W. D. GANN'S INTRADAY MECHANICAL TRADING
In many ways, Gann intraday mechanical method is the flagship of Gann methodology applied to intraday trading. Many find the guarantee of being out of the trade by the end of the day to be the most appealing aspect. The percentage of losing days and trades being less than 25% is pretty awesome as well. Using the month as the return unit, we are unable to find a losing month in our back-testing for the last 2 years. This is reminiscent of the unicorn intraday trading machines of JP Morgan Chase and Citadel.
W. D. Gann was an avid intraday trader. Wyckoff chronicled a month in the early 1900s where Gann averaged almost 12 trades per day. His Intraday Mechanical Method is a bit milder by comparison; averaging close to 1 trade per market day. Gann's Intraday Mechanical Method is taught in its entirety in our "W. D. GANN: MASTER THE MARKETS" Training.
The intraday mechanical method has been years in discovery. It draws together different Gann trading and analysis methods which Gann wrote about in several different writings over the span of about 25 years. Luther Jensen also defined some of the methods in the Intraday Mechanical Method.
Utilizing Time Periods, Mechanical Rules, and Arcana as the long/short filter, the Intraday Mechanical Method truly encompasses everything "Gann" in one nutshell.
This method works best on the SP 500 intraday, and is tested on the ES Futures lead contract assuming 1 contract per trade. Scroll through the graphs below to see what a monster this. Data includes every trading day from the last 20 months through March 2024.
Best of all, Intraday Mechanical Method uses objective rules and formulas. The method dictates in advance when to enter, at what price, and where the target and stop is for each trade. See more data below.
Scroll through the above graphs for % of profitable trades, winning and losing sizes, and run data. W. D. Gann's Intraday Mechanical Method is taught in its entirety in our "W. D. GANN: MASTER THE MARKETS" Training.