"WISDOM"

But where can wisdom be found?

And where is the source of understanding?

No man knows the way to it;

It is not found in the land of living men.

The depths of ocean say, 'It is not in us',

And the sea says, 'It is not with me.1

Red gold cannot buy it,

Nor can its price be weighed out in silver;

It cannot be set in scales against gold of Ophir,

Against precious cornelian or lapis lazuli;

Gold and crystal are not to be matched with it,

No work in fine gold can be bartered for it;

Black coral and alabaster are not worth mention,

And a parcel of wisdom fetches more than red coral;

Topaz from Ethiopia is not to be matched with it,

It cannot be set in the scales against pure gold.

Where then does wisdom come from?

And where is the source of understanding?

No creature on earth can see it,

And it is hidden from the birds of the air.

Destruction and death say,'We know of it only by report.1

But God understands the way to it,

He alone knows its source;

For he can see to the ends of the earth

And he surveys everything under heaven.

When he made a counterpose for the wind

And measured out the waters in proportion,

When he laid down a limit for the rain

And a path for the thunderstorm,

Even then he saw wisdom and took stock of it,

He considered it and fathomed its very depths.

And he said to man:

The reverence of the Lord is wisdom,

And to turn from evil is understanding.

(JOB 28)

DEDICATED

To Mr. Gann, a truly remarkable man, —Thanks. You were right. "If you seek, you will find." I

wonder if you ever knew what your work would do. I wish we could have met. I believe we

would have liked each other. We were just in different circles. Oh, well, as you said-"big circles and

little circles, old circles and young circles, past circles and future circles, will all come together

and 'square out' in time".

UNTIL THAT TIME,

RESPECTFULLY, "THE SEEKER"

PREFACE

This story is a true story of a strange and curious search for a

strange and curious secret of a strange and curious man who died

almost 30 years ago.

I have simply called myself "The Seeker" because we are all

seekers. The final "THAT WHICH IS SOUGHT" of all our seeking is

the same. However, we have many paths available to us. Some of us

seek this "THAT WHICH IS SOUGHT" in material things of different

kinds. Some of us seek "IT" in mysteries and secrets. My search

was in both areas simultaneously in the commodity markets and

the W.D. Gann trading philosophy. It is my hope that you can

benefit from my search and that I can show you a proper path to

take that will allow you both profitable and enriching

experiences in both the markets and in life.

As I said, "MY STORY" is a strange, curious one. When I try to

recall it and write it for you, I keep running into a

problem. The problem is-that the end of the story was the

beginning and beginning of the story was the ending-except it

was before the beginning. I know that I am not making myself

very clear, but that is as well as I can say it for now. Perhaps it

will clear up somewhat as I tell it.

The real beginning of "MY STORY11 was when I paid my "trusted

friend" for the Master Time Factor, which he did not have. He

just took my money and gave me nothing in return but a series of

practically meaningless numbers and rules, which were

devastating if used in the markets.

One of the reasons that made the story curious and strange

was that I already had the key to find the Master Time Factor,

but I hadn 't looked at it or read it in years. I paid "my friend"

for something he didn 't give me, but I GAVE him the real thing

that I PAID him for, which he didn 't give me. Very strange!

You understand-I bought something from him but at the same

time I gave him the thing that I was trying to buy from him-

the thing that he did not have; but which I already had and

gave to him. Neither of us knew it at time. Even today, two

years later, he will not know the value of the thing that I gave

him, unless he happens to read these words. EVEN THEN, HE WILL HAVE

TO TAKE THAT THING AND LIVE IT, rather than read it. That

thing was more useful than the Master Time Factor, and in

fact, it is what we are all looking for when we desire the

knowledge of the Master Time Factor.

It is a strange, curious fact- the living of this thing makes it

comes alive. The reading of it is just words.

The thing that I am talking about is "The Seeker 's Creed". It

is in Appendix V in the Appendices.

Until this very day "my friend" was the only person I had ever given My Creed to. Now, I

give it to you. I hope you will PROVE IT-HOLD FAST TO IT-THEN GIVE IT TO

YOUR FAMILY, CHILDREN, and AND FRIENDS. IT IS MORE VALUABLE

THAN SILVER OR GOLD—OR THE MASTER TIME FACTOR!

"THE SEEKER"

August 8, 1983

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Introduction - My Story Begins...................................................... 1

Chapter 2 - Disaster For An April Fool............................................................. 8

Chapter 3 - What Next? Or More Aptly Where Now?.......................................13

Chapter 4 - "You Must Destruct Before You Can Construct". 16

Chapter 5 - 1 Begin Again ......................................................................... 19

Chapter 6 - Stock Market,Astrology,Mindset,Mr. Gann & Me. 24 Chapter 7 - 1 Discover

the Legendary Master Time Factor!. 35 Chapter 8 - Here Is A Path. You Could Try

This One ... 63

Chapter 9 - "The Seeker's Creed"..........................................................................................................................67

Chapter 10 - For Me - The Closing Of A Circle...............................................69

Appendix I - Forecasting By Time Cycles...............................................................

Appendix II - Fragments of Gann Monograph .........................................................

Appendix III - "Learn Before You Lose" Sales Brochure .... Appendix IV - "Forecasting"

(The Master Time Factor Lesson) .

Appendix V - "The Seeker's Creed".................................................................................................................................

Appendix VI - Master Time Factor Charts Of The DJIA ...........................................

Appendix VII - Weekly Charts Showing Master Time Factor . . .

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

-MY STORY

BEGINS-

The first time I ever heard of W.D. Gann was in the late

spring of 1979- Looking back, I was in a transitional period

of my life. For the previous eight years I had made my living

in real estate brokerage and buying and selling for my own

account. I started with houses and then became mostly

Involved with buying and selling farms and farmland for

myself. I always have enjoyed dealing with farms and land

and I still enjoy it today. There is some undefinable

satisfaction for me in the process of buying and selling land.

I had several good years financially in my real estate

business, but in 1978, I began to become concerned about the

economy in general and the real estate market in particular.

Farmland prices were climbing sharply in my area and most

of the buying was by large farmers and professionals who kept

bidding up the price of any farm that came on the market.

