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The Seeker - Gann's Master Time Factor
The Seeker - Gann's Master Time Factor
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".
"
RESPECTFULLY, THE
SEEKER"
PREFACE
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.
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 wha t we are all
looking for when we desire the knowledge of the Master Time
Factor.
"
THE SEEKER" August
8, 1983
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Appendix III - "Learn Before You Lose" Sales Brochure .... Appendix IV - "Forecast-
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 s e l l i n g
land.
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.
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 rea l esta te bus iness . This m ay hav e 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 a v e r a g e o f a p p r o x i m a t e l y $ 1 0 0 0 p e r
a c r e . T h i s f a l l h a s indications of being even lower due to
the number of properties needing to be sold.
I chose the beans because Mr. Gann had recommended them and I
had his rules available on them. I chose the bonds b e-
cause I had made some profits trading them (more than on
anything else).
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 w as able to l ocate 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 m e
several other things about his father. He felt that
h i s father's work and life had been commercialized. I
also did not f e e l i n c l i n e d t o a s k h i m a b o u t a n y p e r -
s o n a l d e t a i l s o f h i s f a t h er s l i f e. I di d a s k h im a s I
w as l e a vi n g i f h e c o u ld g i v e 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.
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 ti me facto r. As I told you ea r-
lier, I was beco ming obsessed with the idea that if I
could just acquire the master time factor that it would
solve all my trading problems. I had q u i t d a y t r a d i n g ,
a l t h o u g h I s t i l l h a d m y t i c k e r a n d I s t i l l spent many
hours watching the markets trade. I continued to buy old
books, read, experiment with the various calculators and
mas ter char ts. I noti ce how freq uentl y d u ring th e day
tha t 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 bu t I h ad th e c o ns ta n t u r ge
to be i n t he m ark e t . I f el t gu i lt y i f a m o v e s t a r t e d
a n d I m i s s e d i t . I f e l t a n g r y a t t i m e s i f 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 pro p-
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 days tape action. This worked better and my monthly
statements began looking better.
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 $33«33.(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 ma ster
tim e facto r, and in fa ct, li fe in g eneral . 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.
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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.)
My course now was clear for the first time since 1979, no,
e ve n f u r t h e r b a c k . N o l o n g e r , w o u l d I a l l o w m y s e l f t o f e a r
t h e f u t u r e ab out th e e con om y or go od tim es or bad ti mes . N ow
thr ou gh l iv ing my c r e e d I ha d t h e c o n fi d e n c e t o k n o w t h a t I
w ou l d d o t h e s a m e t h i n g s i n b a d t i m e s t h a t I w o u l d d o i n
good times. I would meet the demand of others by being sup-
ply . Also, I wou ld 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 s e a r c h f o r t h e
m a s t e r t i m e f a c t o r , b u t w i t h a d i f f e r e n t a t t i t u d e an d pe r-
spe ct i ve . I w ou ld do e x ac tl y w ha t t he co nt rac to r h ad do ne
with the ladies house. I would establish my base or founda-
tion as I Indicated above. I had proved it. I knew it was
s o u n d . I w o u l d ta k e t he c o m mo di t y m a r ke t s , th e Ga n n m at er i a l
and t h e s ea r ch f or t h e m a s t e r t i m e f a c t o r , a n d I w o u l d t e a r
dow n everything tha t I could not prove good. I would only do
t h i s i n m y s p a r e t i m e w h e n it WOULD NOT DISRUPT OR HARM MY GOOD SOLID
FOUNDATION OR BASE. I w oul d wor k o ut a me tho di cal p lan of a cti on th at
wou ld a ll ow me to d o t h e s e t h i n g s b y d e p e n d i n g o n m y s e l f
f r o m w i t h i n m y s e l f . I would not pay any attention to what
this person thought about the m ark et s o r w ha t t hat p ers on
tho ug ht a bou t the ma rke ts . I would t r y t o I s o l a t e m y s e l f
f r o m d i s c u s s i o n o f t h e m a r k e t s a n d 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?)
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. Gann’s personal as-
trologer was. I never knew until then that Mr. Gann would
have a personal astrologer. I g u e s s i t s l i k e t hi n k in g
t h a t a p h ys i c i a n w o u l d no t h a v e 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.
Now, it is obvious that Mr. Gann wrote more books and mat e-
rial on the Stock Market than he did on the commodity markets.
