistakes. Gann said there
were only three ways to reverse a market. Square the high, square the low, and square the
range. These are the points in time where there is equilibrium of time and price. A trendline or
planet moves from a low to a high to square the range, or moves from a high to 'zero price', or
a low to 'zero price' to square those prices. At those points new bull and bear swings can start.
Let's look at a long term weekly chart of Valero Energy to see this.
cycle is the steepest declining one, Saturn with a 30 year cycle the middle one, and Uranus
with an 84 year rate the top angle. The vertical line in the middle with the 'x' sightings for
Saturn and Uranus was used to create these helio trendlines. The Jupiter one being much
faster had an 'x' sighting near the first bounce high of the first low. We can also see some
horizontal lines from prior price points that intersected the angles at the 'arrows' and gave rise
to market reversals proving the validity of the angles. What I want to show you now is how
most technicians make mistakes. When we have a top we have to make an estimate of how it
will unfold and so we quickly put on these angles. If you use my Planets program for helio with
that top starting date of 2007.07l3 you can scroll down and see the distances moved by these
planets. Now the important thing to note is that even with helio movements the speed is quite
variable. They may not go retro like the geo longitudes do, but a straight line sighting between
two observations is just an average and not exact. We still use this timing line for estimates
and potential trendlines but the best way of course is to watch the day by day or week by
week accumulations of distance and update them. Looking at the chart we see the big
problem. The exact Jupiter square out of the 60.44 price range (the first little arrow on the
bottom) led to the actual ending of the bear market and the start of a bull market. Note the
rising bottoms ever after this date. But, the Jupiter 'theoretical' angle or timing line from the
top didn't hit the bottom to square that same range until about six months later. This error is
due to just using a straight line from one sighting and if you relied on it you would have been
off by quite a bit as almost all technicians who use trendlines are. Remember the principle of
equal longitude distance and equal price causing the reversal and remember how several
pages back I said Gann would buy or sell at such reversals with the big planets since the square
out time periods between Jupiter and Saturn or Saturn and Uranus could be years apart and if
you went long with a stop you would not be stopped out until the next planet potentially
squared that range. If you now look at the exact Saturn square out with the second bottom
arrow, we see the start of the Saturn bull market which won't be stopped until Uranus hits the
bottom or squares out - in several years. These are the principles Gann used for swing trading
knowing that if he used a big 10% stop it was almost impossible for a square out of a 'small'
planet to affect the main trend and reverse it. Only a 'big' planet could do that and that would
take many months at a minimum. Now you may start to understand why Gann often
line for a great many months. Of course none of this would work unless you knew the prior
range had squared out and was no longer working lower.
Examples
Let's take a look at some other examples of planetary influences over several
Years and a good section to look at is the August 1982 low to the 1987 August top and crash.
We always want to look for 'obvious' aspects between the planets and we see on August 12th,
1982, the exact low, we have a conjunction of Mars and Jupiter Geo. We also have Jupiter and
Saturn near a 15 degree angle. Of course as we were entering this time zone we would have
been working off the prior bear leg to see when it squared out and from the May 1st 1981 top
to the August 1982 low we see Mars has moved an exact distance of 180 degrees geo so that
could be a tip off when we see the pair angle of 'O' on that date. The prior price range to
square out Was approximately 261 points and helio Mars moved this amount near the first
week in October 1982 where that huge up move consolidated just before the major breakout.
The upside momentum was huge so we first try a steep angle like Mars 2
trend from January 1984 to August 1984 was started with a Mars 90 Jupiter angle but since the
bull market started with the 0 conjunction angle, in this case the 90 angle is the same as a 90
degree distance movement too. Adding to that weakness was a Jupiter/Saturn 45 degree angle
and since they are 'larger' planets note the three to six month effect both there and each time
Jupiter and Saturn came together-the 90 angle in April 1986, and the final top of 135 in August
1987. From the low l added a Jupiter 8 x 1 angle which matched the slope well enough to add
parallels to it, but note the real lower trendline was the Mars/Jupiter Angle trendline coming
from the conjunction low and keeping track of cumulative distances traveled. (You should
verify all this with the Planets program using Mars and Jupiter from 1982.0812 to l987.090l
both geo and helio). This timing line of the Mars and Jupiter angle Was the perfect fit and
parallels to it could have been used. Even the dramatic crash low of October 19, 1987 couldn't
break it. The final top in 1987 was interesting because the exact high date had some special
events.
On the same day (rare) the bull planet, Jupiter, went retrograde (lost his strength) and the
bear planet which had been retro, went direct (regained his strength). Their angle that day was
a 'double square' 90 + 45 = 135, and the Mars/Jupiter angle was also near 133-135. Almost all
bull market highs have a multiple series of pairs that have aspects on that date and the
distances from prior highs and lows are also common denominators. It has been said,
however, that 'one man's bull market is another man's short squeeze'. Duration is a key but in
the final analysis it all depends on your viewpoint and trading strategy. lf you lose money, who
really cares if it's a bull or bear market~ you're out of business!
