A 40-Hour Video Course Series Walking Day by Day thru 322 of W. D. Gann's Trades in U.S. Steel over 16 Years of the Wildest Markets in History WW1 - Roaring 20's - 1929 Crash - Great Depression
Mastermind Overview
"This is the closest we'll ever get to sitting in a room with W. D. Gann for 16 years and day-by-day having him teach us to trade!"
40-Hours of Day-by-Day Trading with W. D. Gann
People have always considered Gann's courses on his Mechanical Method to be "introductory beginner's courses," so most people have skipped them, instead jumping straight into his Forecasting Courses, which seem like they contain his more interesting and advanced work. But it turns out that this assumption was completely wrong! This seemingly introductory course actually is an Advanced Course disguised as a beginner's course.
The difficult with it was that gaining access to the insights hidden therein was never possible before now simply because there were no charts included with this course. This made it impossible to understand what Gann was really doing... until now!
This new 40-Hour Video Series provides the ultimate hands-on trading education through the deep study of W. D. Gann's trades for a period of 16 years from 1915 through 1931. The PowerPoint presentation on video gives the added advantage of being able to step through every trade, one bar at a time, like you were living it day-by-day, to see how Gann’s rules should be applied in real-time.
"Going bar-by-bar through 322 of Gann's original trades was a revelation to me, and one of the most instructive experiences with Gann’s teaching I’ve ever had." - Tim Walker
Through this sequential presentation of Gann's REAL trading, one gains access to the inner thinking of one of the greatest traders in history, as you watch him explain his entries, exits, reversals, position sizing, stop placement, EVERY rule of Gann trading as The Master himself did it. Each of Gann's over 322 trades are carefully analyzed, spending on average about 8 minutes of Video on each trade, showing his exact rules and reasoning for every decision as taught in his Mechanical Method.
The course is accompanied by the textbook upon which it is based, Walker's How to Trade Like W.D. Gann - Part 1, which first and foremost provides ALL of the missing charts and data that were missing from Gann's version, so that the reader will discover great insights in reading market action and learn to understand the specific rules and triggers that Gann used to manage an account through every phase of market activity.
Never before has a book fully documented and analyzed Gann's actual trading strategy and methodology using his own trades over an extended period! This Text and Video Series provide a new and fresh insight into an old subject that surprisingly has never been properly studied or presented in the century since it was originally written.
Gann's Phenomenal Returns & Application to Current Markets
This course demonstrates how Gann could turn a $3000 account into over $6 million in 15 years. But it also shows extraordinary returns in shorter trading periods. For instance, from his initial investment of $3000 in February 1915 until October 21 of the same year, Gann produced a 1,337% return in 8 months, increasing the account to $40,123. Would you like to learn to trade like this?
And if you are concerned about whether Gann's method still works in today's markets, Walker ran a sample trading campaign applying Gann's system over 3 moths back in 2014, which is explained in detail in this 2014 TradersWorld article.
This example showed a total profit of 572 points in 3 months of trading. If we consider the initial investment to be approximately $5,000, and we generated a $28,000 return, the system actually produced 570% return on our initial investment in only 3 months! Not bad for a relatively simple mechanical system…
The Most Eventful Trading Period in History
The trading period Gann selected could not cover a more eventful period in history, beginning during World War 1, then moving into the Roaring 20's with one of the largest Bull Markets in history, then watch how Gann managed the 1929 top and the greatest CRASH in history, finally trading through 1931 and the Great Depression. No period in history presents such a wide array of market action, demonstrating exactly how The Master managed his trades through all of these periods.
When you consider that we are again at an all-time-high in the stock market, approaching war with the 84-year war and revolution cycle topping in 2027, and topping out on the 18.6-year business and real estate cycles in 2026 with an expected economic crisis to follow into 2030, the importance of studying how one of the greatest traders in history managed such similar crisis periods in the past is simply invaluable.
Paper Trade & Test Your Tools Along with Gann
Included with the Text and Video Series is the digital historical data for U.S. Steel for the period covered, so that readers can import it into their own trading platform and follow along on their charts using the "bar-by-bar" feature while applying Gann's rules. But even more instructive is the opportunity to also apply other modern tools and advanced analysis to see more deeply into what Gann was REALLY doing, or to see if our newer and computerized tools might even help to improve upon Gann's system.
How often do modern traders go back to important periods from history and "test trade" them to analyze how their strategies and systems performed in those specialized markets? And how much more educative would this experimentation be if done while following along with the strategy and trades of one of history's most famous traders?
Includes Online Mastermind Group with Mentorship by Tim Walker & Gann
Included with this Gann Trading Apprenticeship Program is membership in an ongoing Online Gann Mentor Mastermind Group, monitored and curated by Tim Walker to provide not just W. D. Gann's Mentorship through his historical trades, but Tim's own mentorship, guidance and experience in helping everyone to understand and master Gann's Mechanical Method and Swing Trading Methodology.
Author's Introduction to the Series
"This is about as close as we’ll ever get to sitting in a room with W. D. Gann and day by day having him teach us how to trade."
W. D. Gann’s lessons on how to trade are possibly some of his lesser-known writings. That is hardly surprising when you read the text:
“Decline followed, broke three bottoms made April 24, 27 and 30. We sell 200 shares more at 54¼. Decline continued to 48¼ where there were three bottoms March 26, 31 and April 1st. Rule says, buy the fourth time with one point stop. We covered 300 shares short at 48½ and bought 200 at 48½ with stop at 46¾, which was one point under bottom of March 26th and April 1st.”
