First the follow-up. It's at times like this that I am glad I do not participate in social media. Yesterday, October 16, the Dow Industrials made an all-time trading high (intraday) that would seem to prove the prediction of that same event on October 13 as invalid. October 13 was the date that I interpreted WD Gann having predicted, however, the date range covered by "ATTH" encoding includes, as the last date possible, October 16. Recall the date October 16 was highlighted in yellow and my long-winded subjective evaluation/explanation as to why I chose October 13 in preference to October 16. Note the yellow highlighted dates of which October 16, 2017 is the far right lowest:
That leaves yesterday's "ATTH" to be exceeded today or later this week to invalidate the perceived prediction of a final high. Parsing what you see above finer, I would "explain" Mr. Gann predicted an ATTH high in that yellow range; not necessarily the final high of the bull from 2009.
I've reasoned, Mr. Gann could only have encoded the above with such emphasis to highlight his prediction of a final great 2017 final high. There's an alternate explanation. Its to teach a lesson, again; the only 'language' that can be trusted is math. I found a math link between the great 1929 high and 1932 low and line 15103...perhaps just finding the math rationale that validated my purpose. I do not have the algorithm that perfectly navigates the Map of Time, just, at best, an allusion to it.
As it stands, I am satisfied Mr. Gann predicted an "ATTH" high on October 13, 2017 and
it did occur. That, in itself, is pretty impressive given that he made that prediction 90 years ago. My misinterpretation
may be that it would be the final ATTH of the 2009 bull.
As a lesson to me, read the numbers rather than interpret them. And as earlier noted, I have only to reason with myself the meaning of my errors. Yes, I am embarrassed but understanding. Were I a social media-phile, I'd be spending multiples of the half hour that it took to pen this mea culpa defending to vacant, bodiless pseudo intellects why I was wrong. Anticipating another ATTH, I am simply wrong; and that's all the intellectual effort the event warrants. Now I can spend my time trying to understand rather than in the worthless effort of personal defense.
Now to the first growth spiral of the NYSE.
I have extended the MOT backwards in time to the Buttonwood Agreement that established the NYSE on May 17, 1792. In the backward extended MOT, Mr. Gann encoded the letters "NYSE," (in red below) adjacent the line containing the NYSE birthdate (in yellow) of the NYSE:
Notice that "NYSE" is formed exactly the opposite as it was formed in the first of the two inserts above. "YEN" on one side and "S" on the opposite side.
[I developed the backward extended MOT from the MOT that you have or can get for free by downloading from the link in this website. You can derive it by replicating two additional columns backwards in time.]
How did Mr. Gann encode the the first growth spiral?
Do this. Take 10245 in the descending cumulative line column, add the 153 in the descending chapter line number column and deduct the 94 in the ascending line column to arrive at line 10304. Now go to cumulative ascending line number 10304 and see what you find:
First, notice the asterisks in red highlight. It means nothing to you, but to me, I've used it to document the link between WD Gann and his pen name, Luo Clement, in several essays. You'll find on page 130 of "The Tunnel Thru the Air" five asterisks:
In Luo Clement's "The Ancient Science of Numbers", page 45, you'll find those asterisks:
In each book, once and only one, you'll find the five asterisks. A learned career research librarian and WD Gann historian whose knowledge of Mr. Gann dwarfs mine informs me that using special characters to divide or emphasize concepts was used by many authors in the early 1900s. If that were the case here, why was it used only once in TTTTA and only once in TASON? And exactly five asterisks in each book? No, that exceeds any concept of randomness.
So, Mr. Gann monumented line 10304 with the asterisks device.... and it is meaningful to me, and I hope you, because it was the first that Luo Clement was a pen name of WD Gann. What is unique about line 10304 (counterpart line number 5038)?
Its the first growth spiral of the NYSE:
The first growth spiral is not a perfect Phi^2. Its an initial vibration. Imperfectly recalling Bradley Cowan's "Market Science: Square of 12" analysis of WD Gann's great wheat call, the initial vibration in wheat from its first quote was a recognizable aspect of 12 but was not perfect. It was the initial vibration that ultimately found its periodic motion:
It's all the more interesting when you take a second look at the NYSE inception ascending line number 5097 (counterpart 10245):
The product of the opposing line numbers equal a number of Pythagorean significance and a key tool in WD Gann's simple geometry courses (the doubling and halving); the number 2.
Now we have, from the inception line's 2.01 to the 10304th line, 2.60, an initial growth spiral of half the square of Phi. I can and have refined the numbers but I'll let it stand as it is. Recall Phi and Pi are related by the square of 2 and that the growth spiral of the square is dominated by Phi and root 2. Its all here in the MOT, I just don't know how to work it. [I now realize the 2 and the 2.60 are not computed the same way so I'm mixing apples and oranges. Its early in this comparison; each of the numbers, 2.01 and 2.60 are independently notable and in the context of the "NYSE" and five asterisks.]
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Perhaps the most important implication of the above is the melding of the concepts of WD Gann's TASON (1909), the "first book of instruction" and TTTTA (1927), what I consider to have been intended as "the second book of instruction" ("Numerical Vibrations never having been published).
As an aside and as derived in the previous essay, the name number of the NYSE is 11 further reduced to 2. We find the 2 derived on the date of the inception of the NYSE. At inception/birth, NYSE has harmonious birth and name numbers. NYSE's birth and name numbers are the same. As a further aside, if you read the TASON excerpt above, I believe a hidden gem is that if one's name is not harmonious with other attributes, you can and should change your name. After all, William Delbert Gann rebranded himself as WD Gann for whatever benefits that fitted his strategy.
Of course, there must be a 3rd, a third book of instruction; "The Magic Word" (1950) would be that third. I've read and studied it, but I doubt TTTTA will leave me alone long enough to "observe" it. I've read but I have not observed.
Every day, a new adventure.
Jim Ross