Here's the last run to the top in Gold from January 201 l to the high on September 6, 2011.1
first put on a Mercury Helio timing angle with the 1x1
sighted at the 'x' marks above and below the first top, just to the left of the first circled '1'. The
1x1 was too steep but provided initial guidance for two weeks or so. I then had to take a 1/2
angle and that worked better for a longer term perspective. Remember, helio Mercury goes a
full 360 degrees in only 89 days so straight line angles will be off a good bit due to 'rounding
the comer' effects every six weeks or so. During that first little leg up the first minor top was
followed by a 2-3 week consolidation that ended exactly on the date Mercury reached the
range of 268 degrees moved from the origin. The problem is that when it reached 268 you
didn't know that was a range since the future top hadn't been made.
Nevertheless the 1/2 x l angle squared the first minor top on that March 30th date also calling
for a tum. You could have made an educated guess at that point that perhaps the 268 turn was
a mid point and if you advanced to twice that or 534 you would be at the next square out top
of June 10th where the arrow trendline square out is found. Following the trendline up to the
circled '2' after the top distribution
because Mercury helio is moving very fast and Neptune helio moves only a tenth of a degree
per month so the combined trend angle slope Will be very close to Mercury's. My point in
mentioning this is that the key to analysis is what happens on the date a trendline breaks. You
can have square out potential by going over a certain amount of degrees equal to a price but
you need at the same time a 'trigger' of another planet hitting on that same date to get the
tum. This is what happened in Gann's Soy Bean chart previously with Mars and Jupiter crossing
on the same date and price to reverse the trend. It was bouncing off the Mars angle for weeks
but it took the intersection of Jupiter, or the timing aspect, to actually turn the trend. In our
present case, afier the gold top was in I put on the declining timing angle for Mercury and this
time the 'sighting' point for the straight line angle and the actual movement was very similar as
the two arrow tums came out very close together.
Also note that the continuation of the very first Mercury 1/2 xl timing line hit the final top and
still was working as a square out angle, all lining up near the circled '3'. This above exercise just
shows that many short term swings can be identified with Mercury squarings of range and
timing angles (as well as other planets), but let's try and find some long term elements that
may help in forecasting bull and bear markets.
Here we have a 'very busy' long term weekly chart of gold futures. I have just included two
pairs here, mostly geo and helio Saturn/Neptune and a few Jupiter/Neptune. As mentioned
previously Neptune has an affinity for 'inflation' and panics as Well as extreme euphoria, and
the oils and drugs groups. Neptune is usually 'flavored' by the planet it is paired with, so with
Jupiter it is 'expansion' of inflation expectations and up moves, and when with Saturn there is
'compression' and deflation- usually good for making tops. On this chart the numbers
unmarked are all Saturn/Neptune geo angles, and the ones with an 'H' are Saturn/Neptune
Helio. The few Jupiter/Neptune aspects are all marked clearly. The reason I chose
Saturn/Neptune is because l remember trading the last really big top in 1980 when gold first
hit $800 and that was a Saturn 90 Neptune cycle (Financial Panic of 1980-Neptune=fear when
badly aspected). This final top was a 'double square' of 90+ 45 = 135 that hit August 24, 2011.
Gold immediately dropped $100 but came roaring back on a Jupiter/Neptune angle retrograde
Which had the effect of a slingshot up on Jupiter inflation hopes but when the angle reversed
it was back into the Saturn bear trend. Saturn moves 30 degrees every 2 1/2 years so near
March 2014 we might see a low and looking to the far left of this chart we see the 'foldback'
120 and lower angles near the last major low and they are now repeating. On this chart we can
make a few observations. One seems to be that the helio angles are a little better for
forecasting swings between highs and lows but
'foldback' patterns using the conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune near September 20, 2009 and
the top that was two years later. That September foldback had price symmetries on either side
at 45 degrees and 60 degrees as marking major trend segments (please study these- all
circled). Note the 45 up to the top and the 45 down to the bottom in the circled areas of the
chart. The greatest trades you will ever make will come from these foldback identifiers since
they clearly mark the trend for substantial periods of time. The hard part is identifying them
and not having them interfered with other intervening pairs that create different foldbacks
messing up the pattem you are following. One other thing to note is the time BOTH the helio
and the geo aspects fall on the same date, usually the same degree but not always. See the
150, 135 and 120 ones that were the same and at those points the emerging trend was a good
one. The question you might ask here is why didn't these classic aspects hit the exact highs and
lows all the time- they usually
Were near but off a bit. This is why typical astrologers don't make money in the stock market.
This next chart could be one reason- the high or low may be a retrograde date or direct date of
the angles changing direction and hence the market changes direction but there is no 'aspect'
causing the turn. Traditional astrologers don't know about this. This next chart shows those
turns. The other reason and the most likely cause of 'odd ball' angles at the exact high is the
date of birth or IPO date of the stock. If the stock starts trading when let's say Jupiter and
Saturn were l 17 degrees apart they will usually follow harmonics of those degrees offset like
117 + 30, 117 + 45, l 17 + 90, etc. If you keep track of origin angles you will make great
progress.