But I had re j e c t e d t h e s t o c k m a r ke t m at e r i a l e x ce p t as I
c o ul d a p p l y it t o the commodity markets. Again the reason I
had rejected it was not t h a t i t was n 't i mp o rt a n t, b ut s i m -
pl y th a t I V IE W ED i t a s n ot 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 t r ad i ng , I
re a liz ed o ne d ay t h at I h a d th e o p po r t uni ty t o s t u dy
Ga n n ’ s st o c k ma r ke t b ook s a nd mat er ia l an d t ha t I co uld
tr a de t h a t i n f o r m a t i o n i f i t p r o v e d u s e f u l b y t r a d i n g
t h e i n d e x futures. Now, do you see why I was willing to
look at it now and s aw va lue to it where I d idn't see it
be fore. The reaso n 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 va lue unti l it ap-
pe ared in a f orm that I cou ld se e th roug h the " f i l t e r s "
t h a t I h a d p u t o n m y s e l f . T h i s f i l t e r o f c o u r s e f il -
t e re d m y v i s i o n b u t a s I s a i d a b o v e m y v i s i o n t u r ns ou t
t o b e my understanding or comprehension or knowledge.
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Now I w ent after the r eje cted "bui lder's sto ne" with
gre at 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 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 c arpenter, and he shall be
never the wiser-the secrets he would not utter to a chem-
ist for an estate."-Emerson.
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 th at were ha rdest to find w ere l aid o ut on the
gro und 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.
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 neede d to get i nto astrology some
more and th at further I needed to trace back in time the
things Mr. Gann had said about t i m e a n d s e e i f I c o u l d
t r a c k h i m b a c k t o h i s l a i r . I h a d 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 t o
h is ea r l i es t m a te r i a l a nd s e e i f h e al w a y s s ai d t h e
s am e 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.
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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 f am i ly at t he r equ es t o f th es e off i-
c ial s. I d id n ot p u rsue 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.
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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.
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 p ri or w ay o f lo o k-
i ng at t hi n gs h a s not a ll o we d y ou to s ee
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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 relatio nships. I just happene d to read about them
in an encyclopedia of astrology. I could have read about
them in a college textboo k of astro nomy. The inter pret a-
tion o f 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.
W e l l , I wa s rea l l y e x c i t e d , I h a d s e e n t hes e c yc l e s o f
M r . 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 in di cat or of time cyc les
tha t wou l d r ep e at. Th e n in following my approach of track-
ing his comments back in time from t he last p eriod o f his
lif e to the fi rst per iod of hi s busin ess 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? It’s 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 Jup i-
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 cycl es tha t Mr. Gann h ad tal ked
abou t all of h is 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 tim e cycle s and the n t ry to ide ntif y t he
m aste r ti me c ycle that he so often talke d about.
One day in the late sp ring 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 t i m e s i n
t he p a s t , b u t I h a d n ev e r p a i d m uc h a t t e n t i o n t o i t 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 11 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
d es cr i bi ng o n pag e F - 9 of t h e les so n ho w h e had s et up
h is "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 ba ck of the book, wh ich had
a l isti ng of all o f the ma jor 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.
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ancient world religions have always said it was. It is
within us, w a i t i n g f o r u s t o f i n d t h e m e a n s t o S E E I T .
I h a d p a i d a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money for a formula of
worthless gibberish, but had refused to seek the real trea s-
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
"MINDSET11 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.
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CHAPTER 7
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 "formula11 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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DON’T SEEK, BECAUSE THAT’S 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 t h i s s t o r y h a s b e e n t o b r i n g y o u , s o m e
of my reade rs, to thi s exact point. We have been building
a foundation for YOU, a "s p ec i a l pa i r o f g l as s e s ", if y o u
w i l l, s o t h at y ou c an s ee a t this point in time with your
filt ers and bli nders 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.
Now, here comes the bad news. My jumping around is going to get
worse, because in my searching for a way to pr esent 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 mys elf; and I ca n te ll you th at i t wil l
really be "jumpy"; but remember this "THING" is just
"COMING" and I don't really h a v e a n y c o n t r o l a t t h i s p o i n t .