In my opinion, one of the primary reasons for this was that the

agricultural lenders were encouraging farmers to "get bigger",

bigger machinery and bigger farms, because bigger was

supposed to mean the same thing as efficient. The financing

was done primarily by the local farm lending agencies and in

many cases the lenders were loaning 100% of the then

inflated values. I did not see how this ever escalating cycle

could continue. I began disposing of my inventory of farms and

land and shedding myself of debt. I simply felt uncomfortable

and could no longer bring myself to buy except on options-

which I would sell the farm by the time the option expired

or, if I hadn 't been able to do so, I would simply forfeit my

option money. At this same time I began looking around for

something to do which would allow me to buy and sell even in

down markets. I had not been able to figure out a way to do

this in the real estate market that I was used to operating in.

Also, I wanted something that would require no inventories to be

financed, no employees to be responsible to, and as little

overhead as possible.

Someone, I have forgotten whom, mentioned to me one day that I

should consider the stock market, or even better, the commodity

markets. I had purchased some stocks several years earlier but

they did not turn out to be that successful in regards to the

return on my money. I decided then that I could do more with my

money than putting it into stocks. So I had not been interested

from that time in the stock market.

I did begin thinking about the commodity markets, though, and I

thought, here is an ideal' business for me. I like buying and

selling and I can operate in up times or down times. I began

following the commodity quotes in the Wall Street Journal.

Then

I sent off for some information about commodity trading from an

advertisement. This led to my opening a trading account some few

weeks later. My first trade was in corn. I knew absolutely

nothing about commodities. I didn ’t even know to figure out the

price fluctuations. I asked my-broker what should I start

trading and he said corn because it was easy to trade and the

moves were not that big. So, I bought corn, I lost $4000 on that

trade before I learned that the moves might not be big, but I had

lost more on that one trade than I had on any of my real estate

transactions. Obviously, I needed to learn something more about

this commodity trading before I put out more money. So, I

purchased my first book on commodity trading through a mail order

advertisement. Will you believe that the first book I ever

purchased about commodity trading was a book by the name of "How

To Make Profits In Commodities" by W.D. Gann?

So, here I was- a man who knew nothing about the markets at all,

getting my introduction by W.D. Gann. I was "hooked " on Gann

from the very beginning. I remember, I received my copy of

"How To Make Profits-" on my birthday in June 1979 and I took

it with me on a vacation that my family and I were embarking

on. The whole vacation I read that book. And read it. And read

it. The vacation passed and I came home and ordered the W.D.

Gann Commodities Course.

The material in the book and the course seemed difficult for

me to understand at times and in places; but, I thought that it

was just the fact that I had not had any experience or

knowledge about trading and that once I learned the

"language of the market" I would no longer have trouble

understanding. Later, I learned that others had that same

difficulty too.

During the Summer of 1979 I studied my Gann book and Gann

Commodities Course. I began spending more time studying it

than I did in my real estate business. This may have been a

good thing because the farm real estate market topped out in

the fall of 1979 and has been down every since. Our average

sales have gone from approximately $1900 per acre down to

the present average of approximately $1000 per acre. This

fall has indications of being even lower due to the number of

properties needing to be sold.

Going back to the summer of 1979, I read the commodity course

over and over. I tried to trade occasionally, but my results

were not satisfactory at all. I thought I understood most of

Mr. Gann’s rules and ideas but when I tried to put them into

practice they just did not work out that well. I couldn't tell

which top or which bottom to trade by. So I just kept

studying and at the same time I started buying other commodity

books and was studying them too. By this time I thought that I

had learned that the most important thing in the market was to

trade by following the trend of the market. The problem was I

could not determine the trend or by the time I did determine it,

it seemed to be going the other way.

I was trying to trade all the markets. When I saw something that

looked like a good trade, I would trade that market. I

really had no set of rules. I traded mostly by what I "felt" was a

good trade. My trading was not profitable by any means,

especially, if you consider the time and effort I was putting

into it.

I spent the fall and winter of 1979 studying Gann, occasionally

trading, never too successfully, but not losing any real

money. By this time I had ordered charts and advisory

services of all kinds. I had purchased many books about the

market. I had more money Invested In advisory services and

books than I had made in the market. They were all interesting but

none of them seemed to provide me with the necessary

knowledge to trade the markets successfully.

I had begun studying Mr. Gann's angles and squaring of price and

time. I had many problems deciding what was valid and not valid

with both the angles and the squaring of price and time. I had a

"Hewlett-Packard 38C" calculator which had a date function on it

that I found invaluable in calculating the number of days between

dates.

I decided to take the May Soybean Contract and learn all that I

could about it. I reconstructed a monthly and weekly chart

back to the time it first started trading. I calculated the

squares in monthly, weekly, and daily time periods from the

extreme low and high and from the opening of the contract in

1936. I could see some interesting relationships but always

in hindsight. I was not able to trade profitably or

consistently using the squaring of price and time. I spent

many weeks trying to find some method of using squaring of

price and time that I could make into a trading rule in line with

Mr. Gann's rules about price and time as I understood them. I

could not come up with anything. Then I looked at his rules

on angles. I ran angles on all the bean charts. I ran angles on

monthly charts back to 1936, weekly charts, and dally charts

as far back as I could get them. I spent considerable time

and money trying to get data that I could use and then making

dally charts by hand. Again, I saw some Interesting correlations

in hindsight, but nothing that I could "trade off of" in a

consistent manner. I wondered if the scale were distorted by

time and the difference in the range of prices today relative to

the time that Mr. Gann wrote his rules.

This led to my investigation of scales of price and their

relationship to Mr. Gann's rules. On a farm near town I had a

barn with a sixteen foot ceiling in it. I ordered Mr. Gann/s

original charts (weekly) that he had sold, then Mr. Lambert had

kept up to date and sold until Mr. Jones purchased the material

and which had been kept to the current time. These charts

were on the same scale on which Mr. Gann had based his rules.

I built a wall in my barn to accommodate these charts because it

was necessary for me to see what they looked like. It

required a wall 14 feet high for me to incorporate the May,

July, and November contracts. It was 53 feet long. The end

result of this was the same- interesting, but difficult to

utilize.

Next I tried trading by Mr. Gann’s rules based on his "mechanical

method and trend indicator". Again I had the same problem-

unsatisfactory results. Either I was using stops too close

or did not understand his rules properly. I must confess that I

was trying to mix all his other rules in at the same time.