Below is a chart of just the Angle retrogrades and directs along with foldbacks like 180's or 0's.
As you can see many of these were nice reversals too, in addition to the classic angles of the
prior chart. Here the vertical straight up lines are reversals of Jupiter and Neptune, while the
arrows are the Saturn and Neptune reversals. Note the all time high was one of these as was
the secondary top.
This technique is always overlooked by astrologers since commercial astro programs don't
consider a reversal of an angle to be a retrograde or direct and so only list individual planets
While We have seen that the NUMBER of the angle is just as important and When that 'flips'
back it makes a difference. One BIG advantage Gann had over all of us is that he had a good
hundred years or more of key highs and lows in history and most of our modern computer
programs only follow 10-20 years. To do a thorough analysis you need to see ALL the major
starting points to see if perhaps a very long term aspect between the outer planets was
repeating. On these gold charts we only see some data from the year 2000 but it would be nice
to see the l920's and 30's data or even the l800's for the major panics and what angles were
around and operative then. These charts above are helpful and many gave you good trades but
they show up the problems most 'astrologers' in the market run into in that they aren't always
precise enough for day trading or even big swing trading. As 1 mentioned previously most
stocks and commodities don't start trading on a precise standard astro angle so just applying
15, 30, 45, 60 etc., angles to them aren't always the solution. Regardless of the 'date of birth'
or IPO date (Initial Public Offering) a major high or low will usually have the harmonícs in the
angles present then, that came from the origin date. The solution is to add 'offset' amounts to
those specific angles as follows:
Now We see almost perfect hits on each new harmonic that is precise enough for trading with
high probabilities. A11 highs and lows aren't hit since We were spinning out harmonics from
that first big top (I73.80) and other highs and lows come from other angles from the past.
Nevertheless what We calculate does give us a good trade each time. Here I just started with
the first major high and took that exact angle of 173.80 and added increments of 7.5 degrees
(if you add 5.625 you'11 probably get the other tums). You can easily see that all future turns
came out at key reversals. This is the same as if We started With the IPO date. It's very easy to
do With my program:
Here the starting date of 2006.05 12 (weekly) is entered with the pair of Saturn and Neptune
helio, and at the far right you just keep scrolling down every 7.5, 15, 22.5, 30, etc., increments
from the starting point. This way we avoid the angle 'trap' that conventional astrologers find
themselves in when an angle passes thru 180 and comes back down. My cumulative distance
of the angle movement cures that.
Below is the weekly Amazon chart since its IPO inception with a combination of plain angles
and distance moved since the IPO date. Strategically you would wait for these big time zones
and then zoom in with the Moon or Mercury cycles and square the last range to get the exact
tum during that angle passage. I always tell traders to let the CHART tell you when to trade,
not the planets. They are for setting up your strategy and getting ready, but you act once you
see the technical reversal on the chart in the expected time zone. You can find that bar
reversal on the 15 minute or 60 minute or the daily, but once the technical reversal is seen the
new trend should lasts for Weeks if its due to one of these big planetary angles or movement
degrees of resistance. You can see on this chart that the vast majority of major events in the
chart history tie in with a simple planetary angle or moved amount since the origin.
Now let's look at some of Gann's favorite translations-
The Square of Nine
This next chart below is of Tesla Motors and I think you will now finally understand why Gann
used these various geometric arrangements of numbers and planetary degrees. In this
example I just used the Suns location in solar degrees of longitude on each date that is marked,
and I darkened it in and circled it on the Square of Nine where those degrees were. Do you see
a correlation? All sightings are positioned on the 'Cardinal' (N.S.E.W.) or 'Fixed' (X) crosses. You
just watch future dates for these positions and get ready to trade. This is an easy example of a
stock that resonates well with the Sun. Other stocks or commodities might need arrangements
of other planets or pairs of planets.
The above is the location of degrees in the Zodiac distributed by the Square of Nine
arrangement but these numbers are also sharp breakpoints in frequencies so all placements of
numbers here cause reversals-Gann's numerology with planets.
The Square of Nine is a two dimensional representation of the Great Pyramid (pull up on
number 'l' in center) and that 'Altar' has a lot of hidden mysteries. After looking at this chart,
do you still think fundamentals and analyst recommendations are driving the prices?
The next chart is TSLA again but this time I used helio Mars and took its distance moved in
degrees from the IPO date. I only did a few of these to show the effect but again you can easily
see that the cardinal and fixed crosses are strong break points in energy. When you can't find a
correlation with planets and the Square of Nine on these breakpoints, then you try another
grid like the circle of 24 or Hexagon Chart or any other you can think of until you find the 'DNA'
key to the stock. Once you have it, it works forever.