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 t o l d y o u t h a t t h i s w a s a s g o o d a n e x p l a n a t i o n
of the master time f a c t o r a s y o u a r e p r o b a b l y g o i n g t o g e t
f r o m M r . G a n n ’ s o w n words. The rest of the explanation is
going to have to come from o u r a b i l i t y t o t h i n k , s e e , a n d
o b s e r v e e v e r y c l u e t h a t i t i s possible to observe. We can-
not overlook the smallest detail. You w i l l s e e t h i n g s t h a t I
don't see and vice-versa. We must pay attention to what he
s a y s , w h a t h e d o e s n ’ t s a y , a n d h i s " s t y l e" of writing
a b o u t o t h e r t h i n g s a n d a t o t h e r t i m e s . W e a r e g o i n g t o 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 p r e t t y w e l l
frustrated and disappointed in the master time factor a t
this point and that you are in fact pretty well convinced
t h a t t h i s i s j u s t "a n o th e r r i p - o ff " an d th a t i t i s n o t
e v e n t ha t 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.
T h e s e co n d t hin g t h a t I n ee d t o d o i s t o ge t y o u r a t -
t e n t io n . 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 ( l o w e s t p r i c e s)
n e a r e s t y o u o r y o u r f e e t , t h e n S h e e t 2 j o i n s Sheet 1,
then Sheet 3 joins Sheet 2 and you have prices from 0 to
$1440. The scale on each sheet in creases (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 a re loo k ing a t ) price s . The
pr ic es a re n ot impo r ta nt i n th is example. I jus t want
to get you r attention f or a min ute 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 (that’s
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 (that’s 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965).
Lastly, look at the red color on Sheet 3 (that’s 1982, we
are in 1983, and 1984 and 1985 are YET TO COME). Now, you
wi ll not ic e t hat t her e is q uit e a (co in ci den tal? )
similarity in the patterns of 1942, 1962, 1982, 1943,
1963, so far 1983,1944, 1964, 1984(7). Would you like a
more in depth v i e w o f w h a t we a r e l oo k i ng a t ? I f so ,
p l e a se t u rn t o y o u r 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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that I have made for you. This picture that you have
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. GANN»S
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
s h o u l d al w ay s o bse r ve e ve r yt h in g if y ou ar e go ing t o be a
se ek e r. An d p a r t i c u l a r l y , i f y o u a r e g o i n g t o t r y t o
s e e k s o m e t h i n g a s el usive a s th e maste r ti me f actor. You
shoul d a lways 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. GANN»S OWN WRITINGS
THAT I AM GIVING YOU HIS MASTER TIME FACTOR.
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One other thing at this point- I have published this booklet
i n a bound format for your convenience. The easiest way to fol-
low this m ate ri a l is t o ma ke p h oto co p ie s of th e ap p en di c es
tha t we a r e d i s c u s s i n g a n d h o l d t h e m n e x t t o e a c h o t h e r
a n d f o l l o w t h e a n a l y s i s a s w e g o . Y ou w i l l b e w o r k in g p r i -
m a r i l y w i t h A p p e n d ix III and Appendix IV.
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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 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" y ear in t he c ycle; the reason f or
thi s was because J upiter -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
( s h o r t l y a f t e r t h e 9 t h o f October) the blow-off top would
have confirmed itself. Not taking anything away from his re-
markable feat, but emphasizing how he pr obab ly use d th e
mas t er tim e f a ctor he r e a t t his poi n t; 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 th e 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. S o , I thi nk th at
h e us e d " St e el " as hi s n at u ra l b aro me ter t o 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 ac t ua l s to c k ve hi c le to t rad e a nd US S t ee l wa s t he
n at ura l choice. I believe that Mr. Gann made those trades for
the "Ticker Magazine or Magazine of Wall Street" or whatever, in
some fashion v e r y s i m i l a r t o w h a t I h a v e d e s c r i b e d f o r
y o u . I f t h i s 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.
Still page 4-same two para. -Now you will have to admit
t h a t w e hav e d one a l ot of a nal yz ing on two pa rag raphs, and
we may have l o o k e d a t 1 9 0 9 a n d 1 9 1 0 m o r e t h a n y o u e v e r
wanted to, but, you w i ll h a ve t o ad m it t ha t w e h a v e
lea rned something ’s th at are beginning to look interest-
i n g . B u t t h e r e ' s l o t s m o r e , i n s h o w i n g yo u t h e p at h , t h e
p la c e t o s t a r t , I ' m h e l pi n g m y se l f b e c a u s e I ' m l e a r n i n g
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 br o-
chure. One last ref eren ce t o page 4 and we will lea ve i t.
