Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 23:50:24 EST
From: *Spirit Of Truth* WWW Page
Subject: Astroharmonic Debate
THE ASTROHARMONIC DEBATE
J. Adams
March 11th, 1996
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In recent weeks the debate over a connection between
interplanetary harmonics ("astroharmonics") and world affairs-
particularly stock market and economic fluctuations- has been raging
on the internet, i.e., in usenet newsgroups like "misc.invest".
Fortunately, some of the most renown authors on the subject have
entered into the on-line debate. Below is a few of the posts from
these authors along with a lot of valuable insights, information and
references.
One should probably pay special attention to this debate at the
current juncture because next week (March 22nd/23rd) there is a rare
syzygy, i.e., perfect three-planet alignment, of Mercury, Mars and
Saturn. Furthermore, these three planets and the sun and moon will be
aligned within a 10-degree arc from the earth with the new moon and
Spring Equinox on March 19th/20th. To top all of this off, a bright
comet will reportedly appear next week and stay visible until early-
April, when a total lunar eclipse- conjunct Mercury and Mars and
squared by Jupiter- will occur. As I will explain in my next post,
"The Final Equinox?", these are extraordinaily important astrological
events since they may be marking the ultimate turning point in human
history as well as the "End Of The Age" of Pisces.
One might note the upcoming alignment is most likely why the stock
market is currently so volatile because, as I have explored in
previous articles like "The Grand Supercycle Peak", planetary
alignments like the one next week tend to mark major turning points in
the stock market and world history. A prime example of this was
August 24th/25th of 1987 when a new moon/five-planet alignment,
associated with the so-called "Harmonic Convergence" that month,
precisely marked the stock market top prior to the '87 stock market
crash. (As I have pointed out, the only other major stock market tops
since 1987- in July of 1990 and January of 1994 at Dow 3000 and 4000,
respectively- also coincided with major planetary alignments.) Thus,
there is reason to expect a major stock market reversal is in the
making going into next weeks' planetary alignment.
Importantly, one should keep in mind that stock market reversals
associated with planetary alignments are often associated with
important international events and crises. For instance, in mid-July
of 1990 the stock market reversed from Dow 3000 with a six-planet
alignment followed by a solar/lunar eclipse pair. As I have mentioned
before in my "Saddam's Revenge" articles, this reversal was "caused"
by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the outbreak of a crisis in the
Persian Gulf which pushed oil prices sharply higher. Thus, the
historical turning point in July of 1990, which was followed by the
Persian Gulf crisis, a severe stock market correction and the last
economic recession, coincided with a planetary alignment.
If the historical pattern repeats here, then not only might a
major stock market reversal be in the making going into the planetary
alignment next week, some sort of international crisis or crises could
soon erupt (pay attention to the solar/lunar eclipse pair in April as
well on this score). Since the Taiwanese presidential election is
slated for March 23rd, the date of the Mercury, Mars and Saturn
syzygy, my guess is that, at the least, we are looking at the outbreak
of war and an East Asian crisis in the near-future. Obviously,
alarming developments in this direction are already underway.
On a final note, if my hypothesis is correct that the
authoritarian military powers of the East (Russia, China, North Korea,
the Serbs and Iraq and other hardline Arab states), are using
astrology in implementing a multi-year plan geared to mislead and
militarily destroy Israel and the West, then the alignment next week
might be associated with an outbreak of war in the Middle East. This
is the case for several reasons. First of the alignment involves Mars
and Saturn which, according to astrology, are the planets of war and
fate, respectively, as well as the most dangerous planets.
Furthermore, the planet Saturn has historically been associated with
the Jewish people as well as the zodiac sign of Pisces, in which the
upcoming alignment will occur. Accordingly, Mars conjunct Saturn in
Pisces implies a war against the Jews.
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Subject: Re: Eng on radio talk show
Date: 26 Feb 1996 21:51:51 GMT
From: YCGN15B@prodigy.com (Arch Crawford)
Newsgroups: misc.invest.technical
>Anyone who endorses astrology is a complete utter moron in my book...
Dear Jim "utter moron" pegasus:
Throughout history, the sharpest and brightest minds have most often
turned to the study of the heavens. Many of the "modern sciences"
have their origins in the need to understand cosmic influences. Recent
studies of the materials collected by NOAA (National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration) show decisive influences of Sunspot Cycles
and Lunar Cycles in the unfoldment of agrarian, economic,
psychological and physical events on the Earth.
