"WISDOM

"
But where can wisdom be found?
And where is the source of understanding?
No man knows the way to it;
It is not found in the land of living men.
The depths of ocean say,
'
It is not in us
'
,
And the sea says,
'
It is not with me.
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Red gold cannot buy it,
Nor can its price be weighed out in silver;
It cannot be set in scales against gold of Ophir,
Against precious cornelian or lapis lazuli;
Gold and crystal are not to be matched with it,
No work in fine gold can be bartered for it;
Black coral and alabaster are not worth mention,
And a parcel of wisdom fetches more than red coral;
Topaz from Ethiopia is not to be matched with it,
It cannot be set in the scales against pure gold.
Where then does wisdom come from?
And where is the source of understanding?
No creature on earth can see it,
And it is hidden from the birds of the air.
Destruction and death say,
'
We know of it only by report.
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But God understands the way to it,
He alone knows its source;
For he can see to the ends of the earth
And he surveys everything under heaven.
When he made a counterpose for the wind
And measured out the waters in proportion,
When he laid down a limit for the rain
And a path for the thunderstorm,
Even then he saw wisdom and took stock of it,
He considered it and fathomed its very depths.
And he said to man:
The reverence of the Lord is wisdom,
And to turn from evil is understanding.
(JOB 28)
DEDICATED
To Mr. Gann, a truly remarkable man, Thanks. You were right.
"
If you seek, you will find.
"
I wonder if you ever knew what your work would do. I wish we could have met. I believe we
would have liked each other. We were just in different circles. Oh, well, as you said-
"
big
circles and little circles, old circles and young circles, past circles and future circles,
will all come together and
'
square out
'
in time
"
.
UNTIL THAT TIME,
RESPECTFULLY,
"
THE
SEEKER
"
PREFACE
This story is a true story of a strange and curious search
for a strange and curious secret of a strange and curious man
who died almost 30 years ago.
I have simply called myself
"
The Seeker
"
because we are all
seekers. The final
"
THAT WHICH IS SOUGHT
"
of all our seeking is
the same. However, we have many paths available to us. Some of
us seek this
"
THAT WHICH IS SOUGHT
"
in material things of different
kinds. Some of us seek "IT
"
in mysteries and secrets. My
search was in both areas simultaneously in the commodity mar-
kets and the W.D. Gann trading philosophy. It is my hope that
you can benefit from my search and that I can show you a
proper path to take that will allow you both profitable and
enriching experiences in both the markets and in life.
As I said,
"
MY STORY
"
is a strange, curious one. When I try to
recall it and write it for you, I keep running into a
problem. The problem is-that the end of the story was the
beginning and beginning of the story was the ending-except
it was before the beginning. I know that I am not making
myself very clear, but that is as well as I can say it for
now. Perhaps it will clear up somewhat as I tell it.
The real beginning of
"
MY STORY
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was when I paid my
"
trusted
friend
"
for the Master Time Factor, which he did not have.
He just took my money and gave me nothing in return but a se-
ries of practically meaningless numbers and rules, which were
devastating if used in the markets.
One of the reasons that made the story curious and strange
was that I already had the key to find the Master Time Fac-
tor, but I hadn
'
t looked at it or read it in years. I paid
"
my friend
"
for something he didn
'
t give me, but I GAVE him
the real thing that I PAID him for, which he didn
'
t give me.
Very strange! You understand-I bought something from him
but at the same time I gave him the thing that I was try-
ing to buy from him-the thing that he did not have; but
which I already had and gave to him. Neither of us knew it
at time. Even today, two years later, he will not know the
value of the thing that I gave him, unless he happens to read
these words. EVEN THEN, HE WILL HAVE TO TAKE THAT THING AND LIVE IT,
rather than read it. That thing was more useful than the
Master Time Factor, and in fact, it is what we are all
looking for when we desire the knowledge of the Master Time
Factor.
It is a strange, curious fact- the living of this thing
makes it comes alive. The reading of it is just words.
The thing that I am talking about is
"
The Seeker
'
s Creed
"
.
It is in Appendix V in the Appendices.
Until this very day
"
my friend
"
was the only person I had ever given My Creed to.
Now, I give it to you. I hope you will PROVE IT-HOLD FAST TO IT-THEN GIVE IT TO
YOUR FAMILY, CHILDREN, and AND FRIENDS. IT IS MORE VALUABLE THAN SILVER OR GOLDOR
THE MASTER TIME FACTOR!
"
THE SEEKER
"
August
8, 1983
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Introduction - My Story Begins ............................. 1
Chapter 2 - Disaster For An April Fool................................. 8
Chapter 3 - What Next? Or More Aptly Where Now? ........................ 13
Chapter 4 -
"
You Must Destruct Before You Can Construct
"
. 16
Chapter 5 - 1 Begin Again .......................................... 19
Chapter 6 - Stock Market, Astrology, Mindset, Mr. Gann & Me. 24
Chapter 7 - 1 Discover the Legendary Master Time Factor!. 35
Chapter 8 - Here Is A Path. You Could Try This One ... 63
Chapter 9 -
"
The Seeker
'
s Creed
"............................................................
67
Chapter 10 - For Me - The Closing Of A Circle .......................... 69
Appendix I - Forecasting By Time Cycles ....................................
Appendix II - Fragments of Gann Monograph ..................................
Appendix III -
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Learn Before You Lose
"
Sales Brochure .... Appendix IV -
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Forecast-
ing
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(The Master Time Factor Lesson) .
Appendix V -
"
The Seeker
'
s Creed
" .................................................................
Appendix VI - Master Time Factor Charts Of The DJIA .........................
Appendix VII - Weekly Charts Showing Master Time Factor . . .
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION -MY
STORY BEGINS-
The first time I ever heard of W.D. Gann was in the late
spring of 1979- Looking back, I was in a transitional pe-
riod of my life. For the previous eight years I had made my
living in real estate brokerage and buying and selling for
my own account. I started with houses and then became
mostly Involved with buying and selling farms and farmland
for myself. I always have enjoyed dealing with farms and
land and I still enjoy it today. There is some undefinable
satisfaction for me in the process of buying and selling
land.
I had several good years financially in my real estate
business, but in 1978, I began to become concerned about the
economy in general and the real estate market in par-
ticular. Farmland prices were climbing sharply in my area
and most of the buying was by large farmers and profession-
als who kept bidding up the price of any farm that came on
the market.
In my opinion, one of the primary reasons for this was that
the agricultural lenders were encouraging farmers to
"
get
bigger
"
, bigger machinery and bigger farms, because bigger
was supposed to mean the same thing as efficient. The fi-
nancing was done primarily by the local farm lending agen-
cies and in many cases the lenders were loaning 100% of
the then inflated values. I did not see how this ever
escalating cycle could continue. I began disposing of my
inventory of farms and land and shedding myself of debt. I
simply felt uncomfortable and could no longer bring myself
to buy except on options- which I would sell the farm by
the time the option expired or, if I hadn
'
t been able to
do so, I would simply forfeit my option money. At this
same time I began looking around for something to do which
would allow me to buy and sell even in down markets. I had
not been able to figure out a way to do this in the
real estate market that I was used to operating in. Also,
I wanted something that would require no inventories to be
financed, no employees to be responsible to, and as little
overhead as possible.
Someone, I have forgotten whom, mentioned to me one day that I
should consider the stock market, or even better, the commod-
ity markets. I had purchased some stocks several years
earlier but they did not turn out to be that successful
in regards to the return on my money. I decided then that I
could do more with my money than putting it into stocks. So
I had not been interested from that time in the stock mar-
ket.
I did begin thinking about the commodity markets, though, and
I thought, here is an ideal' business for me. I like buy-
ing and selling and I can operate in up times or down
times. I began following the commodity quotes in the Wall
Street Journal. Then
I sent off for some information about commodity trading from an
advertisement. This led to my opening a trading account some
few weeks later. My first trade was in corn. I knew ab-
solutely nothing about commodities. I didn

t even know to
figure out the price fluctuations. I asked my-broker
what should I start trading and he said corn because it
was easy to trade and the moves were not that big. So, I
bought corn, I lost $4000 on that trade before I learned
that the moves might not be big, but I had lost more on that
one trade than I had on any of my real estate transactions.
Obviously, I needed to learn something more about this com-
modity trading before I put out more money. So, I pur-
chased my first book on commodity trading through a mail order ad-
vertisement. Will you believe that the first book I ever
purchased about commodity trading was a book by the name of
"
How
To Make Profits In Commodities" by W.D. Gann?
So, here I was- a man who knew nothing about the markets at
all, getting my introduction by W.D. Gann. I was "hooked
"
on
Gann from the very beginning. I remember, I received my copy
of "How To Make Profits-" on my birthday in June 1979 and I
took it with me on a vacation that my family and I were em-
barking on. The whole vacation I read that book. And read
it. And read it. The vacation passed and I came home and or-
dered the W.D. Gann Commodities Course.
The material in the book and the course seemed difficult
for me to understand at times and in places; but, I
thought that it was just the fact that I had not had any
experience or knowledge about trading and that once I
learned the "language of the market" I would no longer
have trouble understanding. Later, I learned that others
had that same difficulty too.
During the Summer of 1979 I studied my Gann book and Gann Com-
modities Course. I began spending more time studying it than
I did in my real estate business. This may have been a
good thing because the farm real estate market topped out
in the fall of 1979 and has been down every since. Our av-
erage sales have gone from approximately $1900 per acre
down to the present average of approximately $1000 per
acre. This fall has indications of being even lower due to
the number of properties needing to be sold.
Going back to the summer of 1979, I read the commodity course
over and over. I tried to trade occasionally, but my
results were not satisfactory at all. I thought I un-
derstood most of Mr. Gann

s rules and ideas but when I

tried to put them into practice they just did not work
out that well. I couldn't tell which top or which bottom
to trade by. So I just kept studying and at the same time I
started buying other commodity books and was studying them
too. By this time I thought that I had learned that the
most important thing in the market was to trade by follow-
ing the trend of the market. The problem was I could not de-
termine the trend or by the time I did determine it, it
seemed to be going the other way.
I was trying to trade all the markets. When I saw something
that looked like a good trade, I would trade that mar-
ket. I really had no set of rules. I traded mostly by what
I "felt" was a good trade. My trading was not profitable
by any means, especially, if you consider the time and
effort I was putting into it.
I spent the fall and winter of 1979 studying Gann, occasion-
ally trading, never too successfully, but not losing any
real money. By this time I had ordered charts and advisory
services of all kinds. I had purchased many books about the
market. I had more money Invested In advisory services and
books than I had made in the market. They were all interesting
but none of them seemed to provide me with the necessary
knowledge to trade the markets successfully.
I had begun studying Mr. Gann's angles and squaring of price
and time. I had many problems deciding what was valid and not
valid with both the angles and the squaring of price and time. I
had a "Hewlett-Packard 38C" calculator which had a date func-
tion on it that I found invaluable in calculating the number
of days between dates.
I decided to take the May Soybean Contract and learn all
that I could about it. I reconstructed a monthly and
weekly chart back to the time it first started trading.
I calculated the squares in monthly, weekly, and daily
time periods from the extreme low and high and from the
opening of the contract in 1936. I could see some inter-
esting relationships but always in hindsight. I was not
able to trade profitably or consistently using the
squaring of price and time. I spent many weeks trying to
find some method of using squaring of price and time that I
could make into a trading rule in line with Mr. Gann's rules
about price and time as I understood them. I could not come
up with anything. Then I looked at his rules on angles.
I ran angles on all the bean charts. I ran angles on
monthly charts back to 1936, weekly charts, and dally
charts as far back as I could get them. I spent consid-
erable time and money trying to get data that I could use
and then making dally charts by hand. Again, I saw some In-
teresting correlations in hindsight, but nothing that I
could "trade off of" in a consistent manner. I wondered
if the scale were distorted by time and the difference in
the range of prices today relative to the time that Mr.
Gann wrote his rules.
This led to my investigation of scales of price and
their relationship to Mr. Gann's rules. On a farm near
town I had a barn with a sixteen foot ceiling in it. I
ordered Mr. Gann/s original charts (weekly) that he had
sold, then Mr. Lambert had kept up to date and sold until
Mr. Jones purchased the material and which had been kept
to the current time. These charts were on the same scale on
which Mr. Gann had based his rules. I built a wall in my
barn to accommodate these charts because it was necessary
for me to see what they looked like. It required a wall
14 feet high for me to incorporate the May, July, and
November contracts. It was 53 feet long. The end result of
this was the same- interesting, but difficult to util-
ize.
Next I tried trading by Mr. Gann

s rules based on his "mechani-

cal method and trend indicator". Again I had the same problem-
unsatisfactory results. Either I was using stops too
close or did not understand his rules properly. I must con-
fess that I was trying to mix all his other rules in at
the same time.
Then I looked at his rules and comments on time. I had al-
ways been intrigued by time and its meanings. Over the
years I had always had an interest in natural things and na-
ture. History and philosophy were of particular interest to
me. Of course, I found time periods everywhere. Too many of
them in fact. I knew that Mr. Gann said that the time fac-
tor was the most important to observe and that when time
was up look for the other yardsticks to confirm time. My
problem was that I could not tell which time "was up" and
which yardstick to look to confirm the time. There were just
too many times and too many yardsticks for me.
Then I got into calendar time and market time. I concluded
from my reading of his material that he put greater emphasis
on market time than he did on calendar time because of his
descriptions about how to make charts. I went into great
detail and study of market time. I arrived at the same
dead-end path here. Then I studied calendar time. I did
find that trend changes of some nature were likely to take
place approximately every 45 days or so on the daily
charts. The problem was that they were usually a swing of
some proportion and again difficult for me to trade success-
fully.
Then I got into the squares and calculators and master
charts. They were like puzzles. I would work for days and
weeks trying to fit together one piece of knowledge from
them. I worked on them so much that I actually would see
them in my sleep. End result? Same old story!
Then in the summer of 1980 I attended a Gann trading seminar in
Florida. I took my wife and son with me. The seminar was well-
planned and it consisted of two parts. The first part was
an analysis of Mr. Gann

s time rules as applied to the

markets today. The second part was a presentation on as-
trology. It was an interesting and useful seminar to me,
especially the first part on time analysis. I listened
to the part on astrology, but, I Just could not believe
that it provided any answers on how to trade the markets in
a consistent and profitable manner. I could not believe
that converting a price to the longitude of a planet could
possibly determine whether that particular price as based
on the longitude of a planet would make top or bottom or meet
resistance of any kind. (I still can

t believe it today.)
This presentation on astrology probably turned me off on
astrology more than any other one thing. I could not bring
myself to study something so ridiculous. I knew that there were
valid tenets and observations in all old and ancient beliefs
but I just would not believe that the prices of beans and
other commodities could be judged by these "signs and
houses".
The most useful and important benefit to me of this semi-
nar was the people I met there. Three or four of those
people have turned out to be very good friends and I
would never have met them had I not attended the seminar.
While attending this seminar I heard several "day-
traders" talking about how they used Gann successfully
in their day trading activities. And I heard someone
say that a ticker or quote machine allowed one to acquire
years of experience in a few weeks by watching all of the
trades and quotes every day. When I came back home the
first thing I did was to order a "ticker" so that I
could acquire that "experience" and learn in weeks what
was to have taken years. I got one that gave me hardcopy
so that if I had to be out during part of the day I
would be able to study each trade at the end of the
day. I chose to follow May Soybeans and December T-Bonds.
They were both on the C.B.O.T. and I would only need one
Western Union line to get both of them.
I chose the beans because Mr. Gann had recommended them and I
had his rules available on them. I chose the bonds be-
cause I had made some profits trading them (more than on
anything else).
For several months I day traded beans and bonds. I at-
tempted to use all the angles and time periods and rules.
My success was marginal. I made some profits on balance,
but after deducting the cost of the quote equipment I
could have made more money working some job paying minimum
wages. I did get a great deal of market experience in a
short time though. Again I found that Mr. Gann's rules as
applied by me just did not produce outstanding results. I
really knew all the time though that Mr. Gann cau-
tioned against short term in and out trading and that
it was not fair to apply his rules to day trading.
One thing that I definitely learned was that for me day
trading was not the thing that I wanted to do for the
rest of my life. I enjoyed it enough. Really, too much. I
spent all my time at the ticker. I even had lunch at the
ticker. I ignored my family, my business, my friends. Af-
ter looking back, I believe that day trading as I was
doing is the biggest waste of time and money that I can
imagine. I have a friend that still day trades. He
has for seven years. He has not made any large amount of
money but he continues to day trade every day that the
markets are open. After the market closes he studies
the charts and the markets until midnight and the wakes
up the next morning and is at his ticker by 8:00 a.m..He
has no time at all to spend with his family. I did
this same thing when I had my ticker and I tell you IT
IS NOT WORTH IT! Another thing that I learned about having a
ticker is that I had the urge to try to trade too of-
ten. Even when I was not day trading but using the
ticker to time position trades, I found that watching
the ticker gave me the urge to try to trade every
swing. I got to the point that I just wanted to trade
all the time. I am sure that there must be someone who
has been consistently successful as a day trader, but I
have never found that person. If you are the average per-
son, I urge you to learn from my experience and save your
time. Your
time is one of your most valuable possessions.
During the time that I was day trading and watching the
ticker I kept studying all of Mr. Gann's books and
courses. By this time I had purchased every book and
course of his that I could find. I was trying to find
someone who actually knew him and that had taken personal
instruction from him. I was able to find a man that
worked for him at one time. But that gentleman did not
want to talk. I have always desired my own privacy so I
understood. I was able to locate Mr. Gann

s son. I made
a trip to see him. He was a very nice and distinguished
looking gentleman. You could tell that he was a man of
quality and character. He was courteous and gave me
thirty or forty minutes of his time and he was a very busy
man. In his office he had a large picture of his father
hanging on the wall. That picture dominated the entire
office. For some reason I could not bring myself to ask Mr.
Gann about his father's master time factor, but I can
tell you that it was very difficult not to ask him. I did
ask him what he thought was the most useful part of his
father
s
work. He told me that he thought that his fa-
ther's research and work on time cycles was the most im-
portant work that his father had done. He also told me
several other things about his father. He felt that
his father's work and life had been commercialized. I
also did not feel inclined to ask him about any per-
sonal details of his father
s
life. I did ask him as I
was leaving if he could give me any advice about the
markets or the use of the master time factor that Mr.
Gann used. He told me that his advice to me was invest in
the stock and securities market, under good competent coun-
sel^ and to refrain from speculating in the commodity
markets at all. He also told me that "there was no such
thing in science or nature called a perpetual motion ma-
chine", that people had looked for one throughout his-
tory, but that it Just didn

t exist.
I made several trips around the country trying to locate
various things and various people that could help me un-
derstand more about Mr. Gann and his trading philosophy.
I tried to reproduce what I could of the books that Mr.
Gann had on his reading list and the ones that he sold.
I searched all over the country for certain books and
publications. With great effort I was able to find the
books that I wanted. During my search for Mr. Gann

s mas-
ter time factor, I purchased and perused over 2000 books and
manuscripts. I purchased as near as complete set of
C.B.O.T. annuals as I could find. My set had most years
from 1887 through 1950. I wanted to verify everything
that I could about Mr. Gann

s references to the various

markets and the situations he was discussing. I made a
special trip to Hew York to a well known astrology book-
store and I purchased $1800 worth of books on that one trip
alone. Most of them were out of print and were written
during or before Mr. Gann

s early writings. I also pur-

chased every market classic that I could find about
the market. I studied Elliott waves, Wyckoff, the Andrews
material, Hurst, Gartley, Drew, Edwards & Magee, Moore, and
others.
Also during this time I heard of this person and that
person that
was supposed to understand the Gann method very well. They
were in fact said to be experts and were making their
clients lots of money. Since my trading was not remarkable
by any sense of the word, I opened trading accounts sepa-
rately and let two of these so-called experts trade at
their discretion. This experience taught me that the
experts that I had chosen lost money for me more quickly
and in greater amounts than I had ever been able to do on
my own. As a matter of fact, I had opened a trading
account with one of these experts in November of 1980
(you remember, the top of the bean market) and the first
day that he had received my funds he started buying beans
as the market was going limit down for the preceding three
days. The rule he used was if three days limit down, buy
for an upturn. The upturn did not come so he bought more
as it continued limit down. I asked him if we shouldn't
just take my loss and get out and what kind of stops did
he plan to use. He said the market was too wild to use a
stop and that it certainly had to recover and we would
get back some of the losses and stand aside. I did not
learn then that he had in fact bought even another con-
tract of beans after another limit down move. He sold all
my contracts of beans on the opening on the day of Decem-
ber 12, 1980 at which time they opened limit down and then
immediately after moved up for the secondary rally at the
top. He said he was sorry. In five days of trading for
me this expert had lost more money for me than I had lost
in my entire time of trading commodities. Since I some-
times learn slowly I tried a third expert. This one was
not a day trader but one who traded in and out of the mar-
kets quickly and seldom held a position for more than
three days. He had been in the markets for years and
really knew how to trade. He lost several thousand dol-
lars for me in less than two weeks. The trades made no
sense at all and he could not tell me why he made them. He
didn't even say he was sorry! These experiences led me to
my current trading rule #1-NEVER ALLOW ANYONE ELSE TO TRADE FOR ME.
Since none of my experiences in learning to trade the mar-
kets by using Mr. Gann's trading philosophy had worked out
very well for me, I, had begun a concerted effort to learn
what the master time factor was and how it was to be
used. I thought that if I could only acquire the master
time factor then everything else would fall into place.
Unthinkingly, I am sure that I expected it to be a
magic formula that would allow me to conquer the markets and
tell exactly when each and every top and bottom would oc-
cur. I had become that "wrapped-up" in my effort to
find it. This intense desire for something that I did not
even know what it was led me to lose touch with the pru-
dence that I had been blessed with in every other area
of my life. I had actually hypnotized myself into be-
lieving that this master time factor was the greatest
and most desired formula in the world.
Well, it was the spring of 1981, and April 1st was ap-
proaching. April 1st used to be called April Fool's day
and I will always remember April 1, 1981, as my special
day, because I believe that it was named just for me.
CHAPTER 2 DISASTER FOR AN
APRIL FOOL!
During the late winter and early spring of 1981 I was rid-
ing out the real estate recession and pursuing with great
zeal Mr. Gann's master time factor. As I told you ear-
lier, I was becoming obsessed with the idea that if I
could just acquire the master time factor that it would
solve all my trading problems. I had quit day trading,
although I still had my ticker and I still spent many
hours watching the markets trade. I continued to buy old
books, read, experiment with the various calculators and
master charts. I notice how frequently during the day
that prices would trade against one of these critical
points on a calculator, then back off and sometimes the
price would hold, but as often as not it would not hold. I
was no longer day trading but I had the constant urge
to be in the market. I felt guilty if a move started
and I missed it. I felt angry at times if trades did-
n't go my way. I never had this problem in my real estate
business. I simply decided the best price that I could
offer a person and made that offer. If I got the prop-
erty, fine, if not, I never thought about it with any
remorse. If I offered to sell a property to a person, I
gave them my lowest and best price and if it were good
for them to buy, fine, if not, I didn't want them to buy
something that would not be beneficial to them. I knew that
my mental attitude was not correct and I tried to compen-
sate by leaving the house during the day and avoiding
watching the ticker, but leaving the ticker on and coming
home after the market closed; then studying the tape at
night and making a trading decision to buy or sell based on
that day
s
tape action. This worked better and my monthly
statements began looking better.
I knew that Mr. Gann had used astrology in trading but I
could not bring myself to get into the study of astrology
with any fervor. However, I had begun reading the many books
on astrology that I had acquired in New York and other
places around the country. I knew that somehow the master
time factor must be associated with astrology but I could
not find a verifiable clue. I kept reading all kinds or
market books and studying astrology-but never in any
depth. I had started studying all I could find on cy-
cles. Cycles of any and all kinds. I knew that the master
time factor had to be a cycle of some nature because Mr.
Gann said it indicated to him when certain cycles would re-
peat. My trading was Improving because I was trading less
often and staying in a profitable trade slightly longer.
In March of 1981 I received a phone call from a man that had
come to be a close friend as a result of meeting him at
different Gann seminars around the country. We had never
been to each other's home, but we had many phone conversations
over those months. This man was a very knowledgeable man about
Mr. Gann's works and this man like myself had spent many hours
and weeks studying Gann. We had shared information and in-
sight with each other on several
8
occasions. In this story I will simply call him "my
friend" because I have no desire to mention his name and
cause embarrassment to him; although I can assure you that
it was not easy for me to come to this state of forgive-
ness. By daily practicing my creed, which you will find in
the Appendices, I was able to finally get to this state of
mind where I am oblivious to past injustices of this
type. I look to the present and the future- not the
past, (except when I am forecasting the trend of the mar-
ket.)
Now, getting back to the phone call from "my friend". He
called me that March night and he was very excited. He said
that he had the most wonderful news! He said that he had fi-
nally found what Mr. Gann used to trade the markets and what
he had used to make his predictions and that he was sure it
would call any market of any type; he had proved it in one
particular market. Although, I had shared all of my find-
ings with him, he did not offer to share this knowledge
with me. He called to tell me that this was the most valu-
able Information that he had ever encountered and that he
had decided to sell this to only four people. He further
said that he had carefully chosen these four people. He said
that his criteria for choosing these four prospects were
that they must have really studied Gann for many long and
hard hours and that they must be honest and promise not to
reveal this information to anyone outside their immediate
families. Also, these four persons would have to sign a
legally prepared agreement which imposed monetary penalties
on them if they should ever reveal this information. He
then went on to tell me how much he wanted for this Informa-
tion. IT WAS STAGGERING! SUBSTANTIAL! He assured me that it
would work in all the markets but that he had proved it in
the one particular market and that if I followed this
formula and information exactly as he taught it to me and
if I would save a copy of my brokerage statements so that he
could verify that I had properly followed it, he would
guarantee my money back. I told him that was more money
than I had ever dreamed of paying for anything. He told me
to think about it for a few days and to discuss it with the
other three people to whom he had offered it. He told me
who they were and two of them I knew well, because I had
become very good friends with them too. I had met them at my
first seminar in Florida and we had attended other ones to-
gether. These two people were (and are) fine people of out-
standing character and quality. The three of us had spent
many many hours studying Mr. Gann works and we had shared all the
different insights that we each had. We had promised each
other without saying it that if any one of us ever found
the master time factor we would let the other two know
what it was. I want to thank each one of these two people
for the help they gave me in my search for the master time
factor and also during the aftermath of my April Fool
s
Day
fiasco. They were the only two people that I could talk to
after the disastrous episode took place.
Up until I began trading the commodity markets and studying
the Gann material, I had always been a prudent common-sense
type man. I know that my story so far does lead you to
question that
statement but it is true. I don

t know what it is about

the commodity markets that allow ordinarily prudent suppos-
edly intelligent people to make some of the blunders that
they make when it comes to the commodity market. I think we
sometimes lose touch with reality when we become obsessed with
anything. Our balance is destroyed and we end up mesmerizing
ourselves into a false condition where we see our world
as reflecting this mesmerized version of what we want to be-
lieve. Mr. Gann described something similar to this condition
in his book, "The Tunnel Through The Air
11
.
At any rate, I believe now, in looking back that I had set
myself up for something like this to happen to me because I
had become overbalanced. I had searched so long and so hard
for this master time factor that I had lost touch with re-
ality and common sense. I will say that if any other man
other than the man whom I call "my friend" had made this
offer to me, I would not have even thought about the offer
twice. I would have immediately said no. But, as I told you
earlier I was "primed" because I wanted the master time
factor so bad and then I really trusted "my friend" and
although I thought that he would have offered it to me for
nothing as I would have done for him; the fact that he
didn

t still did not make me realize that if he had

really been my friend he would not have tried to sell me
something that we both had worked so hard to find.
I thought about this phone call and offer for several
days. I called these other two friends of mine that were
being offered this same information. They were excited too
about the prospects of having the master time factor re-
vealed to them. "My friend
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did not actually call this for-
mula the master time factor but he implied that it was it.
None of us who had been offered the material really knew
what to do. We did not want to put out the kind of money
that
"
my friend
"
wanted, but we all wanted the master time
factor and we all believed in the Integrity of "my friend".
We trusted him completely. We were planning to go to a seminar
being held in Chicago during the first week in April. This
seminar was being held by Mr. Billy Jones of Lambert-Gann Pub-
lishing Co. I have always enjoyed Billy