Below is a longer term distance from the IPO date of Amazon using a slow moving planet like
Saturn. These are both helio and geo and you can see the effects of the geo going back and
forth through the same degrees three different times.
These are long term markers so remember you can always 'zoom in' and use daily Sun or
Mercury stuff to get all the tiny wiggles every day if you like.
By the way, take a look at all those 151 distances and see they are all close in horizontal price-
the translation of the 151 kept the market going back to that level.
That is the usual case but the alternative is the opposite price high to low or low to high like
the 139 series which had a top and an opposite bottom and then a horizontal with the bottom.
This is the proof of my hypothesis that as the planets move in their orbits that location is
translated into a price. Here we have distanced moved and the planet keeps going back and
forth through that same distance but at that distance marker it is still a longitude and until the
planet moves past that point
If you never realized it, or understood What I was demonstrating in my Secret Science book,
the Jenkins True Trendline or JTTL is the Square of Nine math from the above exhibits, put into
a trendline. Here's the cover of that book:
The 'math' behind the JTTL is simply take a low (or high) and take its square root and
increment it by 2 and re-square that (this is just once around the Square of Nine i.e. from 9 to
25 is 3 squared and 5 squared, and two is the difference between them). Since once around
the 'Wheel' is one year in time so you take that calculated 'answer' and put a dot on your chart
exactly one year into the future and draw the J TTL line from the low to your dot like in the
picture. That special trendline will now be a geometric angle with harmonics of the Square of
Nine incorporated into it. When prices hit that JTTL they are at harmonic time and price points
in sync with the Square of Nine. The picture above shows what happens to prices when
'ranges' are squared by touching the J TTL-they explode!
Since the Square of Nine has 8 divisions of 45 degrees each, to get those smaller divisions the
math is just to take the SqRt(low) +0.25 and re-square that.
The full circle is a +2 re-squared so to get the 45 degree points we take the '2' /8 or 0.25 and
re- square it. You could also find the 120 degree trine points of the circle by taking the full '2' /
320.666, so SqRt (low) +0.666 re-squared. As we saw above, when the planets were at those
degrees in the Square of Nine the markets usually reversed. The question is always what to do
when your stock or commodity doesn't work with those cardinal and fix cross points? The
problem most of the time is that the origin point for the stock was not on one of those cardinal
points or
do you pick? In many cases you can't and must use your judgment for a 'roundìng` top or
bottom near that point or you can go to a smaller faster planet like the Moon or Mercury to
find a hit in that zone to trigger it off. The first solution, however, is to not round off the result
but use the real math. For example if you Want to move Saturn from 145 to l5l (spokes on
Square of Nine), you take the DATE of the exact high or low Price near that 145 degree and
take the SqRt of Saturn's actual degree (like 144.872) and increment it by 0.25 for the 45
degree movement like so:
SqRt(l44.872) =l2.0362 + 0.25 =l2.2863, re-squared =l50.952 (instead of 15 l).
Now you would look up 150.952 for Saturn to get the date. This usually works fine and now
you can automate the whole process by starting at an IPO date of a major high and just keep
taking the SqRt(longitude) and incrementing it by 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 etc. and re-squaring to get the
terminal point and look up that date. This next chart shows the result.
'vertical' price pattern. The fact that the subsequent hits didn't recreate the exact low point
like the origin, is probably due to that origin point being created by some other aspect or
planet and We are only picking up the harmonic of Saturn. This is why before you just 'jump in'
With a trade you should do some past research on your stock history and try and find the good
'anchor' points that recreate the lows or highs you are looking for. Gann always had decades of
history all plotted out before he made a trade so he had quite a few observations of past 'hits'
with the planets he Was working With. This also brings up the idea that your strategy should
incorporate finding big spike reversal patterns or explosive legs up if you are trading options,
and nice sharp reversal 'V' bottoms Would be nice. Remember if it is the longitude location
that provides the energy from the stars, then a 'spike' point in the chart is a key longitude and
the harmonics coming out of that longitude should show exceptional energy in the future.
Of course this technique works with pair angles too:
Here We see nice 'leg' culminations at or very near our predicted results. The fact that the final
high was a small 'overshoot' for a Week points out again that you should wait for the chart
itself to give the sell signal once it gets to the predicted time zone, since there may be multiple
planets at play or other events like program trading arbitrage in the market that may hold up a
natural cycle until it is finished.
Adding planetary trendlines to these cycle hits points might clarify the situation quite a bit.
Angle Study
Since many of you reading this book are probably using trendlines extensively, you should start
With the more accurate planetary 'timing lines”. These will not look as precise as a trendline
that you just draw connecting bottoms or tops, but they are
will square the range. If you go back to Gann's Mars/Jupiter soybean chart and look closely you
will see his 'dots' on the drawn line every couple of days so he Was updating the longitudes
fairly often. Long investors who usually 'buy and hold' will find the Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn
timing lines a good Warning sign as to where cycles will be coming out. Usually they will not
break substantially until a real change in trend is in evidence.
