“There’s no chance for us
It’s all decided for us.” Who Wants to Live Forever, Queen
“Jung introduced the idea of synchronicity to strip off the fantasy, magic, and superstition which surround and are provoked by unpredictable, startling and impressive events that, like these, appear to be connected.”
“We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of the wheel depends. We turn clay to make a vessel; but it is on the space where there is noting that the utility of the vessel depends. We pierce doors and windows to make a house’ and it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the utility of the house depends. Therefore just as we take advance of what is, we should recognize the utility of what is not.”
“That which is not yet, but ought to be, is more real than that which merely is.” Zoe Lund
One of the ways in which W.D. Gann forecast “panicky selling” a year before the Great Crash in October 1929 is that there was a Black Friday 60 years prior in the fall of 1869.
It was not the only factor. That said Gann referred to the 60 year cycle as his Master Time Cycle.
It comprises three cycles of the Jupiter/Saturn roughly 20 year conjunction.
We’re not going to dive into that rabbit hole at this time.
The last Jupiter/Saturn conjunction was December 21, 2020.
We’ve noted before how many of the geometric degrees running backward and forward from this date correspond to many significant market turning points.
For example the Covid Crash low was 9 months or 270 degrees prior on March 23, 2020.
This past December was 5 years or an important 1800 degrees or opposition and critically ties to a record high in the market. The SPX struck a record high of 6986 on January 12, 2026.
Rounding we get 699.
699 is direct February 15 which ties to a Solar Eclipse on February 17.
I mention this because in markets (and in the mundane world), when the conditions exist, eclipses often times act as destabilizers and triggers.
60 years prior to 2026 was the top of a secular bull market that started in JUNE 1949.
60 years after 1949 was 2009. This is one of the reasons I was expecting a major low in the first half of 2009. When the SPX squared out on March 6 at 666, it underpinned the 60 year cycle.
Interestingly there was a 90 day/degree offset from the June 1929 low and the March 2009 low as March is 90 days/degrees from June.
Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941.
60 years later was 9/11 in 2001.
These are the only two instances of the U.S. being attacked on its ‘homeland’.
Interestingly this same 90 degree/day offset or pie-slice occurred between Dec 1941 and Sept 2001…just as occurred between June 1949 and March 2009.
I don’t know why the offset exits. But the universe likes a good square.
There is also a ying-yang to the 60 Year Cycle.
60 years after 1929, the Japanese market emulated the US market and crashed from a top in 1989.
The similarity persists in that in both instances it took decades to eclipse the highs— not the 2 or 3 years everybody who now sits at a turret expects is their birthright.
I have been thinking about the 60 Year Cycle because two iterations back is 1906 and the San Francisco Earthquake. (indeed I am not the only one, a fellow trader sent me something from astrologer Olga Morales looking at the same thing),
Synchronicity?
This month, seismic activity along the west coast has been making headlines almost every day. Could it be possible that all of this seismic activity is leading up to some sort of really big event?
It reminds me of the story Jesse Livermore used to tell after the San Francisco Earthquake.
Livermore was heavily short before the earthquake and obviously the market tanked. His trading buddies asked him: “Jesse, how’d you know about the earthquake.”
Last week a major earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon, sending shockwaves felt in multiple cities along the US West Coast.
The earthquake was so powerful that it was felt as far away as Portland.
But what is alarming is experts is the fact that these quakes “took place along the Juan de Fuca Plate which drives the Cascadia Subduction Zone—a nearly 700 mile long fault line off the West Coast of North America.
Eclipses can produce a magnetic pull that affects fault lines.
The entire west coast of the United States sits directly along the Pacific Ring of Fire and the past 12 months has been a time when the Ring of Fire has been shaking like crazy.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Alaska on Dec 6.
So we are in the window of two 60 year cycles relating to the San Francisco Earthquake 120 years ago.
Is it pertinent that 6 cycles of 60 years back is 1666 and the Great Fire of London mirror the destruction of San Francisco.
If the aforesaid 90 degree ‘pie-slice’ is triggered that points to January 18 + or – …90 days degrees from the April 18, 1906 SF Earthquake ties to January 18 region.
Be that as it may we noted in December a planetary or natural cycle as opposed to a market cycle that is due in February.
This is the Saturn/Neptune conjunction.
The conjunction is powerful as it occurs at 0 degrees Aries, the start of the zodiac. Gann’s Zero Point , as Aries is the first sign of the zodiac.
The last time this cycle hit was 36 years ago in early 1990.
180 degrees later in July 1990, the market topped on July 13.
Guess what the SPX high was?
Last weeks high…6986 or rounding 699. “Nicola Tesla Tops”
You can’t make this stuff up.
In 3 months the SPX dropped to 294, a decline of 20% in 90 days/degrees.
The SPX dropped 21% from January to April in 2025, and a quick 5.7% drop in November,
Is a 10% overdue drop on deck? Or another 20% drop ala the July/October downdraft in 1990?
If prior resistance becomes new support as has been consistently the case throughout this bull market from 2009, the theoretically the SPX could fall to the 6150 region.
From the all-time high this would equate to a 31% decline.
In the last 5 years the market has roared back from dramatic declines:
1) From the Covid low in March 2020
2) From the October 2022 bottom and a turn down of the 3 Month Chart in October 2023—which was the Handle of a large Cup and Handle pattern.