Page 4-third para, from bottom of page-he says, "In 1912 Mr.
Gann forecast the election of Woodrow Wilson and has been co r-
rect in f o r e c a s t i n g the election of every President
si nc e t h at t i m e. -" - Now this gives me an opportunity to
s h o w y o u s o m e t h i n g y o u already know, but some people think
that Mr. G ann never made a m i s t a k e i n h i s f o r e c a s t s a n d
that h e nev er tol d a lie a bou t his records. I have told
y o u s e v e r a l t i m e s h o w I f e e l a b o u t M r . G a n n and his work.
My search in his work allowed me to redisc over m y c r e e d . T h e
m o s t v a l u a b l e o b j e c t t h a t I h a v e e v e r f o u n d . B U T , I F WE WANT
TO SEE CLEARLY, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT WE SEE. Here i s a n ex a mp l e o f h o w
w e o v e r l o ok w h a t ev e r w e w a nt t o w h e n w e d o n ’ t w a n t t o s e e
i t . T h i s b r o c h u r e w a s w r i t t e n p r o b a b l y i n l a t e 1939 and
published in early 1940 (probably). Mr. Gann, like all b u s i -
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 can’t wait, it is in his
book, W45 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, that’s the page # in the lesson on the master time
factor); see again No. 1 year (or 1921) is t he firs t year
in a new decade (a t en year cycl e -but it is also the
first year and new beginning of the 20 year cycle; b a s i -
cally it’s like a triangle, the left side of the tri-
a n g l e going from "0" (remember that ’s conjunction) to 180
degrees (remember that’s opposition or top), this time pe-
riod from W0n 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 h a l f w a y i n t h e 2 0 y e a r c y c l e b u t
i t i s a t t h e t o p o f t h e 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 t h e l e f t
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 c y c l e , o r w e
c o u l d s h i f t o u r r e f e r e n c e p o i n t t o t h e l e f t (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 ( E v e r y m a n ) h a d
n o t l e a r n e d t h e p r o p e r m i n d s e t ; t h e n h e c o u l d n ' t s ee th is
b ea u ty b ec au s e h e d id n't k n o w h o w to l o o k. H e j u st sa w s o m e -
thing of no value; yet the thi ng of no value was the very
priceless thing that he needed (THE REJECTED BUILDER'S STONE). N o w
you can look at any cycle or circle that you want to with the
a bov e s ym bo lis m a nd mi nd set th at I h av e d es cri bed. Yo u ma y n ot
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 become s of inc ons equ ential Imp o r-
tance. What a strange, curious, wonderful, beautiful world.
W e s e e k i n t h e markets for treasure, but that search when
c o n c l u d e d l e a d s u s n o t to go ld bu t to so me thi ng wh ic h w e fir st
r eje ct ed a s r ef use ; t hen 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 r easo ns for t his con ject ure. Al so, be fore I f o r-
ge t, one rea son Mr. Gann (and the ancients and astrolo-
gers) called the 60-year cycle the Master Time Period is
because it contains approximately 2 cyc les o f the orbit of
Sa turn a nd 5 c ycl es of th e o rbi t of Jupiter. There is a
great amount of material in the last sentence al on e . I c an -
no t co ve r i t h ere , b u t s o me t i me s l oo k a t t he 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 b a r e l y c o v e r t h e m a s t e r
time factor in this booklet. There are so many other things
t h a t I w a n t e d t o g o o v e r w i t h y o u . B u t , a l l i n d ue time .
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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 b e-
ginning m e a s u r i n g p o i n t o f t h e 2 0 - y e a r c y c l e ( " 0 " o r c o n j . ) ,
but it also m e an s a nd a p p l ie s t o t h e 1 3t h y e a r or z on e .
T h i s c o u l d b e confusing to us especially if we did not KNOW
what caused the 20-year c y c l e t o b e i m p o r t a n t . A l s o , I w a n t
to point out that there are other cycles of great impo r-
tance. The 60 -year was most i m p o r t a n t t o t h e a n c i e n t s b e -
c a u s e o f s i z e s o f t h e i n v o l v e d p l a n e t s a n d S at u r n w a s t h e
m o s t di s t an t p l an e t t h a t t he y kn e w . I am busy with some very
interesting computer work now on some o r i g i n a l c y c l e w o r k
that I have felt the need to pursue as a result of some
o f t h e t h i n g s t h a t m y s p e c u l a t i o n s a b o u t M r . Gann's work
has led me to. Back to the para, on page 6 -The last s e n t e n c e
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 year s 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 m a s t e r t i m e f a c t o r w i l l b e
u s e f u l t o y o u t o s e e t h e u n f o l d i n g tr end s, bu t you m ust
ma ste r yo urs elf f irs t, t hen a ll ot her u se ful things become
more useful with use.