s. seminars more than

anyone else's. Anyway, the three of us decided that we would
get together in Chicago and then decide what we would do
about this offer.
I have had many blessings in life. I live in the greatest
country in the world. This country may be the last hope
for mankind. I have always had good health. I have always
been able to make a living for my family and have plenty of
time to read and pursue the things in life that I enjoy
doing. I have a fine son of whom I am very proud. But my
greatest blessing has been my wonderful wife. She is a remark-
able woman. She has always left the business decisions to me
and never questioned my judgment. She, of course, had sacri-
ficed many hours of her time so that I could spend all of
my days and many nights studying Gann when I should have spent
that time with my family. I talked with her about this of-
fer and asked what she thought about it. I could tell
that she was not
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impressed at all. I had promised "my friend" that I would
meet him in Chicago where we would both be attending the Lambert-
Gann Seminar. I was to meet "my friend" on April 1st and the
seminar was going to start the next day. When I asked my wife
what she thought I should do about the offer, she would
only remind me that April 1st, the day I was to meet my
friend and accept or reject his offer was APRIL FOOL'S DAY.
I had not thought about April Fool's Day since I was a child.
But my wife's mentioning of it was forecasting a coming
event for me.
I left for Chicago to meet my friend and unfortunately for
me, I had already made up my mind that I was going to pay
this SUBSTANTIAL amount of money for this information that "my
friend" led me to believe would be the elusive, legendary
master time factor. I met "my friend" in Chicago as agreed on
APRIL Fool
s
DAY. He had me sign the agreement that he had pre-
pared by an attorney near his home. He assured me that if I
wanted my money back at anytime I could ask him for it and
he would return it to me if I felt that the formula did
not work as he said that it would. He said again that it
would work on any market, but since he had only proved it on
one market that would be the market that we would need to
trade. I gave him this SUBSTANTIAL amount of money that we
agreed on and he again promised me my money back if I were not
satisfied. This was the opening of the door to the most
foolish and most painful room of experience that I have ever
entered In my lifetime. The door was ajar before I en-
tered. I could have looked in and seen what was IN there. I
didn't look. I just pushed open the door and ran into the
"
room
"
because I wanted the promised contents with a desire
that squelched all reason. I accept the responsibility of
this very poor judgment on my part. I blame no one other
than myself. One of the reasons that I am writing this
story for you, is so that you will be able to profit from
my mistakes and if I can save just one of you, my readers,
from trying the same path I took, then this whole effort
of writing this story will have been worthwhile.
Even though I accept the full responsibility for my ac-
tions in regards this most strange and sad transaction,
natural law says that "my friend
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has sown the wind and must
reap the whirlwind, either now or later. That part is not
something that I can do anything about.
In order to bring this part of my story to as rapid conclu-
sion as possible, but yet allowing you to have the full
story that I promised you, I can simply say that "my friend"
took my money and gave me a formula of gibberish in return. To
make it worse, the agreement called for me to actually trade
this thing according to his recommendations, in order to ever
get my refund; although he promised outside of the written
agreement to give me my money back any time I requested it.
His trades were constantly losing trades in his one market
that he had proved. As a matter of fact I lost more money
following his trades until at the end before I really ac-
cepted how stupid the whole thing was, I began taking the
exact opposite of what he told me and then I recovered some
of the money I had lost following the trades.
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I cannot tell you the pain and frustration that this experience caused me. I am trying to
speed over this part of my story as fast as I can and I am really ashamed that I
ever fell for something this ridiculous. I promised you the true story of my search and
I have to relate this part of it to you; but it is not easy for me write this.
Well, I laboured on with this whole affair and made every effort that I could to get "my
friend" to give me my SUBSTANTIAL amount of money back. He just promised and promised that he
was going to do it. He told me all kinds of stories about how he was working on it. Fi-
nally he told me that he had donated my SUBSTANTIAL amount of money to a children's hos-
pital near his home. But that he had done it with the understanding that he might have
to recall the donation if he had to refund the money to a "client" that had given him the
money. "My friend" told me that he was arranging to get the money back and that a local
bank was acting as the director of fund raising for this hospital. He even gave me the
name of the bank. After this drug on for several weeks, one day I called the bank and
learned that they had never heard of "my friend". Yes, dear reader, my search for Mr. Gann's
Master Time Factor had brought me to this point, where I still believed all the lies that
"my friend" told me, until the bank said that they had never heard of him. Well, I had
been asleep for a long time, and dreaming,-.no having a nightmare; but, thank God, I had at
last awakened. I finally realized at that exact time that I would never get one penny of
my SUBSTANTIAL amount of money back from "my friend". I had made the biggest single mis-
take of my lifetime. I have never heard anymore from "my friend" until one of my real
friends (one of the other three prospects-they were all too well-balanced and too smart to
fall for the APRIL FOOL'S disaster) sent me a copy of a newsletter he had seen. This
newsletter sold for $16.67 per issue. In two Issues of this newsletter the entire
formula that "my friend" had sold me (and promised in writing In my agreement not to sell
to anyone else other than his children) was printed in this newsletter that I could have
purchased for $3333.(There are some numbers for you, Gann fans!). Apparently "my friend"
had sold his formula to the newsletter too. This was the "final blow" to my ego and was
the one thing that seemed to show me just how much time and money I had wasted on my search
for Mr. Gann

s Master Time Factor. Well, let's end this chapter here, while you ponder on
how you would feel if you had been so foolish as me (I'm sure none of you will ever have to
worry about that! Will you?)
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CHAPTER 3 WHAT NEXT? OR MORE APTLY
WHERE NOW?
Have you been thinking about how you would feel if you had
been so foolish as I? Would you be pretty well fed up with
the search for the master time factor? Would you ever want to
hear of the commodity markets or the name Gann? You, being an
unemotional passive observer to what I have related to
you so far, are probably saying, "serves him right-anyone
that foolish". You would also point out, being the astute
observer that you are, that the problem lay not with the
commodity markets, nor with the name Gann, nor with the master
time factor, but SOLELY with the author of this booklet and
his attitude towards something which had distorted his per-
spective towards reality about the markets, the master
time factor, and in fact, life in general. Well, if you
came to these conclusions, you would be precisely correct.
You have come to the same conclusions that I reached in the
fall of 1981 about myself. But you have also hit on some-
thing else. Those same conclusions that you have reached
about my behavior thus far in my search for the master
time factor are the very ones that I believe that keep
us from making profits in the markets. If we continually
incur losses in the market it is BECAUSE OF OUR ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE
MARKETS WHICH HAVE DISTORTED OUR PERSPECTIVE OF THE MARKETS, OF REALITY, AND OF
LIFE IN GENERAL.
And ho w have we gotten to this point where our attitude
has turned into our perspective and messed us up? We got
there the same way I did- day by day, degree by degree, bad
habit by bad habit, misplaced striving by misplaced striving,
wrong desire for the wrong thing by wrong desire for the wrong
thing, mistake by mistake. Have you noticed the language that
I have used in the preceding sentence? What have we done? We have
SQUARED our bad habits and mistakes in time. How? In using the
word "by" which means times in between the same two words or
phrases we are multiplying these bad habits or mistakes by
themselves, which is the mathematical defini tion of squaring
a numb er, element, set, or anything. What
'
s worse we are do-
ing it day by day, and degree by degree, which means that we
are squaring these bad habits and erroneous ways of attitudes,
thinking, and perspectives by time too. And what are squares?
They are building blocks (even on charts) of equal height
and equal width and equal length. They are also the base
or foundation for the next square up. Now if our base or
foundation is built out of bad habits, mistakes, wrong
thinking, and wrong action- how can we ever hope to accom-
plish anything (in the markets or life) other than what we
have created already?
There is only one way that I have found. It is the ti-
tle and subject of the next chapter in this booklet. It
is what I had to do with myself. It is what I had to do
with the Gann work. It is what I had to do with ray at-
titude, habits, and perspective. I had to tear everything
out- tear it all down and clear the base
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and foundation. I had to destruct it all. And most dif-
ficult of all, by far (that "by" means distance multi-
plied by itself), I had to tear down my emotions, feel-
ings, ego, and intangibles that came closest to what I
thought that I WAS. My essence- as close as I could.
If I had stopped to think after a short time in the mar-
ket when the profits were not coming in the way they should
have been in any successful business, I would have real-
ized the above mentioned truths many months and many thou-
sands of dollars ago. I tell you now, if you have not made
profits, but instead have had losses in the market for at
least six months running, YOU MUST STOP TRADING. That's all!
Just stop trading. What makes you think the next six months
will be any different? Hasn
'
t my story proved this to you yet?
W
PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD", (for your in-
formation at this point, "prove" also means to square). Now,
I didn't say quit trading, I said STOP TRADING. If you
are not making profits, why are you trading? Why was I
trading, if I were not making profits? If I had STOPPED
TRADING months earlier, look at how much better off I would have
been.
So if you haven't been making profits for the last six
months you will promise me that you will STOP trading. You un-
derstand don't you? The longer you continue trading and
losing, the larger building (you), you are going to have to
tear down and destroy, because you have built your squares
on a bad base or foundation. The sooner you STOP building
your squares the smaller your area of destruction will have
to be. You will have to do the same thing that I had to
do. You will have to tear down back to the foundation or
base and clear up the debris and lay a good new foundation
and then build again- build a good building on a good founda-
tion- one that will allow you to scale new heights!
At this point I need to digress again for three or
four paragraphs. When I left you at the end of the previ-
ous chapter I had arrived at a pretty low emotional state,
mental state, and financial state. My wrong habits,
mental attitudes, and stupidity along with the aid and
assistance, of "my friend" had left me pretty well devas-
tated. On top of that I developed a health problem in the
late summer of 198l-all at the same time that I had fi-
nally realized the enormity of my erroneous ways. I may not
have made myself clear to you up to this point, but when I
have been writing SUBSTANTIAL money every time I referred to
the money that I had given "my friend", I have been putting
all capital letters to emphasize that SUBSTANTIAL is Indeed
what I mean to say. Needless to say, the health problem
that I had developed (a kidney problem) did not leave me too
secure with the long term financial security of my family. I
had plenty of life insurance but I had not made at that
time the necessary provisions for any unforeseen long
term illness. So I had this whole situation to contend
with in the middle of the most severe real estate downturn
that I had ever lived through. Most of my remaining assets
were In real estate. I hope that I have given you a clear
enough picture of the things I was thinking about at
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this time.
What I really needed at this particular time of my life
in the late summer of 1981 was some type of sustenance for
my spirit or soul. Our spirit is what vitalizes us and my
vitality was low at this time, low physically, mentally,
and spiritually. Then I thought of my creed.
"The Seeker's Creed" is an article of declaration of be-
liefs that I compiled over ten years ago. None of these
beliefs are products of my mind, but they were compiled by
me for me at another low point of my life when I was
searching for direction in my life. They were the result of
my lifetime of reading and experience. "The Seeker's Creed"
was what I had used as the FOUNDATION or BASE for my real es-
tate business and I realized at this point that what I,
needed was a new strong foundation based on common sense
and proven natural laws If I were going to survive this
situation I had "built" for myself. I had forgotten about
"The Seeker's Creed" in my search for the master time fac-
tor. In fact, it seemed that I had forgotten everything in
my search for the master time factor. I have also called
my creed "The Seeker

s Creed" so that you can adopt it for

yourself should you so desire. I will tell you more about
later. It is in the Appendices.
Now, one of the strange parts of this story again. I never
had intended that my creed be anything other than a per-
sonal declaration of my beliefs that I had proved would
work. For a period of my life I had consciously tried to
live by them and I had read them faithfully every day and
practiced them in ray real estate business. But I had for-
gotten my creed during the last few years and from the time
that I had begun my
"
Gann Voyage" in 1979 until the time I
pulled it out in the fall of 1981 I certainly never
read it nor did I practice it. But for some strange
reason, I took it out of the drawer of my desk in my li-
brary in May of 1981 and had a copy of it made just as it
was (I had typed it for myself on my typewriter when I
originally wrote it and I had spelling errors and type-
overs in it). I had to go down town to get a copy made and
then bought my sheets back and put them in my three ring
binder and put my notebook (my creed) back in my desk
drawer. I then sent the copy I had made to "my friend" as
a token of appreciation for his selling me what I thought
was the master time factor. I had never given this to any-
one else outside my immediate family before nor since until
this very day when I am including it in this booklet.
Isn

t that the strangest thing? Its almost like an opening

and closing of a cycle or circle and its almost like the
creed and the master time factor go together. Who knows?
Perhaps, they do?
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CHAPTER 4
"YOU MUST OBSTRUCT" "BEFORE YOU
CAN CONSTRUCT"
In my earlier years when I first started out in business
and in ray real estate activities I started out buying and
improving and reselling residential properties. Then I grew
into buying and Improving farms and land and subdividing
farms into tracts and reselling. When my health problem
that I told you about in the last chapter improved and I
began studying my creed again I decided to start all over
with what I had proved in the past. In other words I
planned to hold fast to that which was good. This was in
the fall of 1981 and we were still in the worst real
estate market that I had encountered during my business
life.
I decided first of all that I would lay aside for the
time being any study of the markets, of Gann material,
and any trading in the commodity markets. I was liter-
ally "sick of it". I gave notice to terminate the lease
on my ticker, packed it up, and sent it back. I closed out
my commodity trading accounts and had all funds sent home. I
determined to return to those things which had worked for me
in the past. I read my creed every day- once in the morning
and the last thing at night. I tried to practice it
where I could every day. I went back to the real estate
business with new vigor. I passed on the farms because
there just wasn

t that much market. And I did not want to

take the risk necessary to buy and subdivide -a farm. If I
could work off an option, I would. I went right back to the
beginning-residential properties. This time I was faced
with a new problem that I didn't have several years ago
when I was dealing with houses. That problem was 17% and 18%
interest rates. People were just not moving around very
much. (I live in a small town). I realized that people
wanted to acquire better housing but it was extremely dif-
ficult for first time buyers and young people and
slightly less difficult for those who already had equity
built up. So I started trading. I started with the lower
priced range and all the older, lower assumable rates prop-
erties that I could find. I practiced my creed in my busi-
ness every day just as I had done several years ago. I would
try to satisfy any real estate need as well as I could. If
the person in need needed to sell, I tried to be the
buyer; if the person in need needed to buy, I tried to be
the seller; my creed said that to get supply you must
open a channel and to open a channel you must do what? You
create a need or find a need. So I looked for needs in the
only place I knew to look-the real estate market. Even in the
so-called tough housing market of late 1981 and first part
of 1982 by the practicing of my creed I had a good period
financially. Then I got back into farms as well as houses
and from January 1, 1982 through March 30, 1982 I had sold
a little better than one million dollars worth of real
estate on commissions. (This is a good place to ask you a
question that I have often wondered about. What is it that
makes a man ignore what he is successful at and suited for-pursue
something else that appears more golden, but yet causes
him
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losses and misery, when he could do so well Just performing
his useful function? A personal example-me and the real estate
market and me and the commodity markets.) I felt good again
and hoped that I had learned something about life and the
markets and most of all something about myself. I was back at
a good foundation or base-My Creed. (Yours too, now, if you
want it.)
Now, through pain, frustration, and not knowing what else
to do, I had begun to destroy the wrong attitudes and per-
spectives that I had allowed to develop in me. But I was doing
this tearing down without knowing it. One day in early 1982,
I had purchased a property that I intended to remodel and
then sell. I went to talk with this contractor that spe-
cialized in remodeling. He was working on a job when I
found him; and the lady that he was working for was com-
plaining about how much of her house he had torn out and how
bad it looked. This contractor said "yes ma'm, it shor
looks terrible but you must fust dee-struct fo you can con-
struct.
1
' This statement almost floored me. YOU MUST FIRST OBSTRUCT
BEFORE YOU CAN CONSTRUCT. All the things that I said to you in the last
chapter about tearing out, tearing down, ripping out these
bad habits and attitudes and thinking and perspectives did
not just come to me then. It came to me as the sudden
revelation when this contractor told the lady who was wor-
ried about her home falling in on her; and seeing her and
him standing in the awful looking mess that was her home
and all the rubble that looked like it could never be put
back into anything useful again. It came to me then that
this was like the squares or building blocks that I men-
tioned in the last chapter. Our lives and market habits
and living habits are the same as the home needing remod-
eling. I saw clearly for the first time that if I needed
remodeling-AND I DIDI-then I would have to tear myself down
the way I described to you in the last chapter. I saw then
too that I had already made the proper start by getting
back to the useful part of my experience and life that had
worked for me in the past, namely trying to live and conduct
my business by my creed. I had proved that my creed was good
and sound and so I would hold fast to it and use it for
the basis (base or foundation) of my life in the conduct
of my affairs (the building of my squares of living
blocks). I had also proved that my real estate activities
were sound and useful and that I would use them as my base
or foundation for providing a living for ray family and a
service for my community. I resolved to always In the future
to conduct my real estate activities and my personal life
as nearly as I could on the natural laws in my creed. I had
proved my creed for ten years, left it, and came back to
it, and found that it still proved itself to be true. I
also resolved not to ignore my real function; and not to go
out on any wild searches for "master anything". I knew now
that I had something so valuable that everything I needed
could be supplied by the practice of what I already had
right here within me (my creed-learned and lived-inside of
me. Precisely where the ancients had always said it would
be found.) I also knew at this precise time that I would
some day find the master time factor of Mr. Gann

s and this
is when I resolved that when I did find it I would make an
effort to reveal it to others that may have searched long
and hard for it.
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But I contemplated that I would only reveal it i f it
turned out to be worthwhile to others.
My course now was clear for the first time since 1979, no,
even further back. No longer, would I allow myself to fear
the future about the economy or good times or bad times. Now
through living my creed I had the confidence to know that I
would do the same things in bad times that I would do in
good times. I would meet the demand of others by being sup-
ply. Also, I would go back to the commodity markets but this
time with a different perspective and attitude. I would go
back to studying Mr. Gann

s works, but with a different per-

spective and attitude. I would go back to my search for the
master time factor, but with a different attitude and per-
spective. I would do exactly what the contractor had done
with the ladies house. I would establish my base or founda-
tion as I Indicated above. I had proved it. I knew it was
sound. I would take the commodity markets, the Gann material
and the search for the master time factor, and I would tear
down everything that I could not prove good. I would only do
this in my spare time when it WOULD NOT DISRUPT OR HARM MY GOOD SOLID
FOUNDATION OR BASE. I would work out a methodical plan of action that
would allow me to do these things by depending on myself
from within myself. I would not pay any attention to what
this person thought about the markets or what that person
thought about the markets. I would try to Isolate myself
from discussion of the markets and discussion of Gann ma-
terial. I would work as the ancients would say "In Silence, By
Silence, Through Silence." I would "PROVE ALL THINGS, AND HOLD FAST TO
THAT WHICH WAS GOOD."
CHAPTER 5 I
BEGIN AGAIN
I had not understood Mr. Gann's rules or they simply did not
work for me. In fact they had not worked much better than the
pathetic formula that "my friend" had sold me. The angles
hadn

t helped me, the squares hadn't helped me, the calcu-

lators and master charts hadn't helped me, the trend indi-
cators as I had understood and tried to use them hadn't
helped me, and the time periods that I had tried to use
hadn't helped me. I didn't really know anyone including the
Gann experts or maybe I should say particularly the Gann ex-
perts that I had met or heard of that the Gann material
had really made successful. The only people that I knew that
had made any money on the Gann material were people who were selling
information or seminars or advisory letters about his ma-
terial. (Me too, now, huh?)
At any rate, if I were going to prove all things, and
hold fast to that which was good, at this point I would
have to throw away the entire Gann trading method. I knew
that if the Gann material was ever going to provide a basis
for a successful trading system for me, I would have to
have a better understanding of it than I had previously
had or I couldn't use it. I had always felt that the
missing element which would provide the "key" to unlocking
the usefulness of his material was that same old master
time factor. Until I had that key I knew that the rest of
his material was useless to me in trading the markets. I HAD
ALREADY PROVED THAT. I also knew that if I were ever going
to find the master time factor, I would have to do it my-
self. No one was going to give it to me or sell it to me. I HAD
ALREADY PROVED THAT TOO.
Circumstances related to you earlier had already caused me
to tear down and destroy those things In myself that I
had to eliminate. Now I needed to do the same thing with
the Gann material. I have indicated to you in the dedi-
cation of this booklet how I felt about Mr. Gann. Neverthe-
less, common sense (yes, I had it back now) dictated that
if I were going to use only those parts of his work that
I had proved useful, then I would have to THROW THE WHOLE THING
OUT! Now, dear reader, what do you think I did this time? You
know me pretty well by now, don

t you? No, you are wrong this

time. I DID EXACTLY THAT-I THREW THE WHOLE THING OUT. I told you
that I had learned my lessons. I learned them well. I learned
them the hard way, the painful way. Now my lessons had
taught me that if it wasn't good, I wouldn't build on a bad
foundation. The bible says that you will know a tree by
its fruit. In the commodity markets "good" means profits. I
hadn't made any before, using the Gann material, why should I
expect to make them now doing the same things that I did then.
Actually, I did retain one single item of the Gann mate-
rial. The M5 day calendar period. I incorporated it into my
rules. I was determined to acquire the ability to trade
the markets. I opened
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a trading account In the spring of 1982. I traded this
account based on some simple common sense rules. I made every
effort to incorporate into these rules the opposite
attitudes and perspectives that I had earlier. I don't
propose at this point to go into my trading rules, but, you
"know what some of them would be just by reading my story up
to this point. For example, I practiced patience by having
a rule that I could only enter the market on a new position
on one certain day of the week and only under certain condi-
tions. I quit keeping up with quotes during the day and
would only update my charts the next morning. I would save up
the news during the week and only read it on the week-
ends. I quit discussing the markets with people. I limited
myself to a situation where if I reached a certain
profit that was three times the loss that I had allowed
myself for a given month then I would quit trading for the
month; which ever was reached first the profit or the
loss. I had a rule that I would be in no more than two
different positions at the same time. I also had a rule
that if an account had losses for two straight months I
would close the account out. All of my rules were just simple
common sense rules that would help me be with a trend and get
me out soon if I were wrong. Most of the rules kept me from
trading during the time that the markets were opened. I
was trading now not to make a living, a killing, or for my
ego, but simply to make profits of a good return on my In-
vestment, and secondarily to learn more about attitude of
myself and to find useful things that would work in the
markets. I was gathering materials that I could use in
building my successful trading program. When I found some-
thing useful I kept it. At the end of 1982, for the first
time since I had been trading I had a net profit for the
entire year. I had spent very little time trading the
markets that year. In other words the less time I spent
trading the more money I made.
Since I had so much more free time now that I wasn't looking
up squares and time periods and divisional points of
price and angles and calculators and getting quotes every
hour. I decided to spend that free time looking for one
thing. Yes, you know me. The master time factor. I knew
that without it and maybe even with it that the rest of
the Gann material was worthless to me as far as trading the
markets. I had not wasted my time in studying the Gann ma-
terial though, because I had re-discovered the value of my
creed, and you remember that this was the most valuable
knowledge that I ever found.
I had copies of every piece of material that I had been
able to
acquire about Mr. Gann. I had every piece of all of the pub-
lished material that Mr. Gann had ever written except for
a small copyrighted booklet entitled "Senator Warren Harding
of Ohio Will Be Our Next President". You may not have ever
heard of this booklet. I had never heard of it either.
But I found it listed in the copyright section in Washing-
ton D.G. It was supposed to be in the Library Of Congress but
they could not find it. Yes I went to Washington to see what I
could find out about Mr. Gann and his work. I told you I
had looked hard. Well, as I said, I had all his pub-
lished materials and several pieces of documents, letters,
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and unpublished materials. I had notes that I had made
in interviews with different people that knew Mr. Gann. I
even went to Miami once to interview the people in the
neighborhood that Mr. Gann lived in his latter years. Also,
I had talked with a man that knew who Mr. Ganns personal as-
trologer was. I never knew until then that Mr. Gann would
have a personal astrologer. I guess its like thinking
that a physician would not have a physician. I will tell
you about Mr. Gann's astrologer in a later chapter. Anyway,
what I am trying to say is that I had a pretty fair col-
lection of material written by Mr. Gann. I decided to use
what I had and analyze it in ever way that I could.
First I analyzed every word that he used when he talked
about time. I looked the different words up in the dic-
tionary and compiled a glossary of sorts. I checked to
see if he used different words at different places to say
the same things. For example, I found that when he used
"
or"
between two words those two words meant the same thing to him.
But they would not have necessarily meant the same thing to me.
I would have ordinarily understood them differently. I made a
list of words that were different, but meant the same to
him. This process began to give me a sort of mindset to the
language and expressions of Mr. Gann and I began to see some
new meanings to things that he said that I had earlier un-
derstood differently.
The next thing that I did was to analyze his quotations
and see how many of them that I could find. I also wanted to
see why he used them where he did and were they used for any
other reason than what they appeared to be on the surface. I
knew that my grandparents had expressions that were quaint to
our expressions today. I wanted to see if any of those
old expressions had different meanings than they do today.
So, I checked on all these language aspects. I found that dic-
tionaries, encyclopedias, and vocabularies were areas of
great potential for learning about anything. They give you
concise brief accurate descriptions about any specific word
idea or concept. Frequently I found that my understanding of a
word or concept was much more vague and ambiguous than I had
realized. By looking up important words and even simple words
I began to have a clearer mental picture of concepts. By un-
derstanding the precise meaning of words and concepts and the
various shades of meanings I began to understand better and I
began to sense some subtle things that I had not earlier
comprehended.
Another thing also came to my attention about this time
(Spring and Summer of 1982). That thing was the introduction
of the Stock Index Futures to the commodity markets. I told
you earlier that I had never been interested in buying
and selling stocks themselves. Because of my lack of in-
terest in the stock market I had never spent much time study-
ing Mr. Gann

s stock market books and his stock market course.

Oh, I had read "Truth of The Stock Tape" and
M
45 Years In Wall
Street" about 30 times each and I had pretty well memorized
certain parts of them. And I had read and studied the Stock
Market Course some 20 or 30 times. But I had always read and
studied them looking for clues regarding time and
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trying to apply this information to the commodity markets.
I was not interested in the information about the Stock
Market. I simply rejected this without thinking about
it. I wasn

t interested in what he had to say about the

Dow-Jones or the Stock Market.
If I may digress again this brings up another curious part
about life to me. I have noticed and I am sure that you
have, that the very thing that we reject as being of no
value to us frequently turns out to be the most valuable of
all-THE BUILDER'S STONE-lf you will. I have noticed it over
and over in my life, that person whom I thought wouldn't
amount to anything, that piece of real estate that I
thought would never be worth anything, that book or idea
that wasn't worth pursuing, they all too often turned out
to be the true thing of VALUE. And we have the tendency to
reject them because we think that they have no value. Why
is this? I think that the answer lies in the area of
what I call "mindset". If we learn through habit to look
at something positively or negatively, then continue to
practice that way of looking at something, then after a pe-
riod of time, our understanding and our comprehension of
these things tends to take on the nature of the way we
viewed them over time. If we viewed them positively our under-
standing would reflect to us our viewing rather than the
truth. In other words our understanding or comprehension is
a reflection of the way we look at something rather than
the truth about something. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD AROUND US IS A
REFLECTION OF THE WAY WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE WORLD. If we have problems seeing
things as they really are, it means that we have built on a
FOUNDATION OF KNOWLEDGE that is wrong. Therefore, we must tear out
that foundation and replace it with a good one. Otherwise,
we stay in a vicious cycle that grows worse with time. The
way to avoid this jaundiced view of reality is be AWARE. Be
aware that we have this tendency. Reading and living by my
creed will make you aware.
Now, it is obvious that Mr. Gann wrote more books and mate-
rial on the Stock Market than he did on the commodity markets.
But I had rejected the stock market material except as I
could apply it to the commodity markets. Again the reason I
had rejected it was not that it wasn't important, but sim-
ply that I VIEWED it as not important or useful. By doing
this, I had rejected the BUILDER
!
S STONE. Because this would
be where I would find the master time factor. To show you how
our view of things change and why they do, I have to tell
you that when the stock index futures started trading, I
realized one day that I had the opportunity to study
Gann

s stock market books and material and that I could

trade that information if it proved useful by trading
the index futures. Now, do you see why I was willing to
look at it now and saw value to it where I didn't see it
before. The reason was that now it was acceptable to me
because it wasn't the stock market anymore but it was now
the commodity market. I was BLIND to its value until it ap-
peared in a form that I could see through the "filters"
that I had put on myself. This filter of course fil-
tered my vision but as I said above my vision turns out
to be my understanding or comprehension or knowledge.
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Now I went after the rejected "builder's stone" with
great energy. The same material now had new meaning to me.
There were many things to study and learn. (This is the
same material, it hadn

t changed, I had, or my ATTITUDE to-

wards it had). My "mindset" or attitude or vision now al-
lowed me the freedom to search for the truth. Remember seeing
and finding the TRUTH will make you FREE. If you don

t get
anything else out of my material, it will be worthwhile to
you, if you can just understand what I am trying to say.
It is our attitude that gives us our vision and it is our
vision that allows us to see (know) what we do and we can
only profit in the markets and in life as we react to our
knowledge which is based on our vision which is based on our
attitude. Tills previous sentence is the most important
truth that I will be able to offer you in this booklet.
Perhaps you have already realized this and it doesn't
see-m important to you. If you have already seen this then
it doesn't mean as much to you as it does to me. I guess
truths learned mean more than truths known already and I
learned this one with much difficulty.
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CHAPTER 6
THE STOCK MARKET, ASTROLOGY,MINDSET,MR. GANN, AND ME.
In ray renewed pursuit of the master time factor via study of
Mr. Gann

s stock market material which I had previously re-

jected as related in the last chapter, I happened across
two items in particular that were sudden bursts of revela-
tion to me. I guess I am a strange person but when I re-
ceive insight of a clear nature about something that has
troubled or perplexed me for a long period of time, this
sudden dawning of inspiration almost overwhelms me. This
is the feeling I had when I received the first revela-
tion. It is difficult for me to put this into words be-
cause there was no logical reason for me to be excited about
seeing this for the first time, it really didn't mean
that much but for some subjective reason lights flashed all
over Inside me. You will think I have taken leave of my common
sense again when I tell you what it was that caused this
feeling. I still am not able to describe this feeling
to you appropriately, so I will just drop it here. Maybe
you understand what I am trying to say.
The thing that caused this feeling was a quotation that Mr.
Gann used in his book, "Truth Of The-Stock Tape". I told
you that I had been looking up and studying the quotations
that he had used in his books and courses. I have a li-
brary and study downstairs on a semi-basement level in my
home. I am able to get away from all distractions down there.
One day I went downstairs and picked up the above mentioned
book and just absent-mindedly opened it to page 1. Under the
title there were headings of BOOK I and then PREPARATION FOR
TRADING. Under this was a quotation from Emerson. It read, "No man
can learn what he has not preparation for learning, how-
ever near to his eyes is the object. A chemist may tell his
most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be
never the wiser-the secrets he would not utter to a chem-
ist for an estate."-Emerson.
I tell you, truthfully, I felt like I had been knocked
down. It floored me. It overwhelmed me. This simple quotation
that I read many times, but had never seen, almost took my
breath away. For the first time I knew that all Mr. Gann's
"time periods, time cycles, time was up, time was not up,
time had run out, time had not run out, the time factor, and
yes, the MASTER TIME FACTOR"-all his references to time were
astronomical cycles and divisions of them. You notice I
said astronomical-not astrological. I knew this in a "di-
rect-way" that gives me problems describing. The seeing of
this and the feeling that it gave me to see this
clearly was overpowering.
Now, I knew all the time that Mr. Gann