Then I looked at his rules and comments on time. I had always

been intrigued by time and its meanings. Over the years I had

always had an interest in natural things and nature. History and

philosophy were of particular interest to me. Of course, I found

time periods everywhere. Too many of them in fact. I knew

that Mr. Gann said that the time factor was the most important

to observe and that when time was up look for the other

yardsticks to confirm time. My problem was that I could not tell

which time "was up" and which yardstick to look to confirm the

time. There were just too many times and too many yardsticks

for me.

Then I got into calendar time and market time. I concluded

from my reading of his material that he put greater emphasis on

market time than he did on calendar time because of his

descriptions about how to make charts. I went into great detail

and study of market time. I arrived at the same dead-end path

here. Then I studied calendar time. I did find that trend

changes of some nature were likely to take place

approximately every 45 days or so on the daily charts. The

problem was that they were usually a swing of some proportion

and again difficult for me to trade successfully.

Then I got into the squares and calculators and master charts.

They were like puzzles. I would work for days and weeks

trying to fit together one piece of knowledge from them. I

worked on them so much that I actually would see them in my

sleep. End result? Same old story!

Then in the summer of 1980 I attended a Gann trading seminar in

Florida. I took my wife and son with me. The seminar was well-

planned and it consisted of two parts. The first part was an

analysis of Mr. Gann ’s time rules as applied to the markets

today. The second part was a presentation on astrology. It

was an interesting and useful seminar to me, especially the

first part on time analysis. I listened to the part on

astrology, but, I Just could not believe that it provided any

answers on how to trade the markets in a consistent and

profitable manner. I could not believe that converting a price

to the longitude of a planet could possibly determine whether

that particular price as based on the longitude of a planet would

make top or bottom or meet resistance of any kind. (I still can ’t

believe it today.) This presentation on astrology probably

turned me off on astrology more than any other one thing. I

could not bring myself to study something so ridiculous. I knew

that there were valid tenets and observations in all old and

ancient beliefs but I just would not believe that the prices of

beans and other commodities could be judged by these "signs

and houses".

The most useful and important benefit to me of this seminar

was the people I met there. Three or four of those people

have turned out to be very good friends and I would never

have met them had I not attended the seminar.

While attending this seminar I heard several "day-

traders" talking about how they used Gann successfully in

their day trading activities. And I heard someone say that

a ticker or quote machine allowed one to acquire years of

experience in a few weeks by watching all of the trades and

quotes every day. When I came back home the first thing I

did was to order a "ticker" so that I could acquire that

"experience" and learn in weeks what was to have taken

years. I got one that gave me hardcopy so that if I had to be

out during part of the day I would be able to study each

trade at the end of the day. I chose to follow May Soybeans

and December T-Bonds. They were both on the C.B.O.T. and I

would only need one Western Union line to get both of them.

I chose the beans because Mr. Gann had recommended them and I

had his rules available on them. I chose the bonds because

I had made some profits trading them (more than on anything

else).

For several months I day traded beans and bonds. I attempted

to use all the angles and time periods and rules. My success

was marginal. I made some profits on balance, but after

deducting the cost of the quote equipment I could have made

more money working some job paying minimum wages. I did

get a great deal of market experience in a short time though.

Again I found that Mr. Gann's rules as applied by me just did

not produce outstanding results. I really knew all the time

though that Mr. Gann cautioned against short term in and

out trading and that it was not fair to apply his rules to

day trading.

One thing that I definitely learned was that for me day

trading was not the thing that I wanted to do for the rest of

my life. I enjoyed it enough. Really, too much. I spent all my

time at the ticker. I even had lunch at the ticker. I ignored my

family, my business, my friends. After looking back, I

believe that day trading as I was doing is the biggest waste

of time and money that I can imagine. I have a friend

that still day trades. He has for seven years. He has not

made any large amount of money but he continues to day

trade every day that the markets are open. After the

market closes he studies the charts and the markets until

midnight and the wakes up the next morning and is at his

ticker by 8:00 a.m..He has no time at all to spend with his

family. I did this same thing when I had my ticker and I

tell you IT IS NOT WORTH IT! Another thing that I learned

about having a ticker is that I had the urge to try to trade

too often. Even when I was not day trading but using the

ticker to time position trades, I found that watching the

ticker gave me the urge to try to trade every swing. I got to

the point that I just wanted to trade all the time. I am

sure that there must be someone who has been consistently

successful as a day trader, but I have never found that person.

If you are the average person, I urge you to learn from my

experience and save your time. Your

time is one of your most valuable possessions.

During the time that I was day trading and watching the ticker

I kept studying all of Mr. Gann's books and courses. By this

time I had purchased every book and course of his that I

could find. I was trying to find someone who actually knew

him and that had taken personal instruction from him. I was

able to find a man that worked for him at one time. But that

gentleman did not want to talk. I have always desired my

own privacy so I understood. I was able to locate Mr.

Gann’s son. I made a trip to see him. He was a very nice

and distinguished looking gentleman. You could tell that he

was a man of quality and character. He was courteous and

gave me thirty or forty minutes of his time and he was a very

busy man. In his office he had a large picture of his father

hanging on the wall. That picture dominated the entire

office. For some reason I could not bring myself to ask Mr.

Gann about his father's master time factor, but I can tell

you that it was very difficult not to ask him. I did ask him

what he thought was the most useful part of his father s

work. He told me that he thought that his father's research

and work on time cycles was the most important work that

his father had done. He also told me several other things

about his father. He felt that his father's work and life had

been commercialized. I also did not feel inclined to ask

him about any personal details of his fathers life. I did

ask him as I was leaving if he could give me any advice

about the markets or the use of the master time factor that Mr.

Gann used. He told me that his advice to me was invest in the

stock and securities market, under good competent counsel^

and to refrain from speculating in the commodity markets at

all. He also told me that "there was no such thing in science or

nature called a perpetual motion machine", that people had

looked for one throughout history, but that it Just didn ’t

exist.

I made several trips around the country trying to locate

various things and various people that could help me

understand more about Mr. Gann and his trading philosophy.

I tried to reproduce what I could of the books that Mr. Gann

had on his reading list and the ones that he sold. I searched

all over the country for certain books and publications. With

great effort I was able to find the books that I wanted. During

my search for Mr. Gann’s master time factor, I purchased and

perused over 2000 books and manuscripts. I purchased as near

as complete set of C.B.O.T. annuals as I could find. My set

had most years from 1887 through 1950. I wanted to verify

everything that I could about Mr. Gann’s references to the

various markets and the situations he was discussing. I

made a special trip to Hew York to a well known astrology

bookstore and I purchased $1800 worth of books on that one trip

alone. Most of them were out of print and were written

during or before Mr. Gann ’s early writings. I also

purchased every market classic that I could find about the

market. I studied Elliott waves, Wyckoff, the Andrews

material, Hurst, Gartley, Drew, Edwards & Magee, Moore, and

others.

