TRADING THE EURO DAILY CHART WITH W. D. GANN
When determining which of W. D. Gann's trading methods works most efficiently and profitably, different methods work for each market and timeframe.
When it comes to Forex Trading, Gann's methods best apply to the Euro (or EUR/USD pair.) We suspect it has to do with the Euro being a liquidity leader. On of the challenges with the Euro and other currencies is that these markets began public trading after Gann died, so he could not leave us written instructions or courses.
On the daily Euro, W. D, Gann's trend cycles (or Arcana) prove to be the dominant method. These trend cycles provide a backbone framework around which Gann's trading rules work. Gann told us to never buck the trend. He was talking about his predicted trend cycle, or Arcana. This Arcana serves as a long/short filter for Gann's trading strategy. During these trend times, patterns and daily bars behave differently, generating entry opportunity for those who can predict them.
Many are unaware of how much Gann wrote about trading rules, or "methods of operating." These rules differed according to which technique provided the framework for that particular market. In the examples shown on this page involving the daily chart of the Euro, we include the entries and trades from 3 different trading rule sets. This Gann Euro daily trading strategy is taught in its entirety in our W. D. GANN: MASTER THE MARKETS training.
The first set of trading rules are called "balanced entries," and stem from the section of W. D. Gann's first book'The Truth of The Stock Tape' entitled, "balancing a stock." The second set of entry rules comes from Gann's angle method, and the third from his unique pullback method. All 3 methods are built on the underlying framework of the Arcana Trend Prediction Cycles. Entries and money management may differ according to the price's obedience to the trend at the time of the entry signal.
As you scroll through the Euro daily charts from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 ,and 2025, you will find every entry and trade from all 3 rules sets. The first chart for the years shows only the Arcana trends. The next slide shows the balanced entries, and the following the angle method and pullback entries where applicable.
The result from the last four years is a stunning 13,813 pips (or futures ticks.) That's almost the entire value of the instrument! There was a total of 71 trades for the 5 years, with 56 wins, 14 break-evens, and 5 losses.
The Gann Euro Daily trading strategy is unable to be duplicated with anything from conventional technical analysis, because it relies on data that is exogenous to the market. Neither can it be discovered or mimicked with modern machine learning or AI, due to its use of non-linear variables. This exclusive, niche strategy is the culmination of over 20 years research by market professional D'mitri Richardson, CMT. For the above reasons, you will have a great deal of difficulty finding trading strategy available in public domain or institutional trading that produces these results.
Before we were able to use the Arcana Trend Prediction Cycles as the backbone for the Euro, we had to test them on their own. Even though Gann used Arcana as a "wind at your back" long/short filter, we tested it as a buy-and-hold. If the trend was predicted up, the price at the end of the predicted trend better have finished even with or above the beginning price.
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23 YEARS OF EURO ARCANA: 81%
We've decided to get a bit bold here and post the entire last 23 years of the Arcana on the entire annual history of the Euro (spot forex.) Don't worry- you won't be able to reverse engineer it:) On the Euro's entire history, the Arcana accurately predicted both the direction and the duration of the 68 trend leg signals 81% of the time. And many of the trend legs deemed "failures" significantly moved in the predicted direction for most of the trend time.