EXPLAIN HOW ‘MAGIC IN THE MARKETS’ IS VALUED

We believe many of the individual strategies or techniques in “Magic In The Markets” is alone worth more than the price of the training.

We get asked all the time if we can separate one strategy or technique out for a cheaper price. The way we look at it, just one of these techniques or strategies is worth the price of the training (especially if you compare it to everything else commercially available, most of which failing to be rule-based and objective.)

But all of Gann’s methods and strategies and intertwined by the foundation of his “Law of Vibration.” Some build on others. So that is why we present all of them together. While any one technique or strategy may be worth the price of “Magic,” you will need to learn several methods to use any one.

Look at our back-testing in this context. My market mentor founded a trading company here in Chicago and sold it for over $30 million. Tens of millions of shares were often employed each day in its use- and someone found that edge to be worth $30 million. But it guaranteed only 1 penny a day profit (though it often produced more.) In contrast, as we have tested it, Gann’s Mechanical Method only produced 1 losing month in 4 years, with some months churning out hundreds of points.

All the time we are asked, “so there’s 93% 3-to-1 reward-to-risk trades with your Gann, right? Let’s stop and think for a sec. If the price of my mentor’s software that guaranteed just 1 penny a day sold for $30 million, what do you think a simple (because it should take a few seconds, right?) strategy giving 93% profitability with 3-to-1 trades on any market you want any time you want would be priced at?

‘Magic In The Markets” is geared toward the consistently active market professional, who’s larger capital can more naturally take advantage of consistent bite-size gains instead of occasional homeruns. Here’s the rub: unless you approach the market in the same way, you probably won’t do well over the long haul. Looking for a cheap trading education geared to part time trading is destined to be a waste of money on the outset.

Speaking of the lore of what market strategies for sale on the internet should produce, how many trading courses out there contain objective, rule-based formulas? How about back-testing? Even if the trader shows you a million dollars he or she made last year, can you replicate that? we know these traders are telling the truth about their earnings. But we’ve also seen many do it with a gut feel that, for many, seems impossible to duplicate. Even for many paying thousands to trade along side them.

The main reason ‘Magic’ is underpriced is for Gann Aficionados.  So many have wasted years of their life and thousands of dollars on ‘broken Gann.’ The 20 years of research by a market professional and the entire catalogue of W. D. Gann’s methods provide the foundation for the price. We keep it close so that the many victims of the “Gann cottage industry” can get some closure on their Gann journey by seeing what he really did.

HOW CAN I PREPARE FOR ‘W.D GANN: MAGIC IN THE MARKETS COURSE?’ ARE THERE PRE-REQUISITES?

VIEW OUTLINE OF TRAINING . Before the 4-day training sessions we also have live, interactive preparatory webinars and consultations before the 4-day training sessions to help you hit the ground running.

Those who have the most success with ‘Magic’ are active traders with adequate capital who already have an organized approach to the market. Reducing risk & drawdown, achieving greater consistency, filtering out bad trades, better timing, precise pricing, and organizing their approach are all common ways trading professionals benefit from ‘Magic.’

Future traders wanting to get right foot and build their market philosophy, trading style, on the proper foundation of how the market really works benefit avoid wasting years and thousands of dollars on faulty, incomplete, and inconsistent methodologies. If you are in this camp, you also must realize that learning the basics of the market AND Gann’s unpublished methods involving data exogenous to the market will require more mental acumen than an established trader.

With the exception of Earik Beann’s “Handbook of Market Esoterica,” everything commercially available will be worthless in preparing you for “W. D. Gann: magic In The Markets.” It may even screw you up. Even very expensive books and course will not aid in preparation.

There are a few books on Gann’s recommended reading lust we can submit that will help you become familiar with some of the more intricate concepts in the training. These are helpful but far from necessary.

DO YOU GIVE PREDICTIONS, TRADES, OR ENTRIES AND EXITS IN ADVANCE TO THOSE CONSIDERING THE COURSE?

No for many reasons, but we used to. First, let’s say you wanted 7 days worth of ‘predictions,’ even though you are clueless about what you just asked. Now let’s say it was bang on all 7 days…even though the back-testing came in at 80%. Judging the results by these 7 days would be just as dishonest as if whatever you asked for triggered all 7 days but worked none of them.