Also during this time I heard of this person and that person

that was supposed to understand the Gann method very well.

They were in fact said to be experts and were making their

clients lots of money. Since my trading was not remarkable by

any sense of the word, I opened trading accounts separately

and let two of these so-called experts trade at their

discretion. This experience taught me that the experts that

I had chosen lost money for me more quickly and in greater

amounts than I had ever been able to do on my own. As a

matter of fact, I had opened a trading account with one of

these experts in November of 1980 (you remember, the top

of the bean market) and the first day that he had received

my funds he started buying beans as the market was going

limit down for the preceding three days. The rule he used

was if three days limit down, buy for an upturn. The upturn

did not come so he bought more as it continued limit down.

I asked him if we shouldn't just take my loss and get out

and what kind of stops did he plan to use. He said the

market was too wild to use a stop and that it certainly had to

recover and we would get back some of the losses and

stand aside. I did not learn then that he had in fact bought

even another contract of beans after another limit down

move. He sold all my contracts of beans on the opening on

the day of December 12, 1980 at which time they opened limit

down and then immediately after moved up for the secondary

rally at the top. He said he was sorry. In five days of

trading for me this expert had lost more money for me than I

had lost in my entire time of trading commodities. Since I

sometimes learn slowly I tried a third expert. This one was

not a day trader but one who traded in and out of the markets

quickly and seldom held a position for more than three days.

He had been in the markets for years and really knew how to

trade. He lost several thousand dollars for me in less than

two weeks. The trades made no sense at all and he could not

tell me why he made them. He didn't even say he was sorry!

These experiences led me to my current trading rule #1-NEVER

ALLOW ANYONE ELSE TO TRADE FOR ME.

Since none of my experiences in learning to trade the markets

by using Mr. Gann's trading philosophy had worked out very

well for me, I, had begun a concerted effort to learn what the

master time factor was and how it was to be used. I thought

that if I could only acquire the master time factor then

everything else would fall into place. Unthinkingly, I am

sure that I expected it to be a magic formula that would allow

me to conquer the markets and tell exactly when each and

every top and bottom would occur. I had become that

"wrapped-up" in my effort to find it. This intense desire for

something that I did not even know what it was led me to lose

touch with the prudence that I had been blessed with in

every other area of my life. I had actually hypnotized

myself into believing that this master time factor was the

greatest and most desired formula in the world.

Well, it was the spring of 1981, and April 1st was

approaching. April 1st used to be called April Fool's day and

I will always remember April 1, 1981, as my special day,

because I believe that it was named just for me.

CHAPTER 2 DISASTER

FOR AN APRIL FOOL!

During the late winter and early spring of 1981 I was riding

out the real estate recession and pursuing with great zeal Mr.

Gann's master time factor. As I told you earlier, I was

becoming obsessed with the idea that if I could just acquire

the master time factor that it would solve all my trading

problems. I had quit day trading, although I still had my

ticker and I still spent many hours watching the markets

trade. I continued to buy old books, read, experiment with the

various calculators and master charts. I notice how

frequently during the day that prices would trade against

one of these critical points on a calculator, then back off and

sometimes the price would hold, but as often as not it would

not hold. I was no longer day trading but I had the constant

urge to be in the market. I felt guilty if a move started

and I missed it. I felt angry at times if trades didn't go my

way. I never had this problem in my real estate business. I

simply decided the best price that I could offer a person

and made that offer. If I got the property, fine, if not, I

never thought about it with any remorse. If I offered to sell

a property to a person, I gave them my lowest and best price

and if it were good for them to buy, fine, if not, I didn't want

them to buy something that would not be beneficial to them. I

knew that my mental attitude was not correct and I tried to

compensate by leaving the house during the day and avoiding

watching the ticker, but leaving the ticker on and coming home

after the market closed; then studying the tape at night and

making a trading decision to buy or sell based on that days tape

action. This worked better and my monthly statements began

looking better.

I knew that Mr. Gann had used astrology in trading but I

could not bring myself to get into the study of astrology

with any fervor. However, I had begun reading the many books

on astrology that I had acquired in New York and other places

around the country. I knew that somehow the master time factor

must be associated with astrology but I could not find a

verifiable clue. I kept reading all kinds or market books and

studying astrology-but never in any depth. I had started

studying all I could find on cycles. Cycles of any and all

kinds. I knew that the master time factor had to be a cycle of

some nature because Mr. Gann said it indicated to him when

certain cycles would repeat. My trading was Improving

because I was trading less often and staying in a profitable

trade slightly longer.

In March of 1981 I received a phone call from a man that had

come to be a close friend as a result of meeting him at different

Gann seminars around the country. We had never been to each

other's home, but we had many phone conversations over those

months. This man was a very knowledgeable man about Mr.

Gann's works and this man like myself had spent many hours and

weeks studying Gann. We had shared information and insight

with each other on several

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occasions. In this story I will simply call him "my friend"

because I have no desire to mention his name and cause

embarrassment to him; although I can assure you that it was not

easy for me to come to this state of forgiveness. By daily

practicing my creed, which you will find in the Appendices, I was

able to finally get to this state of mind where I am oblivious to

past injustices of this type. I look to the present and the

future- not the past, (except when I am forecasting the trend

of the market.)

Now, getting back to the phone call from "my friend". He

called me that March night and he was very excited. He said that

he had the most wonderful news! He said that he had finally

found what Mr. Gann used to trade the markets and what he had

used to make his predictions and that he was sure it would call

any market of any type; he had proved it in one particular

market. Although, I had shared all of my findings with him, he

did not offer to share this knowledge with me. He called to

tell me that this was the most valuable Information that he had

ever encountered and that he had decided to sell this to only

four people. He further said that he had carefully chosen these

four people. He said that his criteria for choosing these four

prospects were that they must have really studied Gann for

many long and hard hours and that they must be honest and

promise not to reveal this information to anyone outside their

immediate families. Also, these four persons would have to

sign a legally prepared agreement which imposed monetary

penalties on them if they should ever reveal this information.