Normally you use trendlines to square ranges, either highs to lows or vice versa, or a
mathematical range like the 1/8th range shown here to the top price of $71. Note how the
Jupiter declining trendlines intersect the horizontal l/8 th proportions and create turns as Well
as the actual distance moved by the planet of l/8th increments in longitude. The bottom here
was another Mars conjunct Jupiter so while the Jupiter 1 x 1 up angle fit the slope of the rise
fairly well for a long tern hold With a stop, the knowledge of the Mars/Jupiter aspects would
be key warnings along the way. Here we see the top made on the exact 30 degree aspect
Our theory of longitude translation into prices would make perfect sense if a small fast planet
like the moon traced out a pattern over several days to a couple of weeks, and then months
later a larger planet going through the same degrees would trace the same pattern but it
would be larger as the 'slowness' of the transit would heighten the energy day by day and
make the original pattern bigger. The above chart dzflers from that idea in that I have shown
distances moved as identical and not necessarily going through the same longitude numbers.
Obviously the Moon goes thru 0-360 in only 27 days Whereas Saturn may take nearly 29 years
to get to the Moons starting longitude in order to trace the same pattern or Uranus taking S4
years. A case could also be made for similar pattems at strong harmonics of the original
degrees like Saturn or Uranus at 90 degree offsets to the original longitude. In any event the
above chart shows strong similarities between the Moons pattern and later Mercury and Mars
patterns at the same distance but not so
(Marie Angel of Mercy) are very similar in pattems and if Mercury first hits a low or high at a
specific longitude degree than much later when Mars reached that degree you get the same
result only bigger. This can be a big help in deciding if a future astro turn will be a high or low-
you look up the smaller transits of the degree first to see what that was.
Below are two charts that show exact the same degree locations – not distances,-in helio for
the Moon (moon always geo), Mercury, Venus, and Mars, for a full 360 distance. Note the
fractal similarities.
This second picture tries to identify 'sharp' formations at 86 and 215 degrees.
You be the judge.
Key Gann Course Excerpt:
Below is a valuable exact verbatim transcript (my italics to emphasize) of Gann's original
course material that he later deleted to hide several things, primarily the Word 'Astronomers'.
This particular course is very rare:
where they were at the time US Steel was incorporated. Of course, these same rules can be
applied to any other stock. You can see What happens when each of these master timing
angles return to the same place as it was at the time US Steel Was incorporated, or to the
same place when any extreme high or low price is reached.
You will learn when these master timing angles return to the same place or to the same angle
or degree from Which they started. Therefore, you will know the exact measurement of cycles
according to moving energy. The instructions on the Master Timing Angles gives you the cause
of all market movements and they can be worked out ahead as far as the year 2000. The
figures which we Will use are figures made by the United States Government Astronomers and
are therefore absolutely accurate. A careful study of all these figures and a comparison of the
movements of the various stocks will convince you of their value.
W.D. Gann
January 17, 1931"
This is the 'smoking gun' to Gann's real methods. All of the above refers to planets as timing
angles and says this 'moving energy' is the cause of all market movement and the
measurement of cycles. He gives the data to his students up to the year 2000 since the US
Naval Observatory used to print out ephemerides for one hundred years from 1900 to 2000 for
all Naval and military navigation use in sighting the planets and stars. Angles #5, #6...#9 are
literal planets and you are instructed to watch when they cross other planetary angles
(conjunctions) or return to the place of birth. He also refers to 360 months as a master cycle (3
60 degrees of Saturn) enumerating every 12 or 15 degree increment. When you read these
paragraphs after having gone through my book you can now see through the veil of hidden
meanings he disguised in his courses so the public would not find out what he was doing but
would be endlessly trapped in dark alleys trying to square some chart With a 'true' 1 X l angle.
He also lived in an age before computers so many hand drawn charts and timing lines were
simplified short cuts to approximate what we can now do precisely in an instant with a
computerized planetary ephemeris. Ln this letter he also emphasizes months and the square of
12 increments starting off With 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, and 84. Lets run a quick test to see if this
has merit.
Since he says you keep track of these timing angles from the incorporation date,
10 to 12 degrees per year at lot depends on the starting date being a place in Saturn's orbit
Where the same cumulative degrees each year can be counted. One name that fits the bill
nicely is Google which went public on August 19, 2004.
On this chart I have months (labeled With numbers), and Saturn helio and geo every 12
degrees. Please spend several minutes studying this chart as it is typical.
Note: 1) the first 5 years or so, the months (anniversary dates of lPO) and geo are early and is
moving faster in its orbit. 3) Just after 60, the geo accelerates tremendously to 72 in just a few
months and the stock has the strongest vertical price rise to the TOP and the next geo 72 is the
Low as is the helio 72 (Translation rule- same level or opposite). While the 60 to 72 period Was
a strong vertical rise, if you look up With my planets program the section from '36' to that
spike top, you will see it Was a perfect 45 degrees at the top and that move Was 9 degrees in
only two months (compared with 9-10 some years) proving that the speed of the longitudinal
sweep gives big vertical price moves. 4) after the first 5 years the geo retrogrades and directs
hits our key 12 multiples a lot and we get three sightings.