3) And the April 2025 low.
Will the market surge back after another dramatic plunge?
Given the recent past, that would be the popular consensus; however, a big picture wave count
Suggests a different outcome.
It looks like the structure from the March 2009 low is completing a 5 of a 5 of a 5th wave.
That is in the context of a the advance from 2009 culminating the final Super Cycle advance from the 1922 low.
How will we know when the top is behind us.
We will overbalance the largest correction.
In the intermediate term that means a decline greater than the drop into the Nov low with an impulsive 5 wave decline.
In the big picture it means overbalance the drop into the April low.
You don’t want to wait for an intermediate overbalance before getting defensive.
It will crush your portfolio,
However, the bear will show his teeth on a drop below the February 2025 peak of 6147.
We must be mindful that the SPX may undercut that region as if prior resistance is becoming new support before unequivocally sinking below the Feb 2025 high.
After a decline that overbalances the early 2025 decline, we could get a Secondary Top ala the late August 2000 top following the March top.
The combination of this 36 (6 squared years) with the 60 year ( and 120 year cycle) has a bizarre connection to the 1929 crash.
Allow me to explain.
In April 1990, a technician by the name of Jerry Favors loaned me a book called the Secret Trading Methods of W.D Gann.
It’s not a book as such, I’ve never found it available anywhere.
It had no author’s name. It was bound like you get a copy of a book at Kinko’s.
The last chapter of the book stated that an age or an eon was 22,228 years.
I always thought an “age” was closer to the precession of the equinoxes around 26,000 years.
And this 22,228 years is very specific.
My first impression was to divide it by a natural cycle of 360.
You get 61.74.
Rounding, a Fibonacci 61.8.
This is a good number I thought.
It’s essentially 60 years and 10 months.
For whatever reason I decided to see what 22,228 DAYS from the September 3, 1929 worked out to. A Biblical day for a year.
Remarkably it was July 13, 1990.
On July 13, 1990 these was also a Jupiter/Saturn opposition.
You think Gann would have been short in mid-July 1990?
Remember this was happening in April, 1990. The market was running hot.
My presumption was if it continued strong into July 13th or so it would mark a meaningful top.
As offered above the SPX dropped 20% in 90 days.
Today that’s the equivalent of
What’s bizarre is that in April 1990 having gotten a peak at this potential July 13 cycle, I checked my ephemeris.
Here is what you see for July 13, 1990.
https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/astrology-ephemeris-july-1990
Jupiter is at 22 degrees (21*59)
Saturn is at 22 degrees
Uranus is just shy of 8 degrees
22228
The same 22,228 for the number of days from September 3, 1929 to July 13, 1990
Where there is also a Jupiter/Saturn opposition.
Remember Jupiter and Saturn are Gann’s chronocators or Time Keepers.
In sum, we have linked the 1929 top and the 1990 top with this period from mid-January to mid-February 2026.
This is a war cycle as well. Remember on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
This was the start of the modern era of terrorism and the birth of al queda and isis.
The mid-east and the rest of the world is still embroiled in radical islam.
And this month a showdown between Iran and the U.S. appears imminent.
As Rommel stated. A cornered enemy can be extremely dangerous.
Iran may not be able to use nukes, but they likely will not go down without using chemical and biological weapons.
How many safe houses are in the West?
In sum, the market is turning hostile and faces potentially deep declines.
Slipping and holding under the October high on the weekly SPX in an impulsive 5 wave decline confirms that an important top is already in place and that a leg down has begun.
We have a rare 5 planet conjunction at the start of this week—Mars, Moon, Sun, Mercury and Venus which will amplify bearish energy and increase downward pressure.
We had planetary alignment known as the Harmonic Convergence right at the August 1987 pre-crash top.
At the same time we must stay cautious with short potions as sudden and powerful bounces can easily wipe out profits. This is the nature of a bull who is eye to eye with The Matador who has drawn blood.
The bull won’t go down easily.
90 degrees down from last weeks record high is 6902.Breakage below 6902 snaps the Bottoms Line from the Nov low…AND the April low.
180 degrees down is 6819.which ties to the 50 day ma currently residing at 6830.
270 degrees down is 6737 which ties to the last swing low on December 17.
360 degrees down is 6655.which represents a failure of the 20 WEEK moving average.
A 540 degree cube-out is 6493 which ties precisely to the big November 21 low
Said another way, the advance from the November low cubed-out just shy of the 7000 round number.
IF the December low of 6720.95 is broken before the end of January it triggers my December Indicator (when the low of December is broken in January) opening the door to lower prices.
Below is a bitcoin update.
Roadmap for Tuesday
a strong intraday bounce is likely Wednesday offering a short opportunity. even if the market attempts a strong bounce, market and planetary cycles dominate and will push prices lower into the weekend. all in all as tweeted Sunday. this will be a week where the bears celebrate
projected into 1:45 followed a sideways stint into 2:45 where another rally plays out until 3:15 followed by a slight pullback into 3:30 which gives way to a rally into the close. TWO possible Inversion Pivots the first at 3:00 where a rally is projected so that must be watched
carefully for possible downside continuation. the SECOND occurs at 3:30 where a pullback low is indicated. however, if no rally takes place they could get hit into the bell
it is interesting that both the potential Inversion Pivots are indicated where retrace rallies are projected