s work was based on

astrology, and I knew that his time cycles were based on
it too. But I could not bring or did not bring myself to
look at his time cycles from an astrological viewpoint for
several reasons. The most important reason I didn't, we
have already discussed and it
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is most important that you and I always remember this and
be aware of this tendency in our make-up as human beings. Of
course, the primary reason I couldn't look at the time cy-
cles from an astrological standpoint was that I had re-
jected astrology because I saw no value to it. It was out-
side my experience. Just like in the previous examples my
way of viewing an object or concept by putting value to it or
not putting value to it with my viewing caused me not to
see what was there even though it was there. You understand?
Mr. Gann said plain enough in the quotation by Emerson
that he had laid his secrets out clear enough but if we
did not have the preparation (or FOUNDATION or BASE) then we
would not comprehend what those secrets meant. In another
way this principle is demonstrated by something as simple
as an "Easter Egg Hunt". Don

t you remember how sometimes those

eggs that were hardest to find were laid out on the
ground with nothing hiding them. They were in plain sight.
But, because we were looking for them to be hidden, we
sometimes had trouble seeing them. Now, I am not telling you
that all of Mr. Gann

s material was laid out well enough

for us to see it. If you had only one of his books and did-
n't have his courses you wouldn't understand what I mean.
But I had all of his books and courses and some unpub-
lished material that had circulated around over time.
Another reason that it had been hard for me to look at his
time cycles from an astrological standpoint is that I
thought present day astrologers had not been able to take
his material and make profits with it. I should amend the
previous statement to read that I had not been able to
find or hear of an astrologer that had deciphered Mr.
Gann

s work. The only profits I had heard of being made by as-

trologers were those selling seminars or books on using as-
trology trading Mr. Gann. But I knew no one that had been able
to trade it. So, I just discarded the possibility of my
finding out how to use the time cycles by studying astrol-
ogy. I guess I thought that if the professional astrolo-
gers who knew much more than I did couldn

t find it or
hadn't found it then it was useless for me to try to use
astrology to find the master time factor. My error again,
IMPROPER THINKING, as always. You and I have all that we need
to do anything. We Just need to realize where our source
of supply comes from and then allow it to work. You can
read about this source of supply in
"
The Seeker's Creed".
Reading doesn't do it though, you have to practice whats
in there.
I know that it is hard to follow me in this chapter. The
title of it, alone, is enough to make you run the other
way. Its just that I'm not a writer (I'm a seeker) and I
have difficulty saying the things I want to say to you.
For the rest of this chapter please try to bear with me
and realize that I am talking about how the stock market
which I had previously rejected, led me to the astrology
part which I had previously rejected, because of a "mind-
set" that I had built out of my attitude and habits of
associating or disassociating value with whatever I had
been led by myself or others to think that value should
represent. This is a common problem, I believe, and I hope
that I have been able to
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correct it somewhat in myself.
Another problem in writing this chapter is that I have
two or three things to tell you about; but they didn't
happen sequentially, they occurred simultaneously. So I may
jump from one to the other in telling you about these
different things.
In the beginning of this chapter, I told you that there were
two revelations. I have related the one about the quota-
tion. On the very same day that the first occurred, the
second occurred too. As I was thinking about the above I
went to the stock market course to look at the chapter in
the course on page 90. The one entitled "FORECASTING BY TIME
CYCLES
11
. For those of you who do not have the stock course, you
will find a complete copy of the chapter "FORECASTING BY TIME
CYCLES" in Appendix I of my booklet. Please read only the first
page of that appendix at this time.
I am quoting the second paragraph of Mr. Gann
'
s "FORECASTING BY
TIME CYCLES" ------- "The ancient hunters had a rule that when
they
were searching to locate an animal in his den, they al-
ways followed his tracks backward, figuring that it was
the shortest route to his lair. The quickest way for you
to learn how to determine future market movements is to
study the past."
So what, huh? Well that quotation after the first one I men-
tioned above gave me precisely the directions to the path
that would lead me to the master time factor! I saw from
that quotation that I needed to get into astrology some
more and that further I needed to trace back in time the
things Mr. Gann had said about time and see if I could
track him back to his lair. I had documents and frag-
ments of unpublished materials and his books and courses. So
I could date most of the things he had written. I would take
the latest material first and then go back into time to
his earliest material and see if he always said the
same things in the same way. Furthermore, I had all kinds
of old astrology books that I had purchased earlier but had
not really gotten into; so I would look at astrological
cycles and let the signs and houses go.
Excuse me for jumping around again, but here's another side
trip, and we will come right back. .1 have been on many many
paths searching for the master time factor. They have all
been dead-end. Now I "know" that the path which ends in
"master time factor" is nearby and I promise you that It
will not be long before we will get on. Anyway, this side
trip. I had talked with an elderly gentleman one time and he
said that he had known Mr. Gann by reputation but had never
met Mr. Gann. He did say though that Mr. Gann had an astrologer
by the name of Edward Johndro who helped him in his work on the
markets. Well, you know me, I began to see what I could find
out about Mr. Johndro. It was my intention to see if I
could find him and if he had already died, I intended to
try to find his family and see if he had left any papers.
I called the American Federation of Astrologers and had them
send me the rest of Mr. Johndro's books that I didn't
already have. Then I learned from them of a man that had
studied
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Johndro work as much as any other living person. I then
contacted that gentleman in New York and I learned that
Mr. Johndro had died in approximately 1955 at about the same
time as Mr. Gann. The death was apparently "sudden" and because
this Mr. Johndro was a famous astrologer and had clients that
were high officials of the Canadian government, his papers
were burned by his family at the request of these offi-
cials. I did not pursue the matter further from here. The
gentleman in New York said that he was not interested in
talking about financial astrology except to say that Mr.
Johndro had some very Interesting ideas on it. I tried
reading Mr. Johndro
'
s work several times but I did not have
a good enough foundation (preparation) to understand it
very well. I noticed that the cover on his booklet "A New
Concept Of Sign Ruler ship" appeared to resemble some of Mr.
Gann

s circular calculators, but I just assumed that it was be-

cause Mr. Gann's calculators were all related to something
from astrology. The important thing that I learned from
this was that Mr. Johndro was a mundane astrologer. So I be-
gan a study of mundane astrology. Furthermore I wanted to look
only at the writings from 1920 back in time because I knew
that Mr. Gann had begun trading by 1902.
So, my approach now, was going to be threefold. One-I would
study to see what mundane astrologers thought at the turn
of the century and earlier; two-I would try to identify
each one of Mr. Gann's Important time cycles by an astro-
logical time cycle; and, three-I would try to relate the
first two approaches together and see if there were any
parities or disparities between them. At the same time I
was going to track the writings that he had made back in
time from those nearest his death to those earliest in
his life. I was excited now because I "knew" that I was get-
ting somewhere.
In my searching through astrology books for old mundane
astrological precepts I came to the conclusion that the
useful part of astrology for me at that particular time
would be something similar to the following. I had read
where some people said that they did not believe in as-
trology, but that they did believe that the planets In the
solar system caused magnetic and electric fields in our
earth's atmosphere and certainly we must respond to them in
different ways at different times. Some of these distur-
bances could cause waves of optimism and pessimism and
weather disturbances. Certainly I could believe that and
I was now willing to look at ideas and concepts that I would
not earlier have looked at with sincerity. Now, you under-
stand, I was FREE; free to look at things that I would have
earlier not been able to see, even if I had looked at it,
because, now I had my filters and blinders off. Also, to me
I was studying astronomy, a science; where astrology is
merely an Interpretation of events and conditions that may
in fact have been caused by astronomical relationships. Also, I
knew that earlier generations were more practical than we
give them credit for today. They knew more than we think they
knew. In fact, I believe that they knew more than we do to-
day about some things. I knew from my real estate activi-
ties that if I found an old ditch on a farm and someone
said that I needed to put a new ditch on the farm, the best
place
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for me to put that ditch would be exactly where that
old ditch had been dug. Old-timers had to dig a ditch by
hand. They were not about to dig one where it was not
needed. Over the years, I have learned to acquire a great
respect for the ancients and what they thought. I knew
that their fables and myths all had some important truths
behind them. I had also learned from HARD experience not
to reject anything as having no value just because my edu-
cational background and Social circle saw no value in it.
I have mentioned to you earlier about the great value I
had found in using dictionaries and encyclopedias. One of
the best sources of general and specific information
about astrology that I have found Is a book, "Encyclopedia
Of Astrology" by Nicholas deVore. Even though I had glanced
through this book several times in the past I had my
blinders on and therefore could not see. Now that I was
free I was almost blinded again by the light that came from
looking at this and other books. Everywhere I looked, one
book after the other the following messages came through
over and over.
Major conjunctions (of the planets, where two superior to
earth orbit planets appear to be in the same spot in the
sky) are very important in the consideration of world
events, and in all mundane affairs. Used in connection
with the solar ingress charts, they serve as focal
points of the greatest influence, and reveal the cosmic
forces radiating Upon the earth. "The old astrologers
placed GREAT importance upon the conjunction of Jupiter
and Saturn, and rightly since this conjunction involves
the two largest bodies of our solar system. It has always
seemed that the conjunction of these two planets has had
the greatest influence and significance upon the course of
world affairs. The 'life
1
of the Influence of these great
conjunctions upon world affairs and Individuals re-
mains in force until the next conjunction of the same pair
of planets. THE TIME FROM ONE CONJUNCTION TO THE NEXT CONJUNCTION OF THE SAME
PAIR OF PLANETS MAY BE CONSIDERED AS A 'CYCLE
1
. Major conjunctions
when considered in the light of Cycles
1
MEASURE periodical his-
torical events, or the epochs in the changing world condi-
tions, and even the rise and fall of civilizations.
Again, more"To the ancients the longest orbits ( the
time period that it takes for the planet to make one revo-
lution around its orbit) within the solar system were the
orbits of Jupiter (12 years) and Saturn (30 years) (approxi-
mately); The points at which Jupiter caught up with and
passed Saturn marked the greatest cycle with which they
were able to deal. This occurred every 2.0 years (approxi-
mately). Jupiter and Saturn in their relationship to
each other in these cycles of time from conjunction to
conjunction were called by the ancients-the great CHRONOCRATORS,
or Markers of Time." Then cycles of cycles of 20 years
were important and marked. (Did you know that the cycles of
cycles of 20 years that I just mentioned was Mr. Gann's
"Square of Twenty" and that he used it specifically for
the stock market. Also, be aware of the fact that cycles
of cycles is the same as squares or squaring. Apply this
knowledge to other things.) I could go on
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talking about things that I found about the 20 year cy-
cle in books about the old astrologers.
Another very important cycle to the ancients was the 3RD 20
year cycle of Jupiter-Saturn. This cycle was the most im-
portant of all to them and they watched it with GREAT INTEREST.
What happens is that the Jupiter-Saturn cycle (conjunc-
tion
t!
0" .back to conjunction "0") takes 19.859 (average)
to complete one cycle. The occurrence of the next cycle
takes place at an advance of approximately 123 degrees in
longitude in the circle of the zodiac. After three such
cycles, 59577 years have passed and with each 123 degree
advance in the zodiac the conjunctions have come full circle
of 360 degrees plus an additional 9 degrees (approximately)
more. This is called a FIRST ORDER RECURRENCE CYCLE of Jupiter-
Saturn (mean values are given). This was very important to the
ancients because the conjunctions were now taking place
very close to the same spot in the zodiac that they had
occurred 60 (approximately) years earlier. This 60 year cy-
cle is the one that the ancients spoke so much about. Every-
where I looked in my old books I read where the ancients
really paid great attention to this 60 year cycle.
This term "first order recurrence cycle" was new to me. I
had READ it before but I had never seen it. You understand.
While looking up more information about first order recur-
rence cycles, I found that the orbit time (mean) of Jupi-
ter in tropical years (from spring to spring) was 11.858
years; that of Saturn was 29.42 years; that of Uranus was
83-75 years. I searched further into these cycles listed
in the encyclopedia of astrology and I found more. For in-
stance, (all values are mean) the time period from conjunc-
tion to opposition (0 to 180 degrees) in the Jupiter-Saturn
cycle of 19859 years was 9^93 years (almost 10); the time pe-
riod of conjunction to opposition of the Saturn-Uranus cycle
is 22.68 years (almost 22 1/2).
One cycle after another, I was finding Mr. Gann's same
time periods or time cycles. The following are all cycles
of time from one conjunction to the next conjunction be-
tween two planets. Mars-Jupiter, Mars-Saturn, Mars-Uranus,
Mars-Neptune, and Mars-Pluto; all these taking place at about
every two years (different times); then Jupiter-Uranus occur
about every 14 years; Jupiter-Neptune occur about every 13
years; Jupiter-Saturn about every 20 years; Jupiter-Pluto
about every 12 years; Saturn-Uranus about every 45 years;
Saturn-Neptune about every 36 years; and Saturn-Pluto about
every 33 years.
Now, I know what you are thinking. You are right now saying to
yourself, Oh, NO!-not again-another Gann booklet with more of
the same old astrology junk. Please, just bear with me be-
cause soon I am going to re-discover Mr. Gann's Master Time
Factor. See, you are having some of the same problems that I
was having. You are putting filters and blinders on your
vision and not seeing what is before your very eyes. You
are refusing to see something of truth because your educa-
tional background or social circles or prior way of look-
ing at things has not allowed you to see
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anything of value in looking at astrological concepts. But,
if it helps you and I to see better, lets say that we are
looking at astronomical (scientific) concepts to see if
there could be any correlation between these astronomical
relationships relative to us (earth beings) and our reac-
tion to them. What we are really faced with is this common
problem of shutting up our God given powers of understanding
when we refuse to see things because they are outside our ex-
perience. In "The Seeker's Creed" you can read about the nec-
essary knowledge to develop a "mindset" that will allow you
to overcome this vision problem that we all have to some
extent. But reading about it will not help you as much as
practicing it. The reason that I knew that you were look-
ing at the above "astrology" with a jaundiced eye is because
I have been there. Also, you are a seeker and I am a seeker
and we seekers are all alike. Aren't we?
Now, these cycles that I have been enumerating above are all
scientific facts. They are time periods of planets and plane-
tary relationships. I just happened to read about them
in an encyclopedia of astrology. I could have read about
them in a college textbook of astronomy. The interpreta-
tion of the meanings, if any, as applied to these relation-
ships makes what we call astrology. Well, in all this
"sales pitch" that I have been giving you, trying to con-
vince you that it is all right for us to look into this
area or any area where truth may or may not be found, I
have forgotten to tell you that I have been having those over-
whelming "feelings" again.
Why, I don't know- (well, I do because that's what we

ve
been talking about)- it took me so long to clearly see
that each and every one of Mr. Gann

s time cycles and time

periods were planetary in nature. The reason I felt over-
whelmed again was that I had experienced that wonderful thing
again- INSIGHT. It was now Spring of 1983. It had taken me
four long and painful years of searching to see what his
time cycles were. I am some kind of "seeker
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, huh? Turtles
and I-hmm. Well, lets test me on some of these time cycles. In
the Commodities Course on page 64 (newer or older courses may
be different page #) of the chapter entitled #5, "fore-
casting grains by time cycles" Mr. Gann says, "The Great Time
Cycles are most important because they record the periods of ex-
treme high or low prices. These cycles are: 90 years, 82 to
84 years, 60 years, 45 years, 30 years and 20 years." A cou-
ple more notes here- (there are now quite a few things that
I can tell you about what Mr. Gann means when he says some-
thing, but they are difficult to place in context of this
story every time I run across a word that I have learned
what he means. Also, I do not want you to think that I
have a "know-it-all" attitude towards Mr. Ganns work or
anything else. I am acutely aware of my personal limita-
tions, but if I may appear to sound immodest this one time,
I have had lots of insight lately and I have put in
enough time studying Mr. Gann that I have learned some subtle
meanings that he intended with his choice of words. In the above
statement when he says "Great" he means superior as in
astrological terms to indicate planetary orbits outside
of the orbit of the earth. Also when he used "Major" he
meant the same
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thing. The other two things that I wanted you to look at
while we are on the adjoining page is to turn over to page
65 in the Commodities Course (if you have it, of course)
and note that he says, under the 90-year cycle heading, and
I quote, "The 90-year Time Cycle is one of the very impor-
tant ones because it is 2x45." Now why would you suppose
that he would say that the 90-year cycle is important
BECAUSE it is 2x45 (or twice 45). While you are thinking
about that, lets look at the headings 84 year cycle and 60
year cycle. I wonder why he didn't say much of anything
about them and particularly the 60 year cycle. He just
said to compare 60 years from tops and bottoms. Almost just
the word compare, no elaboration at all. Maybe, not so im-
portant, huh? Then look down at the 20-year cycle heading.
He says that the 20-year cycle is a very important cycle-
WHY?-because it is 1/3 of the 60-year cycle. He just mentions
the 60-year cycle by the word compare; but he describes the
importance of the 20-year cycle because of its relationship
to the 60-year cycle. In the 90-year cycle he described
its importance in terms of the fact that it contained 2-
45-year cycles. But the twenty-year cycle was described
in terms of the 60-year cycles. There is a reason for the
manner in which he described the above referenced cycles. As
you begin to go back over Mr. Gann

s books and courses and

read them with a new awareness that I hope to be able to
give you before this story is over, you will appreciate
that many passages that were difficult or worded "funny" had
special meanings. O.K., back to the test.
The 90-year cycle is the "first order recurrence cycle of
Saturn-Uranus. The actual cycle of conjunction to conjunction
of Saturn-Uranus is 45 years. That is why Mr. Gann mentioned
that 90 years wad Important because it was twice the 45
years. It actually takes an average of 90.72 years to re-
cur. But all these years are rounded off by these old as-
trologers because they were close and because it was easy to
take divisional parts of them and use them in simple math.
The 82 to 84 year cycle is of course the time it takes Ura-
nus to complete its orbit. The significance to Mr. Gann was
that the planet spent 7 years in one sign and 12 x 7 was
84. The 60-year cycle is the "first order recurrence" cy-
cle of Jupiter-Saturn, the one that the ancients, who
could not see Uranus or other farther out planets,
thought was the very important cycle. Yet Mr. Gann Just
skips over it with the word compare. Very quietly almost.
The 45-year cycle is the one multiplied by 2 that gives
the "first order recurrence" cycle of 90 years. Just the
45-year cycle is the time from conjunction to conjunction (or
"0" to "0") of Saturn-Uranus. In other words, the 45-year
cycle is the Saturn-Uranus cycle. I have seen one of Mr.
Gann's 3-D Charts on Wheat dated from the Spring of 1852 as
M
0".
There was a beginning (and ending of course) of a 45-year Sat-
urn-Uranus cycle on March 15, 1852. Coincidence? The 30 year
cycle is of course as we have all known all along the pe-
riod of time that it takes for Saturn to complete its or-
bit. The 20-year cycle is of course the Jupiter-Saturn
cycle. The one the ancients called the chronocrators or
"markers of time".
The reason that I have spent so much time on the above is
that I
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need for you to understand that I simply did not know what
those cycles were until the spring of 1983- I, who, had
spent thousands of dollars trying to pursue Mr. Ganns
master time factor, did not even know what the above
time cycles were; yet I knew that Mr. Gann used astrology
and planetary movements in his work. You see, it had taken
me 4 years of my life and many thousands of dollars to
find out something that should not have taken 1 month.
But, AGAIN, the reason that I could not find it out WAS
BECAUSE I HAD BLINDED MYSELF TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEEING WHAT WAS OBVIOUS BECAUSE MY
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND HABITS BUILT OVER A LIFETIME
HAD DEVELOPED INTO AN ATTITUDE WHICH CAUSED MY PERSPECTIVE TO BECOME A "MINDSET"
THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW THE REASONING PART OF MY MIND TO SEE ANYTHING THAT IT
CONSIDERED VALUELESS OR NOT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF BONAFIDE "APPROVED"
EXPERIENCES. This is PRECISELY the reason that we lose money in
the market. We have developed a "mindset" that pre-
cludes our seeing the proper course to take to make
profits.
Well, I was really excited, I had seen these cycles of
Mr. Gann

s. This was a big step for me. I knew that if the

ancients called Jupiter-Saturn the "markers of time" or
chronocrators that Mr. Gann certainly should have looked at
the Jupiter-Saturn cycle as an indicator of time cycles
that would repeat. Then in following my approach of track-
ing his comments back in time from the last period of his
life to the first period of his business life, I found
what I had always read in his material, the mention of
Jupiter and Saturn and their aspects to each other. See my
Appendix II in the back of my booklet. Read that Appendix now
please. SEE IT? Its been there all the time I've, read in
the one of the last letters he wrote, dated January 18,
1954, that it is the "power of Saturn and Jupiter aspects,
working out time that causes the major changes of trend in
soybeans. I

ve read this letter over and over during the

last 3 years but I would not or could not see what I was
reading. Look back to the earliest documents that I have
managed to acquire. They are in the same Appendix II. They are 4
pages of his "METHOD FOR FORECASTING THE STOCK MARKET" SEE IT? It

s
been there all the time. He says that "7" is the basis of time
and that "7" is ruled by Saturn. He also says that the most
important time cycle is the 20-year cycle. He also says
that the next major cycle is 30 years, which is caused by
the planet Saturn. SEE IT? He says the same thing from his
earliest writings to his last writings. Saturn and Jupi-
ter.
I knew now that I had finally learned what Mr. Gann's time cy-
cles were. I had also found out that they were the same ones
that all astrologers had used from time immemorial. But that
still didn

t tell me how Mr. Gann used them and it still did

not tell me what the master time factor was or how Mr. Gann
used it. All I knew was that I had the knowledge for sure
that these were the time cycles that Mr. Gann had talked
about all of his life. They really were not astrological
but in fact astronomical. If I had not been blinded by my
"mindset" I would have known long ago that any time cycle had to
be based on natural phenomena. There was no other answer be-
cause the movements of the planets (of course I mean primar-
ily the relationships of the Sun, earth and moon) are
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the basis (foundation) for our whole timekeeping systems.
Now, what I needed to do was find or learn the way that Mr.
Gann used his time cycles and then try to identify the
master time cycle that he so often talked about.
One day in the late spring of 1983, at about the same time
that all of the things described in this present chapter 6
of my story occurred, I was reading an old copy of Mr. Gann's
lesson entitled simply "FORECASTING". It was written in Novem-
ber, 1935, and someone had given me a copy of it at a Gann
seminar that I had attended in 1980. I was reading all my
pieces of material for the purpose that I related to you
earlier, tracking Mr. Gann back in time, to see if there
were any disparities in what he said from time to time. I
saw that he called the 60 year time period the MASTER TIME
PERIOD. I had read this piece of material several times in
the past, but I had never paid much attention to it be-
cause it was forecasting stocks and I have already told you
how I felt about stocks. I was a commodity trader and he had
put more emphasis on the 90-year cycle as the GREAT cycle in the
commodity course. You understand of course, that I had never
paid any great amount of attention to it because of my "mind-
set
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that we have been talking about so much. Now that I
knew that the ancients paid SO MUCH ATTENTION to the 60-year cy-
cle, it IMMEDIATELY caught my attention. Also, when I read the
lesson on forecasting that he wrote in August 1939 and
which is the same, word for word, that is in the stock
course today; I noticed that it was different from the one
that I was reading that he had written in 1935.
But the thing that really caught my attention was where he was
describing on page F-9 of the lesson how he had set up
his "master forecasting chart". The thing that I had never
noticed to be curious before (because of my "mindset") was
the fact that he started his cycles across the chart from a
year ending in "1". Everything else he did he started with
"0" as the beginning. Even when I reached for my ephemeris
to look at the appendix in the back of the book, which had
a listing of all of the major conjunctions of the period
from 1800 to 2000, I knew the answer would be the following. In
my ephemeris I read CONJUNCTIONS OF JUPITER AND SATURN-October 21,
1861, April 18, 1881, November 28, 1901, September 10, 1921, August
8 and October 20, 1940 and February 15, 1941 (triple
conj.), February 19, 1961, January 1 and March 8 and July
24, 1981, and May 26, 2000.
My friends, a cold shudder came over me as I realized
with crystal clear and vivid awareness that I was READING THE elu-
sive, legendary, much sought, "MASTER TIME FACTOR". The painful costly
search that had taken four years of ray life and many thou-
sands of dollars was now at its conclusion. What made me shud-
der was the fact that I had possessed this document since
the summer of 1980. I already had what I had paid "my friend"
for and which he didn

t give me. Furthermore, I gave him free

the thing which allowed me to discover the master time fac-
tor. That thing was "My Creed". I had learned a lesson at
great cost. The lesson that I learned was, THAT which we
all SEEK, is exactly and precisely where the
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ancient world religions have always said it was. It is
within us, waiting for us to find the means to S EE IT.
I had paid a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money for a formula of
worthless gibberish, but had refused to seek the real treas-
ure (THE Builder

s STONE) in the only place that I could

have ever found it. THE REASON FOR THIS, OF COURSE, WAS THAT MY ATTITUDES
AND HABITS AND EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND BUILT ON AN ERRONEOUS
FOUNDATION HAD DEVELOPED INTO A "MINDSET" THAT WOULD ALLOW MY TRUE REASONING
FACULTIES TO BE PUT TO SLEEP, AND PAY FOR SOME WORTHLESS FORMULA, BUT MY
"MINDSET
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WOULD NOT ALLOW ME TO SEE THE AREA WHERE I WOULD FIND THE TREASURE
(TRUTH), BECAUSE I HAD SEEN IT HAS HAVING NO VALUE. I TELL YOU AGAIN, THIS
IS ALSO THE REASON THAT WE DO NOT MAKE MORE PROGRESS IN THE MARKET AND IN
OUR LIFE.
Now, I know that I will never recover my SUBSTANTIAL amount of
money from "my friend", there seems to be a character flaw
involved there somewhere; but, I tell you that the value of
the knowledge that I have acquired will remain with me for
the rest of my life and if I use that knowledge, I WILL HAVE
FOUND SOMETHING MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEY. I rediscovered "my creed".
If you will, please turn to the back of this booklet and
read all of the Appendices and get familiar with the
charts. Read and study Appendix IV in particular. It has
the master time factor in it. Read it several times; then,
read it more. Compare it with Appendix I word for word. Read
appendix III several times. I know III is hard to read but I
wanted you to see it as it was. Please do not go to the
next chapter until you have become very familiar with the ma-
terial in the Appendices. STOP.
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CHAPTER 7
I DISCOVER THE LEGENDARY MASTER TIME FACTOR!
In writing this little booklet, I thought, if I could
just get to the part about the master time factor, I
could write about it with ease because that had been the
object of my search. But, alas, I now find it to be the
most difficult chapter of all. Perhaps, its has some-
thing to do with the "fatal" evil number. (Just kidding.)
As I told you earlier I am a seeker, not a writer, but,
since we are here there is nothing for me to do, but plug
along. There are several reasons for my difficulty in
writing this chapter for you. One, I may have set a goal
higher than I could reach. My goal, simply has been to
write the most lucid explanation of Mr. Gann

s Master Time
Factor that has yet been put in print. I already know that
I have not done as well as I had hoped. I feel that part
of the cause for this relates to the nature of the mate-
rial that I am dealing with. There has been tremendous mys-
tique built up about and around Mr. Gann. Part of this
Justly, because he was a remarkable man; but part of it has
been built up to allow the commercialization of his works. I
am participating in that commercialization (gosh, that's
a long word, do you realize it has 17 letters in it?)
right now at this moment. There is nothing wrong with the
word commercial. Profits is a beautiful word. It is the
GOOD(s) received for the GOOD(s) given. It

s just that we get

in trouble sometimes when we want to receive more than we
want to give. Also, we get the order reversed, we must
GIVE-then GET, not GET-then GIVE, (this is all cohered in "The
Seekers Creed"). My goal in writing this booklet has been to
give you your money^ worth. I hope that I accomplish this, if
I do nothing else.
Another difficult problem that I have in writing this
chapter is the nature of the diversity of the exposure to
the Gann materials that is represented by my readers. Some
of you know more about the Gann work than I do; some of
you have had very little exposure to his work. So I must
try to encompass both extremes. There are many things that I
would like to say to you, but I can only cover so much in
this little booklet. I want to merely show you where I
found the "path" to be, and say, here

s a good place to
start. Every person is unique and his (her) trading rules
need to be unique. Once, you "see" the path, many of you
will achieve a much better understanding of the Gann mate-
rial and I am sure that you will learn many things of market
value in the months and years to come.
Another problem that I have concerns the fact that Mr. Gann
left no clear explanation (that was available to me) of
what his master time factor was; nor, did he explain it
anywhere (that I have ever been able to find), except as I
have given you in Appendices III and IV. And in those two
beautiful pieces, he didn

t just come out and say, "O.K.,

here it is and here's how
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you use it as the master time factor". He HID IT, just like he said he was doing in the
quote from Emerson in his book, "TRUTH OF THE STOCK TAPE". He hid it because he knew
that if it was passed around with it all spelled out in his lesson then anyone could see
what it was and that would be the end of the mystique of the master time factor and his
livelihood depended to a large extent on the sale of his advisory letter and annual fore-
cast until he sold it in 1947-48. And he hid it because he said it was too valuable to be
"spread broadcast". He hid it the way the ancients did-out in the open. Then if
someone that was not supposed to have it should stumble across it or steal it, it
would do them no good, because they could not understand it. And, that, in my opinion is why we
find no copy of it today other than the one that I give you in Appendix IV. If you can
see this clearly it will help you with the explanation as we go through it.
Then I have two more problems (nothing but problems, huh?); and they are related to a
certain extent. The first one, we have talked about until you are tired of hearing it
(but if I can't get you to SEE IT, perhaps I can get you to HEAR IT); and that problem,
many of my friends, is that you will not believe what I tell you because, YOU, TOO, JUST LIKE
ME, HAVE DEVELOPED YOUR OWN "MINDSET" THAT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SEE (RECOGNIZE) THE TRUTH
EVEN WHEN IT IS THERE FOR YOU TO LOOK AT. You have already set in your mind from what you
have read about Mr. Gann