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HE MEANS. He always did his advertisements that way. It appeared
more scientific to say mathematically determi ned 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 15-3rd para. -"If the average man or woman would only
spend t h e f i r s t f e w h u n d r e d d o l l a r s t h e y l o s e i n t h e
m a r k e t i n 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 t r a de t o
o f t e n a n d o nl y a t t he ri g h t T IM E , pr e p ar e a se t o f 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.
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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 Method11-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 i n t h e p a s t , w e k n o w t h a t t h i s
t h i n g t h a t h e c a l l s i n t h e 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 u s that he is now talking about the master
time factor. You see he left out the word "secret" in the
a ctual material , bec ause if s omeone pi rated it, they
m ight un derstand it; bu t i n the sale s broch ure he was
a dvert ising to get your busin ess, a nd therefor e, he
c alled it wh at it real ly 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, IT’S JUST THAT YOU MAY NEED TO CHANGE YOUR SEL F (MINDS ET) S OMEWHAT . I
HAVE BEE N TR YIN G TO HEL P YOU T HERE TOO.
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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 tha t headi ng, he says, "There is n o
ot her way, o utsi de of usi ng 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 f actor
could have been anything else, I would never have charged
you for your time. But I hav e gone into so much detail,
BECAUSE, I wanted you to SEE IT clearly, because t h i s i s g o -
i n g to b e th e ba s e (f o u nd a t io n ) o f y o ur fu t u re u s e o f Mr.
Gann ’s trading system.
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.
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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 m a n y a d v a n t a g e s o v e r t r a d -
i n g i n s t o c k s " - . T h e n h e l i s t s t h e a dv an tag es . T hi s pa r a gr ap h
a ll o w s m e t he o p p or t u ni ty to a dd r e ss t h e s i t u a t i o n t h a t I h a d
w h e n I a d v e r t i s e d m y b r o c h u r e . I l o s t most of my orders because
commodity traders did not want to know a n y t h i n g a b o u t t h e s t o c k
market. They had the same mindset regarding the stock market
that I, myself, had and the one which I have bee n de sc ribin g
to you in my story . Th ey r efuse d to see the value in what I
was offering (even though I used the master time factor it -
s e l f ) , b e c a u s e i t w a s n o t w h a t t h e y w a n t e d t o h e a r or it was
not what they thought they wanted to hear; they wanted s o me th i n g
t ha t w ou ld t el l t he m a ll the to p s an d b ot tom s i n t he commod ity
market that they wanted to trade. I had many people r e s p o n d t o m y
a d v e r t i s e m e n t b y s a y i n g , " I o n l y t r a d e b e a n s - I don ’ t t r ad e
s to c k s, y ou r b r o c hu r e d id n' t m e n t io n b e an s, i t o nly m e n t i o n e d
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
t r a d e r . I d i d n ' t w a n t t o k n o w a n y t h i n g a b o u t s t o c k s . I re-
jected the stock market as being valueless to me. That mistake
i n m y m in ds et is wh at co st me so dea rl y i n t im e a nd mo ne y. You
see, I didn't seem to care w hether I could ma ke PR OFITS, BUT, I
JUST SEEMED TO CARE THAT I COULD TRADE BEANS! My mindset confused t r a d i n g a p a r t i c u -
l ar ma rk et wi th t rad ing f or prof its . I could n't tell these
p e o p l e t ha t w a n t e d t h e m as t e r t i me f a c to r t o b e ab ou t b e a n s ( o r
g o l d , w h e a t , c a t t l e , b e l l i e s , e t c . ) t h a t i t w o u l d b e that way.