My own work, predicting stock and commodity trends, has benefitted
from advanced computer applications to the overwhelming myriads of
data relating to planetary, solar & lunar cycles. To dismiss this and
other very real research is the height of folly, considering the
success with which they have been met in the outer world of real
finance.
-Arch Crawford
(Arch Crawford is the author of "Crawford Perspectives"-
an astrogically-based financial investment letter.)
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Will,
You don't have to take anything I say "on faith". My comments and
analysis appear regularly online on the "Wall St. Edge" segment on
PRODIGY, DTN, BLOOMBERG, and Dr. Paul Farrell's web page and
irregularly in BARRON's, INVESTORS INTELLIGENCE, MARKET LOGIC and DICK
DAVIS DIGEST. Also, my record is analyzed and reported in HULBERT
FINANCIAL DIGEST and TIMER DIGEST. Most of my astronomic statistical
processes appear in a book by Matlock called "MAN & COSMOS"; available
from the Foundation for the Study of CYCLES in Wayne PA.
In my newsletter, CRAWFORD PERSPECTIVES, I predicted the exact date
and approximate outcome of: The Challenger Explosion, the Chernobyl
explosion, The TOP DAY of the stock market in 1987; the subsequent
CRASH, Saddam Hussein's attack on Kuwait, the KOBE earthquake and four
of the 10 largest down days in history in DJIA points.
I was ranked #3 in the "Methodology" contest when the Sponsor quit
publishing their magazine and I quit putting in orders, assuming it
was as dead as the magazine. Apparently the trading simulation service
was paid in advance for 3 years, but most participants dropped out
without the sponsor.
-Arch Crawford
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From: afund@aol.com (AFund)
Newsgroups: misc.invest.technical
Subject: Re: astrological bs/IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS
Date: 7 Mar 1996 21:18:17 -0500
If the truth were known - financial "astrology" has to be a hustle?
Regarding your comment, of JUST ONE factor that works 100% of the
time, this shows a lack of understanding of the basics of astrology.
We deal with unique planetary patterns that repeat only once every
several billion years, and really not even then if you used solar
apex, galactic center aspects etc. However, many patterns do repeat
with a large percentage of corresponding hits in the market place--
but as a symbolic science-- it has to be interpreted. For those
without those skills, however, neural networks and AI programs are
providing some "scientific" proof of astrology. See Dan Pallant site
for example. 100% computerized, and while only 60% accurate, that is a
consistent 60% over time.
Cheers.
Henry Weingarten ASTROLOGERS FUND "Always a Stellar Performance"
Email: AFund@aol.com 212/949-7275 Fax: 212/949-7274
350 Lexington Ave 4th Fl New York, NY 10016-0909
http://www.ids.net/starbridge/afund
Author: INVESTING BY THE STARS McGraw Hill Release: May 17,1996
Our monthly column in; FINANCIAL PLANNING ON WALL STREET magazine, and
the 4th Annual Astrology & Stock Market Forecasting Conference May
17,18 1996 NYC
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Subject: Re: Eng on radio talk show/Meadors responds
Date: 9 Mar 1996 05:56:16 GMT
From: meadors@ix.netcom.com (Gregory L. Meadors )
Newsgroups: misc.invest.technical,misc.invest,misc.invest.stocks
In dwillis@instanet.com
writes:
>>Is my skepticism a result of my poor educational background? Maybe I
>>need to call the Psychic Friends network and ask Desiree where to
>>place my stops?
>I enjoy your heckling, but, alas, the suckers who believe will
>continue to believe and the con artists (aka astrologers) will
>continue to take their money. They have been with mankind always and
>will never go away.
>
>Sort of like athlete's foot. They're very fungus-like.
>
>It's like arguing reproductive rights with the pope. He just ain't
>gonna get it.
>
>Now I just use a little something called "kill files".
Here are a few items that I would suggest you investigate so that you
can become more knowledgeable of the subject. Using astro methods, my
January Newsletter forecast March 1st as a High Energy Turning Point
date low. The Dow rallied 200 points intraday in two days off this
low.
Those who take the time to investigate the evidence know that astro-
harmonics provides the edge for short term stock market timing.
Of course, you can ignore the legendary W.D. Gann, and the J.P.
