The Roadmap Chart has served as a pretty good indicator of the trend parameters for more than 4 months. Johnny-Come-Latelys haven’t had too many late entry opportunity as we haven’t seen an upper channel touch for some time. The Master Time Calculator indicates that March 23-March 25 is the next window in which to look for a reversal or change in trend.

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The square of nine is unique and not like any other method of technical analysis or stock trading tool you’ve ever seen before. This is a contemporary chart of the S&P 500. We can say from the extra information on this chart that the magnitude of the March 14 to July 13 swing squared with the time in the swing that ended at the August 16 low. To understand that and appreciate how this could change your swing trading strategy you have to make the same intellectual journey that Gann did, and that journey started 2500 years ago in ancient Greece.

To understand Gann you have to understand Pythagoras and the tremendous influence he had on how the ancients and the moderns understand the nature of things. Pythagoras believed that everything in the universe was related to mathematics, and that numbers were the ultimate reality. Through mathematics everything, including human behavior, could be measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles and predicted. You can understand the allure of Pythagoras to somebody embarking on a 10 year quest to understand everything known and unknown about trading stocks and commodities. Pythagoras also believed in something called the harmony of the spheres. He believed that the planets and stars moved according to mathematical equations which correspond to musical notes, and thus produce a symphony that he called the harmony of the spheres. Many believe that Gann’s work has an astrological basis but I think you will find that even that conviction is really based on mathematics. I believe the more original Gann you read, the more Pythagoras you will hear. In addition, much of what comes to us as Gann’s writing is intentionally obscure and sometimes even misleading. Here too Gann follows an ancient tradition that knowledge must be earned and not come too easily lest it not be appreciated.

People of the ancient world were well-traveled and Pythagoras drew heavily from ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, and Indian tradition as much as he contributed to them. Gann, in turn, draws from Biblical numerology which places special importance on certain numbers. One of the derivatives off Pythagoras’ work is what we know today as sacred geometry. The underlying belief of the sacred geometry is that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics, and proportionality are the basis of music, light, cosmology and all other observable features of the universe. To understand the square of nine, and I think to understand all of Gann’s other work, you have to appreciate his appreciation of the ancient philosophy of harmony through numbers.

Gann is reputed to have had a model of the Great Pyramid of Giza on his desktop and if you go through this visualization I think you may understand why. This is a two dimensional version of the Square of Nine, what you know as a Gann Wheel. It’s a rectangle with four corners. If you could put your fingers on the number one in the center, pinch the number one and pull the screen out toward you, you would eventually end up with this shape, a pyramid, with the number one, unity, at the top and all the other numbers winding around the pyramid in increasing dimension. With this visualization, you can easily understand how a number on the South face of the pyramid would have a very definite spatial relationship with a number on the North face, and in the same way a number on the West face would have a very definite spatial relationship with a number on the East face, and so on. So we believe, that the key concept of the Square of Nine is the spatial relationship between the numbers on the square even though we only can see them in a two-dimensional form.

And, we’re back to the chart of the S&P 500. This has been a quick journey through time and hopefully you’ve seen how an ancient mathematician, an ancient mystic mathematician who believed that everything in nature could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns and cycles led to a more modern mystic mathematician who devised this thing called the Square of Nine so that by looking at a price chart we can see how the past relates to the present and the future.

The square of nine is intriguing. It’s a mysterious adventure in perception if nothing else - and it is not for everybody.

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Here is a list of some W.D. Gann books at Amazon.com. The list is a computer search so notice that not everybody named W.D. Gann is a trader.

New Stock Trend Detector: A Review of the 1929-1932 Panic and the 1932-1935 B…
Amazon Price: $10.19


Customer Review: In my opinion, this is probably the most important book written
by W.D. Gann. I usually listen many comments from other Gann
student who consider ‘45 years in Wall Street’ as the best book
of this author, but this is better. I think that if you read many times ‘New stock trend detector’ you will find hidden some very important trading techniques that will help you to keep a good track record in your future operations. Naturally, the work for ‘decode’ this techniques among the examples made by Gann,is hard but i…


45 Years in Wall Street
Amazon Price: $13.59


Customer Review: This book is extremely boring. It has time series descriptions as: Monday 10.8, tuesday 9.5, wednesday 9.7, thursday 10.2, friday holiday etc… that could be better presented by a chart. Also his 3 point rule is poorly described. The paper quality is also poor. Only the first chapter is interesting because of the rules (some advice) that you can read cheaply on one of the book reviews.

Overall, boring, tedious, expensive and not very informative.


Learn before you lose AND forecasting by time cycles
Amazon Price: $10.19


Tunnel Thru the Air or Looking Back from 1940
Amazon Price: $24.39


Customer Review: The book arrived in very good time but I was not expecting it in the format it is in - large, A4 style. While this isn’t exactly bad it was a surprise but when I look back and read the details the information was always there. It would be good to have this pointed out in plain English ie. copy of original hardback as A4 paperback.