s master time factor, or what you have heard about it, or what some
Gann expert has told you it was, or what the myths of commercialization has indicated that it
was, or that "formula
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that someone has that no one can decipher, or some idea of your own-that
it will call all bottoms or tops, or the hour or the day of this or that-, whatever
you are "looking for" is what you expect to see (My creed explains this to you). How do
I know that many of you will approach the explanation of the master time factor in
this manner? Because I HAVE BEEN THERE ALREADY. My entire story thus far, has been de-
signed to get you to understand this MOST IMPORTANT TRUTH. From the very beginning of my
story, I have been trying to get you to SEE how this tremendous fault (and potential for good
if changed) has caused all of my problems. I have been trying to get you to the point
that you would SEE my mistakes clear enough that you would not make them yourself. I knew
that if I didn't help you prepare a base (foundation) by first exposing the old
bad foundation in my building, then you would not be able to see the bad foundation in
your own building. You must tear out the bad or weak foundation in your own building
before you can build a positive new foundation. (This may have been what the New Testament
parable meant about putting new wine in an old wine skin. Matt. 6: 22-23- Yes, I looked for the
master time factor there too. I found that the Bible is Indeed a book of natural laws. Read the
above verses and you will SEE EXACTLY what I have been trying to say. If you are a "seeker",
and you are, otherwise, you would not be reading this booklet, "A SEEKER" WILL LOOK AT
ANYTHING, HE (SHE) WILL LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED. HE (SHE) IS NOT AFRAID TO LOOK, BECAUSE TO
SEEK MEANS TO LOOK. EVEN THE WORD SPECULATE MEANS TO LOOK AND OBSERVE. IF YOU WON'T LOOK,
THEN
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DONT SEEK, BECAUSE THATS WHAT SEEKING MEANS AND IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DO THAT WHICH YOU
SET OUT TO DO THEN WHY START? DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKES THAT I MADE. As I said
the whole precedence of this story has been to bring you, some
of my readers, to this exact point. We have been building
a foundation for YOU, a "sp ecial pai r of g lasses", if you
will, so th at you can see at this point in time with your
filters and blinders removed. The reason that I have had to
take so much time with this preparation (foundation) is that
I had to assume that some of you may have been in as "bad
of shape" as I was.
The second of those two related problems that I started the
above paragraph with relates to the fact that I realize
that my "style of wr itin g", if you want to ca ll it that,
makes i t diff icult for you to follow my train of thought.
I know that I "jump around a lot" when I am trying to tell
you something. And I know that it makes it harder for you to
SEE when I am jumping so. If you want to know the REAL REASON
for this jumping around, though, it is because I am simply writ-
ing this "THING" as it "comes" to me what to say to you. I
appreciate your forbearance with me to this point. I ask
that you just allow yourself to watch from here forward;
and with as unjaundiced eye as you can possibly muster. Don't
fight it, if it is not what you were looking for; REAL
TRUTHS are seldom what we think they should be; THEY ARE BETTER; it's
our vision and understanding that is lacking.
Now, here comes the bad news. My jumping around is going to get
worse, because in my searching for a way to present the mas-
ter time factor to you, IT HAS "COME" TO ME, that I must try
to explain it by analyzing it for you in the same manner
that I did it for myself; and I can tell you that it will
really be "jumpy"; but remember this "THING" is just
"COMING" and I don't really have any control at this point.
Finally, here goes.
I assume, now that you and I can both see out of the same
eyes, that you have read Appendix IV, entitled simply
"FORECASTING". I told you that this was as good an explanation
of the master time factor as you are probably going to get
from Mr. Gann

s own words. The rest of the explanation is

going to have to come from our abi lity to think, s ee, an d
ob serve ever y clu e that it is possible to observe. We can-
not overlook the smallest detail. You will see things that I
don't see and vice-versa. We must pay attention to what he
says, what he doesn

t say, and his "style" of writing

about other things and at other times. We are going to SEE
now. I ASSUME that you are entirely familiar with the lesson
"FORECASTING", and my charts that I have made in accordance with
the way he would have made them. I also ASSUME that you have read
and studied the sales brochure entitled "LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE OR WHY
YOU HAVE LOST MONEY IN STOCKS AND HOW TO MAKE IT BACK". This is in my Appendix
III. Now I am also going to assume that you are pretty well
frustrated and disappointed in the master time factor at
this point and that you are in fact pretty well convinced
that this is just "another rip-off" and that it is not
even that wonderful, mysterious, legendary, much sought after
"Master Time Factor". Legends aren't made from such stuff as
that JUNK. This
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is WORTHLESS. Just GARBAGE. Why I even WASTED MY TIME with this STUPID
booklet in the first place, I don't know. Now my money is
GONE. That guy, "THE SEEKER" wouldn

t even use his own name. I

don

t blame him. Taking people

s money like that. "His

friend" stuck him, now he's found a way to get his money
back. Now I know that some of you are thinking and saying
these things to yourself right now. I am about to lose
your attention as my reader because you see NO VALUE to the
master time factor in Appendix IV. Look at the words that
you have just used to describe your feelings; they are
all CAPITALIZED meaning that they are ALIVE with meaning for
you. They are also the same old "mindset" that I must get
you to see. Because you have used the above words to de-
scribe your reaction to SOMETHING you cannot now see any
value to it all. Your emotions as expressed in words has
now blinded you. O.K., I need to do two things, FAST.
The first thing I need to do is to get you to look at
something else nearby since the object that has the
master time factor in It has disappointed you and you
have blinded yourself by your refusal to see it. Since you
won

t look at "FORECASTING
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, I will ask you to look at the
sales brochure in Appendix III, Perhaps some of the
"light" that you refuse to see in Appendix IV may be "re-
flected" in Appendix III in "LEARN NOT TO LOSE".
The second thing that I need to do is to get your at-
tention. I will try to do this by asking you to glance
at my monthly charts of the Dow-Jones Averages. You will
find them inserted behind Appendix VI. When you are looking
at the whole (big) picture, you can lay them out on your
floor in 1,2,3 fashion with Sheet 1 (lowest prices)
nearest you or your feet, then Sheet 2 joins Sheet 1,
then Sheet 3 joins Sheet 2 and you have prices from 0 to
$1440. The scale on each sheet increases (you can do
scales anyway you want to when you know the master time fac-
tor, also you can do angles any way you want to when you know
the master time factor) by an increment that I have chosen
to show you a possible way to chart (any way is O.K., just
so long as YOU know what you are looking at) prices. The
prices are not important in this example. I just want
to get your attention for a minute so that you will be
willing to look at what I am showing you about the master
time factor. Now, looking at the big picture for the years
marked 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th year zones. Just look at
those year zones from the green color on Sheet 1 (thats
1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945.) Then look at the yellow
color on Sheet 2 (not the yellow on Sheet D-AGAIN, the
yellow on Sheet 2 (thats 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965).
Lastly, look at the red color on Sheet 3 (thats 1982, we
are in 1983, and 1984 and 1985 are YET TO COME). Now, you
will notice that there is quite a (coincidental?)
similarity in the patterns of 1942, 1962, 1982, 1943,
1963, so far 1983,1944, 1964, 1984(7). Would you like a
more in depth view of what we are looking at? If so,
please turn to your Appendix VII and read about my weekly
charts for the periods of 1941, 1942, 1943; 1961, 1962,
1963; and 1981, 1982, 1983. Take the weekly charts out;
look at them, I have drawn 1,2,3 zones on them for to you
stack the 1,2,3 years from 1940s at bottom, then 1960s,
lastly 1980s one over the other and line up the year marks
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t h a t I h a v e m a d e f o r y o u . T h i s p i c t u r e t h a t y o u h a v e
s e e n i n monthly and weekly PATTERNS OF MARKET MOVEMENT without re-
gards to prices should SHOW YOU THE VALUE OF STUDYING AND LEARNING THE
MATERIAL THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU IN APPENDIX IV. YOU SHOULD NOW BE ABLE TO
GO BACK AND KNOW THAT EVERYONE OF MR. GANN'S TRADING RULES WERE DESIGNED
TO BE UTILIZED WITH THE TYPE THING THAT I HAVE JUST SHOWN YOU. HOW
WOULD YOU HAVE LIKED TO HAD THIS INFORMATION IN THE EARLY SPRING OF 1982?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW TO APPLY MR. GANN'S JRULES FOR PYRAMIDING. DO YOU
SEE ANY POSSIBILITIES FOR THE REASON THEY WERE DESIGNED AND WHEN THEY
WERE DESIGNED TO BE USED. I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING
ABOUT MR. GANN'S TRADING SYSTEM HERE, I AM JUST SHOWING YOU WHERE TO
START FOR YOURSELF. ASK YOURSELF THE QUESTIONS, WHICH RULES OF MR. GANNS
WOULD I UTILIZE TO TRADE A PATTERN LIKE THIS, OR BETTER HOW WOULD I DESIGN
MY OWN RULES TO TRADE PATTERNS LIKE THIS. WHEN YOU ARE ABLE TO DEVISE YOUR
OWN RULES JUST FOR YOU, YOUR OWN SITUATION, THAT ALLOW YOU TO TRADE WITHOUT
HOPE OR FEAR, BUT ON KNOWLEDGE, THEN YOU HAVE ARRIVED AS A TRADER. ONE
FINAL CLUE IN SETTING UP YOUR RULES. IN MR. Gann

s DAY (HIS PRIME) WE

WERE IN THE HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS. NOW WE ARE IN THE JET AGE. TIME SEEMS
TO MOVE FASTER AND MORE VOLATILE, BUT A SCORE IS STILL A SCORE.
Now that I have your attention again, I will say that you
should always observe everything if you are going to be a
seeker. And partic ularly, if you are going to try to
seek something as elusive as the master time factor. You
should always see THE BIG PICTURE and the small picture BECAUSE
you never know what you might find in unexpected places. YOU SHOULD
NEVER ALLOW YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF SOMETHING TO DISTRACT YOU FROM SEEING THE REAL
THING JUST BECAUSE YOUR EXPECTATIONS WERE DIFFERENT. IF YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM, THE
WAY TO CHANGE IT IS TO CHANGE YOUR EXPECTATIONS, Don

t TRY TO CHANGE THE

TRUTH. The truth is-THAT I'M GOING TO PROVE TO YOU FROM MR. GANNS OWN WRITINGS
THAT I AM GIVING YOU HIS MASTER TIME FACTOR.
The first thing that we want to do is prove that the mas-
ter time factor is in fact contained in the lesson "fore-
casting
11
. What we are going to do is to analyze the en-
tire brochure in appendix III, "learn before you lose".
I will just address whatever comes to me and you will get
the general idea and can come back later and look at eve-
rything he says in the booklet. Again, the copy is hard to
read, but, I wanted you to see that it was Mr. Ganns own
writing. That is why all material in the appendix is copied
from the original. In his brochure, I will be referring
to his page numbers in the brochure and they are repro-
duced in my appendix-two brochure pages to the single page
in the brochure, except for the last brochure page which
would be page 19 in Mr. Gann

s brochure. For example, the page

number 1 is "LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE
11
-, then page 2 of the bro-
chure is on the same page with page 1, and so on until you
get to page 19 which is on a page by itself. Remember, I
will not cover everything of Importance, but just what
comes to me to say to you that will prove to you that it
is the master time factor in Appendix IV. Then we will go
to Appendix IV after that and analyze it.
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One other thing at this point- I have published this booklet
in a bound format for your convenience. The easiest way to fol-
low this material is to make photocopies of the appendices
that we are discussing and hold them next to each other
and follow the analysis as we go. You will be working pri-
marily with Appendix III and Appendix IV.
Page 1-"LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE"Three main reasons- he always says
the same and today I would add a fourth-our Inability to see
because of our mindset. My experience has shown me that his
reason #1 is an important problem that we have today. In all
this discussion when I say we, I am talking about traders
that try to trade by the Gann method as taught in his books.
The reason that #1 gives us so much trouble is that we have
not understood the master time factor as the base on which
all his rules function. Once we understand it we will al-
leviate this desire to overtrade to some extent. We must
learn to slow down our sense of timing as regards the activ-
ity of the market.
Page 1-further down-he says
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A smart man cannot follow another
man blindly even though the other man is right, because
you cannot have confidence and act on advice when you do not
know what it (the advice) is based on." Exactly, we could
not follow Mr. Gann

s rules because his advice (rules) was

based on the master time factor and we didn't know what
it was. Next sentence, he says, "You will be able to act
with confidence and make profits when you can SEE and KNOW for
YOURSELF why STOCKS should go UP or down.
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O.K., lets look at
this. See how he is using capitals in words he wants to
stress in a certain way. I have been doing the same thing
throughout this story using the same words at time. I was-
n't trying to fill pages, to me the sooner something can
be said and done, the better it is, but, I was trying to
develop a mindset in you that would allow you to see how.
Mr. Gann changed his language when he wanted to tell you the
secrets but yet hide them and keep them back. I even planned
my brochure the way he would have done (and in fact did)
his. I tried to make my brochure mysterious enough to get
your interest, let you know that there was something worth-
while here, but not scare you off by saying too much, but yet
TELLING THE TRUTH IN THE BROCHURE. Go back later sometime and see
what I mean, it will help you understand Mr. Gann better. So,
here what he is telling us is that once we know the basis
of his advice (rules-as given in his books and courses), then
we can SEE (the same as ray SEE throughout this booklet). And
of course the basis of his advice is the master time fac-
tor that is presented in the best manner that you will
probably ever see it by him.
Page 2-Mentions what he spent ($300,000) developing a worthwhile,
practical method of Stock Forecasting. That worthwhile method of
forecasting that he is talking about here is the same mate-
rial in appendix IV, plus the use of his other rules as
based on "FORECASTING".
Page 2-1 will address this much publicized article by Mr. Wy-
ckoff
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Page 3-lst paragraph-In the interview, Mr. Wyckoff says,
"He bases his operations upon certain natural laws, which,
though existing since the world began". Certainly, we know
that those natural laws are the movements of the planets
(astronomy) as observed through empirical study of how mar-
kets reacted at different time periods of a cycle of
planetary movements. This SEEN relationship over long peri-
ods of time was his master time factor. The "master" meaning a
guide or mold to go by. There were variances from time to time
but this was the guide and the variances could also be
explained to a certain extent. Wheels within wheels.
Page 3-next para. - Part about new idea not welcomed by major-
ity. Still very true today and what we have been talking
about this whole booklet. It is hard for the majority (of
us) to see what we don't want to see.
Page 3-right column, 4th para. -part about "Early this
year he figured that the top of the advance would fall on
a certain day in August-" Mr. Gllley is talking about 1909
and you will see when we study my chart based on Mr. Gann

s
format why he figured the top for then. Again, all these com-
ments and predictions are based largely on the master time
factor and if you study the rules about the calendar year
"1" through "10" or "0" as given on page F-6 in "FORECASTING"
in appendix IV, now, you will be able to follow every one of
his predictions as we talk about them in this brochure in
appendix III that we are presently going through.
Page 4-2nd para., left column- the part about during the month
of October, 1909-if you will look at your calendar years
and rules, you will see that the 9th year at that time
was the "blow-off" year in the cycle; the reason for
this was because Jupiter-Saturn, the cycle that the master
time factor is based on reached approximate position of oppo-
sition approaching; and symbolically (ideally) and actually
past study of his indicated that this was why and how the
stock market actually acted in past similar cycles. Giving
(as he said) not only the cause but the proof of market ac-
tion. The same thing happened in 1929 but it was a much bigger
"blow-off" because it was the end of the 60-year cycle (or
3rd 20 year cycle). This also points out just what an as-
tute businessman Mr. Gann was. If he was going to make predic-
tions for a newspaper article (free publicity) he chose
deliberately to make them at a time right after
(shortly after the 9th of October) the blow-off top would
have confirmed itself. Not taking anything away from his re-
markable feat, but emphasizing how he probably used the
master time factor here at this point; I suspect that
he waited for confirmation (probably from the averages
and US Steel) to show that the top had been made and then
had his selection of trade prospects which he knew inside
and out, ready; then he had someone, (perhaps Mr. Gllley)
call
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and offer to set up the demonstration for the article.
Knowing that the top was done, he probably traded the
swings from the short side, selling every rally at its
rally resistance point and then buying back at places on
hard breaks for small rallies to re-sell on. The markets
at that time (1901-1920 on your chart sheet 1, in yellow)
performed remarkably well for 3 points moves and divisional
points of resistance. Partly due to the nature of the
market then. Also, I would like to point out to you why I
think that US Steel was watched so much by Mr. Gann. Of
course, it had good volume (liquidity) over the years as
time passed by; but Mr. Gann began following it early. If
you will notice US Steel

s birthday you will notice that

it was incorporated on February 25, 1901, and trading
first began on March 28, 1901. Also, you will notice that
1901 was the beginning of his natural 20 years cycle on his
master forecasting chart. (Today this chart is #19 in a
packet of charts sold by Lambert-Gann Publishing Co.) I have
indicated to you earlier that there was also a conjunction
of Jupiter-Saturn in November 1901. When you are looking at a
general monthly chart over a period of 240 months (20 years),
the few months between March and November are not important;
they were in the same year and the "1" year on his charts
are really the "0" point of the chart; the
M
0
W
represent-
ing both the beginning of the chart in time at January
1901 and the "0" representing the Jupiter-Sat urn conjunc-
tion itself in November 1901. Astrologers (and astronomers,
I guess) represented the conjunction by "0" with quotations
around it because it indicated the beginning of a time rela-
tionship of whatever was being looked at and it in fact also
represented 0 degrees in that cycle. The conjunction was
always the starting point in the cycle to measure from. Mr.
Gann had said at other times that his forecast could be made
one year or more in the future WITH JUST MINOR ADJUSTMENTS OVER TIME.
If he knew what he was looking for (he did-and you are beginning
to) he could allow for small adjustments in time on the repeti-
tion of these 20 years cycles. That's where his other rules
begin to be developed and used. So, I speculate (to observe
and believe as a result of the observation) that Mr. Gann
watched US Steel because it was born at the natural time
(year) of the conjunction and was therefore (in his eyes)
under the "influence" of the natural time cycle (Jupiter-
Saturn). In fact in his stock course later he says that
Steel (meaning US) made its all time high on September 3,
1929. And of course the averages did too. So, I think that
he used "Steel" as his natural barometer to trade off of
the natural cycle (Jupiter-Saturn) that seemed to "influ-
ence" the stock market most. Naturally, he could not then
trade the stock indexes as we have today but he had to find
an actual stock vehicle to trade and US Steel was the
natural choice. I believe that Mr. Gann made those trades for
the "Ticker Magazine or Magazine of Wall Street" or whatever, in
some fashion very similar to what I have described for
you. If this speculation is approximately accurate, then
that shows you just how good Mr. Gann was in his prime. We
cannot expect to be able to forecast anywhere near that
good, but as I will show you when I bring the master time
factor up to date through the years that we can achieve a
new perspective in regards to time, when we utilize our new
found understanding of Mr. Gann

s rules based on
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this time factor.
Page 4-2nd para., right column- part where he predicts mar-
ket toward lower prices until March or April, 1910, -Look at
his rules on calendar years again on Page F-7 in "FORECASTING",
Appendix IV. (By the way I am going to start calling
"FORECASTING" and Appendix IV the master time factor. O.K.? It
saves us time and me typing. I am getting tired of typ-
ing. I am a seeker, not a "typer". Back to his rules on
Page F-7 in the master time factor. Under year No. 10 he
says, "No. 10 is a bear year. A rally often runs until
March and April;-"--also, while we are right at it look at
what he says in the rule above about calendar year No. 9-he
says, "No. 9 the highest digit and the 9th year, is the
strongest of all for bull markets. Final bull campaigns
culminate in this year after extreme advances and prices
start to decline. Bear markets usually start in September to
November at the end of the 9th year and a sharp decline
takes place. See 1869, 1879, 1889, 1899, 1909, 1919, and
1929-the year of greatest advances, culminating in the fall
of the year, followed by a sharp decline.
"
Now, look back
at page 4 in our brochure that we are analyzing. We saw above
that he had predicted top in October 1909, later we will
see that he predicts top for 1929 in late August or Sep-
tember. He says that top comes in the 9th year between Sep-
tember and November. How does he determine which month and date
that it will come. I speculate that he used some astro-
logical technique along with the confirmations of his rules
to pin point the top to a more specific time. I don

t
know. I know very little about astrology. But you don

t
have to know about astrology all you have to do is to be
able to look at a picture (the swings on the chart). See
how each year (he called them zones
W
1
M
through
W
20") looks:
when you just look at the 5th zone for instance. NOW YOU KNOW WHY HE
CALLED THE 5TH YEAR THE YEAR OF ASCENSION. In other places he said
the 5th year, 5th month, 5th day, or 5th period of anything,
but he really meant that figuratively speaking and again he
was saying the 5th year of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle and
the 15th year of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, because the
first thing you always do with a circle if you are an as-
trologer (I don

t know I'm not one, but he was and he said

it), is to divide it by 2. This gives you the maximum point
of where action turns into reaction. Something (in this
case, the 20 year Jupiter-Saturn cycle) will start at
W
0
M
,
its beginning and will advance to its maximum moving out
(widest point of separation) until it can

t go any further
(opposition or 180 degrees); then when it has reached its
furtherest point out (action) it begins to retreat (separa-
tion at its widest begins to narrow back to the next con-
junction) back into its self. This is the law of all cycles
and it is sometimes expressed as the law of action and reac-
tion. This is symbolism of the circle and circle represents
nature (astronomy and astrology, cell division, time peri-
ods, life, anything). See my creed on the section about
rhythms and seasons and time (Section IX). So getting back to
his 20 year circle divided by two, gives you the opposi-
tion or maximum outgoing or separation from the base or the
blow-off which actually comes slightly before the 10th year,
sometimes in the ninth year the opposition generally takes
place on a mean
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average of 9-93 years from the conjunction, but we have not be-
gun from the exact conjunction but almost one year earlier
January 1st, 1901 instead of November 28, 1901, which almost
throws us off a full year. BUT, AS MR. GANN, SAID IT MAKES NO
DIFFERENCE WHERE WE START MEASURING FROM (talking about time); JUST SO LONG
AS WE "KNOW" THAT WE HAVE STARTED FROM THE PROPER PLACE. You understand? We are
starting our monthly charts from month of January, 1901 as
the first month of the cycle, while in fact the CAUSE of the
cycle doesn't start until November, 1901. But he adjusted this
(and we do the same thing) by being consistent over time with
what we are watching. We couldn

t be consistent before we
learned HOW TO SEE (OR WATCH) BECAUSE WE HAD BLINDED OURSELVES and therefore
could not see because we didn't know what we were watching in
the first place so how could we be consistent. Once you
have been freed by the knowledge of the master time factor
you are at liberty to depend on yourself, because being
free means you have the liberty to experiment on your own for
yourself and you wi ll not have to be afraid that your
sca le, or you r angle, or your time period will be off.
That is an example of what is meant by the TRUTH SHALL SET YOU
FREE. I know that this is hard to follow for some of you, but
come back to it and reread if often, the more you read it,
the clearer it will become. You will see new things and have
new understanding each time. For now just understand that when
we construct the master time chart the same way year after
year and stack each 20 year cycle over and over on the same
price scales you will have a relationship that causes the
same type of movers at approximately the same yearly time pe-
riods within the cycle that you are looking at; in this
case the 20 year cycle. And remember in here that we are di-
viding the circle (20 year circle) the way Mr. Gann divided
all his circles; first by 2 to get 120 months (10
years) and the opposition (actual); then by 4 to get the
5 year periods, the 5th year being the year of ascension
because it was the 90 degree angle or at the approximate
90 degree aspect (angles is the astrological word for aspects
and the word angles was used by old astrologers to indicate
the division of the circle on a square surface.) And of
course we can carry this symbolism (symbolism is truth in a
subjective inner sort of way) on by pointing out that the
5th year is a 90 degree angle or aspect then the 10th year
is also two 90
f
s or 180 and Mr. Gann

s rules reflect this

by 5th year ascension up and another 5th year (10th year from
beginning) down or bear year. Over time this will become
clear to you.
In order to get back to the original line of thought
that I started with at the beginning of the previous
paragraph, I want to say that on page 4 of the brochure
where Mr. Gann said in November 1909 that the trend of the
stock market should, barring the usual rallies, be toward
lower prices until March or April 1910. Then on page F-7
in the master time factor lesson, you see under No. 9 that
top is made September to November in 1909, then you look to
see what happens from there, so you look at No 10., or
1910 and you see that it is a bear year from 1909 top in
October, but that rallies often-run until March or
April;- then you look back to page 4 in the brochure and you
now SEE how Mr. Gann made his forecast. Pretend it is now 1910
or 1911. How would
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you make a forecast for 1929 and 1930. You might say with
the rules in lesson on the master time factor on page F-7
that you would look for a top in September to November of
1929 and then you would look for a sharp decline with the
market trending lower with some rallies until March or
April 1930, then you would look for another severe break to
run until November or December 1930 at which time that cy-
cle would end (talking about a 10 year cycle now or the
same thing as one-half of the twenty year cycle, just so
long as we are consistent in our stacking of the cycles
and just so long as we know what we are looking at and why)
and a new one would begin. Hey, YOU HAVE FORECASTED THE STOCK MARKET 19 OR
20 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE. And if you have some more good proven
rules to give better indications of this forecast you
are in a strong position to makes lots of money, if you
keep your health and money and if you are alive 19 or 20
years in the future. Oh, also, I forgot that you must have
some plan to take advantage of this wonderful information,
maybe some trading rules designed just for your forecast,
because you could be wrong you know, you may have miscalcu-
lated, and you must protect yourself if you have. Also,
don't forget that just because something has worked in
the past, it may not work in the future. Hmmm. So many
things to think about. YOU MUST HAVE IN YOUR POSSESSION SOMETHING LIKE A MASTER TIME
FACTOR TO MAKE A FORECAST LIKE THAT 19 YEARS BEFORE IT HAPPENS. Lets wait
and see what happens.
Still page 4-same two para. -Now you will have to admit
that we have done a lot of analyzing on two paragraphs, and
we may have looked at 1909 and 1910 more than you ever
wanted to, but, you will have to admit that we have
learned somethings that are beginning to look interest-
ing. But there's lots more, in showing you the path, the
place to start, I'm helping myself because I'm learning
new things all the time. My creed says that's what it
means when you GIVE FIRST-THEN YOU GET. As far as analysis goes,
we haven't even done a good job on this page 4 of the bro-
chure. One last reference to page 4 and we will leave it.
Page 4-third para, from bottom of page-he says, "In 1912 Mr.
Gann forecast the election of Woodrow Wilson and has been cor-
rect in forecasting the election of every President
since that time. -"-Now this gives me an opportunity to
show you something you already know, but some people think
that Mr. Gann never made a mistake in his forecasts and
that he never told a lie about his records. I have told
you several times how I feel about Mr. Gann and his work.
My search in his work allowed me to rediscover my creed. The
most valuable object that I have ever found. BUT, IF WE WANT
TO SEE CLEARLY, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT WE SEE. Here is an example of how
we overlook whatever we want to when we dont want to see
it. This brochure was written probably in late 1939 and
published in early 1940 (probably). Mr. Gann, like all busi-
nessmen and economic forecasters and people in general ad-
vertised his hits and successes and never let us forget
them (that

s why he reminds us; so that we will buy his

services (courses); but he forgets and overlooks his
mistakes and his failed forecasts and predictions and
just never mentions them again. I can tell you that he
made many public predictions that
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didn't pan out. I will also show you that most of them were predicated upon this same mas-
ter time factor that we are talking about. Later, I will cover one of them in particular de-
tail so that we can see why he was predicting something that turned out to be totally wrong.
This is good for us to see because we must never get to sure of our forecasts. Now to finish
this page 4; Look on page F-11 in the master time factor lesson and you will see one of the
very rare Instances where you get to see Mr. Gann make a forecast for the next year BEFORE It
actually happens. If you look back at all his material you will find particularly in later
years that these forecasts are merely mentioned in his books and discussed after the
fact. In other words he says he forecasted so and so; and most of the time he was right. I
know because I have gone back and checked all of them to see if they were true. There is
another Instance that you will have an opportunity to see a forecast made before the fact and
it too was wrong. I will cover it later, but for those of you who cant wait, it is in his
book,
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45 Years In Wall Street". When you find the predictions, they are glaringly wrong, figure
out why he made them, now, based on what we have already learned to this point. If you do figure
it out now you are well on your way to admitting that you have the master time factor. But, until,
you can come up with an acceptable reason for his being wrong on that particular prediction then
you still have a ways to go. I will offer you an explanation. You can accept it or reject it. It
doesn't matter, because, by then you will have seen enough that you are ready to start on your
own forecasting methods for yourself. Again, to try to get back to the subject at hand, Mr. Gann
missed his forecast on the presidential election, as you can plainly see, further-
more, you can see by that, that the paragraph on Page 4, about his forecasting the election of
every President since 1912 was not true; because he wrote this brochure, as I said In late
1939. So, he apparently forgot missing that one. Besides that, his 1936 market forecast-would
not have been any good to try to trade either. But, it appears to me, that he just miscalcu-
lated and didn't follow his own rules entirely, because his rule says that it would be a bull
year generally. As a final note on this; for a long time when I read this back in 1980 and 1981, I
thought that he had taken this lesson off the market, so to speak, because of the bad
forecasts, and that he didn't want anyone to see it since it was not correct. This may have
had something to do with it, but, now I AM CONVINCED THAT HE TOOK IT OFF BECAUSE IT MADE THE
MASTER TIME FACTOR TOO PLAIN IN OPEN WRITING. He also just sold this lesson as his MOST VALUABLE
ONE. HE CHARGED MORE FOR THIS ONE THAN OTHERS. HE ALSO SUBSTITUTED LESS VALUABLE LESSONS
FOR LESS MONEY. We will cover all this in detail later. For now, just remember that Mr. Gann
wasn't perfect in his life and his forecasting and trading the markets AND WE DON'T HAVE TO BE
EITHER. We just need to do better, on balance both in the markets and in life. In the mar-
kets we need to make more profits than losses on balance. In life we need to make more good
moves than mistakes on balance. Both are learning arenas and we should continue to progress and
learn from our mistakes.
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Page 5-lst para. - part about "His Stock Forecasts for
1920 and 1921 indicated a bear market with sharp declines.-"
Now look at page F-7 in the master time factor rules on
calendar years. See again No. 10 year (or 1920); indicates a
bear year with sharp declines-March and April. Also, look
at page F-6 (remember anytime I precede the page # with
F, thats the page # in the lesson on the master time
factor); see again No. 1 year (or 1921) is the first year
in a new decade (a ten year cycle-but it is also the
first year and new beginning of the 20 year cycle; basi-
cally it

s like a triangle, the left side of the tri-

angle going from "0" (remember that

s conjunction) to 180
degrees (remember thats opposition or top), this time pe-
riod from
W
0
n
to 180 consumes 120 months or ten years; then it
starts down from opposition which is the new "0" in the 10
year cycle but only half way in the 20 year cycle but
it is at the top of the triangle and coming down to the
original base for the ending of one cycle and the begin-
ning of a new one. Since it is like a triangle within the
circle (or square), you have one 10-year period going up
and another 2nd 10-year period going down. Since the left
side of a triangle looks like the right side of a
triangle, just like your left hand looks like your right
hand, except that one is on the left and the other is on
the right you have similar yearly patterns going up the 1st
10'years and then coming down the 2nd ten years. You generally
have the top made in the 8th and 9th year. Mr. Gann explains
it simply by saying that 9 is the highest digit. This is
simply a way for him to say it is the 9th year without
telling you that it is the opposition of Jupiter-Saturn
that causes this phenomena in the markets to occur. This
is generally the blow-off year. And again the reason that
it comes in that particular year is because of the way
and time frame in which we have devised the chart that shows
us the picture of how the swings look over the two halves of
the 20 year cycle. Remember we did not start our chart at
the exact date of the conjunction in 1901 but at the 1st
month of the year in 1901. Several reasons for this, 1st we
want to look at several 20 year cycles stacked on the same
time periods; the 12 months of a year allow us the most
consistent way to look at them, 2nd, if he starts his
charts from the actual conjunction, he has given away his
master time factor. (He gave it away to me by simply start-
ing from "1" year instead of "0", how do you think it
would have looked to start it from November 28, 1901.) So,
you see that it makes no difference where we start from,
if we start from the proper place (that we know) and be
consistent. We can just shift our reference point in our
minds and say, O.K.-the 10th year will be the blow-off year
in this cycle because its at the top of the cycle, or we
could shift our reference point to the left (backwards
in time) and say that the 9th year will be the blow-off
year (or top), or we could shift our reference point
two years to the left (backwards in time) on our charts
and now the 8th year becomes the blow-off year (or top)
of the triangle, square, circle or cycle that we are
looking at. It makes no difference what we call them they are
all the same. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AWE-INSPIRING WAY TO SEE TRUTH THAT THE
ANCIENTS AND ADEPTS USED TO DEMONSTRATE PRICELESS INFORMATION AND CONCEPTS
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FROM THOSE WHO WERE NOT PREPARED TO APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND THEM WAS HIDDEN IN THIS
MANNER, BY THE SYMBOLIC USE OF THE CIRCLE, THE SQUARE, AND THE TRIANGLE. THE
ANCIENTS HID THESE WONDERFUL THINGS FROM THE UNPREPARED (NOT YET READY) BY PUTTING IT
OUT WHERE EVERYMAN COULD SEE' IT IF HE WOULD. But if he (Everyman) had
not learned the proper mindset; then he couldn't see this
beauty because he didn't know how to look. He just saw some-
thing of no value; yet the thing of no value was the very
priceless thing that he needed (THE REJECTED BUILDER'S STONE). Now
you can look at any cycle or circle that you want to with the
above symbolism and mindset that I have described. You may not
believe it now, but I have given you enough information in
this paragraph for you to acquire dominion over any market.
But, you must first acquire dominion over yourself. Once you
do that the market really becomes of inconsequential Impor-
tance. What a strange, curious, wonderful, beautiful world.
We seek in the markets for treasure, but that search when
concluded leads us not to gold but to something which we first
rejected as refuse; then this refuse when properly assimi-
lated into ourselves, gives us the ability to take the
gold from the markets almost at will, but then once we can
take it at will, it becomes Inconsequential to us. Don't
you find that a strange wonderful thing. I am not imply-
ing that I can do any of the above. I'm not there- by a long
shot. But I am telling you that I see this path and
I rediscovered it as a direct result of my search for Mr.
Gann

s Master Time Factor.

