Overview
This transcript presents a comprehensive guide to applying WD Gann’s time-based planetary trading methods. The speaker demonstrates how combining astro-timing, cycle analysis, and price geometry can generate high-probability trade setups and avoid common psychological trading pitfalls.
The Importance of Timing Over Strategy
- Traders often focus on entries, exits, and chart patterns but neglect the critical variable of timing.
- Proper timing, more than direction or setup, determines consistent trading success.
- WD Gann’s core insight was that time, not price, is the true market driver.
Gann’s Planetary and Cycle-Based Techniques
- Gann calculated market turns using time cycles, planetary energy, and price degrees.
- Market follows an internal calendar, often tied to planetary cycles and conjunctions.
- Key planetary alignments, such as conjunctions, frequently trigger market reversals.
- Example: Venus-Neptune conjunction coincided precisely with a swing high and reversal in the Euro.
Lunar Cycle Progression and Market Timing
- The Moon’s cycles—especially its 180°, 360°, and intermediate angles—create reliable timing windows for swings and reversals.
- Lunar arc progression compresses a month into the forecasting unit, providing monthly trading signals.
- Examples with gold and Amazon show consistent, tradable reactions at key lunar angles like 45°, 90°, 135°, 180°, 225°, 270°, 315°, and 360°, especially when confirmed by planetary aspects.
Confirming Time with Planetary Aspects
- Time vibrations are only traded when supported by planetary aspects such as sextiles or squares with Mars, Uranus, Jupiter, Pluto, etc.
- Entries are avoided if no confirming planetary aspect is present, even if a time vibration occurs.
Planetary Longitudes as Price Levels
- Planetary degrees are converted into price levels, creating hidden but effective support/resistance zones.
- High-probability reactions occur when price aligns with these planetary degrees, as demonstrated in US 100 and Amazon charts.
Gann’s Square the Range Method
- Identify significant swing highs/lows and measure the range to establish a unit of vibration.
- Translate price range into time units (bars, degrees) and look for celestial alignment using the ascendant degree.
- When time and price “square out,” high-probability reversals or continuations often occur with precision.
Ascendant Degree Intraday Reversal Method
- Anchor to swing highs/lows by capturing the ascendant degree at the reversal.
- Forecast the next recurrence of that degree for a likely reversal window.
- Combine this timing with confirmation from price structure and volume for trade entries.
Psychological and Discipline Aspects
- Effective astro-trading requires patience, discipline, and trust in timing rather than impulses or lagging indicators.
- Journaling all calculations and reactions is essential for learning and improving predictive ability over time.
- Emotional traps, false breakouts, and manipulation are common around celestial time windows, and awareness of these prevents overtrading.
Action Items
- Ongoing – All traders: Journal each time calculation, planetary aspect, and observed market reaction for continuous improvement.
- Ongoing – Practitioners: Only take trades when both time vibration and planetary aspect confluence are present.
- TBD – Interested students: Contact for access to proprietary Gann astro-trading software and private teachings.
Recommendations / Advice
- Wait for the confluence of time windows and planetary aspects before entering trades.
- Use lunar arcs for monthly timing and intraday ascendant methods for short-term reversals.
- Always validate vibration dates with actual market structure and confirmation signals.
- Practice patience and avoid reacting impulsively around time windows; trust calculated times and let market structure confirm setups.