Morgan, both who used natural cycles as part of their market timing
tools. You can also ignore the many research articles published by
others on the subject matter, many who are not "astrologers".
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The first 11 articles are mine, most of them published in Trader's
World magazine.
1 ) "Vibration Inversion Points" - Traders World Magazine
2) "Gann's Law of Vibration Decoded" - " "
3) "Gann and the Planets" - " "
4) "Gann, the Bible and the Stockmarket" " "
5) "Beyond Gann - Biblical Cycles" " "
6) "Beyond Gann - Number Vibrations " "
6) "Harmonics and the 1987 Stockmarket Crash" " "
7) "Symbols, Numerics and the Law Of Vibration" " "
8) "Heavenly Influences and the 1990
Stockmarket Top" " "
9) "The Solar Eclipse" " "
10) "Gann's law of price movement applied to
today's markets" - Sept/Oct 1993 Knight-Ridder News
ALSO Dec/1993 - Trader's Catalogue and Resource Guide
11) "Gann's law of price movement applied to
today's markets-Part 2-Feb/94 Traders's Cat & R.G.
Books/Courses on Market Timing:
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"Professional Traders' Home Study Course" - Meadors
(email home mailing address for sample Newsletter
and complete information on course, etc)
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1) "Astro-Cycles & Speculative Markets - Jensen/book 1978
2) "Man and Cosmos-A Theory of Endeavor Rhythms" - Matlock
Development Cycles Research Project- Book/1977
3) "Sunspots, Stars and the Stockmakret- Book/1979
4) "Nature's Law-The Secret of the Universe-
R.N. Elliott-Book/1946
5) "Astro-Economics, Lcd. David Williams, 1959
6) "Planetary Harmonics of Speculative Markets -
Larry Pesavento
7) "Universal Clock-Forecasting Time and Price in
the Footsteps of W.D. Gann" - Long
8) "Cosmic Patterns - Their Influence on Man and His
Communication" - J. H. Nelson - (RCA Corporation)
9) "Stockmarket Prediction" - Donald Bradley
10) "Astro-Cycles & Speculative Markets - Jensen/book 1978
11) "Stock Market Predicton", Donald Bradley
Articles on Astro and the Markets:
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1) "Cyclical Analysis of Stocks Prices with Astrology" by
Robert S. Kimball - Nov/1987 Technical Analysis of
Stocks and Commodities magazine.
2) "Stock Prices and Space" Edward R. Dewey -Foundation
For the Study of Cycles- Oct/1969
3) "Stock Prices, Mercury and Space" Edward R. Dewey -
Foundation for the Study of Cycles- Dec/1969
4) "The Ominous Link Between Sunspots and American
Droughts" - Commodities magazine (Now Futures mag)
5) There are many articles published over the last several
years on Gann/Astro etc, in Traders World Magazine -
2508 Grayrock St. Springfield, MO 65810-1-800-288-4266
$15 per year 4 issues, published by Larry Jacobs
Other Articles on Natural Influences:
1) "Moon Phases and State Hospital Admissions" -
Psychological Reports/1987
2) "Extrinsic Rhythmically - Brown, New York Academy
Science, 1962
3) "An Analysis of the Terrestrial Magnetic Correlates of
Venus/Jupiter Critical Angles, 1968-1980 -Foundation
For The Study of Cycles
4) "Biomagnetism: An Awesome Force in Our Lives"-Readers
Digest Oct/1982
5) "Comparisons of Sunspot Periods with Planetary Synodic
Period Resonances" - Nature May/1975 6) Planetary
Alignments, Solar Activity and Climatic
Change" - Nature May/1975
7) "Magnetic Intensity and Climatic Changes" 1925-1970
Nature 3/1973
8) "The Sun's Influence on EArth's Atmosphere and
Interplanetary space" - Science- April/1982
9) "Weather and the Earth's Magnetic Field", Nature Dec/93
10) "Shortwave Radio Propagation Correlation with Planetary
Positions" - The RCA Review, March/1951
11) "Sun Motion and Sunspots" -Astronomical
Journal-April/65
12) "Sunspots and Planetary Orbits" - Nature-Dec 5, 1970
13) "Earthquakes: The Solar Connection" -
Science Digest Oct/82
14) "Climate and Human Behavior" - Industrial Research
Development Sept/1982
15) "Influence of the Planet Mercury on Sunspots" -
Astronomical Journal May/1967
16) "Solar Activity and Planetary Positions" - American
Physical Society Bulletin, June 1968
17) "Sunspots and Planets" - Nature 11/1972
18) "Solar Radiation Changes and the Weather" -Nature 10/73
19) "Geomagnetic secular variation as a precursor of
climatic change" - Nature
20) "Effects of Solar Disturbances on Radio Communications
With Aircraft" NOAA Report ERL 33