Page 5-2nd par a. -Mentions the Book, "TRUTH OF THE STOCK TAPE", -I
used to think that this was probably his worst book be-
cause it was his earliest, now to me it is his best book.
The book didn't change, I did. The book is his best to me now
because I found the gold there in the form of one quotation
from Emerson.
Page 5-next para. -
"
His Stock Forecasts for 1924 2nd 1925 out-
lined the bull market which followed.
"
Look at your colored
charts (Sheet 1). Look at 1924 and 1925 in red. Look at 1904
and 1905 in yellow in the previous cycle right below.
Also, look at your master time factor rules on page F-6 and
F-7 covering No. 4 and No. 5 Do you see why Mr. Gann called
the 5th year the year of Ascension. This gives you an oppor-
tunity to see how he related market observations to biblical
events in his descriptions of the phenomena of an observed
pattern in the markets. Also, shows why he said on the 3rd
day he arose. (This is also an astrological hidden commen-
tary- meaning the arrival of spring from "0" the depth of
winter December 21; you have three periods. Or from anywhere
because the third period (30 degrees x 3 = 90 degrees) and
of course the important square aspect (angle) that also comes
into consideration during the 5th year and has signifi-
cance in the cause of that phenomena of the year of As-
cension. This according to astrological interpretation of
astronomical events and to Mr. Gann.) I don't know any-
thing very much about astrology, but being a seeker I can
read a picture or map and therefore I don't have to spend
any more time with Astrology. This brings me to another
side trip. I had several people that inquired about order-
ing my booklet, respond by writing me that
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The above is my speculation about the possible meaning and
explanation of the cause of the master time factor. I have
strong reasons for this conjecture. Also, before I for-
get, one reason Mr. Gann (and the ancients and astrolo-
gers) called the 60-year cycle the Master Time Period is
because it contains approximately 2 cycles of the orbit of
Saturn and 5 cycles of the orbit of Jupiter. There is a
great amount of material in the last sentence alone. I can-
not cover it here, but sometimes look at the relation-
ship above and see how the square of 12 (144) is involved and
what it means and how you think Mr. Gann was using his square
of 12 and 144 and more importantly why he was using them.
It would take volumes to cover an analysis of Mr. Gann

s work. I
ONLY WANT TO SHOW YOU THE PATH IN THIS BOOKLET, SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE PLEASURE OF
DISCOVERY FOR YOURSELF. I see now that I can barely cover the master
time factor in this booklet. There are so many other things
that I wanted to go over with you. But, all in due time.
At this point let me say again to those of you who are dis-
turbed by the astrology or astronomy references herein. If
looking at astrology disturbs you just ignore it; it
doesn't matter. ASTROLOGY DISTURBS ME TOO, but it makes sense to
me that there can be some causes of our behavior tied to
variations In our magnetic life fields and as a result
of this thought process, I can at least look and see if
there is some repetitive behavior observable in the market
that I can trade off of. You don't have to understand
electricity to use it. I have to mention astrology here,
because we are discussing Mr. Gann and the cause, use, past
history, and future usefulness of his master time fac-
tor. Mr. Gann was an astrologer and therefore we must dis-
cuss it. If you plan to use the master time factor in your
trading, then you at least need to know what the time fac-
tor is based on according to the man that developed it and
spent a lifetime developing rules to utilize its repeti-
tions. I can ASSURE you that Mr. Gann

s whole trading sys-

tem when properly understood and applied is the most POWERFUL
system of trading that I have ever seen. I have looked at
every system that I have ever heard of. And as you know from
my story I couldn't say that earlier, before I discov-
ered his master time factor. Besides, we do not have to be-
lieve in or study astrology to use his material, but we do
need to know the fact that it was astrology that led
him to search for the repetitive patterns in the cycles
and that as far back as history is recorded man has had
similar beliefs about the causes of human activity. Page 6-3rd
para. - "On March 1. 1933, by the use of his Master
Time Factor Mr. Gann forecast bottom-
M
- You can read the
rest
of his para, for yourself. On page F-6 in the master time
factor rules, No. 3, year No.3, in this case year No.
1933- well read the part about how the decline from the 2nd
year (1932) may run down and make bottom in February or
March of the No. 3 year (1933). Then look at ray Master Time
Factor Charts Of The Dow-Jones Averages, Sheet 1, in red for
1933 in the 13th zone. This brings up another thing that you
need to know about what Mr. Gann
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means when he says something. To him the 3rd zone and the 13th
zone were interchangeable words. When he says year No. 3 in the
master time factor lesson on page F-6, he means year No. 3 in
the decade. This actually applies to the 3rd year from the be-
ginning measuring point of the 20-year cycle ("0" or conj.),
but it also means and applies to the 13th year or zone.
This could be confusing to us especially if we did not KNOW
what caused the 20-year cycle to be important. Also, I want
to point out that there are other cycles of great impor-
tance. The 60-year was most important to the ancients be-
cause of sizes of the involved planets and Saturn was the
most distant planet that they knew. I am busy with some very
interesting computer work now on some original cycle work
that I have felt the need to pursue as a result of some
of the things that my speculations about Mr. Gann's work
has led me to. Back to the para, on page 6-The last sentence
says "This is another proof of the great value of Mr.
Gann

s discovery of a Master Time Factor." That sentence is also

another proof here today 43 years later that I have now given
you the sincere student, Mr. Gann's Master Time Factor. It SHOULD
NOT BE ABUSED. USE IT FOR YOURSELF AND USEFUL PURPOSES ONLY. IF YOU ABUSE ANY THING
USEFUL, IT IS A NATURAL LAW THAT IF YOU SOW THE WIND, YOU WILL REAP THE
WHIRLWIND. Just the possession of the master time factor will be
useful to you to see the unfolding trends, but you must
master yourself first, then all other useful things become
more useful with use.
Page 7-1 is not going to continue to point out every forecast
and where it came from in this booklet. There are two more
on this page and many more in all Mr. Gann

s other books and

courses. For practice and more insight you should find every-
one of them and study them. Also, remember to look for and
be prepared for variations at times. You must also look for
abnormal moves such as in war times, etc. There is one
thing on this page that I want to point out to you though
about Mr. Gann's language, so you will remember every time in
the future exactly what he is saying -down at the bottom of
the page- "The man who guesses and gambles on hope is sure to
lose while the man who follows science makes profits." The
word "science
11
always mean the study of the heavens either as-
tronomy (cycles) or astrology (the art of interpreting
the heavens). Next sentence. -"There is cause and effect for
everything and by time element and the cycle theory every-
thing can be mathematically determined."- Here he always means
cause is the movement of some planetary body or bodies or re-
lationships; by the word "effect

he means the moves of prices

up or down through time as a result of the cause; and by
"time element and the cycle theory" he means his master
time theory that I have been explaining to you; "mathemati-
cally determined
"
-you might first think he means the calcula-
tions necessary to determine the positions of the planets
and this is a frequent expression used by astrologers, but
Mr. Gann doesn't mean that here. What he means is that if
you have his master time element (factor) and his cycle
theory as mentioned in the same sentence, the mathemati-
cally determined means simply counting the years on your the
digits of your two hands. Just simple counting-1,
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. - Hey, that

s math and THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT

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HE MEANS. He always did his advertisements that way. It appeared
more scientific to say mathematically determined than to
say rules for counting to 10. Mr. Gann

s natural genius
for selling his products have been overshadowed by his
forecasts but his sales ability was by no means small.
Page 10-about 7 para, down- talking about his 1937 fore-
cast. "This year comes under a time cycle which definitely
indicates a bear year in most stocks and a panicky decline
fl
see his No. 7 on page F-7, same old story now with the
forecasts, but you have another opportunity to see why "7"
was attached to the end of something; in this 20 year cycle
(Jup-Sa) the 7th and l7th year were "downers". Downers had
bad connotations, so he picked up on the biblical and astro-
logical connotations of seven to reflect and describe
the empirical relationship that he saw in the cycle. HE
OFTEN DID THIS.
Page ll-6th par a. -"Advance in December- -Mr. Gann was asked
how it was possible to make such an accurate forecast one
year in advance. "He stated that it was his own discov-
ery of a mathematical master time factor and cycle theory
which enables him to tell when certain cycles recur and
great panics and booms take place. -" By now you KNOW what he
means. Look below in the next two paragraphs. Quote to yourself
from your knowledge of the master time factor rules on F-7
for 1938, the 8th (and 18th) year.
Page 11-bottom of page- AGAIN WE REPEAT: - He is telling us over
and over about his method of forecasting -and he is tell-
ing us more here than we first see. Here is one of my
favorite quotations: "Prove all things and hold fast to
that which is good." Well, it is sound advice for sure,
but did you know that it has another meaning to and that is
why he is saying Again WE Repeat: above it. "Prove" is an old-
time meaning for SQUARE and "things" is an old-time mysti-
cal meaning for circles. This quotation has dual meanings,
the second hidden under the 1st.

The above quotation brings up a quick side trip. I did not

intend to get into angles, calculators, master squares,
etc. in this booklet. As I said, le
t
s just too much for one
time. Besides the master time factor is the most important
and if you are a sincere student you will be able to come to
all of this now on your own. But, lets look on page F-15
in the master time factor lesson, since we are talking
about squaring all circles and holding fast to those which
are good (proven, also squared). At the bottom of the page, the
"NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE PERMANENT CHART"- For those of you have seen it
so many times, did you know that this "master" chart that is
the SQUARE OF 20, meant that it was the square of the Jupi-
ter-Saturn cycle. Did you see how Mr. Gann has squared or
"proved" the "master" circle (20 years). Did you know that
this lesson with the knowledge of what the master time
factor is and how it can be used gives you the key to un-
derstand Mr. Gann

s calculators and other master charts.

This is a quick side trip, so we can't get into all
this now. I just want to mention two or three things. Al-
most all of Mr. Gann's calculators
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are designed to calculate the position of prices and natu-
ral resistance levels based on their positions within the
square of their natural cycles (which everyone you are look-
ing at-and some of them are designed so that there are sev-
eral different cycles within the same square or calculator).
Almost all of-Mr. Ganns squares and calculators are the
squares and square-roots (origin of) different planetary cy-
cles (
M
0
M
to "0"). You can figure them out. But it is a
waste- to put so much time on them- we do it, because we
humans love exotic and scientific things like mysterious
"mathematics" Instead of dull things like counting on our
fingers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Aren't the calculators so
much more fun, BUT HAVE THEY BEEN MORE PROFITABLE FOR YOU? While I am thinking
about counting, I mentioned to you earlier that we seekers
must ALWAYS be looking into all kinds of things (seek means
to look). We must look into the meaning of words and the mean-
ings behind words and languages. Take the word "SCORE", for In-
stance, of course it means 20; but how many other meanings can
you think of for it-scores, I bet. It means to tally,
keep count of, make a round trip around the baseball dia-
mond (circle, square), it means to mark something until the
next time, It even has slang meaning for things of a more
personal social nature. Look at how we use some of the words
and relate them to the SCORE of years it takes to repeat one
cycle across Mr. Ganns master time chart. I have made a
copy of the square of scores for you. The square of twenty
from the birth of the New York Stock Exchange on May 17,
1792 (according to the figure that Mr. Gann used), has an
Interesting item in the center where all the central an-
gles cross. You would expect some type of change in trend
their of major significance, since this is a square that
covers 400 years, now lets see, is that 1982? I wonder how
long this bull market should last? Do I have any way to
forecast it? The last point I want to make here is:
Again, you have to watch Mr. Gann

s words, on page F-15, he

says the square of 20 can be used to measure days, weeks,
months, or years- but he really means YEARS, days, weeks and
months are contained in years, but he doesn't mean the square of
20 days, or 20 weeks, or 20 months. HE MEANS ONLY ONE THING - THE SQUARE OF 20
YEARS. He couldn't just come out and say the SQUARE OF 20 YEARS,
BECAUSE THEN YOU WOULD KNOW THAT HE MEANT THE SQUARE OF THE JUPITER-SATURN CYCLE.
So he tosses in the other time periods of days, weeks, and
months to confuse the issue. You must always determine what he
is talking about at the time in order to know which time pe-
riod to select. Another example, most of the time when he
talks about the square or 360, he is talking about the SATURN
ORBIT or 30 years (approximately) or 360 months. Then he means
a monthly chart even though he will say daily, weekly,
monthly, yearly, to make you think he is talking about all
of them simultaneously. There are several others, the 45,
90, 12, etc. etc.
As usual that side trip turned out to be longer than I
had intended. I have two comments that I want to bring to
your attention on pages 13 and 14 of the brochure. First,
page 13-
w
One of the rules is for trading for fast moves af-
ter the market gives a definite signal"- Oh, the trouble I
have had with the Gann rules, before I discovered his mas-
ter time factor. I got signals
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all the time-and most of the time wrong signals. -The rea-
son- I was trying to trade to often. You see for yourself
you should plan your trades by the YEARS- not by the days
or hours. The monthly chart shows you the MAIN TREND. Have you
ever had any trouble determining what the main trend was? I
can't begin to estimate the hours that I have spent trying
to determine what the main trend was. CAN YOU BEGIN TO SEE SOME
BENEFICIAL things that the KNOWLEDGE of the master time factor is
going to do for you in your trading? You must take the knowl-
edge and then go back to everyone of his rules and see what
he was really trying to do with each rule and what its pur-
pose was. Did BOTTOMS AND TOPS ever give you trouble understand-
ing what and how he meant them to be used. DO YOU SEE THEM IN A NEW
LIGHT YET? On the bottom of page 14 Mr. Gann makes another quo-
tation from the Bible, and says, "Ye Shall Know the Truth
and the Truth shall make you free". He ties useful infor-
mation that he will give you if you order his course or
courses to a truth from the Bible. This gives you some In-
sight to what the quotation really means. Can you begin to
sense a certain freedom that you have now in your under-
standing of Mr. Gann's work now that you know what the mas-
ter time factor is and now that you understand the idea be-
hind it so that you can experiment, study, and research
market movements on your own? Or, haven
t
I convinced you
yet that I have given you and am giving you the master time
factor? If I haven
1
1, the best proof is yet to come.
Page 15-3rd para. -"If the average man or woman would only
spend the first few hundred dollars they lose in the
market in acquiring knowledge and learning the rules for
buying and selling at the RIGHT time, they would then make
profits-not losses". Mr. Gann was telling you this to sell
you his courses, but he was telling the truth. If you have
not been making profits in the markets, but have Instead
been making losses, you need to STOP TRADING, stop completely,
take the information that I have given you on Mr. Gann's mas-
ter time factor, learn it, study it, go back and study his
other rules, learn now with new insight and understanding
what they meant, realize that you do not need to trade to
often and only at the right TIME, prepare a set of trad-
ing RULES just for you, made by you, designed by you, based
on this remarkable man's work. Then and ONLY then go back into
the market with prudence and common sense, if you do not
start making profits almost immediately, then STOP TRADING, find
out what's wrong, TEAR THE PROBLEM OUT, and start over again.
Page 15-bottom of page-His description of what he calls
his Complete Course- "The Complete Course is in Four Lessons: --
"-Then he goes on to describe the contents of this course.
I learned a lot about how Mr. Gann used his words and his lan-
guage by reading the descriptions in sales pieces that he
had written about his courses and materials over the years.
I have mentioned to you before, that it is the little
things that are so important to observe when you are
studying his work.
For instance, take this course that he calls his "Com-
plete Course", you would assume at first glance that this
would contain
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all of his material, but this "Complete Course" does not
contain the "FORECASTING" or master time factor lesson, the
one written in November 1935 (the real THING); instead, this
course contains the one he had just written 3 months earlier
in August, 1939, a substitute, and a poor one when compared to
the "real McCoy". You may ask how I know that; it is simple.
I know it by studying what and how Mr. Gann has advertised in
the past; by the previous relationship between how he ad-
vertised other past material and the style that he used to
do so, I found that he would make something in an adver-
tisement sound scientific, mystical, Intriguing, or tied
religiously to the Bible or some worthwhile quotation; then
he would mention some phrase or sentence in the ad and tell
you what the value would be to you in certain terms, this
phrase or sentence would be in the piece that he adver-
tised, this would then tie them together and when you or-
dered the book or course you would see the relationship.
By studying the past (his materials), then I can see him
do the same thing in the future and now. In other words
what he did in the past, he will likely do the same way in
the future. He is a creature of habit Just like you and
I and the patterns of the market and the seasons. The
purpose of my bringing all this to your attention is that I
want you to see that it is the little everyday things
that we do everyday that is so important in the long run. By
studying patterns we learn about all kinds of things.
Patterns in the market when learned will give us truths
that will allow us to profit; patterns in our minds will
give us truths to live by that will set us free (the
proper mindset); the patterns in Mr. Gann's past advertis-
ing habits will give us ironclad conclusive hard evidence
out of his own mouth that I have been giving you his master
time factor. He protects it so well by hiding it out in
the open (just like the ancients) and never really iden-
tifying it, but then his advertising habits allow us to
SEE it clearly. HERE COMES MY FINAL EVIDENCE. I WANT YOU TO KNOW WITH CONFIDENCE
THAT YOU KNOW HAVE MR. GANNS MASTER TIME FACTOR.
In my Appendix I you will find a complete copy of the August 1939
lesson that Mr. Gann had written 3 or 4 months before the
publication of this brochure. At the bottom of page 15 in the
brochure he describes the lessons that will be included
in the four-lesson course which he is calling his complete
course here (at other times in past advertising pieces
he has called the different courses by slightly different
names). At any rate when he describes Lesson III he calls it
Time Elements and Time Rules lesson. He doesn
t
call it by
the name "Forecasting By Time Cycles
11
that you see on the
Title page under his letterhead in my appendix I. But the
key to knowing that this is the lesson that he is talk-
ing about comes in the next sentence after Time Elements
and Time Rules. He says, "There is a definite relation be-
tween price and time. -" Then under appendix I, lesson entitled
"Forecasting By Time Cycles", the fourth paragraph down on
the title page starts with the sentence "There is a defi-
nite relation between TIME and PRICE." Mr. Gann always did
this- he would take one or more words or sentences directly
out of the thing he was going to sell and he would use
it or refer to it when he advertised it. Now I know
that you think that this is a trifling
55
thing and that I am pulling at straws but you need to just
bear with me because the fact that he has this habit of
doing this is going to show you for yourself without any
doubt that you NOW HAVE THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. You see going back to
the Course Description that we are considering; it is neces-
sary to identify which course that Mr. Gann was talking
about in his brochure because he had so many and different
ones at different times. It's like I changed certain parts
of my story in this booklet and sent some of you different
versions. To show you that the 1939 lesson on forecasting By
Time Cycles
11
is the one again that he is describing, look
back at that same paragraph "There is a definite relation
between Time and Price. -Then next sentence- "In the previous
Lessons you have learned about Formations and Resistance
Levels-
M
-Now look back to page 15 in the brochure and you see
the Lesson I and Lesson II matching the description and or-
der of this described course. This is all in the Stock
Market Course today. Now on page 16 he calls this same course
described on page 15 as his Course No. 2 Complete Course of In-
structions-consisting of Four Lessons -the ones we have
Just described except for the Volume Lesson which wasn't
important to my discussion. Now in this course No. 2, look
at the price, he says it is more complete than ones he has
sold for $5000 in the past, and he says that it is worth
$5000, but now in 1939-40 times are hard; so hard (he does-
n't say this-thats my observation) that he is going to
reduce it to $1000. No mention of the master time factor.
If this course is better than what he sold in past years
for $5000, then I'm glad I didn't get it, because I have
it now, you do too, if you have the Stock Market Course, and
I could not trade off it well enough to make any money with-
out knowledge of the master time factor. On page 16, look
at Course No. 1, that's the starter set for young people it
is Lesson 1 and 2 only and it costs half the price of
Course No. 2 because it is half the course. In case you
are wondering what the initials mean in the description of
Lesson 1 under Course No. 1, it means break-a-way points. Also
notice the difference in the description in this Lesson
1 in Course No. 1 and the description in Lesson 1 in
Course No. 2-; but, they are the same lesson in both cases,
just advertised in different words to appeal to different
pocketbooks and tastes.
P a g e 1 6 -b o t t o m o f p a g e - N o . 3 M a s t e r F o r e c a sti n g M e t ho d -
N O W W E COME TO THE "REAL McCOY", THE COURSE NO. 3, THE MASTER
FORECASTING METHOD, THE ONE WITH THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF THE MASTER
TIME FACTOR THAT YOU WILL EVER SEE IN MR. Gann

s OWN HANDWRITING. BUT

MY BACKGROUND INFORMATION THAT I HAVE BEEN GIVING YOU IN
W
MY STORY-A
SEARCH FOR W.D. Gann

s MASTER TIME FACTOR" IS THE THING THAT ALLOWS

YOU TO KNOW WHAT IT WAS AND HOW TO USE IT, BECAUSE MR. GANN STILL
DID NOT WRITE IT OUT AND SAY "HERE IS THE MASTER TIME FACTOR", EVEN
WHEN YOU PURCHASED THE COURSE. BECAUSE, LIKE THE ANCIENTS AND
ADEPTS, HE DIDN'T KNOW IF THE PEOPLE HE SOLD IT TO WOULD ALLOW
OTHERS TO COPY IT, OR RENT IT, OR GIVE IT AWAY TO FRIENDS, JUST
TO BRAG THAT THEY HAD THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. IF YOU WILL, IT WAS
HIS METHOD OF "COPY-PROTECTING" AS IS DONE TODAY WITH COMPUTER
SOFTWARE. I REALIZED THAT WHEN I SOLD THIS BROCHURE TODAY THAT I
WAS VIOLATING THIS
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PRINCIPLE, BUT I FELT THAT THE GOOD OF SHOWING THIS INFORMATION TO A SELECT FEW
SERIOUS STUDENTS THAT HAD WORKED HARD TO UNDERSTAND MR. GAHN'S TRADING
PHILOSOPHY VERSUS ITS POSSIBLE (PROBABLE) ABUSES WOULD MAKE IT WORTHWHILE TO DO SO.
HIS COMPLETE METHOD WHEN PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD BY USING THE MASTER TIME FACTOR AS THE
FOUNDATION AND THE REST OF HIS TECHNIQUES AND RULES AS THE BODY OF HIS TRADING SYSTEM IS
TOO VALUABLE TO BE ALLOWED TO GO TO WASTE BY LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND IT IS TOO
VALUABLE TO HAVE PEOPLE "TURNED OFF" BY ALL OF THE COUNTERFEIT ANALYSIS OF HIS
WORK THAT IS ALL TOO PREVALENT TODAY. BY MY SMALL, NOT WIDELY DISSEMINATED
PUBLICATION I HOPED TO ACCOMPLISH BOTH OF THE ABOVE OBJECTIVES AT THE SAME TIME.
FURTHER, I TRIED TO PUBLISH THIS VERY VALUABLE INFORMATION AT A PRICE THAT
EVERYMAN (includes everywoman) COULD AFFORD, SO THAT NO PERSON WHO DESERVED THIS
INFORMATION WOULD BE LEFT OUT. THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO EVER PAY ANYONE ELSE AGAIN
FOR MR. Gann

s MASTER TIME FACTOR. I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU. YES, GIVEN. I DID NOT
CHARGE YOU FOR MR. GANN'S MASTER TIME FACTOR, THAT WAS HIS DISCOVERY. I COULD NOT
CHARGE YOU FOR ANOTHER MAN'S WORK. I CHARGED YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THE MOST VALUABLE
COMMODITY THAT YOU HAVE. I CHARGED YOU FOR THE TIME THAT YOU WOULD HAVE HAD TO SPEND
OUT OF YOUR LIFE TO ACQUIRE THE INSIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE I HAVE GIVEN YOU IN THIS
BOOKLET ABOUT MR. Gann

s MASTER TIME FACTOR. AND- I TRIED TO PAY YOU- PAY YOU FOR ALL
THE HOURS THAT YOU HAD SPENT ON HIS WORK, TRYING TO FERRET OUT THE GRAINS OF GOLD
FROM THE DROSS OF MATERIAL AVAILABLE. FINALLY, I DID NOT BELIEVE THAT MR. GANN
WOULD HAVE WANTED HIS MATERIAL TO BE HARMFUL TO SINCERE STUDENTS, SO I TRIED TO PAY YOU
ON HIS BEHALF, SINCE HE COULD NO LONGER DO IT FOR HIMSELF. TIME-WILL TELL WHETHER I
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS OR NOT. Page 16-bottom of page- under "No. 3 Master
Forecasting Method
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-he says,
"
This Method contains all of the form Rules, Resistance
Level and Volume of Sales. -"----------- This is the same identical three lessons
that is in Course No.2 and the same identical lessons (except for Volume of Sales)
that is in Course NO. 1. BUT IT HAS A DIFFERENT LESSON ON TIME. IT IS NOT THE SAME
LESSON THAT IS COURSE NO. 1. COURSE NO. 1 HAS THE LESSON ENTITLED "FORECASTING BY
TIME CYCLES" AND WRITTEN AUGUST 3, 1939- IT IS IN MY APPENDIX I. COURSE NO. 3, THE
ONE WITH THE MASTER TIME FACTOR IN IT IS DIFFERENT IN REGARDS TO THE LESSON ON TIME
IN IT; IT HAS THE TIME LESSON ENTITLED SIMPLY, "FORECASTING" AND WAS WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER
1935. IT IS THE ONE THAT WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND IT IS IN MY APPENDIX
IV. READ AND COMPARE HOW THEY ARE DIFFERENT. SEE WHAT HE LEFT OUT OF THE LATER ONE
AND TRY TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHAT HIS REASONS WERE FOR CHANGING CERTAIN
PARTS, SECTIONS, AND WORDS.
Look at the same sentence in the brochure on page 16, in the paragraph that we
are discussing. He says, "and my secret discovery of the Master Time Factor and a
new way of Forecasting by Mathematical Rules that are simple and practical."HERE WE
HAVE THE CONCLUSIVE PROOF OF WHAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU. Go to you lesson called
simply "FORECASTING", the one I have been calling the master time factor lesson,
the one in my Appendix IV; look at page F-9, the first sentence under the heading,
1929 FORECAST; it says, "According to my discovery of the 60 year
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cycle--" -- See the use of his language! Even now after, you
would have ordered his No. 3 Course, he does not come out
and say this is my master time factor; but by studying
his advertising habits in the past, we know that this
thing that he calls in the advertising brochure "my se-
cret discovery of the Master Time Factor" and the words
that he uses in the lesson itself on page F-9, "my dis-
covery" tells us that he is now talking about the master
time factor. You see he left out the word "secret" in the
actual material, because if someone pirated it, they
might understand it; but in the sales brochure he was
advertising to get your business, and therefore, he
called it what it really was-"his SECRET DISCOVERY OF THE MASTER
TIME FACTOR. That, dear readers, is your much sought after, much
talked about master time factor. You are one of only a few
that now know what it is. Don

t you think that it would be a

good idea to keep it that way? AT LEAST UNTIL YOU HAVE HAD AN
OPPORTUNTITY TO GO BACK AND APPLY HIS OTHER RULES WITH NEW UNDERSTANDING TO YOUR OWN
TRADING SITUATION. IT WILL TAKE TIME AND WORK ON YOUR PART FOR YOU TO LEARN JUST HOW
VALUABLE THIS INFORMATION IS. YOU MAY NOT IMMEDIATELY SEE ITS VALUE, BUT IT IS
THERE, ITS JUST THAT YOU MAY NEED TO CHANGE YOUR SELF (MINDSET) SOMEWHAT. I
HAVE BEEN TRYING TO HELP YOU THERE TOO.
Page 16-bottom of page- same sentence that we have been
analyzing, to continue, -"and a new way of Forecasting by
Mathematical Rules that are simple and practical."That new
way of forecasting is reflected under the heading, RULES FOR
FUTURE CYCLES, on page F-3 in the master time factor les-
son, but the part that he called the "Mathematical" part
of the forecasting, that is based on pages F-6 and F-7
under the heading Bull and Calendar Years on page F-6. He
says that part (the mathematical part) is simple and prac-
tical. And counting 1 through 10 once, then twice is the
simplest math that you can come up with. He tells you in
the second paragraph under the heading Bull and Bear Calen-
dar Years, that "All you have to learn is to count the
digits on your fingers in order to ascertain what kind
of a year the market is in". NOW, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD CALL SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL
MATH. WOULDN'T YOU?
Page 17-Top of Page-under the heading "MATHEMATICAL RULES OR
REASONS:"-The first sentence reads, "It is possible to
get as many as nine confirmations or reasons why a stock
should be bottom or top at a certain time and the greater
number of confirmations the surer the chances of making
profits."This sentence relates to information that he gave
in Lesson 2 of the 4 Lessons included in the No. 3 Course
(the one with the master time factor in it). This Lesson
2 was entitled "RESISTANCE LEVELS" and is not included in
my app endi ces. It is i n the present day W.D. GANN STOCK MARKET
COURSE AND IS PAGES 293 THROUGH 311- The nine confirmations he is
talking about begin on page 309, under the heading "NINE PROOFS
OF RESISTANCE" and continues to half-way of page 309- (If
you have an older course than my copy, you may find that
the page #s are not the same).
Page 17-2nd par a. -In the last sentence of this paragraph
he says,
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"This course gives mathematical proof of how I forecast the
1929 Bull Market and the Panic which followed to 1932.
"--
Again,
from Mr. Gann

s advertising habits, we find another proof

that I have given you the master time factor. Look on page F-
9 of the master time factor lesson under the heading-"1929
FORECAST"-read both paragraphs; also, in the last sentence of
the 2nd paragraph under that heading, he says, "There is no
other way, outside of using the 20 and 60-year cycle that
we could have forecast this great bull campaign and its culmi-
nation so closely in 1929."THERE YOU HAVE AGAIN, IN MR. GANN'S OWN
WORDS, PROOF, that I have given you Mr. Gann

s master time factor in

my booklet, "My Story-A Search For W.D. Gann

s Master Time Fac-

tor". If I had had any doubts that his master time factor
could have been anything else, I would never have charged
you for your time. But I have gone into so much detail,
BECAUSE, I wanted you to SEE IT clearly, because this is go-
ing to be the base (foundation) of your future use of Mr.
Gann

s trading system.
Again, I will summarize for those of you who want to compile
this No. 3 Course-MASTER FORECASTING METHOD- as advertised on pages 16
and 17 of the brochure. The Course consisted of Lesson 1-