He then went on to tell me how much he wanted for this

Information. IT WAS STAGGERING! SUBSTANTIAL! He assured

me that it would work in all the markets but that he had proved

it in the one particular market and that if I followed this

formula and information exactly as he taught it to me and if I

would save a copy of my brokerage statements so that he could

verify that I had properly followed it, he would guarantee my

money back. I told him that was more money than I had ever

dreamed of paying for anything. He told me to think about it

for a few days and to discuss it with the other three people to

whom he had offered it. He told me who they were and two of

them I knew well, because I had become very good friends with

them too. I had met them at my first seminar in Florida and we

had attended other ones together. These two people were (and

are) fine people of outstanding character and quality. The three

of us had spent many many hours studying Mr. Gann works and we

had shared all the different insights that we each had. We had

promised each other without saying it that if any one of us

ever found the master time factor we would let the other two

know what it was. I want to thank each one of these two

people for the help they gave me in my search for the master

time factor and also during the aftermath of my April Fools Day

fiasco. They were the only two people that I could talk to after

the disastrous episode took place.

Up until I began trading the commodity markets and studying the

Gann material, I had always been a prudent common-sense type

man. I know that my story so far does lead you to question

that

statement but it is true. I don ’t know what it is about the

commodity markets that allow ordinarily prudent supposedly

intelligent people to make some of the blunders that they make

when it comes to the commodity market. I think we sometimes lose

touch with reality when we become obsessed with anything. Our

balance is destroyed and we end up mesmerizing ourselves into a

false condition where we see our world as reflecting this

mesmerized version of what we want to believe. Mr. Gann described

something similar to this condition in his book, "The Tunnel

Through The Air11.

At any rate, I believe now, in looking back that I had set

myself up for something like this to happen to me because I had

become overbalanced. I had searched so long and so hard for

this master time factor that I had lost touch with reality and

common sense. I will say that if any other man other than the

man whom I call "my friend" had made this offer to me, I

would not have even thought about the offer twice. I would

have immediately said no. But, as I told you earlier I was

"primed" because I wanted the master time factor so bad and

then I really trusted "my friend" and although I thought that he

would have offered it to me for nothing as I would have done

for him; the fact that he didn ’t still did not make me realize

that if he had really been my friend he would not have tried

to sell me something that we both had worked so hard to find.

I thought about this phone call and offer for several days. I

called these other two friends of mine that were being offered

this same information. They were excited too about the

prospects of having the master time factor revealed to them.

"My friend11 did not actually call this formula the master time

factor but he implied that it was it. None of us who had been

offered the material really knew what to do. We did not want

to put out the kind of money that "my friend" wanted, but we all

wanted the master time factor and we all believed in the

Integrity of "my friend". We trusted him completely. We were

planning to go to a seminar being held in Chicago during the

first week in April. This seminar was being held by Mr. Billy

Jones of Lambert-Gann Publishing Co. I have always enjoyed

Billy’s. seminars more than anyone else's. Anyway, the three of us

decided that we would get together in Chicago and then decide

what we would do about this offer.

I have had many blessings in life. I live in the greatest

country in the world. This country may be the last hope for

mankind. I have always had good health. I have always been

able to make a living for my family and have plenty of time to

read and pursue the things in life that I enjoy doing. I have a

fine son of whom I am very proud. But my greatest blessing has

been my wonderful wife. She is a remarkable woman. She has

always left the business decisions to me and never questioned my

judgment. She, of course, had sacrificed many hours of her time

so that I could spend all of my days and many nights studying

Gann when I should have spent that time with my family. I talked

with her about this offer and asked what she thought about it.

I could tell that she was not

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impressed at all. I had promised "my friend" that I would

meet him in Chicago where we would both be attending the Lambert-

Gann Seminar. I was to meet "my friend" on April 1st and the

seminar was going to start the next day. When I asked my wife

what she thought I should do about the offer, she would only

remind me that April 1st, the day I was to meet my friend and

accept or reject his offer was APRIL FOOL'S DAY. I had not

thought about April Fool's Day since I was a child. But my

wife's mentioning of it was forecasting a coming event for me.

I left for Chicago to meet my friend and unfortunately for me, I

had already made up my mind that I was going to pay this

SUBSTANTIAL amount of money for this information that "my

friend" led me to believe would be the elusive, legendary

master time factor. I met "my friend" in Chicago as agreed on

APRIL Fools DAY. He had me sign the agreement that he had

prepared by an attorney near his home. He assured me that if I

wanted my money back at anytime I could ask him for it and

he would return it to me if I felt that the formula did not

work as he said that it would. He said again that it would

work on any market, but since he had only proved it on one

market that would be the market that we would need to trade. I

gave him this SUBSTANTIAL amount of money that we agreed on

and he again promised me my money back if I were not satisfied.

This was the opening of the door to the most foolish and most

painful room of experience that I have ever entered In my

lifetime. The door was ajar before I entered. I could have

looked in and seen what was IN there. I didn't look. I just

pushed open the door and ran into the "room" because I wanted

the promised contents with a desire that squelched all reason. I

accept the responsibility of this very poor judgment on my

part. I blame no one other than myself. One of the reasons

that I am writing this story for you, is so that you will be

able to profit from my mistakes and if I can save just one of you,

my readers, from trying the same path I took, then this whole

effort of writing this story will have been worthwhile.

Even though I accept the full responsibility for my actions in

regards this most strange and sad transaction, natural law says

that "my friend11 has sown the wind and must reap the whirlwind,

either now or later. That part is not something that I can do

anything about.

In order to bring this part of my story to as rapid conclusion as

possible, but yet allowing you to have the full story that I

promised you, I can simply say that "my friend" took my money and

gave me a formula of gibberish in return. To make it worse, the

agreement called for me to actually trade this thing according

to his recommendations, in order to ever get my refund; although

he promised outside of the written agreement to give me my

money back any time I requested it. His trades were constantly

losing trades in his one market that he had proved. As a

matter of fact I lost more money following his trades until at

the end before I really accepted how stupid the whole thing

was, I began taking the exact opposite of what he told me and

then I recovered some of the money I had lost following the

trades.

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I cannot tell you the pain and frustration that this experience caused me. I am trying to speed

over this part of my story as fast as I can and I am really ashamed that I ever fell for

something this ridiculous. I promised you the true story of my search and I have to relate this part

of it to you; but it is not easy for me write this.