THE TRUTH IS WHERE WE FIND IT; NOT WHERE WE WANT IT TO B E. (F or tuna tel y, f or us
t he tr ut h i s eve ry wh er e, bu t m os t e as il y f o u nd i n th a t w h i c h w e
r e j e c t a s h av i n g n o v a l u e ; o nc e w e f i n d i t i n t h e r e f u s e , t h e n
w e c a n g o b a c k a n d f i n d i t i n t h e p l a c e s where we. o nce
searched so vai nly.) There are a couple of good r e as o ns th a t I
c ou l d not ad dr e s s t h e b ea n ma r k e t ( an d o t h er commo di ti es ). One
P RIMARY re as on is that I d id no t h ave t he a d e q u a t e d a t a i n t h e
f o r m o f p r i c e s b a c k t o 1 9 0 1 ( o r f u r t h e r ) . W it ho ut th e d ata, I
c ould not te ll y ou ho w th e master ti me factor would work with the
different types of commodities. I knew that b e a n s d i d n o t a l w a y s
f o l l o w s t o c k p r i c e s . I h a d t h e d a t a I n t h e stock market in the
form of the Dow-J ones 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 i n s i s t t h a t I h a v e t o t r a d e s o m e t h i n g e l s e t h a t I
don't have the data on, but just simply like to trade (out of
habit). Of course, if yo u ar e m a ki ng p rof it s co n si ste ntl y i n
whatever you are trading, then you should hold fast to that
w h i c h i s a l r e a d y working. If you are a hedger, and you want to
use the master time f a c t o r i n y o u r p a r t i c u l a r c o m m o d i t y , y o u
wil l have to de velop 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 GRAIN11-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 cotton11. 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)
o f t h e STOCK MARKET, it does not have to hold true to the same
degree in t he gr a i n m a r k e t s , t h e r e c a n b e ot h e r fa c to r s
w i t h in t h e g r a in m ark ets t hat a re m ore impo rta nt th an th e
20 y ear per iod . If y ou 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 pro per f orm at to b e
use f ul t o y o u.
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
y o u r entire lifetime and that the knowledge I have given you
about Mr. Gann’s knowledge will be worth the money you paid me.
You can e a s i l y l o s e i n t h e m a rk e t o n o n e t ra de t h e p r i c e
y o u pa i d m e f o r 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.
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CHAPTER 8
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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
S t o c k s" , - " T h e M a s t e r T i m e c y c l e w h i c h I h a v e u s e d t o f o r e c a s t
ev er y i m po rt a n t bo om an d d e pr es s io n o r pa n i c f o r m or e t h an 30
ye ar s, wi ll in m y op in i on a c cu ra t el y fo r ec as t t he ne xt pa n ic . " -
He is writing thi s in the summer o f 1949. H e goes o n to say, on
page 13 1, "My cy cl e t he or y indicates that th e bu sines s bo om fol-
lo wi ng t h e w a r e n d e d i n 1 9 4 8 a n d t h a t t h e t r e n d i s n o w d o w n . "
In the next paragraph he says, "My study of time cycles Indi-
cates that th e busi ne ss dep res sion wil l g et wor se in the la st
h a l f o f 1 9 5 0 and in 1951 and 1952 we will run into real panicky
and depressing co nd it ions wh ich the governm en t will be unable to
co pe with." F i n a l l y , o n p a g e 1 3 2 , u n d e r t h e h e a d i n g , " P r e v i e w
o f 1 9 5 1 t o 1953", he says, "1951 and 1952 indicate very depressing
years for bu si ne s s an d a b e a r m ar k et i n s to ck s . M a n y st o c ks wi l l
go m uc h lower than people ever dreamed they could go. 1 1
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 ( R o o -
s e v e l t A d m i n i s t r a t i o n c a r r i e d o n b y T r u m a n ) g o e s o u t o f office in
1953. NOTHING CAN PREVENT IT. PANIC AND DEPRESSION HAVE ALWAYS FOLLOWED WAR.W See he
is forecasting by his master time factor. B ut lo ok at m y c ha rt s. Th is
ti me he wa s w ro ng . O r w as it t h a t t h e m a s t e r t i m e f a c t o r w a s
w r o n g ? I t ’ s t h e s a m e t h i n g , because all of his forecasts are
based on the master time factor. But often it is a very valu-
a b l e t o o l f o r f o r e c a s t i n g . L o o k a t h o w 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? It’s not p e r f e c t . I w a n t y o u t o
s e e t h a t h e r e i n m y b o o k l e t . I d o n ’ t w a n t you to find that out
in the market. You must have learned from my s tor y t ha t y ou mu st
ex er ci s e p r ud en ce .