FORM
READING and RULES FOR DETERMINING TREND OF STOCKS

(today, you will f i n d

tha t les s o n i n the S toc k C ou rs e o n p ag es 3 1 thr oug h 55);
Lesson 2-
"
RESISTANCE LEVELS" (today, you will find that lesson
in the Stock Course on pages 293 through 311); Lesson 3-
"FORECASTING" (it contains the master time factor and is not
presently in any of Mr. Gann

s published books or courses,

but it is giv en to yo u i n it's e ntire ty in my Ap pend ix
IV, and I ha ve been referring to it as the master time fac-
tor lesson); Lesson 4-"VOLUME OF SALES" (today, you will find
this lesson in the Stock Course on pages 128 through 144). THE ABOVE
GIVES YOU THE ENTIRE COURSE NO. 3 AS ADVERTISED BY MR. GANN IN 1939- HE CHARGED
2 AND ONE-HALF TIMES MORE FOR THIS COURSE THAN HE CHARGED FOR WHAT HE CALLED HIS
COMPLETE COURSE (COURSE NO. 1). THIS WAS IN 1939 DOLLARS AND IT IS THE MOST
VALUABLE OF ALL HIS COURSES BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. HE DID NOT
TELL YOU WHAT YOU NEEDED TO KNOW TO USE THIS MASTER TIME FACTOR, NOR DID HE TELL
YOU WHAT IT WAS THAT HIS MASTER TIME FACTOR WAS BASED ON; BUT I HAVE TOLD YOU THE
ANSWERS TO BOTH OF THE THINGS HE DIDN'T TELL YOU; AND, I HAVE ONLY CHARGED YOU FOR
YOUR TIME, BECAUSE WHAT I REALLY WANTED YOU TO SEE WASN
'
T THE MASTER TIME FACTOR, BUT MY
CREED.
Now you have been given the best proof that I am able to
give you, that, you do, in fact, have in your possession,
the master time factor. The best proof that you can give
yourself is to go back and begin reading and studying all
the Gann rules with the "new light" that you now have. If
you will learn and acquire knowledge before you trade you
will be successful.
There are 3 more pages of this brochure that we have been
analyzing. I have given you my best evidence already, but
there is more useful information in the last 3 pages too,
so we will cover them too and we will have the added benefit
of acquiring a habit of finishing what we start.
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Page 17-the part under the heading, "WHY YOU CAN MAKE MORE PROFITS
TRADING IN COMMODITIES THAN STOCKS" the first paragraph, he says, "In
trading according to my Mechanical Method & Trend Indicator or ac-
cording to my 1936 New Master Forecasting Methods on Cotton, Grains,
Rubber and other commodities there are many advantages over trad-
ing in stocks"-. Then he lists the advantages. This paragraph
allows me the opportunity to address the situation that I had
when I advertised my brochure. I lost most of my orders because
commodity traders did not want to know anything about the stock
market. They had the same mindset regarding the stock market
that I, myself, had and the one which I have been describing
to you in my story. They refused to see the value in what I
was offering (even though I used the master time factor it-
self), because it was not what they wanted to hear or it was
not what they thought they wanted to hear; they wanted something
that would tell them all the tops and bottoms in the commodity
market that they wanted to trade. I had many people respond to my
advertisement by saying, "I only trade beans-I don

t trade
stocks, your brochure didn't mention beans, it only mentioned
stocks; if it doesn

t cover beans, then I am not interested

in it". I used to feel that same way myself. I was a bean
trader. I didn't want to know anything about stocks. I re-
jected the stock market as being valueless to me. That mistake
in my mindset is what cost me so dearly in time and money. You
see, I didn't seem to care whether I could make PROFITS, BUT, I
JUST SEEMED TO CARE THAT I COULD TRADE BEANS! My mindset confused trading a particu-
lar market with trading for profits. I couldn't tell these
people that wanted the master time factor to be about beans (or
gold, wheat, cattle, bellies, etc.) that it would be that way.
THE TRUTH IS WHERE WE FIND IT; NOT WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE. (Fortunately, for us
the truth is everywhere, but most easily found in that which we
reject as having no value; once we find it in the refuse, then
we can go back and find it in the places where we. once
searched so vainly.) There are a couple of good reasons that I
could not address the bean market (and other commodities). One
PRIMARY reason is that I did not have the adequate data in the
form of prices back to 1901 (or further). Without the data, I
could not tell you how the master time factor would work with the
different types of commodities. I knew that beans did not always
follow stock prices. I had the data In the stock market in the
form of the Dow-Jones Averages that I could carry back to 1901, AND I
HAD MR. GANN'S STOCK MARKET LESSON ON THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. (Actually, I
had it for a long time, I was just unable to be aware of it because I
INSISTED ON SEARCHING FOR IT IN MY BEAN MARKET.) Now that I have the
stock market master time factor and the data accumulated, AND THE
VEHICLE (stock indices futures and options) TO TRADE IT, why do I
need to insist that I have to trade something else that I
don't have the data on, but just simply like to trade (out of
habit). Of course, if you are making profits consistently in
whatever you are trading, then you should hold fast to that
which is already working. If you are a hedger, and you want to
use the master time factor in your particular commodity, you
will have to develop your own data back in time or get someone
to do it for you. I am
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in the process right now of acquiring data back in time to i860 on several different
commodities. Until that time I will not try to utilize the master time factor with
other trading vehicles, because I have seen that each has its own variations. I only
need one vehicle to specialize in and if I am a speculator, I already have it, as I
said above.
Mr. Gann says in that paragraph on page 17 that his master forecasting methods
work on all commodities as well as his method works on stocks. But, I can't prove that
at this point, simply because I don

t have the necessary data. But I can (and will) get

it. You can too. We just have to do some work and searching. Do you understand what
I'm saying? In the meantime, while we are acquiring the data in these other com-
modities that we want to trade, we can study and learn to use what we have al-
ready. My creed tells you that if you want something, FIRST USE WHAT YOU ALREADY
HAVE AT HAND, and then the other things that you need, will come. Besides, Mr. Gann
did not have the stock indices to trade as we now have. It is my opinion that he
would have told you to trade the stock indices if he had had them, because his mas-
ter time factor apparently works better with the Stock Averages than with any-
thing else. Therefore, until we can acquire data, and do better, every one of these
comments about trading commodities that he mentions on pages 17 and 18 apply
equally well (perhaps MORE APTLY) to the stock indices and options that we can trade
today. WE HAVE A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY HERE-THINK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES! I tell
you-FOR THE GANN TRADER, THE STOCK INDEX MARKET CAN BECOME "KING" FOR A LONG
TIME TO COME. Page 18-under heading, "FORECASTING METHOD ON COTTON OR GRAIN
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-right
under that he says, Contains Master Time Factor". Now, there are many more things
that I have not been able to tell you about Mr. Gann's work. My goal in this booklet was
stated. I only wanted to show you the path where you can start. I hope I have done
that. I have tried to show you that you can start in the stock market index or op-
tions. For those of you who Insist in only looking at beans and agricultural mar-
kets (if you are a hedger, this is understandable), I am going to show you a path
that you can start on in your search for the master time factor in grains. On page
18, when he says that his Forecasting Method on Cotton or Grain Contains the Mas-
ter Time Factor, we have another clue available to us. If you have the W.D.
Gann Commodities Course, you will find the nearest version to what he is talking
about in the Chapter #6, entitled, "the basis of my forecasting method for cotton
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. In
my course it starts on page 68 and goes through page 89 But the part that contains the
master time factor that he is referring to starts on page 80 under the heading,
"forecasting cotton by time cycles". Now, you will note there, that the 60-year cycle
is the same old master time factor that we have in the stock market, but if you
have learned ANYTHING from my story and the Importance of OBSERVING, you may see
some different possibilities for the importance of certain time factors within the
master periods. Also, you know what the time cycles represent; therefore, I have given
you the knowledge (sincere Gann student) where to begin in agricultural
commodities. Just because the 20 year period is the most
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important factor within the master time periods (and is
therefore, also the same thing of which it is a part)
of the STOCK MARKET, it does not have to hold true to the same
degree in the grain markets, there can be other factors
within the grain markets that are more important than the
20 year period. If you don't understand this now you need to
study my story more and Mr. Gann

s work then you will SEE.

Naturally, you must first acquire good clean data far enough
back and you must organize it into the proper format to be
useful to you.
There are 19 pages in this small, overlooked, pretty-well unknown
advertising brochure that we have been analyzing. On the
19th page, Mr. Gann gives some pretty good advice, and the
title of the brochure, "LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE OR WHY YOU HAVE LOST MONEY IN
STOCKS AND HOW TO MAKE IT BACK" tells you the truth too. But, the
most appropriate way that I can think to end this chapter
is by paraphrasing the last paragraph on Page 18, the one un-
der the heading, "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER".
Webster said: "The man who can teach me something is the man I
want to know." You may think my price is high, but stop to
consider that you have the use of these Methods during
your entire lifetime and that the knowledge I have given you
about Mr. Ganns knowledge will be worth the money you paid me.
You can easily lose in the market on one trade the price
you paid me for my story, and the market leaves you with no
valuable knowledge after your losses. LEARN TO SEE AND KNOW FOR YOURSELF WHAT
COMMODITIES AND STOCKS WILL DO; THEN YOU WILL MAKE A SUCCESS.
Well we are approaching dusk in my story. But before the sun
goes down, while there is still light, I will try to show
you a path that you can take which will lead you to more in-
sight about Mr. Ganns Master Time Factor. That is what "a
seeker" is supposed to do; just find the path. I can tell you
again that the best, most rewarding path leads to Appendix V.
"THE SEEKER'S CREED
"
. Its the one just beyond the master time
factor appendix. I told you earlier that they probably go
together!
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CHAPTER 8
HERE IS A PATH. YOU COULD TRY THIS ONE
Well-, I have come quite a "way" from where I first stumbled into
the Gann jungle. It was such a big wilderness with so many
dangers. I have tried most of the paths that I saw in there
and I got "banged-up" and bruised pretty-badly on some of those
paths. Finally I climbed a mountain by the name of "Master Time
Factor" and it allowed me to get high enough to see the sur-
rounding t erri tory . I t hen sa w t hat I di dn't ha ve to go
t hrou gh t hat jungle to find what I was looking for. I had it
already. Right with me. So do you. I didn't want you to have
to go into the jungle like I did. So I thought that I would
write my story for you so that if you did insist going into the
Jungle, you would at least be able to travel easier than I
did.
If I were looking for a proper course to take now that I "know"
what Mr. Gann's master time factor is, I would study the maps
(charts) in great detail. I would go back and check every one
of his forecasts so that I could see where he was right and
where he was wrong. I would log those details and see if his
right ones were more right at certain times and if his wrong ones
were more wrong at certain times. I can tell you that he was
not always right. But he was right more than anyone else that
I studied. I would realize, if I were looking for a proper
course to take, that no forecasting tool is always correct
and I would never expect more from any market tool than it could
deliver. What has happened in the past seems to happen in the fu-
ture to a certain extent, but hardly ever to the same extent. We CAN
NEVER BE TOO SURE THAT SOME EVENT IN THE MARKET WILL OR WILL NOT OCCUR. WE MUST NOT ALLOW
AN ABSOLUTE MINDSET TO TAKE CONTROL OF OUR PRUDENCE. Mr. Gann sometimes made this
very common human mistake. If you have his book "45 Years In Wall
Street
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, there is a sub-book inside of it by the name "NEW STOCK TREND
DETECTOR", if you turn to page 26 in that sub-book you will find the
heading, "WILL STOCKS GO BACK TO 1929 HIGHS?
"
. Mr. Gann gave the answer, "I am
confident that the Dow-Jones 30 Industrial Averages will NEVER
sell at 386 again". Mr. Gann should have known better than to
make a statement like that. He made this statement in the lat-
ter part of 1935, but he included the material in a book that
he published in the summer of 1949, so he still believed it
then. Remember, he would rarely, if ever, publish something that
he thought might not prove true in a book, because it was then
"set in stone" so to speak and he had a remarkable record of cor-
rect forecasts and it does not look good for a forecaster to have
bad forecasts lying around in books where anyone can see them. So,
I believe, that even in 1949 he still believed his statement
that he made on page 26.
I will tell you why he believed it after we look at another
forecast he made in the same book "45 YEARS IN WALL STREET", but by now
when you see the forecast, you will know why he said what
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he did, because, now you have the master time factor. On page 130
of that book, he says, under the heading, "Future Trend of
Stocks", -"The Master Time cycle which I have used to forecast
every important boom and depression or panic for more than 30
years, will in my opinion accurately forecast the next panic.
"
-
He is writing this in the summer of 1949. He goes on to say, on
page 131, "My cycle theory indicates that the business boom fol-
lowing the war ended in 1948 and that the trend is now down."
In the next paragraph he says, "My study of time cycles Indi-
cates that the business depression will get worse in the last
half of 1950 and in 1951 and 1952 we will run into real panicky
and depressing conditions which the government will be unable to
cope with." Finally, on page 132, under the heading, "Preview
of 1951 to 1953", he says, "1951 and 1952 indicate very depressing
years for business and a bear market in stocks. Many stocks will
go much lower than people ever dreamed they could go.
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You see, of course, that he was looking for the top to come in
1948, or 1949, just as in the past, and then the sharp bear
market from 50, 51> 52. Look again on page 129 of the same book.
He says, "The depression and panic will come before the New Deal (Roo-
sevelt Administration carried on by Truman) goes out of office in
1953. NOTHING CAN PREVENT IT. PANIC AND DEPRESSION HAVE ALWAYS FOLLOWED WAR.
W
See he
is forecasting by his master time factor. But look at my charts. This
time he was wrong. Or was it that the master time factor was
wrong? Its the same thing, because all of his forecasts are
based on the master time factor. But often it is a very valu-
able tool for forecasting. Look at how it has been working for
the 1941-1944, 1961-1964, 198l-19current periods. Do you begin to
see how it can be useful to you? Its not perfect. I want you to
see that here in my booklet. I don

t want you to find that out

in the market. You must have learned from my story that you must
exercise prudence.
O.K., then where is the path? First, you go back to studying his
method. You review with whatever materials that you have on hand
or that you want to acquire. In particular, you look at every
forecast, right and wrong, and you look at my monthly charts and
see what happened and didn

t happen. You now look at his rules

again and understand what he meant by double, triple, bottoms and
tops, etc. We haven

t gotten into studying price cycles in this

booklet, because I couldn't cover all those things. But you
can apply the same studies to price that we have to time. Don't
worry about the angles. They are not the same as they were when
Mr. Gann created his rules (by empiricism). All they were and
are is the division of circles of different time periods and
different price cycles and the relationship of the two to-
gether. As I told you, old astrologers utilized ANGLES as ASPECTS,
which is the division of the circles. YOU CAN USE ANGLES TODAY, BUT YOU MUST
CREATE THEM THE SAME WAY THAT MR. GANN DID, BY EMPIRICISM. But you are free to do
that, now, because you have the master time factor and they
were created to reflect movements at the time of the 1901-1920,
1921-1940, cycles. You have the FREEDOM, now to experiment with all
these things, now that you "know" why he had them and what he was
looking at. Squaring price and time of
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course was the same as using the angles, that is what we
are talking about, the relationship that occurred when the
angles squared out. Now you will be able to go back and
really study these relationships and see what they were telling
him. YOU MUST OBSERVE. Pay attention to all the patterns
within a cycle and over all the cycles. For instance, you
have seen where Mr. Gann would be talking about a cycle and
he would say that one time period put a base or foundation
on a cycle and that other time periods would make up the
walls and that another would make up the ceiling or top of a
cycle. Just like in a building, he would say. LOOK AT MY CHARTS.
LAY THEM OUT 1,2,3- FROM BOTTOM TO TOP (SHEETS). LOOK AT THE CYCLE FROM 1901-1920 IN
YELLOW ON SHEET 1. THEN LOOK AT THE SHEETS 3 AND PART OF TWO. ALSO IN YELLOW FROM 1961-
1980. NOW WALK AROUND THE SHEETS LAID OUT 1,2,3- AND LOOK AT THEM FROM THE TOP TO
BOTTOM DOWN. Do you notice the similarities between the top one and
the bottom one (in the swings-ignore price, we aren't talk-
ing about price; we are talking about bottom cycles and top
cycles and walls in between them). These are the types of
things that you must observe.
Check each zone in the 5th year of the 20-year cycle. What
happened to the price swings, generally, in the 5th year?
Would you want to approach that 5th year market from the
short side? How would you write your rules to trade that 5th
year? What could you have worked out in the 4th year and
said, "I will start out on January 1st, and I will look
for ....; then if that happens... or new.... takes
place.... etc. I will put my stop;..." You must do these
things for yourself. YOU HAVE LOTS OF WORK TO DO, BUT THERE ARE REWARDING
PROFITS WAITING. You must look at monthly chart as THE MAIN TREND, but
you will have to use the weekly charts to see what is Inside of
the monthly charts; then you can catch your entries, pyra-
mids, and exits from the daily or semi-daily charts-BUT ONLY IN
CONJUNCTION WITH THE ABOVE TWO MOST IMPORTANT CHARTS. You understand WHAT THE MAIN
TREND IS NOW, don

t you?
It appears that there may have been a "shift" in the cy-
cles during the period of 1948-on. Mr. Gann, you will
recall, forecasted panics and depressions that did not come.
Instead new all-time highs took place. With the proper rules
(which you can devise for yourself) you can still utilize
the master time factor (and others that you can study and
learn) to trade times like these. But one question that
occurs to me is whether, the time cycles may have begun to
perform differently after 1940. I think that there is some
basis for suspecting that they have changed somewhat. I
won't get in to that here but it may have something to do
with the "natural man age" that I talked about earlier. I
have lots of Interesting research that I want to do now and
I am sure that you will have lots that you want to do.
The most important thing for you to do is to develop your
own trading rules based on what you WILL BEGIN to see as you go
back and study Mr. Gann

s trading method with the new insight

that you have about time. His rules are all useful. Some
will be more useful to you than others. But, YOU NEED TO CREATE YOUR RULES
FOR YOURSELF, YOUR OWN SITUATION. Make sure you understand what it is
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that you want to do.
I do not want telephone calls, because they interfere with
things that I try to do each day and one phone call sometimes
throws my whole day off schedule. But if you want to write
me a short statement about yourself, your situation,
capital that you are using, time that you have for the
market, and time that you have for study, your objectives
in the market, problems you have had or are having, what
rules you are using or trying to use; I will try to re-
spond with whatever comments that I can. Of course, what-
ever you write will be confidential. I am willing to act
as your "sounding board
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, if you will. However, you must
have written out your own rules and tell me how you plan to
use them and tell me enough about your situation that I can
see what you are trying to do. I am not soliciting this
from you. You understand? Just if it will help. And,
again, I am certainly not implying that I know the answers.
I am just offering to look at what I can.
Well, there is the path. Looks rocky already, huh? I never
said that it would be smooth. I just promised to show you a
path that started with "The Master Time Factor". And I
have kept my promise.
The master time factor is probably not what you thought it
would be. It wasn't what I used to think it would be.
But that's the way it is. There must have been some reason
for you searching for it. There was a reason for me
searching for it. I found the reason. It was so that I
could find MY TREASURE at the end of one of the dead-end
paths that I took when I was looking for the master time
factor. My treasure is called "THE SEEKER'S CREED". I will share
my treasure with you if you want me too.
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CHAPTER 9
W
THE
SEEKER'S CREED
11
I have been telling you throughout my whole story that the
most valuable thing that I found in my search for Mr. Gann

s
Master Time Factor was my old discarded set of beliefs
that I had dropped by the wayside in my search for exotic
treasures of the market place.
It is true. If I never make any money in the market or if I
never trade the market again, it is not important. WHAT IS
IMPORTANT is that I have found something that allows me to
conduct my life in the proper manner. I plan to trade the
markets. I KNOW that I will make profits using Mr. Gann's
method based on the master time factor. (I already have,
but if I don

t I will STOP trading until I find out what is

wrong.) BUT THE MARKET IS OF INCONSEQUENTIAL IMPORTANCE; MY LIFE AND MY
FAMILY AND MY NEIGHBORS AND MY COUNTRY AND YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR NEIGHBORS AND YOUR
COUNTRY ARE THE IMPORTANT THINGS FOR US TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT, FOR THERE IS WHERE THE
REAL LONG LASTING TREASURE LIES.
" T h e S e e k e r ' s C r e e d " i s a g u i d e t o t h e n a t u r a l l a w s o f t h e
universe. It requires thinking and acting on what you see in the
guide. It allows you the distilled knowledge of all the
past throughout the history of the human race. It gives you
the WISDOM to protect and preserve those important things
mentioned above. It is broken down into ten parts, just
like my story, and just like Mr. Gann's counting of the
decades in his master time cycles. The first question in
this booklet asked, Where Can WISDOM be found? The last an-
swer in this booklet tells you where you can find WISDOM. WISDOM
is found in "The Seeker's Creed". As always WISDOM is found in the
circle.
You can even find information about how to trade the market
in the Seeker's Creed. Look under Section IX. LAW OF TIME, CYCLES,
RHYTHMS, SEASONS. But be sure to read the other nine sections.
Don

t just read them, put them into practice. In your

business, in your health, in your family affairs, and
yes in the market, you will find that the practice and
proper use of this Seeker

s Creed will do wonders for you.

The concepts given in the Seeker's Creed were nuggets of
gold found in all my seeking throughout all the strange
places I had looked in during my lifetime. None of them
are mine. I just picked them up. That

s the way it is with REAL

TREASURE. Its just there for the having. Its not stealing
when you pick it up. Its yours. It was meant for you and
me. As I said, none of these ideas were mine I gleaned
them from great souls over the ages. But they don

t care
if you and I use them. And I don

t care if you use them. Make

copies of "THE SEEKER
'
S CREED" in Appendix V. and give them to all
whom you think can benefit from knowing the natural laws and
principles that govern the universe.
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If the seeker's creed seems too long to you, just take
out and use what you need. It was written to cover any and
all situations that a seeker may encounter off in some wild
forsaken no man
e
s land. It was also written to allow the
seeker to look at every side of the same "elephant", be-
cause the seeker has a bad habit of building blinders and
mindsets that keep him from seeing clearly.
If you want to know what is the most important piece
of information that I can tell you after my long years
of searching for the mysteries of the markets and life, I
WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT THE SEEKER'S CREED CONTAINS ALL THE GREATEST
MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE COMPILED INTO ONE BOOKLET. THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THESE
MYSTERIES PERFORM WONDERFUL FEATS BUT THEY HAVE TO BE LIVED RATHER THAN JUST READ
AND NO ONE KNOWS WHY THEY WORK!
In the next and final chapter, I will do just that.
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CHAPTER 10 FOR ME - THE CLOSING OF A
CIRCLE
Now I'm at the sunset of my story day. Like any regular day,
my time has passed all too quickly. That's the way it is
with time. It will not stand still for us. We must go
with it. It will not wait for us. There are many things
that I wanted to tell you in my story day, but now the
sun is going down and it (time) will not wait for me to
tell you. The working time is gone and just as in every
day, the things that we wanted to do may not all get
done.
In looking back over my story the time seems to have been so
far away when I first began my search for W.D. Gann

s Master
Time Factor. Yet, it seems only yesterday. But-when I
look in the mirror of life and reality, I see that time
has been here. My hair is beginning to gray and I can feel
that I had a wearisome journey in my Gann trip. But that's
the way it is with seeking. It takes time and it causes
you a few knocks and bruises (and gray hairs).
And that's the way it is with time. With the master time
factor the scores of years just keep rolling along. But we
seekers, we just have three scores and ten (at the time) to
do our seeking in before the sun sets. IF THE MASTER TIME FACTOR
is inside of us (and my seeking has taught me that it is);
then we need to be sure that what we spend our time seek-
ing is worth the time that we have to pay for it with. Be-
cause, the final currency that we must use to pay for eve-
rything, is the time of our lives. The essence.
Fortunately for me, I was able to find a great treasure-a
REAL TREASURE- behind the secondary one, the one that I
thought was the final answer to the markets. Now, I had to pay
a GREAT PRICE for this REAL TREASURE, because of the way I went
about looking for it. I could have used much less of my final
currency if I had looked around my own yard before I went
off to the exotic, faraway places seeking mysterious treas-
ures.
The circle has come full now. One thing that I learned was
that my creed really works. When I first advertised my
brochure in late June of this year (1983), I knew what the
master time factor was; I had not even the slightest
doubt, but I had no way to properly prove it in Mr. Gann's
own words. Nor was I convinced that I should write my
story; but I felt a compulsion to do so; almost like my
compulsion to search for the master time factor. So, I
just went with the teaching of my creed, and said that I
would start what I felt to be the right thing. I would use
what I had at hand (the desire to tell other seekers my
story) and if it were meant for me to finish the story, fine,
if not I WOULD CLOSE THIS CIRCLE OF MY LIFE, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. But,
I still lacked the firm evidence that I needed to show without
doubt that I had
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found Mr. Gann

s Master Time Factor. On August 7, 1983, after my ad-

vertisement was already out and I was getting response, MY
SUPPLY came in. It came in the form of "Learn Before You Lose-
"
which you have seen in my Appendix III, exactly as it came to
me. I had never seen nor dreamed that such a document ex-
isted and I had searched all over for all of Mr. Gann's docu-
ments and papers. You have witnessed the actual working of "The
Seeker's Creed" in action. I had started something that I
felt great desire to do (not knowing why, because I am a
very private seeker and did not nor do not want publicity
of any kind, nor did I want to reveal Mr. Gann's master
time factor); then I used what I had at hand, did the best
I could and let nature (if you want to call it that) take
its course. Nature's course was to do what it always does.
It gave me the supply once I created the need. And IT did
it in the most curious strange fashion (as always).
The document came to me through a friend only 14 miles away,
right in my yard, so to speak. This friend had lived
right there for years and years, and I had met him at the
first seminar I had attended in Florida. But we had never
known one another (this is a rural area). Even then, after
meeting him in Florida we never really got to know one an-
other well, until the last few months (as it became time
for my story to be told). My friend knew that I was writing
my story, but he didn't know that I didnt have the thing
that I needed to give undisputed evidence. One night, Au-
gust 6, 1983, he told me in a casual phone conversation that
a friend had sent him a copy of an old Gann sales brochure and
he wondered if I had seen it. Of course I had all of Mr.
6ann
f
s old ad pieces that I had been able to find and I
assumed that I had that one too, - so did my friend. But
he started reading the name of one of them to me and I had
never heard of it. I went to his home the very next morning
and....now you have it in appendix III. Coincidence? Maybe?
But I got the supply that I so badly needed and this story
would not have been told without it. Stranger still is
that my friend in Dillon, S.C, 14 miles away had a friend
in Mississippi who had sent the brochure to him, and that
friend turned out to be the same person that was the
first one to order my booklet. Naturally, I felt obligated
to send him a complimentary copy because, without him the
story would not have been written either. What a strange
curious circular story.
I could not close this story without acknowledging that my
friend who lives 14 miles away has been the greatest possible
help in my story. I simply could not have completed this
story without his help. He supplied my badly needed CONCLUSIVE
EVIDENCE. He did my weekly charts for me in Appendix VII. He en-
couraged me to finish my story whether I published it or not.
I had looked all over the country for someone to create some
computer software for me that would allow me to do research
that I want to do after this story is completed. As usual, I
learned that the BEST GANN AND MARKET COMPUTER EXPERT that I had
found anywhere was right here in my back yard, only 14 miles
away. I also learned that this friend that helped me so
much was already practicing a creed similar to mine, even
though he didn't even know I had a creed. I must thank him.
Without his help there would not have been the telling of
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this story. He has the most valuable piece of computer
software for researching the market that I have seen any-
where. I predict that some day in the not too distant fu-
ture his software and his company will be a household name for
commodity and stock traders and researchers.
Also, I want to thank Interstelle Communications, Tucson, Ari-
zona for their idea for the cut of the man holding the
lamp (hermit) and for their excellent handling of my ad-
vertisement in Commodities magazine. I told you I was
"lucky". I always seem to find the right people at the
right time.
I could not conclude this story without mentioning to you
that I also heard from "my friend"; you know, the one who took
the "SUBSTANTIAL" amount of money from me and gave me nothing in
return. He called me for some "reason"; the first time I
had heard from him since I had "given up" when the man at
the bank said he had never heard of him. "My friend" said
that he called me to let me know that he had been thinking
about how he had done me and that he was sorry about the whole
thing and that he didn

t know why he had done me that way.