W. D. Gann was a professional trader, and his strategies and methods are geared for today’s professional trader. Market professionals judge success and suitability of a market strategy based on back-testing over a long period of time in several market conditions. They look for rate of success, but also look for qualities like drawdown, trade efficiency, and simplicity being consistent over time. That’s why we keep extensive back-testing on strategies as well as the function of individual techniques.

Many of the techniques and strategies in Gann’s arsenal employ a larger timeframe. Some let the market dictate the timeframe. So giving these signals in advance would seem awkward and schizophrenic if you are unaware of the underlying principles.

Another example. In the Soybean mechanical system, Gann used a certain squaring technique in an odd way to predict pullback prices. He then used the framing parameters of the Mechanical method to establish certain “time periods.” Finally, Gann set an expiration time for each price projection based on his proprietary use of these “time periods.” Trying to communicate, explain or gauge all that in one prediction is impossible. Gann measured and gauged the success of the system that organized those techniques over a much longer time.

Also, besides our work with the trading methods of W. D. Gann, we are consultants to market professionals here in Chicago. Around the shutdown of 2020, we had a rare chance to trade consistently. Since last year however, we have gotten to the point where we rarely have time to trade, especially consistently.

Let’s keep going on this question, because it opens a pleasant can of worms. On our “MORE ABOUT” page we describe how the “Magic In The markets” training can be broken down into 2 parts. First, rule-based strategies and stand-alone techniques that are ready to trade out of the box. Second are rule-based techniques which Gann used to compliment his strategies and combine with other techniques from time-to-time. But he refrained from showing them functions in a trading system. These have a particular use and fail to trigger some days. An example might be the market making a bottom formation into a price prediction box one day. Unless you know how Gann intended the techniques to be used and when it triggers, predicting it in advance would be useless.

And because this is a great question that opens the door for us to define a couple things when it comes to what Gann really did, let’s add a final paragraph. Some of the individual techniques are difficult to back-test because everyone looks to use them in a different way. Fors instance, let’s take turn times, or the most likely time a market should bottom.

According to Gann, the market must be making a new outside move into one of these times in order for the turn time to be considered “active.” if it does, what is the “orb” or error acceptable to you? 2 minutes? 4 minutes? 7? It differs for each person. When the market turns up from this bottom time, how far are you looking for it to bounce? 5 points? 10? 20? LOD? The truth is that Gann used these times in context of his others techniques. You would look for the market to only bounce slightly off a bottom in a zone where Gann’s Arcana predicted a down-trend. But you might hold until day’s end from a bottom occurring during an “up” zone.

DO I NEED SPECIAL SOFTWARE?

W. D. calculated and implemented these methods by hand. You can too and implement on any software. Most calculations can be done by hand in under 1 minute. Drawing out a monthly or annual cycle may take up to 1 hour by hand. A spreadsheet can also increase accuracy and decrease time.

Wave59 is uniquely designed from the ground up around the way Gann drew out charts and the ephemeris by hand. It packages 2 to 3 steps of the process, so you can focus on applying the technique quickly. This is immensely helpful in the stage where you first learn Gann’s trading techniques and want to hit the ground running.

We provide Gann’s LOV software for projecting high and low prices in an Excel frame for speed. We further include chart templates and proprietary indicators with open code on Excel, EFS, and Wave59 Qscript.

Solarfire and Optuma are unable to do the progressions necessary for Arcana and a couple other techniques. This is because Solarfire is set up so that all progressions must start from natal. Gann did it another way that Wave59 is uniquely designed from the ground up around. It is the same way Gann drew out charts and the ephemeris by hand. Wave59 packages 2 to 3 steps of the process, so you can focus on applying the technique quickly. This is immensely helpful in the stage where you first learn Gann’s trading techniques and want to hit the ground running.

In our community of alum there are a few people you will have access to that have spread-sheeted as well as automated some techniques in Wave59, Esignal, Tradestation, Ninja, and Optuma. They proved automation can be done with much of Gann. (Note: we are far from guaranteeing these individuals with impart their knowledge if you take the course, especially for free.)