Well, I laboured on with this whole affair and made every effort that I could to get "my friend" to

give me my SUBSTANTIAL amount of money back. He just promised and promised that he was

going to do it. He told me all kinds of stories about how he was working on it. Finally he told

me that he had donated my SUBSTANTIAL amount of money to a children's hospital near his

home. But that he had done it with the understanding that he might have to recall the

donation if he had to refund the money to a "client" that had given him the money. "My friend"

told me that he was arranging to get the money back and that a local bank was acting as the

director of fund raising for this hospital. He even gave me the name of the bank. After this drug

on for several weeks, one day I called the bank and learned that they had never heard of "my

friend". Yes, dear reader, my search for Mr. Gann's Master Time Factor had brought me to this point,

where I still believed all the lies that "my friend" told me, until the bank said that they had never

heard of him. Well, I had been asleep for a long time, and dreaming,-.no having a nightmare; but,

thank God, I had at last awakened. I finally realized at that exact time that I would never get one

penny of my SUBSTANTIAL amount of money back from "my friend". I had made the biggest

single mistake of my lifetime. I have never heard anymore from "my friend" until one of my

real friends (one of the other three prospects-they were all too well-balanced and too smart to fall

for the APRIL FOOL'S disaster) sent me a copy of a newsletter he had seen. This

newsletter sold for $16.67 per issue. In two Issues of this newsletter the entire formula that

"my friend" had sold me (and promised in writing In my agreement not to sell to anyone else

other than his children) was printed in this newsletter that I could have purchased for $33«33.

(There are some numbers for you, Gann fans!). Apparently "my friend" had sold his formula to

the newsletter too. This was the "final blow" to my ego and was the one thing that seemed to

show me just how much time and money I had wasted on my search for Mr. Gann’s Master Time

Factor. Well, let's end this chapter here, while you ponder on how you would feel if you had

been so foolish as me (I'm sure none of you will ever have to worry about that! Will you?)

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CHAPTER 3 WHAT NEXT? OR MORE

APTLY WHERE NOW?

Have you been thinking about how you would feel if you had

been so foolish as I? Would you be pretty well fed up with the

search for the master time factor? Would you ever want to hear

of the commodity markets or the name Gann? You, being an

unemotional passive observer to what I have related to you

so far, are probably saying, "serves him right-anyone that

foolish". You would also point out, being the astute

observer that you are, that the problem lay not with the

commodity markets, nor with the name Gann, nor with the master

time factor, but SOLELY with the author of this booklet and his

attitude towards something which had distorted his perspective

towards reality about the markets, the master time factor,

and in fact, life in general. Well, if you came to these

conclusions, you would be precisely correct. You have come

to the same conclusions that I reached in the fall of 1981 about

myself. But you have also hit on something else. Those same

conclusions that you have reached about my behavior thus far in

my search for the master time factor are the very ones that I

believe that keep us from making profits in the markets. If

we continually incur losses in the market it is BECAUSE OF OUR

ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE MARKETS WHICH HAVE DISTORTED OUR

PERSPECTIVE OF THE MARKETS, OF REALITY, AND OF LIFE IN

GENERAL.

And how have we go t ten to th i s po in t where ou r a t t i tude has

turned in to our perspec t ive and messed us up? We go t the re the

same way I «did- day by day, degree by degree, bad habit by bad

habi t , misplaced st r iv ing by misplaced st r iv ing, wrong desi re fo r

the wrong thing by wrong desire for the wrong thing, mistake by

mistake. Have you not iced the language tha t I have used in the

preceding sentence? What have we done? We have SQUARED our bad

habi ts and mis takes in t ime. How? In us ing the word "by" which

means t imes in between the same two words or phrases we are

mult ip ly ing these bad habi t s or mis takes by themselves , which is

t he ma themat i ca l def in i t ion o f squar ing a number , e l emen t ,

se t , or anything. What 's worse we are doing i t day by day, and

degree by degree, which means that we are squaring these bad

habits and e r roneous ways of a t t i tudes , th ink ing , and

perspec t ives by t ime too. And what are squares? They are

building blocks (even on charts) of equal height and equal

width and equal length. They are also the base or foundation

for the next square up. Now if our base or foundation is

built out of bad habits, mistakes, wrong thinking, and wrong

action- how can we ever hope to accomplish anything (in the

markets or life) other than what we have created already?

There is only one way that I have found. It is the title and

subject of the next chapter in this booklet. It is what I had

to do with myself. It is what I had to do with the Gann

work. It is what I had to do with ray attitude, habits, and

perspective. I had to tear everything out- tear it all down

and clear the base

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and foundation. I had to destruct it all. And most difficult of

all, by far (that "by" means distance multiplied by itself),

I had to tear down my emotions, feelings, ego, and intangibles

that came closest to what I thought that I WAS. My essence- as

close as I could.

If I had stopped to think after a short time in the market

when the profits were not coming in the way they should have

been in any successful business, I would have realized the

above mentioned truths many months and many thousands of

dollars ago. I tell you now, if you have not made profits, but

instead have had losses in the market for at least six months

running, YOU MUST STOP TRADING. That's all! Just stop

trading. What makes you think the next six months will be any

different? Hasn 't my story proved this to you yet? WPROVE ALL

THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD", (for your

information at this point, "prove" also means to square). Now, I

didn't say quit trading, I said STOP TRADING. If you are

not making profits, why are you trading? Why was I trading,

if I were not making profits? If I had STOPPED TRADING

months earlier, look at how much better off I would have been.

So if you haven't been making profits for the last six months you

will promise me that you will STOP trading. You understand don't

you? The longer you continue trading and losing, the larger

building (you), you are going to have to tear down and destroy,

because you have built your squares on a bad base or

foundation. The sooner you STOP building your squares the

smaller your area of destruction will have to be. You will

have to do the same thing that I had to do. You will have to

tear down back to the foundation or base and clear up the debris

and lay a good new foundation and then build again- build a good

building on a good foundation- one that will allow you to scale

new heights!

At this point I need to digress again for three or four

paragraphs. When I left you at the end of the previous chapter

I had arrived at a pretty low emotional state, mental state, and

financial state. My wrong habits, mental attitudes, and

stupidity along with the aid and assistance, of "my friend" had

left me pretty well devastated. On top of that I developed a

health problem in the late summer of 198l-all at the same time

that I had finally realized the enormity of my erroneous ways.