Prior to that the retrogrades didn't go back over the key 12 multiples even when they did go
retro and direct. 5) after point(s) 96 (8 x 12-Octave) we see a big leg up for a new bull cycle.
whereas in later years they did and the pattern became more erratic. Even so almost all of
these, both geo and helio- were very close to nice trades. This accounts for why at final highs
and lows, many 'simplistic' technical methods like counting every 30, 60, 90 days etc., will work
because at the end of an orbit all the planets and numbers swing back into sync. lt is the long
duration in between such times that the simplistic counters get chopped up. We also learn that
Saturn is a key planet. Gann used it as a co-ruler for US Steel along with Mars but in mythology
Saturn was Kronos or father time and is a master time keeper. The New Years Eve guy with the
scythe is Death -Saturn- the grim reaper, Who brings karma to a head and sends stocks down. I
mentioned previously in the synodic cycles section that we are in the 19 year Vedic Dasha of
Saturn so from 2000 to 2019 we will see troubles and weak economic activity along with wars
and karmic retribution.
Starting A Forecast
When first analyzing a stock or the market you must try and go back as far as possible to
review the major highs and lows and try and find some planetary angles obviously present.
Counts from IPO origin dates are the best way if not too many decades ago, otherwise you can
use the highest high and lowest low in the past five to ten years. Usually a tip to the key planet
or angle is the range in points of the last swing and you can take that amount and go
backwards to test it. While my programs don't have a 'backwards key' except for my seminar
ones, you can essentially do it by bracketing the dates you want to study and take the
cumulative distances traveled and subtract the degrees you are looking for. For example, in a
previous exhibit l mentioned that in May 1981 to the low in August 1982 Mars had moved 180
degrees. You could run the planets program from 198l.0l0l to l883.0l0l for Mars and get the
August 12th cumulative degree and subtract 180 from that and scroll back to find the date, like
this: Aug 12, 1982 cumulative distance =274 - 180 = 94, which shows up on May 2, 1981.
current date. Let's look at the Exxon top on October A17, 2007. I'll assume we are at that date
as 'today' and we wonder if it is a top. First I would quickly run the Price Converter program to
see if any planets were near that high of $95 .50.
We see that Mars is very close to our price and glancing at the row of all planets we don't see
any others that look like '95' or 'l95' or '9.5', any of which could be the culprit. We'll try Mars
first and the two likely energy points might be when Mars was at '2' since its 97 now but the
price is 95 so the distance traveled could be the key, or the other alternative is back one full
cycle of 360 to see what happened the last time Mars was at 97 since that longitude might
translate into the same price or the opposite (low) price pattern.
We find that back 360 we have a very similar fractal with lows on either side suggesting that
our current date will have a low on either side and become a top.
We also test Mars from the last most recent low and note it was 65 degrees longitude which is
curious since the 360 back price Was $65. From the recent low pullback. Note that the top in
April 2006 at $65 times 1.5 was 97.5 (all tops are proportional because of translations) so that
first top generated a potential top in the future at either a price of $97.5 OR on a date when
the longitude was 97.5. This time it was almost both. This is how the translations of time and
price work- they are interchangeable. I mentioned to note that the last recent low was 65
degrees and that was the former top price. You may wonder why the last low has anything to
do with the current high since we are looking for a high to high correlation. The answer is that
all stock market patterns are fractal repeats. If you remember the Saturn study with IBM (pg.
91) we often see a low become a high and the retro and directs switching of the planets often
make a low a top but 'flip' it over this time sometimes giving us an upside down or backwards
pattern to the one we are looking for. The solution is often to go back to the former top and
spot three points- the low before, the top, and the low after, and then compare those
longitudes with today to try and identify which way the pattern is going.
the Moon, which represents the 'emotions' of the masses, and Mercury which represents the
'mind' of the masses. All the others are long term civilization trends that stimulate the Moon
or Mercury. These two are usually the 'triggers' to the bigger planet aspects so watching them
is always good.
This next chart of the S&P cash index uses helio Mercury with angles and 180 and 360
harmonics, looking for the bigger breakpoints that may be in the patterns.
