Gann’s Scientific Methods Unveiled (Volume 1 and 2)

If you are interested in magic, faeries, unicorns and stock market, ok, great book. If only the latter, go somewhere else. Drawing endless magic lines everywhere will not be very helpful.

If you liked vol. 1, you’ll enjoy vol. 2. Finally an author who has the ability and knowledge to write a strait forward alnalysis of Gann’s methods. No mysterious double talk I have seen with many other authors use to hide their lack of knowledge.

Mr. Mikula’s excellent quality of work continues in volume 2.

The explanations are clear, Gann’s lines, hexagon, Square and circle charts are brought to life! The best chart of all is the double square of nine chart based on the 1/8 tick of some commodities. While it’s unclear whether this was intended, it can be used to track the 666 S&P 500 3/6/2009 low from the 0 degree fixed coordinate!

Mr. Mikula explains/shows that Double Numbered Price & Time Charts were used by Gann to identify the position at which the price movement and Time were naturally “balanced”.

A double numbered square of 9 (both price and time units are recorded, incrementally & sequentially advanced, & tracked in a 360 degree coordinate system) set for use in the grains (1/8th tick converted to .125 in box time unit 1) when multiplied by x100 for the SPX (I.e. Starting point box 1 in time has the starting 1/8th price increment converted to $12.5) places $662 on the 0 Cardinal coordinate (SP 500 2009 low was $666) at time unit box increment 53.

The current, June 2, 2017 SPX price level (2444 high) has almost touched the 135° Fixed cross coordinate of that Square of 9 chart at time unit box 197 which has a price of 2467. Given how this 1/8 tick chart was created and there is a slight angular offset of the actual $666 low from the 662 on the 0 coordinate, price and time would balance in the SPX here (June 2017) at a slight offset from the 135° coordinate or slightly above 2467 for substantial resistance. We shall see.

Interestingly, using Gann’s eclipse technique as set forth and disclosed in Vol 1 with the 9/1/2016 annular eclipse points to a change in trend in a number of markets on June 5, 2017. Moreover, key planetary aspects form on June 5, 2017 vs March 6, 2009.

Note that the time span involved in the 1/8 Sq 9 chart is 144 time units ahead of the date of the 2009 low ( box 197-53=144). 144 of course is 12 x12 time units, a natural increment or harmonic with the earth’s 24/ 12/ 360° Time system, and an important Fibonacci number.

Also note that the use of the 1/8th (.125) “seed” fits the 1/8th increments in the musical scale. Again, whether intended or not, it is a brilliant and useful pedagogical device and fully in accord with cosmic and sonic geometry.

The explication of Gann cycle analysis techniques is also most helpful and interesting to compare with Tony Plummer’s excellent work entitled “The Law of Vibration: The Revelation of W.D. Gann”.

The discussion of Gann attempting use of the Platonic solids and perhaps Kepler’s original work in this regard is most intriguing. Perhaps Mandelbrot’s fractal market cube idea found at p. 263-266 in his “Mis-Behavior of Markets” could resonant here.

The discussion of the use of planetary longitude lines on price charts was helpful, and strongly suggests an iterative rather than a mathematical process, which gives rise to analysis uncertainty.

Mr. Mikula notes he has presented only 40-50% of what he has discovered about Gann. One can only hope there is a Vol. 3 Gann unveiling in the future!!

Many thanks Patrick for a tremendous learning experience and inspiration for further study and analysis.

It’s an apt title. Patrick Mikula presents at least 8 big ideas with detailed examples to explain what Gann meant by “natural time” and how he made change of trend time & price projections . Mikula writes in a clear and concise manner. After a detailed case setting forth what Gann did, there are excellent summaries and then numbered “steps” for performing a Gann review oneself. Only gripe is the lack of a Table of Contents with links to the chapters in the Kindle version. Strongly recommend you read Gann’s “How to Trade Commodities …” BEFORE reading this book.