21) "Heliobiology" - Soviet Life - Jan/1972
22) "The Jupiter Effect" - John Bribbin
23) Biological Rhythms in Human and Animal Physiology"
- Luce 1971
24) "The Lunar Effect-Biological Tides and Human Emotions"
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From: meadors@ix.netcom.com (Gregory L. Meadors )
Newsgroups: Misc.invest,misc.invest.technical,sci.econ,sci.skeptic
Subject: Stock Market Timing Article
Date: 5 Mar 1996 05:58:07 GMT
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From the book "Sunspots, Stars and the Stockmarket" by Rieder
Excertps from the introduction:
"Yet a word or two many be in order regarding the apparent
contradictory position of this author who, despite a rigorious
scientific training and some 17 years of engineering experience, makes
bold to publish a book on a subject which is normally taboo for those
who fancy themselves to be hard-headed realists. Of course, I
personally do not agree that the position is a contradictory one. I
see astrology as merely one more area where alleged correlations or
"influences" invite the clear-minded investigations of those who have
been taught the scientific method as it is practiced today. Indeed, I
perceive the tendency among all too many scientists to reject the
subject out of hand, as an abandonment of the scientific method! The
view is prevalent that the astrological correlations are A PRIORI
impossible, and this is a dreadful example of pre-formed conclusions
arrived at without the benefit of any direct experience or knowledge
of the subject at hand. Indeed, I have never heard of any person who,
after making a personal investigation of the subject of astrology,
remained the skeptic he was originally.
The advantage that the scientifically trained mind can bring to a
study of astrology is the ability to approach the alleged correlations
on the basis of probability theory. It is this that I have attempted
in the present book..
The reader is asked now to rid his mind of any preconceptions it
might harbor about astrology, to suspend his disbelief, and to embark
with me on should prove to be a rather startling voyage of discovery."
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From: meadors@ix.netcom.com (Gregory L. Meadors )
Newsgroups: misc.invest,misc.invest.technical,misc.invest.stocks,misc.
invest.futures,sci.econ,sci.skeptic
Subject: Stock Market Timing Article #2
Date: 5 Mar 1996 06:06:06 GMT
In the November 1987 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and
Commodities magazine the article entitled "Cyclical analysis of stock
prices with astrology" by Robert S. Kimball was published.
"This research rigorously tested more than 325 corporations and more
than two-thirds of them have listed options. Most were tested for at
least three years."
"Thousands of computer runs strongly suggest the predictive value of
this procedure is especially suitable for short term stock price
moves."
"When this procedure was strictly applied to more than 150 stocks
with listed options for all of 1985, the results were as follows: 104
stock opttion buying opportunities (puts and calls) were identified;
82% of the time tthe stock moved in the predicted direction and the
predictive "wave" of positive points correctly indicated the price
peak or turning point within two to four days.
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For additional articles on this subject and for a free
sample Newsletter see are website
http://ison.com/mktsys/
Greg Meadors
Market Systems
#1 Methdology Showdown Trading Contest
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From: meadors@ix.netcom.com (Gregory L. Meadors )
Newsgroups: misc.invest.technical,misc.invest,misc.invest.stocks
Subject: Re: Debunking Astrology Financial-Hannula's research
Date: 5 Apr 1996 18:52:59 GMT
In <1775ED28CS86.KUNNE@frcpn11.in2p3.fr> KUNNE@frcpn11.in2p3.fr
(Ronald Kunne) writes:
>
>In article <4jsq87$2fp@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
>afund@aol.com (AFund) writes:
>
>>Anyway after May 17, you will have no excuse to remain
>>lost and confused as a citizen of the cosmos and an
>>investor or trader. May 17, as I am sure you know is the
>>date McGraw Hill is releasing my book:
>>INVESTING BY THE STARS: Using Astrology in the Financial
>>Markets. Can you afford NOT to have financial astrology
>>in YOUR FUTURE?
