Such a simple but profound lesson *I think* Gann teaches us. How many days, in round numbers, is Robert Gordon’s 7 days? Simple a, b or c choice….6 days, 7 days or 8 days? This may take a while so if the answer comes naturally to you, skip to the “Moral to the story” line. It takes me a while and several bloviating paragraphs just to convince myself.
If I were the Supreme Commander and faced with the choice, would I travel southwest and destroy the Allied Enemy Command in Mexico City or would I travel east and attack the home of the enemy? Gann chose to send Robert Gordon east to London. A purpose or just a useless part of the story? I'd probably go after Mexico City, but that's me, an accountant, not a general.
East is the same direction as the Earth spins on its axis. For the moment, forget the extra 4-5 hours beyond 7 days that RG traveled (he returned to New York City at about noon and therefore 4-5 hours greater than 7 days). Let’s just deal with days.
Beginning on July 21, 1932 at 7am, a person sitting on a New York City park bench would not see sun rise #1 for another 22.5 hours. That day’s sunrise had already occurred by 7am. So RG leaves NYC at 7am and travels in the same direction as the rotation of the earth to London, Berlin Paris. Let’s flip forward to 7am on July 22, 1932 and visit the fella on the park bench. He saw the sun rise 1.5 hours ago. RG is 3700 miles or so east of NYC. Did RG see the first sunrise before the fella on the park bench? Of course he did. At the end of the first day RG was roughly 3 hours east of NYC ‘vibrating’ around London and Berlin.
Proof? Ponder this time line in TTTA for yourself:
- July 21, 1932, RG leaves NYC at 7am. Page 393
- “Supreme Commander Gordon then proceeded on the following day to Berlin. That would be July 22 wouldn’t it? Page 394
- “The President notified him that France would declare a holiday and give him a reception greater than that tendered Captain Lindbergh when he landed there on May 21st, 1927.” Page 395
No, not exact proof but a suggestion, perhaps, that the great celebration occurred on a monthly anniversary of Lindbergh’s….the 21st. If so, RG had been traveling more than a day and the date had not changed. Again, not proof but otherwise, "Why the date Mr. Gann?"
Gann doesn’t otherwise tell us much about time during RG’s trip and probably for a reason. And the reason being that we must assume the trip was somewhat ratable. If so, then the second day RG was another 3-4 hours further east and saw the sun rise 7-8 hours earlier than the fella on the park bench in NYC. So you get my drift. At the end of 7 NYC days and 7 NYC sun rises, RG sees the 7th sunrise 21 hours earlier than the NYC vagrant.
I think it’s c, roughly 8 days plus a couple hours. By RG’s time he was gone 8 sun rises. Think of it this way. The earth at the equator spins at a speed relative to a fixed star at roughly 24,901 miles / 24 hours or 1,037 MPH. Hmmm, wasn’t the St. Marie capable of 1,000 MPH? RG could have made that trip in 1 day plus change, but he took 8 days (or 7 days by NYC stationary time). Obviously, RG made 20 diversions from the straight line to visit locations north and south. He traveled an angled distance which is much farther than a straight line distance. But he also spent some time at some locations “vibrating” or circling the location. [Again, hmmm, kinda like Russell Smith describes vibrating about specific notes in his discussion of the ‘duality’ on page 43. Was Gann telling us that certain points in the trip ‘vibrate’ as might occur during the progression of the diatonic scale? Context for another essay perhaps?]
Getting to the moral of the 8 day story. The stock market travels east to west just like RG. Look at the X Y stock charts; left to right, the direction of time as we know it. Ponder that. And just like RG, the stock market travels part time, not full time. In Mr. Gann’s day, the regular trading hours were largely 10am to 2pm as best I can determine. There were Saturday trading hours for some periods, but largely 20 hours a week for the stock market. [I should go back and check the dates of RGs cotton, beans and Major Motors trades to see if any were on Saturday, but I have not.]
So, IF the stock market travels the same speed as Earth rotates, in the same direction, and travels only 20 hours over 7 days of stationary time, when will the stock market see the 8th sun rise. In terms of stationary New York City time, I believe it will take 7 stationary New York City days plus 4 hours.
And Robert Gordon saw 8 sun rises in 7 New York City days plus 4 hours, arriving back in NYC just before noon of the 7the New York City day.
Is Robert Gordon’s 7 days (errr 7.83333 days or [(8 X24 - 4 ) / 24 because he was 4 hours short of the 8th sunrise) telling us something about the market’s short term cycle? ….The time of one complete cycle of vibration? do re mi fa sol la si do….
Lastly, keep in mind the market "travels" 32.5 hours per week these days.
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
Francis Bacon, “The Essays.”
Jim
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