This call came on Sunday morning, the 14th day of August,
1983- "My friend" said that he was going to open a savings
account and from time to time put money in there until he
had it all "back to me". My creed has taught me that you
judge a tree by the fruit it" produces. I sure hope that
savings account doesn't get in the wrong bank and gets misla-
beled "children's hospital
11
. But my creed teaches me that I
must forgive
"
my friend" because if I want forgiveness for my
errors, then I must first forgive In order that I may
be forgiven. Besides, harboring bad thoughts hampers one's
attention from the real task at hand; -seeking. If you are
going to be a seeker you cannot allow distractions to
color your vision. It must be clear so that you can ob-
serve all the little things.
I have sent a complimentary copy of My Story-A Search For W.D.
Ganns Master Time Factor to my friend" because I knew that
he had searched long and hard for the master time factor (and
would probably NEVER find it, if didn't g ive it to him);
and because he, like you and I, and all "Seekers" have been
promised that "If you seek, you will find. If you knock, the
door will be opened". And I sent a copy to "my friend" be-
cause I told you I had first GIVEN him the thing that I PAID HIM
FOR, WHICH HE DID NOT HAVE, BUT WHICH I ALREADY 'HAD AND GAVE TO HIM, AND HE
SOLD ME THAT WHICH HE DID NOT HAVE, BUT I GAVE HIM WHAT WE WERE BOTH LOOKING FOR. I
GAVE HIM THE CREED IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS CIRCLE AND NOW AT THE ENDING OF THIS
CIRCLE I GIVE HIM HIS LONG SOUGHT AFTER MASTER TIME FACTOR. BUT I WANT HIM TO KNOW
THAT I HAVE LEARNED THAT THE FIRST WAS MORE VALUABLE THAN THE LAST, AND THAT WITHOUT THE
FIRST AS THE BEGINNING (BASE) THE LAST IS NO GOOD. And I gave him a copy of
this booklet to demonstrate again to myself and you and him
and any seeker that may read this little booklet in the fu-
ture that my creed says, THAT IF YOU PAY THE PRICE THE THING IS YOURS,
NATURAL LAW AS REVEALED IN MY CREED SAYS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE PAID THE PRICE AND KEPT
YOUR BARGAIN (WITH LIFE), THAT YOU WILL NOT BE DEPRIVED OF WHAT YOU PAID FOR;
NATURE (if you want to
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call it that) WILL COMPENSATE YOU IF NO ONE ELSE DOES. JUST
LIVE BY YOUR CREED OF NATURAL LAWS AND LET THE REST TAKE CARE OF
ITSELF.
And finally, I gave a copy to "my friend" so that I could
close this circle for me, for him, for you, and for Mr.
Gann. Because, we are back to the beginning of a true
story of a strange and curious search for a strange and cu-
rious secret of a strange and curious man who died almost 30
years ago. --Oh! -I am writing the preface again. Well-
GOOD SEEKING,
"THE SEEKER"
September 28, 1983
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APPENDIX I "FORECASTING BY TIME
CYCLES
"
WRITTEN: August 3, 1939 BY:
W.D. GANN
BACKGROUND:
THIS IS WORD FOR WORD THE FOURTH CHAPTER IN THE PRESENT W.D. GANN STOCK MARKET
COURSE (pages 90-106). THIS COMPLETE COURSE CAN BE PURCHASED FROM LAMBERT-GANN
PUBLISHING CO. INC., BOX 0, POMEROY, WASHINGTON 99347. IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE
MR. GANN'S METHODS, THIS COURSE IS WORTH YOUR MONEY. AGAIN, I HAVE NO
CONNECTION WHATSOEVER WITH THE PUBLISHER.
I THANK LAMBERT-GANN PUBLISHING CO. FOR PERMISSION TO COPY THIS 1939 LESSON BY
MR. GANN. I HAVE INCLUDED IT SO THAT YOU CAN COMPARE THIS LESSON WHICH MR.
GANN APPARENTLY PUBLISHED IN ALL HIS REGULAR STOCK COURSES, TO THE LESSON HE
PUBLISHED EARLIER (NOVEMBER 1935) WHICH CONTAINED THE MASTER TIME FACTOR AND
WHICH HE APPARENTLY QUIT PUBLISHING EXCEPT IN THE COURSE ADVERTISED IN THE
BROCHURE IN APPENDIX III.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU COMPARE WORD FOR WORD WHAT IS SAID AND NOT SAID IN
THIS LESSON, DATED AUGUST 3, 1939, RELATIVE TO WHAT IS SAID AND NOT SAID IN THE
EARLIER NOVEMBER, 1935 LESSON IN APPENDIX IV.
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
FRAGMENT OF 4 PAGES
"METHOD FOR FORECASTING THE STOCK MARKET" WRITTEN:
APPARENTLY IN WINTER OF 1921 BY: W.D. GANN
BACKGROUND:
THIS IS A FRAGMENT OF THE OLDEST UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL THAT I FOUND. I HAVE
INCLUDED IT SO THAT YOU COULD SEE AGAIN HIS REFERENCE TO THE SAME TIME
CYCLES (JUPITER-SATURN) FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE LATEST DATES ON HIS
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND LESSONS. ALWAYS IN DIFFERENT WORDS AT DIFFERENT TIMES IN
HIS LIFE WE SEE THE SAME REFERENCES TO JUPITER AND SATURN AS THE CAUSE OF THE MAIN
TIME CYCLES.
AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME HE DID NOT MENTION THE 60 YEAR CYCLE BUT HE DID SAY AGAIN
THAT THE 20 YEAR CYCLE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT CYCLE OF ALL AND THE 60 YEAR
CYCLE IS OF COURSE THE 3RD 20 YEAR CYCLE.
ALSO:
ONE PAGE OF A LETTER ENTITLED:
SOYBEANS-PRICE RESISTANCE LEVELS
WRITTEN: January 18, 1954 BY:
W.D. GANN
BACKGROUND:
THIS IS ONE PAGE OF THIS LETTER WHICH EVERYONE SEEMS TO PUBLISH -WHEN THEY WRITE
SOMETHING ABOUT MR. GANN
'
S WORK. I JUST INCLUDED THIS ONE PAGE SO THAT YOU COULD
SEE FROM THIS LETTER; ONE DATED NEAR THE END OF HIS LIFE, THIS SAME THEME
(JUPITER AND SATURN ASPECTS). HE PLAINLY STATES THAT THESE RELATIONSHIPS IN
TIME CAUSES THE SOYBEAN MARKET TO CHANGE TREND.
IN THIS PARTICULAR LETTER HE DID NOT MENTION THE 20-YEAR CYCLE NOR THE 30-YEAR
CYCLE NOR THE 60-YEAR CYCLE, BUT HE WAS SAYING THE SAME THING.
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
"LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE
OR
WHY YOU HAVE LOST MONEY IN STOCKS
AND HOW TO MAKE IT BACK."
WRITTEN: APPARENTLY IN LATE 1939 OR EARLY 1940 BY:
W.D. GANN
BACKGROUND:
THIS WAS AN ADVERTISING BROCHURE THAT MR. GANN MAILED OUT TO
PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF HIS COURSES.
I HAVE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL ABOUT HOW MR. GANN THOUGHT AND THE EXPRESSION
OF HIS LANGUAGE IN THE DIFFERENT ADVERTISING PIECES HE USED. HIS
VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS OF HIS COURSES AND BOOKS IN DIFFERENT
ADVERTISING PIECES HELPED ME RE-DISCOVER HIS MASTER. TIME FACTOR,
THIS BROCHURE IS VERY IMPORTANT EVIDENCE ABOUT THE MASTER TIME FACTOR
AND WE WILL ANALYZE THIS PIECE OF MATERIAL IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. IT IS
ANOTHER PROOF OF THE MASTER TIME FACTOR AND IT IS IN MR. Gann

s OWN
WORDS.
THIS COPY IS HARD TO READ, BUT IT IS THE BEST COPY I COULD GET
FOR YOU. I FELT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO COPY IT DIRECTLY, RATHER
THAN RETYPING IT, SO THAT YOU COULD SEE THAT IT IS AUTHENTIC.
I OBTAINED THIS COPY OF THIS BROCHURE FROM A FRIEND ON AUGUST 7,
1983 AND IT IS THE FIRST TIME THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN THIS
BROCHURE. IT IS THE FINAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE I NEEDED TO PRESENT
CONCLUSIVE PROOF THAT MY ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING THE MASTER TIME FACTOR WERE
INDEED ACCURATE.
MY ACQUIRING THIS BROCHURE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH IT CAME TO
ME IS ALSO FURTHER EVIDENCE TO ME OF THE TRUTHS REVEALED IN "THE
SEEKER'S CREED". SEE SECTION IV. PARAGRAPH 21 OF THE SEEKERS
CREED
11
.
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
"FORECASTING"
WRITTEN: NOVEMBER 1935 BY:
W.D. GANN
BACKGROUND:
THIS 21 PAGE DOCUMENT IS IN MY OPINION THE MOST IMPORTANT MATERIAL OF
ALL OF MR. Gann

s WORK. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WE WILL FIND A BETTER

EXPLANATION OF MR. Gann

s MASTER TIME FACTOR. (AT LEAST NOT IN HIS OWN

WRITTEN WORDS.)
THIS DOCUMENT WAS THE CENTRAL LESSON THAT MR. GANN INCLUDED IN HIS NO. 3
MASTER FORECASTING METHOD.
IN 1939 MR. GANN CHARGED $2500.00 FOR THIS COURSE NO. 3 AND HE PLAINLY
STATES THAT THIS COURSE INCLUDES HIS "SECRET DISCOVERY OF THE MASTER TIME
FACTOR AND A NEW WAY OF FORECASTING BY MATHEMATICAL RULES THAT ARE
SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL". (SEE MY APPENDIX III-BROCHURE "LEARN BEFORE YOU
LOSE-", PAGES 16 AND 17.)
IF YOU HAVE PURCHASED THE PRESENT W.D. GANN STOCK MARKET COURSE-AND TAKE
CHAPTER 2,"FORM READING AND RULES FOR DETERMINING TREND OF STOCKS"(pages 31-
56); ALSO CHAPTER 5,"VOLUME OF SALES
"
(pages 128-144); AND CHAPTER 10,
"RESISTANCE LEVELS
"
(pages 293-311) AND THEN ADD THIS LESSON ON
"FORECASTING THAT IS IN THIS APPENDIX-THEN YOU HAVE PRECISELY WHAT MR.
GANN CALLED HIS COURSE NO. 3 MASTER FORECASTING METHOD WHICH HE SOLD
FOR $2500 IN 1939 DOLLARS!
THE MASTER 20-YEAR FORECASTING CHART THAT MR. GANN REFERS TO IS IDENTIFIED AS
CHART #19 IN A PACKET OF GANN CHARTS SOLD BY LAMBERT-GANN PUBLISHING CO.
THIS WAS A SWING CHART THAT MR. GANN MADE, BUT IT WAS POORLY REPRODUCED.
THEREFORE, I MADE MY OWN COLOR CHARTS (MONTHLY), FROM 1901 THROUGH THE
PRESENT (1983) SO THAT THIS IMPORTANT MATERIAL ON THE MASTER TIME FACTOR WOULD BE
CLEARER TO YOU.
MR. Gann

s WHOLE TRADING METHOD IS BASED ON THE FOUNDATION OF THIS

MATERIAL IN THIS 21 PAGE LESSON. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS MATERIAL BOTH IN
ITS SYMBOLIC TERMS AND IN ITS REAL TERMS. ALL OF HIS RULES ARE BASED ON
THIS TIME FACTOR. STUDY IT WELL. IT GIVES THE MEANING TO THE REST OF HIS
BOOKS AND COURSES AND RULES.
I HAVE COPIED IT DIRECTLY AS HE SENT IT OUT IN 1935- YOU SEE IT IN
HIS OWN WORDS ON HIS OWN LETTERHEAD EXACTLY AS HE SENT IT OUT I N 1 9 3 5 .
ALSO, I HAVE INCLUDED AT THE END OF THIS PARTICULAR APPENDIX, A COPY OF
THE SQUARE OF 20 YEARS THAT HE REFERRED TO AS THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
PERMANENT CHART. IT IS IMPORTANT AND I HAVE DISCUSSED IT IN MY BOOKLET.
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
"THE SEEKER'S CREED"
WRITTEN: JUNE 1971; BY:
"THE SEEKER"
BACKGROUND:
THIS WAS WRITTEN BY "THE SEEKER" IN 1971, 8 YEARS BEFORE THE 'AUTHOR EVER
HEARD OF MR. GANN. IT WAS WRITTEN FOR THE PERSONAL AND PRIVATE USE OF THE
AUTHOR. IT WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE MADE PUBLIC. IT IS COPIED HERE EXACTLY AS
IT WAS TAKEN FROM THE AUTHOR
1
S PERSONAL NOTEBOOK.
THE ONLY PERSON THAT THIS WAS EVER GIVEN TO PRIOR TO THIS TIME WAS THE MAN THAT
WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SELLING THE AUTHOR MR. Gann

s MASTER TIME FACTOR. THE BOOKLET,

"MY STORY-A SEARCH FOR W.D. GANN'S MASTER TIME FACTOR" DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED.
"THE Seeker

s CREED" WAS WRITTEN IN AN EFFORT TO ALLOW THE AUTHOR TO COMPILE HIS

BELIEFS AS LEARNED FROM A LIFETIME OF READING AND SEARCHING FOR THE NATURAL
LAWS AND PRINCIPLES OF LIVING SUCCESSFULLY. NOTHING IN THIS CREED WAS
ORIGINAL WITH THE AUTHOR. IT WAS ALL STATED IN DIFFERENT BOOKS THAT GREAT
PEOPLE HAD WRITTEN OVER THE YEARS. THE AUTHOR TAKES NO CLAIM THAT THESE
IDEAS OR BELIEFS ARE ORIGINALLY HIS. HE MERELY LEARNED THEM FROM OTHERS, THEN
COMPILED THEM AS THE BEST OF TRUTH THAT HE HAD FOUND, THEN TRIED TO LIVE BY
THEM, AND HIS EXPERIENCE PROVED THEM TO B& VERY VALUABLE. HOWEVER, IN THE HUMDRUM OF
EVERY DAY LIVING AND IN THE SEARCH FOR OTHER MORE EXCITING THINGS, THE USEFULNESS
OF THIS CREED WAS FORGOTTEN-LOST, IF YOU WILL. IT TOOK THE EXPERIENCES OF
THE SEARCH FOR THE MASTER TIME FACTOR TO CAUSE THE AUTHOR TO RE-DISCOVER THE
INCREDIBLE VALUE AND TRUTH OF THIS CREED.
THIS CREED IS NOT MEANT TO BE A RELIGION OR ANYTHING RELIGIOUS. IT IS MEANT TO
BE AND IS A GROUP OF NATURAL LAWS THAT ARE TRUE AND WORK. IT IS SCIENTIFIC-IP
YOU WILL. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS CREED WORKS, BUT IT DOES. THE AUTHOR
WAS BROUGHT-UP IN A PROTESTANT CHURCH BUT HAS NOT BEEN PARTICULARY
RELIGIOUS. WHATEVER YOUR FAITH-JUST SUBSTITUTE AS YOU LIKE IN THIS CREED. ALL
IS THE SAME IN NATURAL LAWS; THERE ARE NO ETHNIC DIFFERENCES, THESE ARE MAN-MADE. IF
YOU WILL ADOPT THIS CREED FOR YOUR OWN AND LEARN IT BY HEART AND PRACTICE IT,
YOU WILL BE AMAZED TO FIND THAT YOU WILL VASTLY IMPROVE ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE.
TRY IT!
THE DIRECT USE AND APPLICATION OF THIS CREED IS WHAT ALLOWED THE AUTHOR TO FIND
THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF THIS CREED IS FAR MORE
VALUABLE THAN THE MASTER TIME FACTOR OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT THIS AUTHOR HAS EVER
FOUND.
APPENDIX V
"THE SEEKER'S CREED"
.CREATION
II ........................... GOD
1
S LAWS
III .......................... THE LAW OF ACTION
IV ........................... LAW OF HARVEST
V............................. LAW OF INCREASE AND EXPANSION
VI ........................... LAW OF PURPOSE
VII .......................... LAW OF ATTRACTION
VIII ........................ .LAW OF SPECIALIZATION
IX ........................... LAW OF TIME, CYCLES, RHYTHMS, SEASONS
SUMMATION
"THE SEEKER'S CREED"
I. CREATION
1. I believe that God is the one Supreme Being, the Creator
and
Ruler of the Universe! I believe that God is the
primary
Cause. I believe that God always was and always will Be.
2. I believe that God is Mind.
I believe that God is
Love.
I believe that God is Energy, or that Energy is
the instrument of God.
I believe that God (the energy of) is in all nature:
the air, the sea, the land, the cosmos. I believe
that God is in everything.
I believe that God is in me.
I believe that God is Truth and that Truth reveals God.
I believe that God is all Powerful, all Knowing, and all
Pervading in the Universe.
I believe that God has dominion over the Universe. I be-
lieve that God is Infinite Supply. I believe that God is
unlimited Resources and Energies. I believe that God is
Positive, Love, Faith, Hope, Trust, Praise, Blessing, Joy,
Happiness, Peace, Health, Riches, and Infinite Power. I be-
lieve the God is Perfect.
3. I believe that God created the Universe in the beginning
and
that it (this creation) is a continual process.
4. I believe that God created the world out of His Mind
through
imaging by a positive force of will caused by desire
to
create. I believe that I and everything in the uni-
verse is
part of Gods expression.
5- I believe that God created the universe by His Word
(mental image) first.
6. I believe that God created the universe and all in it
by
imaging it; then by taking action to bring the image
into
reality. The action took was using part of himself
(His Flux
or Energy). This creation was effected by His
Desire to
create something out of Him.
7. I believe that God set up the functioning systems or laws
of
the universe at the same time that He created the
universe
and that He used the laws that He set up in order to
create
the universe.
8. I believe that God created the universe through:
(1) Imaging.
1. 2.
3.
4. 5.
6. 7.
8. 9.
(2) Desire To Make Image Real.
(3) Action (Using Energy or Flux in proper manner to cre-
ate
image).
(4) Giving Of Himself (Putting part of His Energy into
the
creation).
(5) Using principles or laws in the creation, which
would
also govern the creation.
II. GODS LAWS
I believe that God created the universe in accordance
with certain principles or laws.
I believe that all of nature including man prospers
and functions best under these laws.
I believe that these laws are expressed in the bi-
ble, in other religious writings, and throughout
life and the universe.
I believe that they are shown throughout the universe
and throughout history.
I believe that these laws are designed to show the
glory of God and to reveal God.
I believe that health, morals, mental, spiritual,
physical, economical, and in fact, all phases and as-
pects of life are governed by these same laws.
I believe that specific things in life are symbolic
of these laws and that all natural phenomena reflect
these same natural laws.
1. 2. 3. I believe that for each action there is an
equal reaction
4. I believe that you ACT (do the thing) first and you
shall have the power. You get the power by ACTING (do-
ing the thing). I believe you must ACT first.
III. THE LAW OF ACTION
I believe that Action is one of the first natural
laws. I believe that there must be action (You must
act).
I believe that there must be movement for anything to
5 I believe you must act (pretend movement) the part you
want. I believe you must act the way you want to feel.
I believe you must act as if you are already what you
want to be. I believe you must act as if you already
possess what you want to have. I believe you must act
as if you have already created what you want to cre-
ate.
6. I believe that acting in your imagination
provides the
realization of what you Imagine. Thought is
action in
rehearsal. I believe that continuous Impulses of thought
have
a tendency to clothe themselves in their physical
equivalent.
7. I believe that energy follows the action of the mind.
(What
you think is what you get).
8. I believe you will be the way you act. How will you act
when
you get what you want? Act that way now, thinks that way
now,
let that way of acting and thinking becomes a habit. I
believe
you must relax when you act and concentrate your attention
on
the way you act and think.
9 I believe that when you act something enough, you BELIEVE
it; and BECOME it!
10. I believe that man is made by his belief.
11. I believe that as you believe, so you are. I believe
that as
a man thinketh in his heart (his subconscious or image
making
apparatus), HE BECOMES (is).
12. I believe that your manner shows your attitude. I be-
lieve
your attitude shows what you expect -and WILL GET!
13 I believe that you should assume a virtue if you don

t
have it. Look-the part. Dress the part. Speak the
part. Act the part. Soon you will have the virtue.
This wonderful law is how you acquire anything that you
want which you don't have. But, look out! It is a two-
edged sword. It cuts both ways.
14. I believe that you can only act one part at a time. I
believe
that this is also evidenced by "You cannot serve two mas-
ters
at the same time". I believe this part of the law
is also
further emphasized by the law of specialization.
15. I believe that if you act something in your own mind and
daily and frequently repeat it, before long you will
BE it.
16. I believe that heat produces action and action produces
heat.
I believe that heat causes uncomfortableness
and that
uncomfortableness causes heat. Heat increases motion. Ac-
tion
cause heat and therefore increases motion. Uncomfortable-
ness
is one of the catalysts of achievement. Action, di-
rected,
causes production of achievement.
17. I believe that resistance should not be offered to
directed
Action. Live spelled backward is evil. Any resistance
offered to God

s laws is taking away from directed ac-

tion. Life is action. Every act rewards itself. There-
fore any resistance offered to action (life) directed
(laws) is what constitutes evil (the reverse of
live).
V. LAW OF HARVEST
1. I believe that a basic law of the universe is: DIVIDE
.. and
GROW!
2 . I believe that this is the only method of increase known
nature since the beginning of time.
3. I believe that God divided part of Himself (HIS ENERGY) when
He created the universe.
4. I believe that all nature has its own built in image
except
man, whose reproductive image is built in, but man's
mind
(sub-conscious and conscious) can produce images of its
own,
making man a small God.
6. I believe that growth is caused by. Desire from within.
Desire
to be what the image is.
7. I believe that desire is the planting of the seed.
The seed
is the mental image. The seed is the WORD.
8. I believe that like reproduces like. I
believe that
everything reproduces after its own kind (its image)
(whose
seed is in itself). Everything reproduces in its own
image
(likeness). BETTER WATCH YOUR IMAGES!
9. I believe the seed (image) has the ability to draw
unto
itself what it needs for growth to perfect its
maturity
(reproduction of itself after its own kind (image)).
10. I believe the growth of this seed is fertilized by
blessing,
praise, giving, and thankfulness.
11. I believe that heat (desire) causes the seed to burst
out of
its shell (mindset or mold of habits) and to move to-
wards the
accomplishment of growing into its own image.
12. I believe the heat is caused by burying the seed in the
earth
(in the subconscious); by giving it (seed) away to the
earth,
by sowing it in the earth, by letting it (seed) die
to the
giver or sower. It must be given, or used, or die be-
fore it
can be reproduced in life. Then after the seed is sown,
Gods
sunlight (insight and desire) causes the heat in the
earth
(subconscious mind), and the shell expands and bursts
forth
new life from this heat.
13. I believe that this is the same thing that happens in
man
e
s
mind. The seed (mental image) must be burled with desire
in
the subconscious. It must be buried in the
subconscious
before it can come alive. That is why I must be very
careful
about the images (mindsets) that I allow myself to de-
velop.
14. I believe that each seed then can only reproduce it-
self,
whatever it was or is. It cannot produce something it is
not.
15- I believe the seed dies when it stops dividing and grow-
ing. I believe that the law of cycles further emphasizes
this. When growing (outgoing) reaches a peak (maximum out-
growth), disintegration begins (contracting phase be-
gins).
16. I believe that the seed and plant draws upon the sur-
rounding
energy for what it needs for growth, at will when needed
and
in the amount needed. God supplies this energy through
his creative principles and laws!
17. I believe that God is the Source of All Supply. He is
the
Provider of All. (This is most important that I un-
derstand
this at all times). "How blest are those who know this
(their
need of God as the Source of All Supply)the kingdom of
heaven (expansion and growth) is theirs.
18. I believe that there is a mystic pattern behind the
Law of
Harvest and that it symbolizes all of Gods laws in
their
relationship to mans creations. I believe that it
goes like
this: Preparing the soil before planting; then
planting the seed; the seed bursting out of its
shell and a
like plant starting as a baby but knowing what its
going to
be like and growing into maturity; being fertil-
ized,
watered, and cared for while growing; the bearing of
fruit
like Itself in due time while specializing in doing
that one
thing only; the maturing of the plant and fruit
into full
maturity; the harvest when the crop is gathered and the
first
and best seed saved for the next planting (at least
10% or
tithe); then the reaping of the sowing and carrying
the crop
to the market place to get paid for that done (reap-
ing); then
the plant dies after the harvest when its work (use-
fulness)
is completed, its seed has been safely stored and
saved for
next seasons sowing; the no longer productive plant
is cut
under or burned and the field is plowed under and al-
lowed to
rest for the winter. Then the seed will be sown in
the earth
again to die and the cycle will start all over
again (and
will be better each year if the best seed is saved and
sown)
so long as heaven and earth shall last. THIS IS THE STORY
OF
SEED AND PLANTS AND THIS IS THE STORY OF MAN AND LIFE.
19. I believe that, in growth, the more a plant lacks chan-
nels
through which to expand, the more it is inclined to
burst
forth and flow with power. Limit the channels for growth
and
you direct the growth toward that direction with
greater
power. A plant cannot stand still; it must grow or
start to
Die. It must move; it must act.
20. I believe a purpose of life is to have dominionto over-
come
obstacles in order to grow.
21. I believe that in the law of growing- you first
create the
need, then the means will come. Every form of life
holds
within itself vitality (energy) enough to draw to
it every
element it needs for growth and fulfillment. First,
the need,
and then the means. When you set objectives (goals)
you create
the need and then the need itself draws the means to
satisfy.
This is why setting goals and objectives are so impor-
tant. You
use what you have at hand and thereby create a vacuum
(or
need); then nature (God

