Johannes Sundberg - Biography

Thirty years of exploration into Gann's secrets

AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Johannes Sundberg came into contact with technical analysis as a teenager in the late 1980´s and immediately became utterly fascinated with the subject. At University some years later, he wrote his graduation thesis about a trading range breakout system that was actually able to beat a simple buy-and-hold strategy. These findings went in the complete opposite direction of the prevailing academic view. After graduation, he managed to secure a job as a professional technical analyst at a firm in Stockholm.

In those days, technical analysis was considered a bit odd compared to fundamental analysis. In some finer circles of finance, technical analysis was considered to be some kind of witchcraft. “It was not easy to find such a job at that time, but I had some ‘law of attraction’ methods that really can produce wonders.”

At that time, Sundberg came in touch with the teachings of W.D. Gann for the first time. through the leading Swedish technical analyst, Mr. Ingmar Carlsson. “Mr. Carlsson arranged a course on Gann which I attended, and I immediately was hooked. Shortly after that, I was able to forecast the mini-crash of 1997, both the top around 666 and the low at 555 in October. My clients were ecstatic, and it felt really good to have saved them a decline of 17%. After a while, I quit my job but continued to cooperate with Mr. Carlsson for many years. We became friends, and I became a co-writer of his market letters.”

“My success in the markets continued, and I made a small fortune trading options in the stock market crash of 1998, just to lose it all when the market turned around. I had to realize that there was something more to Gann than just picking tops and bottoms 30- and 60-days apart. That was quite a bad experience. I was devastated. But I am thankful for that experience today as it gave me the motivation and driving force to find out the real truth behind Gann’s methods.”

Sundberg continued his career in the investment field at a bank. There was not much room for technical analysis in that occupation at that time, but he continued to write in Mr. Carlsson’s market letter during evenings and nights, which financed his expanding library of Gann books and courses. He was assigned the task to build an asset allocation model for a balanced mutual fund that the bank managed and took the opportunity to incorporate some of his technical rules into the model. That fund won a 5-star Morningstar rating. The key success factors were loading up stocks in March 2003 and avoiding the big waterfall decline during the financial panic in 2007-2009.

At the same time as he was at his day job, Sundberg continued his Gann studies. He came to a point when he decided to stop reading other author’s work and to stop spending time hanging out on Internet forums. He realized that if he was going to be able to find Gann’s secrets, he had to search somewhere else, inside himself.

“I remember that day very clearly. I had been practicing meditation, affirmations and prayers for a year or so. I was standing in the shower in the morning when the light suddenly went on. I got this crystal-clear idea in my mind: ‘This must have been what Gann did!’ When I started to test my new ideas that same evening, I realized it was actually true! That was one of the most revolutionary moments in my life!”

Apart from his investment skills, Johannes is also a spiritually gifted person and has been professionally coached and educated in that field. For a couple of years, he had a client base which he helped with readings, healing and magical manifestations. According to him that spiritual gift has made a crucial difference, and he would not have been able to crack the Gann codes without that talent.

Today, Sundberg works as a portfolio manager for an institutional investor and trades for his own account. He has also been involved in the management of a pension fund in which the returns were the best in his country compared to other pension funds on a 10-, 5- and 1-years basis.

Technical analysis and Gann methods have their share in these successes. While the job as an institutional portfolio manager has it benefits, it involves a lot more than just technical analysis.

“Gann has been a lifelong passion for me and I am glad that I finally found the opportunity to focus on what really makes me tick, writing this book. I know how hard, frustrating and expensive it can be to try to understand Gann. I really want to help people around those areas to give them that ‘Eureka moment’” and those wonderful feelings of enlightenment that come with it.”