I may not have made myself clear to you up to this point, but

when I have been writing SUBSTANTIAL money every time I

referred to the money that I had given "my friend", I have been

putting all capital letters to emphasize that SUBSTANTIAL is

Indeed what I mean to say. Needless to say, the health

problem that I had developed (a kidney problem) did not leave

me too secure with the long term financial security of my family.

I had plenty of life insurance but I had not made at that time

the necessary provisions for any unforeseen long term

illness. So I had this whole situation to contend with in the

middle of the most severe real estate downturn that I had ever

lived through. Most of my remaining assets were In real

estate. I hope that I have given you a clear enough picture of

the things I was thinking about at

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this time.

What I really needed at this particular time of my life in the

late summer of 1981 was some type of sustenance for my spirit or

soul. Our spirit is what vitalizes us and my vitality was low at

this time, low physically, mentally, and spiritually. Then I

thought of my creed.

"The Seeker's Creed" is an article of declaration of beliefs

that I compiled over ten years ago. None of these beliefs

are products of my mind, but they were compiled by me for

me at another low point of my life when I was searching for

direction in my life. They were the result of my lifetime of

reading and experience. "The Seeker's Creed" was what I had

used as the FOUNDATION or BASE for my real estate business

and I realized at this point that what I, needed was a new strong

foundation based on common sense and proven natural laws

If I were going to survive this situation I had "built" for

myself. I had forgotten about "The Seeker's Creed" in my

search for the master time factor. In fact, it seemed that I had

forgotten everything in my search for the master time factor.

I have also called my creed "The Seeker’s Creed" so that you

can adopt it for yourself should you so desire. I will tell you

more about later. It is in the Appendices.

Now, one of the strange parts of this story again. I never had

intended that my creed be anything other than a personal

declaration of my beliefs that I had proved would work. For a

period of my life I had consciously tried to live by them and

I had read them faithfully every day and practiced them in ray

real estate business. But I had forgotten my creed during

the last few years and from the time that I had begun my "Gann

Voyage" in 1979 until the time I pulled it out in the fall of

1981 I certainly never read it nor did I practice it. But for

some strange reason, I took it out of the drawer of my desk

in my library in May of 1981 and had a copy of it made just

as it was (I had typed it for myself on my typewriter when I

originally wrote it and I had spelling errors and typeovers

in it). I had to go down town to get a copy made and then bought

my sheets back and put them in my three ring binder and put my

notebook (my creed) back in my desk drawer. I then sent the

copy I had made to "my friend" as a token of appreciation for

his selling me what I thought was the master time factor. I had

never given this to anyone else outside my immediate family

before nor since until this very day when I am including it in

this booklet. Isn’t that the strangest thing? Its almost like an

opening and closing of a cycle or circle and its almost like the

creed and the master time factor go together. Who knows?

Perhaps, they do?

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CHAPTER 4

"YOU MUST OBSTRUCT"

"BEFORE YOU CAN

CONSTRUCT"

In my earlier years when I first started out in business and

in ray real estate activities I started out buying and improving and

reselling residential properties. Then I grew into buying and

Improving farms and land and subdividing farms into tracts and

reselling. When my health problem that I told you about in the

last chapter improved and I began studying my creed again I

decided to start all over with what I had proved in the past. In

other words I planned to hold fast to that which was good. This

was in the fall of 1981 and we were still in the worst real

estate market that I had encountered during my business life.

I decided first of all that I would lay aside for the time being

any study of the markets, of Gann material, and any trading in

the commodity markets. I was literally "sick of it". I gave

notice to terminate the lease on my ticker, packed it up, and

sent it back. I closed out my commodity trading accounts and had

all funds sent home. I determined to return to those things which

had worked for me in the past. I read my creed every day- once

in the morning and the last thing at night. I tried to practice

it where I could every day. I went back to the real estate

business with new vigor. I passed on the farms because there

just wasn’t that much market. And I did not want to take the

risk necessary to buy and subdivide -a farm. If I could work

off an option, I would. I went right back to the beginning-

residential properties. This time I was faced with a new

problem that I didn't have several years ago when I was

dealing with houses. That problem was 17% and 18% interest

rates. People were just not moving around very much. (I live

in a small town). I realized that people wanted to acquire

better housing but it was extremely difficult for first time

buyers and young people and slightly less difficult for those

who already had equity built up. So I started trading. I

started with the lower priced range and all the older, lower

assumable rates properties that I could find. I practiced my creed

in my business every day just as I had done several years ago. I

would try to satisfy any real estate need as well as I could. If

the person in need needed to sell, I tried to be the buyer; if

the person in need needed to buy, I tried to be the seller; my

creed said that to get supply you must open a channel and to

open a channel you must do what? You create a need or find a

need. So I looked for needs in the only place I knew to look-the

real estate market. Even in the so-called tough housing market of

late 1981 and first part of 1982 by the practicing of my creed

I had a good period financially. Then I got back into farms as

well as houses and from January 1, 1982 through March 30,

1982 I had sold a little better than one million dollars

worth of real estate on commissions. (This is a good place to ask

you a question that I have often wondered about. What is it that

makes a man ignore what he is successful at and suited for-pursue

something else that appears more golden, but yet causes him

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losses and misery, when he could do so well Just performing his

useful function? A personal example-me and the real estate

market and me and the commodity markets.) I felt good again

and hoped that I had learned something about life and the

markets and most of all something about myself. I was back at a

good foundation or base-My Creed. (Yours too, now, if you want

it.)