>That McGraw Hill publishes a book about astrology only means
>that they think that they can make money with it. This only
>tells me that they assume that there are enough people who
>believe in astrology.
>(Which hardly comes as a surprise).
snip the rest
Yes, it should not be a surprise, since it improves one market
timing for short term trading. Ideal for stock option trading
and timing other short term timing.
Dr. Hans Hannula writes the AstroPhysics newsletter.
Here is some background info. on Hans and how he came
to discover the value of using astronomical indicators
for market timing.
Hans Hannula states,
"By training I am an engineer, and a scientist. I am a
graduate of the Air Force Academy, and earned a PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of Wisconsin. While in the Air Force, I was a jet
instructor pilot, and a combat pilot in Vietnam. I
taught at the Air Force Academy. After leaving the Air
Force, I worked for Bell Laboratories."
Dr. Hannula continues, "I was introduced to the markets
on my first Air Force assignment by a young Captain, who
later retired wealthy by using his Air Force pay to trade
the markets. As I studied the material he gave me, I
became fascinated by various theories about what caused the
markets to move, especially cycles. "
"I had been introduced to cycles by one of Dewey's early
books, and then by Jim Hearst's book. While I was in
graduate school, I programmed the material in Jim Hearst's
book and started doing digital filtering of cycles. I did
such things as Fourier transform studies about the cyles in
the Dow. I was fascinated by the potential of applying
digital computers and engineering techniques to analyse the
market. It did help my trading, and I began to feel I could
see what was going on. At that point I had captured the
state of the art of cycles knowledge. I thought I knew it
all. But an interesting thing happened on day at lunch."
"The party I was with was joined by an ex-professor of
He was retired and someone asked him what he was doing now.
He started telling an interesting story. He claimed that
he had extracted the orbital period of Mercury, accurate to
5 decimal places, from the Consumer Price Index. I was very
polite, but I thought the old guy may have flipped his lid.
However, I decided it was worth checking out, so I asked if
I could come over and see his mathematics. He said. Sure".
"I paid him a visit. I went through his mathematics.
If found they were ingenious, and very sound. He had
developed a unique means of extracting cycles in such a way
that he did not modify the data from which they were being
extracted. This is unlike any other cycle extraction
technique. I found this breakthrough in cycle extraction
technique extremely interesting. It was also a breakthrough
in my thinking about cycles. What he was extracting from a
financial time series were certainly planetary cycles. The
odds against him coming up with the cycle values, accurate
to 5 and 6 decimal places, by chance or by accident, were
great than 5000 to 1. I knew that this was not absolute
proof that the planets moved the markets, but it was
certainly evidence which could not be ignored."
"When I was asked what the physical mechanism for this
was he said ti was just the way the solar system was
built. It was based on work discovered in the 1930's by
cycles researchers who were working on cycles in weather.
Clayton, Luby,. Stetson and several other early researchers
had discovered that the so-called solar constant of
radiation was not constant at all, but had about a 2%
variation, and that variation severely effected our weather
and the earth's electromagnetic field. They hypothesis was
that the planets, as they moved, caused tidal waves on the
gaseous sun, stirring up sunspots and solar flares, causing
the variation in radiation."
"I asked if there was an equation for this stirring
tidal force, and discovered that there was. So I did one of
those things I frequently do - I stuck my foot in my mouth
and volunteered to write a program to compute the stirring
force. It took me a few weeks to write the program. When I
gave it to my ex-professor, he began pointing out ot me that
the correlations between the highs and the lows in the stirring
force and the Consumer Index. The correlation was uncanny. My
friend told me it was great work. "
"A that point I thought, Well, if the solar stirring
force relates to one economic series that is driven by mass
psychology, it would relate to another. My other reading
had informed me that not only our weather but our
electromagnetic field and the currents that follow between
earth and the atmosphere were quite variable and could be
related to this same phenomena. I found that scientists had
even tracked changes in blood PH to changes in the
electromagnetic field. It made a of of sense to me that
those electromagnetic changes and the currents, flowing
through the vary space in which we walk could effect the
human body. I learned that there are large electric
currents, in the thousands of amperes, following between the
earth's surface and th atmosphere, causing such powerful
natural events as lightning. My research confirmed that it is
very scientifically proven that these changes affect such
things as the ability of homing pigeons to navigate, an
that time cycles to which people who are isolated in caves
adjust their work routine."