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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
r e a l l y s t u d y these relationships and see what they were telling
him. YOU MUST O B S E R V E . P a y a t t e n t i o n t o a l l t h e p a t t e r n s
w i t h i n a c y c l e a n d over a ll the cy cl es. For inst ance, y ou
have seen wh er e Mr. G ann w o u ld b e t a l k i ng a b o u t a c y c l e a n d
h e w o u ld s a y t ha t o n e t im e p e ri o d p u t a b a s e o r f o u nd a t i o n
o n a c y c l e a nd t h a t o t h e r t i me p eri ods w ould make up the
walls a nd tha t anot he r woul d make up t h e c e i l i n g o r t o p o f a
c y c l e . J u s t l i k e i n a b u i l d i n g , h e w o u l d 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 b e t w e e n t h e t o p o n e a n d
t h e b o t t o m o n e ( i n t h e s w i n g s - i g n o r e price, we aren't tal k-
ing about price; we are talking about bottom c ycl es a nd t op
cy cle s an d wal ls in b etwee n the m). T hes e ar e the t y p e s o f
things that you must observe.
Check each zone in the 5th year of the 20 -year cycle. What
h a p p e n e d t o th e p r i c e s wi n g s , g e n e r a l l y , i n t h e 5 t h y ea r ?
W o u l d y o u w a n t t o a p p r o a c h t h a t 5 t h y e a r m a r k e t f r o m t he
s h o r t s i d e ? How would you write your rules to trade that 5th
year? What could y o u h a v e w o r k e d o u t i n t h e 4 t h y e a r a n d
said, "I will start out on January 1st, and I will look
for ....; then if that happens... or new.... takes
p l a c e . . . . e t c . I w i l l p u t m y s t o p ; . . . " Y o u m u s t d o 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 w h a t i s I n s i de o f
t h e m o n th l y c ha r t s ; t h en y o u ca n c a t c h yo u r entries, pyra-
mids, and exits from the daily or semi-daily charts-BUT ONLY IN
CONJUNCTION WITH THE ABOVE TWO MOST IMPORTANT CHARTS. Y o u u n d e r s t a n d W H A T T H E M A I N
TREND IS NOW, don’t you?
I t a p pe a r s t h a t t h e r e m ay ha v e b e e n a " s h i f t " i n t h e c y -
c le s d u r i n g t h e p e r i o d o f 1 9 4 8 - o n . M r . G a n n , y o u w i l l
r e c a l l , 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 (an d others that you c an s tudy and
lear n) to tra de tim es 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 "na tural ma n age " that I tal ked abou t ear lier . 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.
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that you want to do.
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W
CHAPTER 9 THE
SEEKER'S CREED11
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 mar ket, you will find that the practice and
proper use of this Seeker ’ s Creed will do wonders for you.
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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 manes 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.
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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 wi l l not s ta nd stil l f or u s. We mu s t go
w it h it . I t w i l l no t 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 no t all get
done.
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. B e-
cause, the final currency that we must use to pay for eve-
rything, is the time of our lives. The essence.
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 a c t i o n . I h a d s t a r t e d s o m e t h i n g t h a t I
f e l t g r e a t d e s i r e t o d o (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).
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call it that) WILL COMPENSATE YOU IF NO ONE ELSE DOES. JUST
L I V E BY YOUR CREED OF NATURAL LAWS AND LET THE REST TAKE CARE OF
ITSELF.
GOOD SEEKING,
"THE SEEKER"
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APPENDIX I "FORECASTING BY TIME
CYCLES"
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:
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
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 U SE D . H I S
V A R I O US D E S C R I P TI O N S O F H I S C O U R S E S AN D B OO K S I N 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 YO U. I FELT I T W OU LD BE BETT ER TO CO PY IT DIRE CTLY, R ATHER
THAN RETYPING IT, SO THAT YOU COULD SEE THAT IT IS AUTHENTIC.
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
"FORECASTING"
BACKGROUND:
TH IS 2 1 P AG E D O CU M E NT I S IN M Y O PI N I ON T HE M O S T IM P OR T A NT 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.
I H A V E C O PI E D I T DI R E C T LY A S H E S E N T I T O U T I N 1 9 3 5- Y O U S E E I T IN
HIS OWN WORDS ON HIS OWN LETTERHEAD EXACTLY AS HE SENT IT OUT I N 1 9 3 5 .
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
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 AUTHOR1 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.