s Supply) comes along and

fills the
vacuum (or need).
V. LAW OF INCREASE AND EXPANSION
1. I believe that everything reproduces after its own
kind. I
believe that everything increases after its own kind.
2. I believe that to increase and expand you must in-
crease the
rate of motion (movement). I believe to increase any-
thing you
must use that portion of the same thing that you
have. You
must use it; put it to work; release it; plant it;
do it with
purpose and deliberate intent. This is the law of
increase
and expansion.
3. I believe that to increase a stock of anything,
that thing
must be used, put to work, put out at interest.
4. I believe that you work for increase in the form of
whatever
you already have.
5. I believe that you must plant the seed before you
can reap
the harvest. I believe that you must sow before you
reap. I
believe that you must give before you can get.
6. I believe that you must give (First), and you
must give
freely (release whatever you give) with intent and
with no
strings attached. (Except a kernel of wheat fall
into the
ground and die, it cannot bear fruit).
7. I believe that you cannot lend it; you must give it
(sow),
freely and fully, and with express intent and purpose
of
giving freely and fully.
8. I believe that if a thing be dead to you- if
it is gone
beyond hope of return (when you have planted
it for an
express purpose of giving and for growth), then
you can
expect and look for a harvest. (The harvest
may not be
exactly in the form that you expected but
it will be a
harvest).
9. I believe that he that finds his life (in order to
do so),
Shall lose it (buried in subconscious or turned over to
the subconscious); he that loseth his life (turns it
over to his subconscious properly) for obeyance of the
laws shall find it.
10. I believe that he that gives all he has (his best ef-
forts) in
the service of his fellowman shall find that in doing
so he
has planted seeds which will bring him a harvest of hap-
piness
and plenty.
11. I believe that if you do the thing you will have the
power.
12. I believe that everything has its price. (When God
created
the universe, He paid the price of putting part of
Himself
into His Creation).
13. I believe that you must pay the price- and then take
what you
have paid for- (and you really want to make it grow,
use it
again).
14. I believe that in nature nothing is given; all
things are
sold (paid for).
15. I believe that for any benefit received a tax is lev-
ied.
16. I believe that you must pay the full price. It
is not
possible to buy anything for more or less than its price.
If
you don't pay the full price you don't get the thing;
you get
something else.
17. I believe that the law of increase say that what you
keep
(hoard) to yourself you lose; that which you give away
comes
back to you with more of its own kind (what you sent
out);
that which you send out comes back. BETTER BE CAREFUL WHAT
YOU SEND OUT TO OTHERS, THEN. The reason for this I believe
is because time and space is curved.
18. I believe that the tithe is the way the ancients used
to show
man the law of Increase and expansion.
19. I believe that this is so because all motion is cy-
clic; it
circulates to the limits of its possibili-
ties and then
returns to its starting point. (You reap as you have
sown).
20. I believe that any act, which injures another, is
contrary to
the law of expansion and separates the actor from the
kingdom
of heaven (expansion and growth); any act, which helps an-
other,
is in accord with the law of increase and expan-
sion and
brings the actor closer to the kingdom of heaven (ex-
pansion
and growth). I believe that you must give
(First). Give
freely of what you have. Youre talents, your knowl-
edge, your
experience, and your self, whatever you have that you
can give.
You must give it to work for others and by so doing you
will
increase it. This is the law of Increase.
When you stop
giving you begin losing.
21. I believe that you cannot hold onto riches; that you
must
give (use) them and get greater riches in return. Re-
member
when you keep something to yourself you stop your need of it
and when your need stops then you have done away with the
vacuum (need); then the nearest vacuum (need) will pull what
you have away. (To have something you must use it; give
it
away; put it out to work.) "To him that hath will be
more
given; to him that hath not, will even that which he hath
be
taken away. (To have not - hold on to what you have just
for
yourself - and you won't have it long! Use it or lose
it).
22. I believe that you must be continually giving - and get-
ting.
The parable of the talents expresses the law of in-
crease and
expansion.
23- I believe that everything you give increases after
its own kind. I believe that you get that which you give.
If you give happiness, health, praise, respect, ser-
vice, life to others, you will get the same thing in
return - and in the same proportions.
24. I believe that you cannot increase two things at the
same
time. (You cannot serve two masters). You can only give
one
thing at the time. (Law of Specialization).
25. I believe that unhappiness is a criticism of God. I
believe
that it Implies dissatisfaction with the way God did
things.
26. I believe that any unhappy man gets what he
gives -
unhappiness.
27. I believe that any unhappy man cannot be grateful, or
at
peace because he cannot be aware of God

s great truths
- if
he is unhappy.
28. I believe that a man cannot love God when
he hates or
dislikes his neighbor (God is in his neighbor). I
believe
that a man cannot get or find happiness and service
unless he
first gives happiness and service to others. If a
man lives
only for himself he will be unhappy - because he will
not be
giving any happiness to anyone and therefore cannot
get
because he did not give.
29. I believe that when you love (first), you shall be
loved.
30. I believe that you must first give happi-
ness to get
happiness.
31. I believe that it is Gods plan to make man win happiness
through service, through adding to the happiness of oth-
ers.
32. I believe that your life and your environment is an im-
age of
what you gave (give).
33. I believe that what you have is an image of what you
have
given.
34. I believe that what you have today is an image of what
you
gave (or didnt give) yesterday (in the past).
36. I believe that what you give (sow) today, you will get
(reap) tomorrow.
37- I believe that the only limit to what you receive
(reap) is the limit (extent) to what you give (sow).
38. I believe that what you do not give (sow) today, you
will not get (reap) tomorrow.
39- I believe that the only limit to opportunities (means)
is the limit of human happiness (needs).
40. I believe that God gives me all I will accept.
41. I believe that fear shuts up or restricts or limits
channels
or entrances or doors through which I allow myself to re-
ceive
(God can supply from any source). Fear repels, holds on
to
what it has (stops giving and therefore loses what
it has)
and is contrary to the law of increase and expan-
sion. I
believe that Jealousy, hate, and envy are forms of fear.
42. I believe that to Increase or expand something you must
love
it, praise It, bless it, glorify it, give thanks
for it,
desire it, and image it in the attitude of these
emotions.
You must give (release) these feelings to your subcon-
scious
toward whatever you want to increase.
43- I believe that the law of increase says that
use causes Increasedisuse causes decrease.
44. I believe that a higher rate of motion (movement) (more
use)
causes Increase. Use what you have now at hand, freely
and
without fear (of not getting more) and more will be
given you
back. This is the law of Increase. It is Gods
Law. It is
sure. Like the sum coming up in the morning.
45. I believe that what you give, you will get.
46. I believe that what you think will happen because
thought is
the giving of mental images. You will get what you give.
Your
thoughts are motion (action) in rehearsal. So
you must
control and direct your thoughts just as you must control
and
direct your actions. Your words represent your Im-
ages, so
they (your WORDS) must be controlled and directed
too.
Control and direct them to accomplish whatever you wish.
47 I believe that you must appreciate (be fond of) the
things you want to increase. (Where your heart is,
there will be your treasure also).
48. I believe that the first step in using the law of in-
crease is
desire (to increase whatever you want; then use whatever
you
have, right now, whosesoever you are and whatever you are
doing. (Establish the need, and then use what you have to
create
greater need so that law of supply will come in and work.
The
law of supply says that whosesoever there is a demand
(need)
it will be supplied when the demand is great enough).
49. I believe that the law of increase works in direct
ratio of
your thoughts to the thing to be increased. (Think in
larger
sizes or units and increase is in larger sizes or
units -
think in smaller sizes and increase is in smaller
sizes).
50. I believe that the natural law of supply and demand is
that
there will be supply according to the demand. (In-
crease the
need (demand) - give what you have).
51. I believe that the law of increase is
started by desire
(heat). Do you want something? Give that something which you
want to all you come in contact with; give all that you
have
(in you) to others.
52. I believe that what you are today is the ful-
fillment of
yesterday's desires - that which you will be tomorrow
will be
the achievement of todays visions and images and de-
sires.
53. I believe that with discipline you will do tomorrow what
you
did today. Without discipline you will do the same. The
only
difference is like day and night, good and
evil. Use
discipline on yourself to get what you want.
54. I believe that the only limit to the amount of
creative
force, power, love, money, health, etc. That I get is
the
amount of creative force, power, love, money, health,
etc.
that I give (use).
55 I believe that the more you increase what you give, the
more you increase what you get.
56. I believe that skill, power, resources, health,
mind, love,
and all things and emotions grow with use of them and
shrink
with disuse. (They grow because you give them and
thereby
create a need for more of the same).
57. I believe that it doesnt matter how small something is;
use
it (give it) and it will grow. The more used (given)
the more
it grows (increases).
58. I believe that the law of increase and expansion says
that
you must have faith (believe) that your com-
modity is
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59-
60.
61.
62,
63-
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69-
70.
71.
Increasing. If you believe something you must act on
the belief. (Faith without works is dead (is not
faith).
I believe that the law of increase and expansion says
that the rate of motion causes increase.
I believe that the difference between all things in
the universe lies in their rate of motion (movement).
Everything in the universe is made of God

s Flux (en-
ergy); therefore, the difference between things must
lie in their rate of motion. (This is the basis of the
law of increase and law of attraction).
I believe that things with equal or near equal rate of
motion attract each other.
I believe that all positive and good things speed up
rate of motion. I believe that negative or evil things
slow down rate of motion.
I believe that something exhilarating to the spirit
speeds up rate of motion.
I believe that whatever your rate of motion, the ele-
ments of like quality will be attracted to you. Think
on high things. (By their fruits you will know them).
I believe that the law of increase and expansion says
that things pulsate. You can't stand still. You must
move. You increase or decrease.
I believe you must grow or feed other who is growing.
I believe that the key to acquiring power lies in using
what power you have, because use releases more power. (De-
velops a greater need).
I believe that the one condition coupled with truth
and life is its use - you must use it freely. You
must act on it.
I believe that the law of expansion and increase calls
for prayer. ("Praise The Lord and be thankful, that
then shall the earth yield her increase; with thanks-
giving let your requests be known unto God; rejoice, be
glad, praise, give thanks, these are the ways to in-
crease).
I believe that when you pray for something you must accept
it immediately and at once begin acting as if you al-
ready have it and start doing the things you would do
if you in fact did have it.
72. I believe that to get results you must think (con-
centrate)
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And act on what you want (love, riches, health) not what
you don't want (hate, poverty, illness).
73- I believe that the law of increase and expansion says
that mere increase is not enough, that you must have a
purpose for the increase, that it will be used for;
and it (purpose) must be a good purpose. (You must have
need for the increase).
74. I believe that you must bless and praise what you give,
use,
or send out.
75. I believe that you must picture (visualize, image)
what you
want to increase and picture it increasing by your
using,
giving, and sowing it. (Into whatsoever house you enter
say peace
be to this house. Give your peace to all you contact.
Do more
- act the part).
76. I believe that the only thing that can increase or ex-
pand
without limit is our mind (that part of God most like
Him,
given to man), our imaging faculties. "Seek ye
first the
kingdom of imaging (imagery) and all things shall be
added
(increased) to you".
77- I believe that the quality of your thought is the
measure of your power.
78. I believe that clear, forceful, directed, pure
thought will yield energy.
79- I believe that you control your destiny to the exact
ratio to the extent that you visualize (image) it.
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2. I believe that the end result of an action is its pur-
pose.
3. I believe that the effect of the action is the pur-
pose of the
cause.
6. I believe that in order to go somewhere, you must know
where
it is that you want to go.
7. I believe that you can only go to where you want to go
from
where you are now.
8. I believe that the law of purpose says that you will
always
accomplish your purpose (your true goal or objective).
"Seek
and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to
you.
Ask and you shall receive." ALWAYS!
9. I believe that you must look to find - and you will find
what
you look for (expect to find).
10. I believe that you get exactly what you expect. Exactly
what
you think. Exactly what you give (or have given).
11. I believe that you are what you expect you are (what
your
image of yourself is).
12. I believe that you will not be what you expect
that you
cannot be (what your image is not - you cannot be).
13- I believe that faith is part of the law
of purpose and expectation. Whatsoever you have
faith in - will happen.
15 I believe that your manner shows what you expect and
VI. LAW OF PURPOSE
will get.
16. I believe that whatever you look for (expect) is
right. If you expect you can you can. If you expect you
can

t you can

t. If you sow you can expect to reap. If

you give you can expect to get. If you do not give you
can expect that you will not get. If you expect trou-
ble, poverty, poor health, and hard times you will
get trouble, poverty, poor health,
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Hard times; you will get exactly what you expect. If
you expect happiness, riches, health, and a good life -
you will get it.
! I believe that a man
e
s attitude tells you what he
expects. You may expect that he will get what he ex-
pects. I believe that a man's condition and environment
tells you what he expected in the past. I believe that
a man's attitude today tells you what he expects and
will have tomorrow.
18. I believe that fear is negative expectation Looking for
what you don't want to find. But if you look, you have
to find; that is the law. Fear is the anti-law.
Don't mess with it! Don't look for what you don't want
to find. That is a foolish thing to do!
19 I believe that life's purpose is to provide an arena
for expression of God and His Way, Will, Desires, etc.
through His Laws.
22. I believe that the law of purpose says that a purpose
must be
defined. It must be clear. It must be specific.
It must be
sincere. It must have bounds. It must be concen-
trated. It
must be at a certain level. It must
have potential
(possibility of realization).
23. I believe that the reason I do something is due to my
purpose
behind the reason.
24. I believe that the purpose is my intent for doing it.
25. I believe that I will produce according to the seed
(purpose
and Intent) I sow. By their fruit you will know them.
(By
their intent and purpose you will know them).
26. I believe that the law of purpose assures us that
everyone
will always reach the goal (the real goal, intent,
purpose)
desired most (THE REAL ONE!).
27. I believe that the law of purpose says that we do what
we
really intend to do. You will always accomplish what
your
purpose (intent, real goal, really want to do) is.
This is a
wonderful and frightening law.
28. I believe that the purpose or goal must always be kept
in the
forefront of the mind.
29. I believe that it must be continuously re-
peated and
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Reaffirmed.
30. I believe that it must be watered with desire.
31. I believe that it must be acted upon. If not it
will evolve
into another purpose (rambling or will to fail).
32. I believe that once you set the purpose (intent,
goal, or
objective), you must use a map (to see the best way there
and
the shortest or best route and to see that you don't
get off
track (always stay on track)) to start toward your
goal. I
believe that you must see (image) yourself there
(getting
there). I believe you must have desire (want to go)
strong
enough to pay the price (enough desire to
meet the
requirements) to get there. I believe that you must
know
(have faith) (belief, faith, self-confidence from
other
successes building toward this one) that you can get
there. I
believe that you must be determined to
get there
(determination and persistence - once hand to plow,
dont
turn back). You must not stop (don't go off somewhere
else)
even if detoured until you get there (its all right
to rest
just so long as you dont get off the track). You must
be
thankful when you get there.
33- I believe my most important purpose in life is my
own personal growth and success in realizing my poten-
tial. I believe that my potential is that which God
would conduct through me without my resistance to Him.
35- I believe that insulation can be strengthened
with a discipline.
VII. THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
1. I believe that you attract that which has like rate of
motion
(movement). I believe that you attract that which
has the
same or nearly same vibration.
2. I believe that the only way to change (growth-
change)
anything is by degrees, by minutes, a bit at a time,
by
changing the rate of vibration or rate of motion by de-
grees.
3. I believe that this is so because the building blocks
of the
universe is pure energy (Gods Flux) and it is the same.
4. I believe that the difference between things is
caused by
their vibrations or rate of motion. I believe that
you build
up or tear down by degrees. You change the rate of mo-
tion.
5. I believe that you attract that which you are (your
rate of
motion) and repel that which you are not (a different
rate of
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Motion).
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
I believe that a low rate of motion attracts a low
rate of motion and repels a high rate of motion - and
the inverse is also true.
I believe that to attract something you must have de-
sire for that which you would attract.
I believe that desire is the emotion that attracts
like to like.
I believe that to attract something you must vibrate
with it, tune it in (think about it with desire- re-
lease the energy of the thought by the transmitter of
your desire within you).
I believe that to attract something you must use it
(that which you would attract).
I believe that you must have a need for something in or-
der to attract it.
I believe that anything you attract must be something
you have created a need for. I believe that to attract
something you must have a reason (purpose) for needing
it.
I believe that to keep something you must give it away
(use it, work it, spend it).
I believe that giving attracts high rate of motion
things into your environment because giving increases
your rate of motion.
I believe that love, faith, praise, joy, blessing,
kindness, and happiness attracts high rate of motion
things.
I believe that to attract more you must give more.
I believe that whatsoever you give (really give) be-
comes a seed that you plantfor God to multiply back to
you (by His Natural Laws). But I believe that you must
first initiate the action yourself; you give first,
you smile first, you love first, you forgive first,
you apologize first, you give happiness first, you
serve first.
19-20. 21. I believe that you cannot attract that which
you have not
15.
16.
17-
18.
I believe that you must first put something in, be-
fore you take something out.
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Wanted to attract.
22. I believe that you must attract that which
you want to
attract.
23. I believe that you attract today that which you wanted
to
attract yesterday.
24. I believe that you will attract tomorrow that which you
want
to attract today.
25. I believe that the law of attraction says that all
things are
equal.
26. I believe that as you give of yourself you attract
the same
amount from the other side of the equation except that
God
(through the law of compensation) adds to what you re-
ceive
back. He does this through his natural laws and because
He is
The Source of Supply.
27. I believe that all things with life in
them attract to
themselves the elements they require to meet their in-
built
Images.
28. I believe that the law of attraction says that
"that which
you give (use) or would willingly give - you attract;
that
which you withhold (refuse to use or give) or strongly
desire
to withhold - you repel.
29- the law of attraction says that if you want to at-
tract something - use it; if you want to repel some-
thing - do not use it. I believe that this holds true
for everything in the universe, because God's Natural
Laws are universal.
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VIII. LAW OF SPECIALIZATION
1. I believe that all life can accomplish a great deal
more by
specializing.
2. I believe that you can only do one thing at a time.
(You
cannot serve two masters).
3. I believe that you should devote all energy, time
efforts,
and resources to the accomplishment of one goal. (Then
you
can move on to another one).
5. I believe that you develop concentration by special-
izing. I
believe that you focus your power, efforts, atten-
tion, and
results by specializing. The law of growth is di-
vide. . And
grow. Specialize. Nature does.
6. I believe that you should narrow down to specifics.
Don't be
too wide.
? I believe that the wide, broad, crooked road leads
to destruction (disintegration).
8. I believe that the narrow, straight, single purpose
road leads to life abundant.
9- I believe that all God

s natural laws call for spe-

cialization - but balanced specialization within the
bounds of his natural laws.
10. I believe that in order to achieve there must be a
specific,
clear, defined goal. (Just as God had when He created
the
universe). This is specialization.
11. I believe that awareness is specialization.
That it
exemplifies specialization. Awareness is being fully
aware of
a moment. It specializes in the moment.
12. I believe that the Laws of Action, Harvest, and
Growth,
Increase and Expansion, Purpose, Attraction, and Cycles -
all
call for specialization. It is one of God

s natural
laws.
IX. LAW OF TIME, CYCLES, RHYTHMS, SEASONS
1. I believe that Energy is the Flux of
God. I believe that Energy is every-
thing. I believe that pure energy is
Infinite. I believe that Energy proceeds
from God.
I believe that God is the Source of All Supply. He is
the Provider of All. I believe that Energy supplies all
life and the universe.
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2. I believe that different forms of energy and of life
and of matter are expressed by different vibratory
rates.
4. I believe that energy must flow from a higher level to a
lower level. (Not from a lower level to a higher one).
5. I believe that everything in the universe moves by a re-
peated
impulse.
6. I believe that there is no such thing as a continual
pulse of
energy in our universe. (No continuous pressure or force
-
all is in pulses or cycles).
7. I believe that the transmission of energy will be pulsat-
ing,
not continual or steady but intermittent (in cycles).
8. I believe that flux or energy is curved outward
while
Expanding...and curved Inward .... when contracting. I
Believe that our breathing symbolizes this.
9. I believe that things will be in harmony with each other
according to their vibratory rhythms or cycles. Things
will
attract and be attracted by vibratory rhythms in harmo-
nies
with its own rate (harmonics). Everything that you can
see,
hears, or touch (and the things that you cant); every-
thing
you can be aware of in anyway is subject to cyclic law.
10. I believe that everything vibrates at, or responds
to, or is moved in a certain definite rhythm.
.1. I believe that all life and universe is motion, move-
ment, action, and oscillation. I believe that all
motion is cyclic. I believe that it (motion) circu-
lates to the limit of its possibilities (peak) and
then returns (contracts) to its starting point. This
is the law of cycles.
12. I believe that any thought or action that is initi-
ated while this impulsing energy is gaining momentum
(in its cycle) carries along quite easily toward suc-
cess; while those thoughts or actions begun in a de-
scending cycle (when impulsing energy is losing momentum
or waning) are reduced due to the reverse cycle of momen-
tum.
13 I believe that everything in the universe has a cy-
cle of existence distinctly its own (like finger-
prints, voiceprints, etc.).
14. I believe that all life has cycles, which begin at
its (the life

s) inception.
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15- I believe cycles vibrate at different rhythms
(rate of motion). Low thoughts vibrate at low rhythms.
High thoughts vibrate at high rates. Create and hold
high thoughts.
16. I believe that the cycles of day and
night, tides, and
seasons of the years are symbolic of the law of cy-
cles.
17. I believe there are cycles, rhythms, seasons for eve-
rything
in the universe and life.
18. I believe there is a mystic pattern behind all cycles
and
seasons.
19. I believe that this invisible design is set
into motion
through the natural law of cycles (vibration).
20. I believe that this law of cycles says that there
is a time
for everything. There is a time for all things under
the sun.
21. I believe that there is a most favorable time for
something
and I believe that there is a least favor-
able time for
something.
22. I believe that whatsoever thing you are doing at a par-
ticular
time - it should be done only, completely, solely,
with all
concentration, attention, focus, awareness, zeal, enthusi-
asm,
and imaging (mind picturing).
23. I believe that when you do one thing you should not
think of
something you will do at another time.
24. I believe that there is a time for all things. A time
to sow,
a time to harvest, a time to go to bed, a time to get
up from
bed, a time for everything under the sun
that is in
accordance with God

s Natural Laws. I believe that this

and
the law of cycles are also symbolized by the Sabbath.
25. I believe that you plant when the time or season or cy-
cle is
favorable (gaining momentum). When the time, season, or cy-
cle
is not favorable (waning momentum) you should wait until
it
is again favorable.
26. I believe that there is a time to be active and a
time to
refrain from action.
27. I believe that there is a time to be talking and a
time to
refrain from talking.
28. I believe that the cycle of life and basis of the
universe is
symbolized by breathing, wind, waves, and pulsating
vibrations in energy.
29. I believe that thoughts, efforts, work, and anything
can be
most efficient by pulsating in rhythm with natural re-
laxation
and ease.
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30. I believe that God

s law of the Sabbath ex-

presses this
pulsating cyclic rhythm.
31. I believe that the seventh day should be set aside
for rest
and contemplation of the past week, and thanks for the
good
accomplished, and thanks and worship to The Source of All
Supply, and for a break between cycles of weeks.
32. I believe that there is a cosmic plan, which encom-
passes all
of creation. I believe its principles are:
1. ORDER - In nature all things evolve under system of
order.
2. HARMONY - Universe operates under beautiful harmonious
system
3- BALANCE - Nature is balanced in her parts.
4. INTELLIGENCE - A reflection and expression of God.
5. GROWTH OR EVOLVEMENT - Must grow plus or minus.
6. ATTRACTION - All things attract elements required
after needs set.
7. FULFILLMENT AND DISINTEGRATION - When usefulness
(cycle complete) ends.
33 I believe that there is a rhythm for every person.
34. I believe that when one develops (finds) his rhythm, his
harmony, he becomes a flowing whole.
35. I believe that the danger of sideline temptations is
that one
may break his stride (rhythm) when one steps out of
his
rhythm; and it may be difficult to regain it when one
steps
back in.
36. I believe that the circle symbolizes rhythm.
37. I believe that rhythm is expanding when there is
little
resistance and not attempting expansion when
cycle is
contracting or there is great resistance. Rhythm is not
going
against the tide of nature.
38. I believe that in order to get your rhythm, you must:
1. Decide on a purpose or objective (in or with
your
life).
2. Get into the rhythm of thinking of God

s Natural
Laws.
3. Get into the rhythm of giving (using) what you have
at
hand.
4. Then start expecting to reap or harvest, because
you
have sown.
39 I believe that accomplishment, health, and happiness are
easier if you move through your own rhythm.
I believe, then, that the above is the law of cycles.
First give - then receive (after really giving, then
expect to receive). This is the law of cycles. It
(the cycle) starts at a point (you), goes out to a peak
(you give), and then it
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Comes back to where it started (you receive back what
you sent out, plus interest (momentum of the cy-
cle)). All the other laws also express this. It is
also expressed by "As you sow, so shall you reap".
The circle also expresses it. Time and space are
curved.
X. SUMMATION
1. I believe that the natural laws of God are the
truths, which
have caused all good accomplishments throughout his-
tory. I
believe that these laws must be lived by and prac-
ticed.
2. I believe that I and all other men, women, and children
have
a spirit housed in our bodies. I believe that this
Spirit is
the life force and is endowed by God and is a part of
God.
3- I believe that man, being created by God, in the image
and likeness of God, has been endowed with the Spirit
of God in our subconscious and that man possesses as
a result, a part of the creative powers and energies
of God.
4. I believe that these powers can be most effectively
used when
they are channeled in accordance with God's Natural
Laws as
expressed in this Creed.
5. I believe that Gods Laws are the most wonderful laws in
the
universe.
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APPENDIX VI
"MASTER TIME FACTOR CHARTS OF THE DOW-JONES AVERAGES" MADE BY
EVERYMAN'S INC. JULY 1983- COPYRIGHT 1983.
BACKGROUND:
THERE ARE THREE SHEETS OF THIS MONTHLY CHART OF THE DOW-JONES
AVERAGES. THEY DATE FROM JANUARY 1901 THROUGH THE PRESENT TIME
(JULY 1983). THE PRICES ARE THE LOW CLOSE AND HIGH CLOSE FOR THE
MONTH.
SHEET 1 IS 240 MONTHS OVER IN TIME AND PRICE SCALE IS $1.00 PER UNIT OF PRICE.
PRICE ON SHEET 1 IS COVERED FROM $0.00 THROUGH $240.00. TIME IS 240 MONTHS (20
YEARS). THE YEARS ARE LISTED AT BOTTOM OF SHEET AS 1ST, 2ND, 3RD, ETC. THROUGH
20TH. IT IS COLOR CODED. OH SHEET 1, 1901-1920 IS COLORED YELLOW; 1921-1940
IS COLORED RED; 1941-1960 IS COLORED GREEN. SHEET 1 IS PLACED ON SHEET 2 AT
$240.00.
SHEET 2 IS 240 MONTHS OVER IN TIME (SAME AS SHEET 1), BUT THE PRICE SCALE ON
SHEET 2 IS $2.00 PER UNIT OF PRICE. PRICE ON SHEET
2 IS COVERED FROM $240.00 AT THE BOTTOM TO $720.00 AT THE TOP. ON
SHEET 2 RED IS TOP OF 1901-1940 CYCLE; GREEN IS PART OF 1941-1960
CYCLE THAT BEGAN ON SHEET 1; YELLOW ON THIS SHEET IS THE
BEGINNING AND PARTS OF 1961-1980 CYCLE. SHEET 2 IS PLACED ON
SHEET 3 AT $720.00.
SHEET 3 IS 240 MONTHS OVER IN TIME (SAME AS SHEETS 1 & 2), BUT THE PRICE SCALE
IS $3.00 PER UNIT OF PRICE. PRICE ON SHEET 3 IS COVERED FROM $720.00 AT THE
BOTTOM TO $1440 AT THE TOP. ON SHEET
3 YELLOW IS PARTS OF THE 1961-1980 CYCLE; RED IS THE BEGINNING TO
CURRENT TIME OF THE 1981-2000 CYCLE THROUGH MID-JULY 1983.
THESE 3 SHEETS ARE MEANT TO BE STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER IN 1,2,3 FASHION.
IN OTHER WORDS, EACH YEAR ZONE FROM 1ST YR THROUGH 20TH YEAR IS PLACED IN LINE
VERTICALLY ON EACH OF THE 3 SHEETS AT THE PROPER 1,2,3 ORDER.
IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO KEEP THIS CHART UP, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO TAKE THE
HIGH CLOSE FOR THE CALENDAR MONTH AND THE LOW CLOSE FOR THE CALENDAR MONTH
AND COLOR IN RED BETWEEN THOSE POINTS. THIS CHART IS NOT BASED ON THE
MONTHLY HIGH OR THE MONTHLY LOW, BUT THE MONTHLY HIGH CLOSE AND THE
MONTHLY LOW CLOSE. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT THE DATA BACK IN THE EARLY
1900
!
S WAS ONLY AVAILABLE TO ME IN THAT FORM AND I NEEDED TO KEEP THE CHARTS
CONSISTENT.
APPENDIX VI ,
APPENDIX VII
WEEKLY CHARTS SHOWING MASTER TIME FACTOR PREPARED FOR
Everymans INC.-BY NEXUS RESEARCH INC.
BACKGROUND:
THESE CHARTS ARE WEEKLY CHARTS OF THE DOW-JONES AVERAGES FOR THE THREE YEAR
PERIODS HAVE 1941-1944, 1961-1964, AND 1981-CURRENT. THEY ARE BASED
ON THE ACTUAL WEEKLY HIGH AND LOW INSTEAD OF THE WEEKLY HIGH CLOSE AND LOW
CLOSE.
I HAVE DRAWN THE 1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH YEAR ZONES ON THEM SO THAT YOU
CAN STACK THEM ONE OVER THE OTHER BY THEIR YEAR ZONES SO THAT YOU CAN SEE FOR
YOURSELF HOW THE MARKET HAS BEEN REPEATING.
IT IS VERY USEFUL TO BE ABLE TO JUDGE THE MAIN TREND BY THE MONTHLY
CHART AND THEN LOOK FURTHER BY GETTING DOWN INSIDE THE MONTHLY CHART TO SEE THE
MORE TRADEABLE SWINGS IN THE WEEKLY CHART. FOR RESEARCH AND TRADING GOOD
ACCURATE CONSISTENT DATA AND A PLOTTER AND PLOTTER PROGRAM ARE INVALUABLE.
THESE CHARTS WERE PREPARED USING 'CHARTIST
1
, A MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWARE
PLOTTING PROGRAM FROM:
NEXUS RESEARCH INC.
P.O. BOX 1024
DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA 29536
PHONE (803-774-7006)
APPENDIX VII
"WISDOM"
Happy he who has found wisdom,
And the man who has acquired understanding;
For wisdom is more profitable than silver,
And the gain she brings is better than gold.
She is more precious than red coral,
And all your jewels are no matches for her.
Long life is in her right hand,
In her left hand are riches and honour.
Her ways are pleasant ways
And all her paths lead to prosperity.
She is a staff of life to all who grasp her,
And those who hold her fast are safe.
In wisdom the Lord founded the earth
And by understanding he set the heavens in their
place;
By his knowledge the depths burst forth
And the clouds dropped dew.
My son, keep watch over your ability and prudence, do
not let them slip from sight; they shall be a
charm hung about your neck. And an ornament on your
breast. Then you will go your way without a care,
and your feet will not stumble. When you sit, you
need have no fear; when you lie down, your sleep
will be pleasant. Do not be afraid when fools are
frightened or when ruin comes upon the wicked; for
the Lord will be at your side, and he will keep
your feet clear of the trap. Refuse no man any fa-
vour that you owe him when it lies in your power to
pay it. Do not say to your friend, 'Come back
again; you shall have it tomorrow'-when you have it
already. (Proverbs)