Strange Things

“If we wish to avert failure in speculation we must deal with causes. Everything in existence is based on exact proportion and perfect relationship. There is no chance in nature, because mathematical principles of the highest order lie at the foundation of all things.” W.D. Gann

“Hot town, summer in the city” Summer in the City, The Lovin’ Spoonful

What I have to share is truly strange.

I’ve mentioned the potential importance of August 8th several times this year.
Here we are.

Using the numbers in the center of the Square of 9 grid as years shows that 2025 squares out with August 8th.

2025 points to conjuncts Aug 8.

WD Gann stated that he discovered his Master Time Factor on August 8, 1908.

8/8/8

Gann was leaving a clue.
An ‘8’ is a conjunction or two spheres on top of each other.

Gann’s Master Time Cycle is the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction which is approximately every 20 years.
Jupiter and Saturn are his two ‘chronocators’.
We’re not going to get into how this is.
That’s not what this is about.

But if an “8” is a conjunction, say the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, then three 8’s is 60 years.

Gann’s Master Time Cycle is the 60 Year Cycle.

In early 1929 in his annual forecast, Gann predicted “panicky selling in the fall”.

Sometime after the crash, he revealed one factor in that forecast—that 60 years prior to the fall of 1929 was 1869.
There was a selling panic on a Black Friday in 1869.
Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869.
On October 24, 1929 the Great Crash started.

September 24, 1869 is 9/6 (2 +4) 9.

Even the year is a 9 6 9.

The last bear market low basis the SPX occurred on March 6, 2009 or 3/6/9.

Sometimes Mr. Market plays Stock Whisper, sometimes he’s not a player.

The NDX low open on the week of the Covid Crash low in late March 2020 was at 6931.

The SPY high prior to the 2020 crash was 339 (6/9).

The SPY high last week is 639.

We can easily file it under ‘maybe something, maybe nothing’ except for what Nicola Tesla said:
“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3,6, and 9 then you would have a key to the universe.”

The subtitle of WD Gann’s coded novel, The Tunnel Thru The Air is “Or Looking Back From 19 40”

Gann students for years have been confounded by what Gann was talking about.
One day around 20 years ago, looking at my Wheel,
I noticed that the numbers 19 and 40 were on the same vector.
Looking back from 19 and 40 is the number 69.

69 is the symbol for the zodiac sign Cancer, ruled by the Moon.

On page 69 in Tunnel, Gann talks about how to tell the future.
The birth date of the protagonist in Tunnel is June 9…6/9.

You have to remember that Gann used ciphers.
He wanted his students to be seekers.
He wasn’t interested in giving away his research.

The bottom line is that 19 40 and 69 vector March 21st, the natural beginning of the year.
Gann’s Zero Point.
Every March 21st the Sun is at Zero Aries the first sign of the zodiac.

So what Gann is doing with this ‘key’ is dialing in the Moon (69) with the Sun.
The Metonic Cycle revolves around the relationship of the Sun and Moon. It is apx 19 years.
Looking back from 19 —.

Markets often times top on full Moons. We have a full moon on Aug 9.

One of our members sent me the following today:

“From 3/6/2009 to August 9 is 6000 days.
It is a Biblical 144,000 hours.”

This intrigued me because this is a fractal of Gann’s Master 60 Year Cycle.

July/August has marked many significant turns in markets including the Aug 1982 low, the July 1932 low, the August 2000 Secondary Top, July 2007’s Primary High, August 1987 top, Gold in August 2011.

August 1929 was the monthly closing high of the Roaring Twenties bull run.

World War 1 officially began on July 28, 1914.

7 + 28 +19 + 14 = 68

World Wear 2 officially began on September 1, 1939.

9 +1 +19 +39 = 68

That’s creepy.

When did the Russian invasion of Ukraine begin?
It was Feb 24, 2022

2 + 24 + 20 + 22 = 68

What are the odds.

Today is Trump’s deadline for the Russians to end the war.

The news breaks with the cycles?

When Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia in 1914, most Americans had no idea that World War 1 had begun.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Most Americans had no idea that World War 2 had begun…
Almost exactly 10 years after the top in 1929.
Gann’s Decennial Cycle.
Interestingly this time 10 years ago in mid-August 2015, the market crashed.
The SPX dropped from 2114 to 1867 in a few weeks.
247 points or roughly 12%.

The market.

The market rebounded, again, yesterday with the Q’s actually closing at a new record high.
An ugly one, but a new record high none the less despite someone pulling the plug on Cloud/ SaaaS stocks.
Waterfalls included TEAM CRM, TWLO, WDAY ( both flagged on the twitter feed).CRM, OKTA, MDB, CRWD and DDOG.

A weekly QQQ shows a backtest of a Rising Wedge.

While some techs are doing Gallagher’s, splattering the tape, several other techs continue to surge higher.
Names include PLTR, HOOD, RDDT, AMD and TSM to mention a few.
While water-logged names like APP and DUOL are born again.

The crossfire in the markets is stunning.
Our longs in SHOP and DASH and our short in CROX are emblematic of the Earnings Drive-By’s.
I’ve been doing this a long time and don’t recall seeing such outsized earning’s reactions…both ways.

Johnathan Krinsky offers:
“The S&P 500 Tech Sector closed yesterday (Wednesday) with an RSI of 64, whike the equal-weight version closed with an RSI of 9.
Since we have data back to 2006, there have only been six other occurrences when the Tech Sector closed above 62 on the same day the equal weight closed below 50.
The dates are below:
11/6/07
7/21/11
3/5/12
7/17/15 (remember the Decennial Cycle pinged above)
10/2/18
5/1/23

In the midst of the crossfire the metals/miners are ramping.
Our positions in GDXU and GFI are accelerating with GDXY clearing our 72 projection.
That said, as posted on the Hit and Run Private X Feed early this week “above 72 could see a buying riot in GDXJ.

August is a big anniversary for gold. In 2011 gold/GLD struck a high that turned into a 4 year bear market.
That high was only cleared in AUGUST 2020.
It didn’t stick. It wasn’t until February 2024 that GLD accelerated above its 2011/2020 peaks.

Gold is potentially cubing out in TIME here being 18 months/ 540 days/degrees from the Feb 2024 impulse.
This could be a near-term Buying Climax.
The price action in GLD if it makes a new all-time high above the April weekly reversal will be important to observe.

Monday morning’s report will walk thru the story of Will Durant, the man who dominated the Roaring Twenties bull market and what we can glean from it.