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
SUMMATION
"THE SEEKER'S CREED"
I. CREATION
8. 9.
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.
5« I believe you must act (pretend movement) the part you
want. I believe you must act t he 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 t o h a v e . I b e l i e v e y o u m u s t a c t
a s i f y o u h a v e a l r e a d y created what you want to cre-
ate.
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.
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.
12. I b e l i e ve t h e h e a t i s c a u s e d by bu r y i n g t h e se e d i n t h e
e ar t h
(in the subconsc ious); by giv ing it (seed) awa y 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,
God’s
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!
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.
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.
34. I b e l i ev e th a t w ha t y ou h av e t o d a y i s a n i m a g e o f wh at
y ou
gave (or didn’t give) yesterday (in the past).
36. I believe that what you give (sow) today, you will get
(reap) tomorrow.
38. I believe that what you do not give (sow) today, you
will not get (reap) tomorrow.
55• I believe that the more you increase what you give, the
more you increase what you get.
10
Increasing. If you believe something you must act on
the belief. (Faith without works is dead (is not
faith).
59-
I believe that the law of increase and expansion says
that the rate of motion causes increase.
60.
I b e l i ev e t h at t h e d i f fe r e nce b e t w ee n a l l t h i n g s i n
t h e universe lies in their rate of motion (movement).
Everything in the universe is made of God ’ s Flux (en-
ergy); therefore, t h e d i f fe r en c e b et w e e n t hi n g s must
l i e i n t h e i r ra t e o f motion. (This is the basis of the
law of increase and law of a ttraction ).
61.
I believe that things with equal or near equal rate of
motion att ract each other.
62,
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.
63-
I believe that something exhilarating to the spirit
speeds up rate of motion.
64.
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).
65.
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.
66.
I believe you must grow or feed other who is growing.
67.
68.
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).
69-
I believe that the one condition coupled with truth
and life is its use - you must use it freely. You
70. must act on it.
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.
74. I believe that you must bless and praise what you give,
use,
or send out.
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".
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).
15» I believe that your manner shows what you expect — and
will get.
13
Hard times; you will get exactly what you expect. If
you expect happiness, riches, health, and a good life -
you will get i t .
14
Reaffirmed.
30. I believe that it must be watered with desire.
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Motion).
6. 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.
7. I believe that to attract something you must have de-
sire for that which you would attract.
8. I believ e that desire is the emotion that attracts
like to like.
9. 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).
10.
I believe that to attract something you must use it
(that which you would attract).
11.
I believe that you must have a need for something in or-
der to a t t r a c t i t .
12.
I believe that anything you attract must be something
you have created a need for. I believe that to attract
13. something you must have a reason (purpose) for needing
it.
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.
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2. I believe that different forms of energy and of life
and of matter are expressed by different vibratory
rates.
19
15- I believe cycle s v ibrat e at d ifferent rhyth ms
(rate of motion). Low thoughts vibrate at low rhythms.
High thoughts vibrate at high rates. Create and hold
high thoughts.
23. I believe that when you do one thing you should not
think of
something you will do at another time.
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 b e l i ev e t ha t t h e r e is a t im e to be ac t i ve and a
time to
refrain from action.
20
30. I believe that God ’ s law of the Sabbath ex-
presses this
pulsating cyclic rhythm.
34. I believe that when one develops (finds) his rhythm, his
harmony, he becomes a flowing whole.
21
Comes back to where it started (you receive back what
you sent out, plus interest (momentum of the c y-
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
END
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APPENDIX VI
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
BACKGROUND:
THESE CHARTS ARE WEEKLY CHARTS OF THE DOW-JONES AVERAGES FOR THE T H R E E Y E A R
P E R I O D S H A V E 1 9 4 1 - 1 9 4 4 , 1 9 6 1 - 1 9 6 4 , A N D 1 9 8 1 - C U R R E N T . THEY ARE BASED
ON THE ACTUAL WEEKLY HIGH AND LOW INSTEAD OF THE WEEKLY HIGH CLOSE AND LOW
CLOSE.
I H AV E DR A WN T HE 1 ST , 2 ND , 3R D , AN D 4T H Y EA R ZO NE S O N TH EM S O 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.
I T I S V E R Y U S E F U L T O B E A B L E T O J UD G E T HE M A I N T R E N D B Y T H E 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.
APPENDIX VII
"WISDOM"