How to Make Profits In Commodities
Amazon Price: $32.34


Customer Review: Traders tend to confuse ‘Gann, the Trader’, with ‘Gann, the Forecaster’. Gann, the Trader, was straight forward and logical. Problem starts when traders attempt to trade the forecast with Gann’s numerous predictive methods and, vice versa, forecast the trade with Gann’s trading method. Gann really does not deserve all the unfounded criticisms. Although there are doubts as to the claims that Gann was the originator of swing chart trading method, Gann, at least, refined and definitized the swing chart trading concept. No …


Options Made Easy: How to Make Profits Trading in Puts and Calls
Amazon Price: $9.99


The Summons
Amazon Price: $19.80


Customer Review: I have read several Grisham book about legal-eagles but none so engrossing and intriguing as this One! I got bogged down a few times in his description of places and persons, yet all-in-all it kept me reading rapidly until I came to his lengthy but surprising end! After slowing down to postpone the ending, I sort of expected somewhat the final end! I was still surprised.

I am also surprised at the variety of opinions expressed in the reviews. Grateful that I stuck it out even learning a bit about his unique style…


Wall Street Stock Selector: A Review of the Stock Market with Rules and Metho…
Amazon Price: $13.59


Definitive Guide to Forecasting Using W.D. Gann’s Square of Nine
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Customer Review: Very good book on ALL the ways to use the square of 9 this book is definatly better than his other book about trendlines. This book has helped my trading allot.


W. D. Gann Treasure Discovered: Simple Trading Plans for Stocks & Commodities…
Amazon Price: $156.02


Customer Review: My title is given after the fact that this book is different from others that I have been reading. The reason why it is different is because this book contains much more graphics then text for reading. Basically this book has 3 different parts: The first introductory (using simple basic tools), than the second part with more advanced rules (this part the author doubles the amount of rules to run the trades) and finally a third part where the author just mention some more advanced rules to manage your trading skills. The…

The Only Three Questions That Count is the first book to show you how to think about investing for yourself and develop innovative ways to understand and profit from the markets. The only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing something others don’t know. This book will show you how to do just that by using three simple questions. You’ll see why CNBC’s Mad Money host and money manager James J. Cramer says, “I believe that reading his book may be the single best thing you could do this year to make yourself a better investor.

In The Only Three Questions That Count, Ken Fisher challenges the conventional wisdoms of investing, overturns glib theories with hard facts, and blows up complacent beliefs about money and the markets. Ultimately, he says, the key to successful investing is daring to challenge yourself and whatever you believe to be true. Packed with more than 100 visuals, usable tools, and a glossary, The Only Three Questions That Count is an entertaining and educational experience in the markets unlike any other, giving you an opportunity to reap the huge rewards that only the markets can offer.

5 out of 5 stars FABULOUS BOOK July 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

“The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don’t” by Ken Fisher is the best book I have read on investing in a month of Sundays. Whether you are a pure fundamentalist, a pure technician or a hybrid you will learn a ton about why things happen the way they do in the market and how you can take advantage of it in your investing for your serious money.

All of this and one of the most entertaining books as well! Ken always lets you know that whatever we prognosticate could be wrong so he doesn’t take himself too seriously and won’t let you take yourself too seriously either. It kept my undivided attention for 350 pages!

This book dispels a ton of myths about what causes markets to go up and down and shows you the real reasons that they do. He has the hard evidence there for you. You can see for yourself and not just take his word for it. You come away truly enlightened about what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

BUY IT AND READ IT TWICE!

5 out of 5 stars This book should be part of Finance 101 July 19, 2007
This book is an eye opening look at the myths that the media sells everyday. If you buy into strategies like “Sell in May” or root for the NFC every Superbowl then you need to read this book. I’m just waiting for CNBC to stop selling sensationalism and start talking prudent investing like this book does.

2 out of 5 stars Inconsistent & Unimpressive July 17, 2007
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Fisher acknowledges that being smarter and better trained is not enough to beat the market based on commonly available news and information. (Page xxiii) Yet he claims that his three questions will allow you to do just that. The inconsistency is breathtaking. By using his three questions, he says, you can know things that others don’t. He is in effect claiming that his three questions will make you smarter than the market, because you will be able to look at publicly available information and then out-think and out-analyze other investors. Sorry, I’m not buying it. Maybe he would be worth paying attention to if his track record were truly outstanding. It isn’t. The book’s Appendix K gives his track record with real investments. His 10 year annualized return is 9.9%, compared to 8.3% for the S&P 500. His return is quite good but not impressive enough to discount the role of luck. What would be impressive? Well, if Fisher really had a handle on beating the market, he ought to be able to beat the market by a convincing margin, say 1000 basis points. Or even 500. Performance that good, or even better, is quite possible. The Olympic standard is Warren Buffet: when he was managing an investment partnership, from 1957 to 1969, he got a return of 29.5% per year before his fee, compared to 7.4% for the Dow. On the other hand, Fisher’s three questions are great questions for stimulating serious thinking. And some of his contrarian arguments are interesting and worth pondering.

5 out of 5 stars The Only Three Questions That Count July 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Sinple, concise yet complete.Well written and easy to comprehend.
I would recommend it to any potential investor.