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Johannes Sundberg - The Secret Science of Squaring - Foreword
W. D. Gann’s Lost System of Astro-Geometric Market Forecasting
...revealing Gann's best hidden secrets on how to Square Price and Time
AUTHOR’S FOREWORD
To make success investing in stocks or speculating in commodities you must have a well-defined plan and must know the rules that have stood the test of time for 50 years or more. After you learn the rules you must eliminate guess work, hope and fear and follow rule and you will make profits.
W. D. Gann, Why Money is Lost on Commodities and Stocks and How to Make Profits, 1954
The above quote of W. D. Gann’s summarizes the ambition of this book very well. I´ve been a Gann researcher since the late 90’s and I am pretty sure that I´ve cracked some of his secrets. I do not claim to know it all, far from it, but I believe that what you will learn from this book is the true foundation of Gann’s method as described in his course The Basis of My Forecasting Method – Geometric Angles, and in other papers written by him.
We will develop strict rules about when and at what prices the turning points in the markets will occur that can be calculated years in advance, just as W. D. Gann did. These rules will be proven to have stood the test of time. They work as well today as they did in W.D. Gann’s time. This is quite remarkable since many other rules of technical analysis have failed to stand this test.
The largest hedgefunds in the world today employ 100´s of PhDs in mathematics, statistics, AI, quant physics and other sciences, and it would be a bit naïve to believe that a simple indicator like a moving average or relative strength index would work in this highly competitive environment. The reason why the methods of W. D. Gann have not been exploited in this way is probably due to the fact that they require a new way of thinking, and that view of the world contradicts what most people have learned to be true according to the scientific view of the academic institution of today. It is not good for your professional career in the investment banking world to openly explain that you use astrology and other esoteric techniques to make your investments.
In this work, we will focus on position trading, meaning taking positions in the market based upon our projections and capturing a move that will last from a few of days to several months. If this book is appreciated by its public, another volume that focuses on intraday trading might also be published later on. The clever student will find a way to apply the material in this book to intraday trading too as the principles are universal and not dependent on the timeframe.
Those of you who have struggled with Gann for some years will get the most out of this book, though I have written it in a way that a novice could work with it too. If you veterans think “same, same” when you start to read the book, please have some patience. I will show you methods that I´ve never seen anywhere else a bit later on in the book (Chapters 7-11), after we have laid the necessary foundations.
I do not intend to repeat the history of W. D. Gann and his remarkable achievements since most of you are quite familiar with it. If not please read the Ticker Interview in the Appendix or the Marketing Brochure that was quoted in the introduction to this text.
Some basic knowledge about astrology and the markets would benefit you, but I have written a short description of the basics that you need in order to understand the rest of this book, sufficient to allow anybody to easily apply these techniques. I want to point out that this book is not about astrology as it is understood by the general public and by most astrologers today. It is about mathematical relationships between the markets and the planets and how they affect the collective unconsciousness of humankind.
WHAT OUR TRADERS SAY…
When I was able to get an early copy of Alex’s 3rd book ‘Music of the Spheres’ I was stunned by the amount and quality of the information he provides. Alex ties together astronomy, music, and correct scaling to provide a glimpse inside the market’s true structure. He clarifies the work W D Gann did a hundred years ago and then brings that work into the modern world where we can adjust scales and track planets with a click of a mouse button.
Mr. Straker is also a gifted and willing mentor if someone wishes to accelerate their learning curve with some one to one work with him.
I have read many books in 30 years of market study and was fortunate to be able to spend hours looking over the W. D. Gann archives in Nikki Jones' possession. I believe Alexander Straker has written material that will go down in history as the truly definitive work on understanding W D Gann. He also has shown how the original Gann methods can be expressed in greater detail with the use of computer chart programs.
Lorrie has a profound gift of seeing patterns and of perceiving the underlying order within whatever subject she directs her attention towards. Additionally, she has the gift of perceiving not only what is truly being said, but more importantly, what is not. She has taken on the works of W. D. Gann and Dr. Jerome Baumring in a total immersion. Her tenacity, will, and energy have been the sails, the current, and the wind of her voyage through the illusory and sometimes rocky waters of W. D. Gann.
Alex has shared a tremendous amount of knowledge invaluable to Gann students and traders. It is apparent that Alex has studied market behaviour with a great deal of enthusiasm for many years, and given considerable thought to distilling the essence of past and current masters to come up with his own unique theory about how it all fits together around the golden mean. His generosity in sharing his insights is only matched by the number of pages in this insightful volume!
I've covered a lot of material in many years of research, but never have I come across insights which more clearly point to an underlying mathematical structure to price markets which become discernible through proper scaling. Alex's scaling methods and insights are the best I've come across, particularly his angle-based approach. I'm sure that any serious student of Gann would be impressed with the unique insights generously shared by Alex and would find return for their investment in the scaling methodology alone.