"I started looking at this solar stirring force and the
stock market. One thing I did was apply digital filtering
techniques to extract a nominal 2 year and a nominal 4
year cycle out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. When I
compared the two, I made quite an astounding discovery-the
highs and lows were frequently correlated. They were so
well correlated that the odds against it happening by chance
were several thousand to one. This work I much later
published in the article "In Search of the Cause of Cycles".
Once I was convinced that these planetary cycle-market
correlations were not accidental, but something that could
be traced scientifically, I began some very serious research
work. Since I had a computer model of the planets, I could
easily add equations to describe various forms of energy
transfer. One of the models I came up up with I now call
Astro Points or the AstroPoint index. It is a set of
equations driven by the planetary model that produces a time
series. This time series give me points in time when I
there to be outbursts of solar energy. The correlations
with this time series with highs and lows in the market is
very high. It, and several other correlations, along with
my statistical method of doing the correlations, are
presented in the MTA conference paper, "In Search of Truly
Scientific Correlations". "These Astro Points, then, give
points in which we expect the earth's energy fields to be
disturbed. The interesting thing is that th energy shows up
in a lot of different forms,- sometimes its an
electromagnetic field disturbance, sometimes it's a solar
flare, sometimes it's a proton shower, etc. But even
thought it arrives in different ways, it almost always has
a psychological effect. In fact, I have even found a very
high correlations to the highs and lows in crises in a
mental health clinic. Our environment does absolutely
affect our psychology."
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From: meadors@ix.netcom.com (Gregory L. Meadors )
Newsgroups: misc.invest,misc.invest.technical,misc.invest.stocks,misc.
invest.futures,sci.econ,sci.skeptic
Subject: Stock Market Timing #3
Date: 5 Mar 1996 06:13:26 GMT
Article about Gann written 75 years ago. For more articles and free
sample Newsletter see our website at http://ison.com/mktsys/
Excerpts from the JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Philadelphia, Saturday, January
15, 1921
During an interview with the correspondent of the Journal of Commerce
the other day, Mr. Gann said that brighter times are ahead for stock
market operators this year. There will be a gradual rise in stocks
the present winter months, and the beginning of the Harding
administration will mark a notable rise in securities. Investments in
securities will be quite active throughout the year. Mr. Gann finds
that business conditions in general will improve this year and the
old-time confidence will be restored to the investing public.
This gentleman has made some important predictions in this day. He
foretold about nine months in advance the exact day of the Kaiser's
abdication, and the end of the World War. Mr. Gann also predicted the
elections of both President Wilson and that of Harding. He has
forecast events in the lives of persons who are prominent in the
political and business affairs of this nation; and these men testify
to the accuracy of Mr. Gann's predictions. He showed the writer
numerous letters from men high in the Army and Navy, State
executives, banking officials, well known clergymen, and hosts of
others whose signatures to letters mean that the truth has been
spoken. They are all men whose position and standing could not afford
them to write or say anything unless they knew the true facts about
which they were writing. This a great credit to Mr. Gann and it
proves that he knows whereof he speaks.
Mr. Gann has made noteworthy prognostications of the markets, which
provided to be true in course of time. His calculations are based on
the Science Of Letters, Numbers and Astrology. In 1909 his record in
speculation created a sensation. The "Ticker Magazine" and many
newspapers throughout the country commented on his accurate forecasts
and trading record. And since that year his predictions on the
movements of stocks have been just as remarkable. He sends out
forecasts twelve months in advance, and at the beginning of 1919 he
predicted the bull market that year and the big decline in November of
the same year. He foretold the advance in stocks last April, and the
sever decline in November, and December last year. On the general run
of stocks for last year, all his predictions, which were made at the
beginning of 1920, came true. He spoke with emphasis of the declining
market which could be expected at the end of last year. Happenings
proved that his predictions were correct.
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From: meadors@ix.netcom.com (Gregory L. Meadors )
Newsgroups:
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invest.stocks,sci.econ,sci.skeptic
Subject: History of Gann/Article
Date: 5 Mar 1996 06:25:32 GMT
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An interesting article appeared in Trader's World magazine regarding
the life and times of W.D. Gann. Here are some brief highlights from
this extensive article.
1) In 1902 W.D. Gann made is first commodity trade in cotton.