Considering all the trading days available, these sightings are pretty close to focusing on the
significant turns. The 'circled' numbers 1, 2, 3 are the origins for the degrees moved indicated
by the degree number and the 1, 2, 3 label from the origin. I would also point out that in terms
of accuracy there is a few hours slippage here since this was drawn With the planet program
included with this book that only gives a daily sighting for degrees and not with my more
accurate seminar programs that go down to the exact minute. Even so we can see from the
chart that near the 180, 270, or 360 numbers we either have a quick reversal or a
Consolidation zone índicating more time needed- perhaps another 90 degrees to complete the
pattern. Trading strategy would be to mark each significant high or low and look for these 180
and 360 points and especially look for overlapping
eventual touch of the 1 x 4 before the trend would turn. Also note that since these are
'natural' timing angles, the intersection of the past horizontal highs and lows should result in
square outs and we see that with the first big top labeled 'l' going across the chart and
intersecting those angles creating turns. When you start to draw these angles you can check
the 'Trendline' box in the Planets program and put the low price in and move to a 'sighting'
date to put a 'dot' on your chart and just draw a line to it. That is for all hl angles and if you
need a declining hl you put a negative number in the trendline textbox. If you need to make 2
xl or 4 x l or l/2 x 1 etc., angles then don't' check the trendline textbox but just get the full
degrees moved to the sighting date and multiple them by 2 or a 2 x l and add to the low, or
divide them by 2, 4, 8, etc, and add to the low for the weaker angles. An important thing to
keep in mind when trading with these natural angles is that the turns or breaks of the angles
usually take place when a cycle is coming out like 180 or 360.
That being the case the 'easy' way to think about angles is just find the date of the 360
movement which is what you are looking for anyway, and in your head add 360 to the low.
Same for the l80. This way you always know where the true angle is without having to look at
your drawing on the chart which might be off. For example look at the far right top on the
chart labeled '2' 360. If the low at origin circle '2' was 1560 (not marked but was) then 1560 +
360 = 1920 on the 360 date, and the l x 2 would be 1560 + 180 = 1740 on that date and the
market is near 1728-30 so it is below trend and unlikely to regain the angle near 1740 so you
would be looking for a potential short. If you think in tenns of hl, 1x2, 1x4, you just add 360,
180 or 90 to your last low and just keep track of the dates those turns are due. Following this
train of thought, even on ones that don't line up perfectly with time and price you can usually
get the close levels for trading. For example circle 'l' top was approximately 1687 and if you
look over between the 1x2 and 1x4 angles you will see 360 from 'l'. Clearly the price is not
1687 -360 =l327 on that date or 1687 -180 =l507, nor 1687-90 =l597. But 1687 -45 =l642 was
the low just to the right of that arrow. This was an l x 8 angle. Usually you will get a hannonic
like 45, 90, 180, 360 of price when you get near the time cycle, so look for loss of momentum
to set up a reversal trade. In this case it rallied to the 270 marker before falling to the h4 major
angle support. At that 1x4 level the angle intersected the h2 angle coming down from the top
so the correction gravitated to that intersection. This is how angles are supposed to work. They
don't when you draw angles because yours don't mean anything and aren't sealed to anything.
Planetary angles aren't scaled -they just go by the degrees moved each day so the
intersections are real energy points of attraction.
reversals. Uranus is always reliable helio at every l degree incremei1t.vUranus the planet of the
'extremes' takes 7 years to change signs of the zodiac and alternates each period between the
'barren' and 'fruitful' signs.
Gen 41:25-27
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed
to Pharaoh what he is about to do. 2° The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven
good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream. 27 The seven lean, ugly
cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain
scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine. (remember 1 said on one level,
Christ-God was Uranus)
The long term cycle in bonds runs 21 years or 90 degrees of Uranus, i.e. 1984- 2005, but this
time we had an extra extreme 7 years to 2012. Rates will rise now for 7 to 14 years minimum.
(Note lifetime low @Sept '84 to Apr '13, 120 geo - inverted low-, Helio 120 Apr 18, 2014
potential last top and stock panic).
so you first take the square root of your number to find what row you are in.
SqRt(4008) = 63.3 and you need an odd square to start the rung, so rung 63 starts at 63 x 63
=3969 and goes to the next odd number 65 or 65 x 65 = 4225. The total numbers in that rung
are thus 4225-3969 = 256 and With eight 45 degree spokes we get 256 / 8= 32 ticks per 45
degrees for bonds at this level. This basically is one full point and if you notice bonds are
making highs and lows almost an exact 1 point apart. This is a function of this 125 price area
and will change as bonds go lower. Natural support and resistance is therefore found at 3969 +
32 24001 + 32 = 4033 + 32 =4065 + 32 =4097 etc. To get your bond price you convert back so
4097 /32 =l28 whole units and 128 x 32 =4096 so we have l tick extra and our price is 128 01. '
You can try this method to solve currency issues too like trying 1.38520 as 138520 or 1385 or
3850. Try different odd square rungs in the Square of Nine so that a 45 degree movement is
about the normal recent high to low activity for the currency you are trading. Once you have
found that go back longer time periods and check out the full cycles on the Square of Nine to
validate. Once you have the numerology correct as to what price goes into what rung, then
you match up your planets in the Square of Nine and see if the prices are lined up with the
planets at major highs and lows.
Eclipses
Eclipses are special points of magnetic force that have the effect of permanently (or at least for
many months)^magnetizing that 'hot spot' in longitude.