Imagine 40 pages in that vein, with never a chart to be seen. If you’re eyes are already starting to glaze over, you are not alone. That’s how I felt every time I tried to study this lesson, which is an exposition of a “Mechanical Method” of trading that Gann developed for new students who came to him for instruction. It consists of 4 pages of rules, followed by 40 pages of examples – over 300 trades covering 16 years of the stock U.S. Steel from 1915 to 1931.
Yet something always bugged me about this lesson. Why give examples of trades over such a long period of time? Most of the trading lessons in the Commodities Course extend over a year or so, but rarely much longer. Gann’s swing trading Method is fairly straightforward – buy when a swing top is crossed, trail your stop beneath successive swing bottoms until one is broken, then reverse and go short, trailing your stop above each lower swing top.
Something didn’t add up – simple rules, many examples. Gann’s system often gets short shrift in trading books too, because following swing tops and bottoms in this manner can get you cut to ribbons in a sideways market. Surely Gann knew this – he was a trader, after all, and he says somewhere that he spent many years and thousands of dollars testing and developing the system in his own trading. It stands to reason that Gann’s Mechanical Method would be a simplified version of how he traded himself. How else would he conceive such a method? He took what he did, stripped it back and back, simplified and simplified, until he could teach it to a beginner.
Was there possibly more to this course than meets the eye? But how to tell without a chart?
Obtaining stock price data from 1915 to 1931 is no easy task. The U.S. Steel Corporation itself only had records from the 1950s, which it was happy to share. The New York Stock Exchange threw up its hands in resignation (or disgust!). Eventually, I found that copies of old copies of the New York Times newspaper are available online, and of course, stock prices were always printed in the daily papers. Transcribing them was a slow task, but all effort rapidly disappeared when I began to see what was there.
There are literally dozens of trades in this lesson where Gann reverses position as close to turns as in this example. For he always covers his shorts and goes long or sells out his longs and goes short. That is the basis of his Method, that you are in the market all the time – which means you never miss a big move.
Gann’s lesson on U.S. Steel is interesting for another reason, which again only becomes apparent when the trades are plotted on the chart. During the 16 years that he covered, the trades fall into three categories. Early on, the emphasis is on the swing chart (which he calls the Overnight Chart) for opening and closing trades. As time goes on, however, he begins to introduce a rule to reverse positions when the market rallies 3 points ($3) from a low or declines 3 points from a high. Since many swings on U.S. Steel made a greater range than this, he must have reasons for using the rule. And indeed, he does, but you can’t find them without the chart, and there is virtually no mention of them in the text.
By the time the lesson reaches 1927, we reach the period when Gann was writing The Tunnel Thru the Air, and then Wall Street Stock Selector in 1930. This lesson also was originally completed in June 1930, and later updated until March 1931. Hence, this would have been very fresh in his memory, and he may well have taken some of the trades himself. This shows in the trade commentary, and it is as though he got sick of writing trades for beginners and just gave us the trades as he would take them.
And so, during the Great Crash of 1929, trading a position of 5,000 shares, from 3 September to 13 November 1929, he demonstrates a profit of a little over $2 million. Some of the trades would have been impossible to take at the time, because volume on the crash days was so extreme that the “live” prices on the ticker tape were up to 3 hours delayed. But we could take the trades easily today – the harder part is the absolute confidence in your method of trading which Gann shows throughout this lesson.
I found this “beginners’ lesson” so valuable that I wrote it up as a book, How to Trade Like W. D. Gann, Part 1, published by the Cosmological Economics. It was followed by a Part 2, where I analysed the other 5 known texts where Gann presents his mechanical system over the next 30 years.
However, recently, I also made a new experiment by walking through Gann’s 16 years of trades, one bar at a time, analyzing them as Gann would using his rules presented in Part 1 mentioned above and it provided me with deeper insights than I had had before through all my prior writing, and even presenting several seminars.
The PowerPoint version on video, which gives the added advantage of being able to step through every trade, one bar at a time, like you were living it day by day, to see how Gann’s rules should be applied in real-time. This was a revelation to me, and one of the most instructive experiences with Gann’s teaching I’ve yet had.
After going through the 16 years of trades day by day, the series grew to over 45 hours of video, and in association with CosmoEconomics, we are making this series available as a sort of “Trading Apprenticeship with W. D. Gann”. This is about as close as we’ll ever get to sitting in a room with W. D. Gann and day by day having him teach us how to trade.
For more information on this work, read Tim's interesting TradersWorld article, where he explains new fascinating but unknown insights into Gann's trading methodology learned only after a decade studying it like no one else ever has. Now he is passing all he has learned on to you!
Gann Mentor Mastermind - Online Forum
Included with this Gann Trading Apprenticeship Program is membership in an ongoing Online Gann Mentor Mastermind Group, monitored and curated by Tim Walker to provide not just W. D. Gann's Mentorship through this historical trades, but Tim's own Mentorship in helping everyone to understand and master Gann's Mechanical Method and Swing Trading methodology.
No one is left behind with the entire group engaged in Q&A with Tim and general discussion of the book, trades, strategies, and techniques used by W.D. The Mastermind will explore areas where Gann breaks his rules, or enters with greater precision than what was given in the instructions.
This Mastermind will dig more deeply into the mechanics of Gann's REAL trading methodologies than anything has ever done before, simply because no one has ever before gathered all the data, made the charts, and then studied what he actually did. Now YOU will be one of the few in history with access to this deeper insight into Gann's private trading methodology.