2) Over the next 53 years, Gann took over $50,000,000 from the
markets. It has been reported by a man who worked for Gann the last
eight years of his life, that approximately 1/3 of the money he made
was for himself and the other 2/3 was for the accounts he supervised
for clients.
3) In 1908, at age 30, Gann moved to New York and opened his own
brokerage office at 18 Broadway.
4) In 1909, Richard D. Wykcoff, Owner and Editor of THE TICKER and
Investment Digest asked Gann for an interview to document his trading
ability for one month. The interview was granted, and Gann's trades
were monitored for 25 market days during the month of October in the
presence of a Ticker representative. At that time the markets also
traded on Saturday Gann made 28 trades on various stocks both long and
short. There were 264 trades that resulted in profits and 22 losses
92.3% of the trades were profitable. The capital used double ten
times resulting in 1000% gain on his original investment during those
25 trading days.
5) When the article was printed in The Ticker Investment Digest Gann
was besieged with people asking how he was able to pick tops and
bottoms as he demonstrated. His only answer the was that he used the
"Law of Vibration" to make all his calulations.
6) Over the years Gann maintained several offices in New York all
located on Wall Street with the address numbers at 78, 89, 82, 88, 91,
9 an 99 A the height of Gann's career he employed 35 individuals who
made charts on all kinds of anlytical research at his direction and
performed many duties involved with his various publications and
services.
The name of one of his businesses was W. D. Gann Scientific Service,
INC., and the other initiated in 1919 was W. D. Gann Research Inc. The
firms published the following Supply and Demand Letters: Daily Stock
Letter, Tri-Weekly Stock Letter, Weekly STock Letter, Daily Commodity
Letter, Tri-Weekly Commodity Letter and Weekly Commodity Letter.
Telegraph Service was also offered as follows: Daily Telegraph Service
on Stocks, Daily Telegraph Service on Cotton Daily Telegraph Service
on Grains an Telegrams on imporant Changes Only, on Stocks or
Commodities. Published under annual Forecasts were Annual Stock
Forecasts, Annual Cotton Forecast, Annual Grain Forecast Annual Rubber
Forecast, Annual Coffee Sugar an Cocoa Forecast Supplement.
Also offered were daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly swing chart on
stock an commodities. Gann taught advanced coures in instruction
entitled Master Forecasting Method at cost of $2,500 and New
Mechanical Method and Trend Indicator at cost of $5000 to those who
wanted it for their own use and will not publish or sell or teach it
to others. This is equalivant to $50,000 in today's dollars.
7) Their son John L Gann was in partnership with his father for
several years in the late 1930' an 1940's operating under the firm
name of W.D. Gann & Son Inc. Apparently the two personalities were
not always compatible as their association was ended in the 1940's.
This writer has been told one of their main differences concerned
astrology as John did not believe that astrology had an effect on the
markets. This probable upset W.D. as he knew well the effects of
planetary motion on the markets and the individual.
8) Gann maintained a home in Scarsdale New York which was at that
time, the estate bedroom community for New York City.
9) Gann was the first Wall Street advisor to use an airplane for
studying market conditions. In 1935 Gann purchased a specially built
all metal airplane which he named "The Siver Star," an used it in
making crop surveys In July 1936 he purchased a new Fairchild airplane
for the same purpose.
10) Gann was member of the Commodity Exchange, Inc., of NY, the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, the Rubber Exchange of New York the Royal
Economic Society of London, the American Economic Society the Masonic
Lodge, the Shiner, the Chicago Board of Trade and was a devout
Christian in the Methodist Church.
11) I 1947 Gann sold W.D Gann Research Inc to C C Loosli a San
Francisco attorney. In 1950 in Miami Florida Gann and his partner E
Lambert founded Lambert-Gann Publishing Co. Gann died on June 14 1955
at age 77.
12) I 1976 Bill and Nikki Jones of Pomeroy Washington purchase
Lambert-Gann Publishing Co and the Gann copyrights. It took the
largest Mayflower Truck to haul all the personal research including
thousands of his charts papers books an writing he had collected
through fifty years of trading and research.
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Gann died of cancer. Being in the financial game, he apparently
enjoyed his money, and it has been said that he was a very generous
person. When he died his his "taxable estate" was only $150,000,
enough to buy 30 homes when he died in the early 50's. No doubt,
knowing that he was gone die, he gave or hid most of his money to
avoid the tax man.