Traditionally astrologers take that longitude and watch for when other planets go thru that
spot, kind of like an after the fact eclipse. They also take planets 90 or 180 degrees from that
longitude. For example if the Sun is eclipsed at 358 longitude, any planet hitting 358 in the
future will create a turn in the market. I have discovered a much more powerful technique,
however, with the realization that ALL planets on the date of the eclipse create hot spot angles
to that eclipse. In my method we take any planet and MOVE it from its OWN position (not the
Suns 358) and at harmonic intervals from its own position we see great turns like this 2007
eclipse. The eclipse was March 19, 2007 at that 358 longitude and we can see that the first 15
degrees of movement of Saturn from Saturn's point on the eclipse date gave the exact 2007
top! Since it was a geo movement the retrograde took Saturn back thru the 15 degree again
and that was the exact next low! The next 15 hit too and the 22.5 movement was the Lehman
Brothers collapse slide. The 30
planets at the 358 hot spot degree. Not great but sometimes works well. Also note I that every
eclipse Won't Work as Well as this example as certain longitudes are more powerful than
others, but you could check by going back 18 years, 11 days (the Saros Cycle), to see the last
identical eclipse longitude.
Á T Mars 360
Here's another exhibit on the next page, With the eclipse of January 26, 2009. I have only put
the Saturn in. l'll let you do the others. These charts explain Why Saturn is called 'father time'.
To get eclipse dates you`ll have to search the internet or use something like Solar Fire since
eclipses need very accurate calculations and my simple program here Won't get the exact
minute or hour you need as well as the declination. Once you have the dates, however, you
can use my program to run all the planets into the future from those starting dates. l also
would recommend buying an am1ual 'astrological calendar' for about $10-$20 a year and that
Will give you all the dates along With a lot of intraday aspects for all the planets. Outlets like
Amazon, or retail book stores usually carry these.
Summary
We have seen that there is an almost 100% correlation between moving the planets in their
longitudes and time cycles in the market. Major highs and lows in history find multiple big
planet angular aspects as well as distances moved as a harmonic of 360, or price, at those
same highs and lows. The 'full' cycle of 360 degrees and lesser 180 degree distances moved
seem to be more powerful than smaller harmonics like 30, 45, 60 etc, but the smaller ones will
also work especially for the larger planets for intermediate term turns in the market. The
Saturn moves With IBM showed us that each fractal wiggle in a stocks pattern is the result of a
planet going back and forth thru certain longitudes and when they
series in the Square of Nine cause the planetary energy to reverse. Those number series
usually line up in a geometric pattern which can then be used for future forecasts if
deciphered. While the actual location longitude is usually translated into a price, so too can a
numerical angle between two planets even though that angle has nothing to do with the
location of the planets but does measure movement through space. Trendlines or 'Timing
Angles' using the planets movements is a better way to measure the markets position then
plain geometric trendlines since when the planets square out, a reversal in trend will be the
result and the market will not change direction until such square out, whereas while the
geometric angles give good estimates they can only account for numerology. The best starting
points are usually IPO dates, or conjunctions of the planets or passing thru 0 Aries. Eclipses are
a type of conjunction that has special energy that can be used with planets moving from that
point. Fractal and mirror images are usually points where different planets transit the same
key longitude degrees but the different speeds of the planet transits create bigger or smaller
fractals with the same longitude energy.
The best starting procedure is to do a quick scan with my planets program of all pair
combinations for the date in question to see if any obvious aspects (45, 90, 180, 360) are
evident, and then compare distances of all the planets from a past swing high to low or vice
versa, to see what was the cause of the last leg. If possible always start from a point a good
decade past and work forward to become familiar with the chart before just jumping in and
trying to trade. If you must just jump in, use the 60 minute chart with Mercury and Moon
distance from the last major high or low and look for the big culminations of 90, 180, 270 or
360 degrees. If you look at the bond chart with 1 degree moves of Uranus you will find that the
slow moving planets like Uranus, Neptune and Pluto will often give very good hits at l or 3
degrees and you can count them to see what is the frequency they are following like a series in
the Square of Nine. You can also start at any high or low and try putting individual planets or
pairs of planets in the Square of Nine, not just at the 'natural' sequence as in the square but
move them with the math i.e. SqRt (x)+0.25 re-squared, from a starting high or low.
New York by appointment (see Www.Stockcyclesforecast,com for details), and l think the
subject matter is a bit advanced for many and not suitable for many. I have made a
compromise here showing perhaps 25% of the real and 'general' secrets Gann used and which
I have advanced to a finer art. In my seminars I give out a dozen programs that do all kinds of
neat calculations and iterations that make it all much easier to apply as Well as teach you
many unique harmonic patterns that continue for years and are extremely precise down to the
minute as well as practical trading systems combining angles and planet cycles. If you feel you
have mastered the material in this book and Want to go further contact me through the
website in regards the seminar.
Michael S. Jenkins
January 31, 2014