Now, through pain, frustration, and not knowing what else to

do, I had begun to destroy the wrong attitudes and

perspectives that I had allowed to develop in me. But I was doing

this tearing down without knowing it. One day in early 1982, I

had purchased a property that I intended to remodel and then

sell. I went to talk with this contractor that specialized in

remodeling. He was working on a job when I found him; and

the lady that he was working for was complaining about how

much of her house he had torn out and how bad it looked. This

contractor said "yes ma'm, it shor looks terrible but you must

fust dee-struct fo you can con-struct.1' This statement almost

floored me. YOU MUST FIRST OBSTRUCT BEFORE YOU CAN

CONSTRUCT. All the things that I said to you in the last chapter about

tearing out, tearing down, ripping out these bad habits and

attitudes and thinking and perspectives did not just come to

me then. It came to me as the sudden revelation when this

contractor told the lady who was worried about her home

falling in on her; and seeing her and him standing in the awful

looking mess that was her home and all the rubble that looked

like it could never be put back into anything useful again. It

came to me then that this was like the squares or building

blocks that I mentioned in the last chapter. Our lives and

market habits and living habits are the same as the home

needing remodeling. I saw clearly for the first time that if I

needed remodeling-AND I DIDI-then I would have to tear myself

down the way I described to you in the last chapter. I saw then

too that I had already made the proper start by getting back to

the useful part of my experience and life that had worked for

me in the past, namely trying to live and conduct my business by

my creed. I had proved that my creed was good and sound and

so I would hold fast to it and use it for the basis (base or

foundation) of my life in the conduct of my affairs (the

building of my squares of living blocks). I had also proved that

my real estate activities were sound and useful and that I would

use them as my base or foundation for providing a living for ray

family and a service for my community. I resolved to always In

the future to conduct my real estate activities and my personal

life as nearly as I could on the natural laws in my creed. I had

proved my creed for ten years, left it, and came back to it,

and found that it still proved itself to be true. I also resolved

not to ignore my real function; and not to go out on any wild

searches for "master anything". I knew now that I had something

so valuable that everything I needed could be supplied by the

practice of what I already had right here within me (my creed-

learned and lived-inside of me. Precisely where the ancients

had always said it would be found.) I also knew at this precise

time that I would some day find the master time factor of Mr.

Gann’s and this is when I resolved that when I did find it I would

make an effort to reveal it to others that may have searched

long and hard for it.

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But I contemplated tha t I would only reveal i t i f i t turned

out to be worthwhile to others.

My course now was clear for the first time since 1979, no, even

further back. No longer, would I allow myself to fear the future

about the economy or good times or bad times. Now through

living my creed I had the confidence to know that I would do the

same things in bad times that I would do in good times. I would

meet the demand of others by being supply. Also, I would go

back to the commodity markets but this time with a different

perspective and attitude. I would go back to studying Mr.

Gann ’s works, but with a different perspective and attitude. I

would go back to my search for the master t ime factor , but

with a different at t i tude and perspective. I would do exactly

what the contractor had done with the ladies house. I would

establish my base or foundation as I Indicated above. I had

proved it. I knew it was sound. I would take the commodity

markets, the Gann material and the search for the master time

factor, and I would tear down everything that I could not prove

good. I would only do this in my spare time when it WOULD NOT

DISRUPT OR HARM MY GOOD SOLID FOUNDATION OR BASE. I would work

out a methodical plan of action that would allow me to do these

things by depending on myself from within myself . I would not

pay any attention to what this person thought about the markets or

what that person thought about the markets. I would try to

Isolate myself from discussion of the markets and

discussion of Gann material. I would work as the ancients

would say "In Silence, By Silence, Through Silence." I would "PROVE

ALL THINGS, AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH WAS GOOD."

CHAPTER 5 I

BEGIN AGAIN

I had not understood Mr. Gann's rules or they simply did not

work for me. In fact they had not worked much better than the

pathetic formula that "my friend" had sold me. The angles

hadn’t helped me, the squares hadn't helped me, the

calculators and master charts hadn't helped me, the trend

indicators as I had understood and tried to use them hadn't

helped me, and the time periods that I had tried to use hadn't

helped me. I didn't really know anyone including the Gann

experts or maybe I should say particularly the Gann experts that

I had met or heard of that the Gann material had really made

successful. The only people that I knew that had made any money

on the Gann material were people who were selling information or

seminars or advisory letters about his material. (Me too, now,

huh?)

At any rate, if I were going to prove all things, and hold

fast to that which was good, at this point I would have to throw

away the entire Gann trading method. I knew that if the Gann

material was ever going to provide a basis for a successful

trading system for me, I would have to have a better

understanding of it than I had previously had or I couldn't

use it. I had always felt that the missing element which would

provide the "key" to unlocking the usefulness of his material

was that same old master time factor. Until I had that key I

knew that the rest of his material was useless to me in trading the

markets. I HAD ALREADY PROVED THAT. I also knew that if I

were ever going to find the master time factor, I would have to

do it myself. No one was going to give it to me or sell it to me. I

HAD ALREADY PROVED THAT TOO.

Circumstances related to you earlier had already caused me to

tear down and destroy those things In myself that I had to

eliminate. Now I needed to do the same thing with the Gann

material. I have indicated to you in the dedication of this

booklet how I felt about Mr. Gann. Nevertheless, common sense

(yes, I had it back now) dictated that if I were going to use

only those parts of his work that I had proved useful, then I

would have to THROW THE WHOLE THING OUT! Now, dear reader,

what do you think I did this time? You know me pretty well by

now, don’t you? No, you are wrong this time. I DID EXACTLY

THAT-I THREW THE WHOLE THING OUT. I told you that I had

learned my lessons. I learned them well. I learned them the hard

way, the painful way. Now my lessons had taught me that if it

wasn't good, I wouldn't build on a bad foundation. The bible

says that you will know a tree by its fruit. In the commodity

markets "good" means profits. I hadn't made any before, using

the Gann material, why should I expect to make them now doing

the same things that I did then.

Actually, I did retain one single item of the Gann material.

The M5 day calendar period. I incorporated it into my rules. I

was determined to acquire the ability to trade the markets. I

opened

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a trading account In the spring of 1982. I traded this account

based on some simple common sense rules. I made every effort to

incorporate into these rules the opposite attitudes and

perspectives that I had earlier. I don't propose at this point

to go into my trading rules, but, you "know what some of them

would be just by reading my story up to this point. For

example, I practiced patience by having a rule that I could

only enter the market on a new position on one certain day of the

week and only under certain conditions. I quit keeping up with

quotes during the day and would only update my charts the next

morning. I would save up the news during the week and only

read it on the weekends. I quit discussing the markets with

people. I limited myself to a situation where if I reached a

certain profit that was three times the loss that I had allowed

myself for a given month then I would quit trading for the

month; which ever was reached first the profit or the loss. I

had a rule that I would be in no more than two different

positions at the same time. I also had a rule that if an account

had losses for two straight months I would close the account

out. All of my rules were just simple common sense rules that

would help me be with a trend and get me out soon if I were

wrong. Most of the rules kept me from trading during the time

that the markets were opened. I was trading now not to make

a living, a killing, or for my ego, but simply to make profits of a

good return on my Investment, and secondarily to learn more

about attitude of myself and to find useful things that would

work in the markets. I was gathering materials that I could use

in building my successful trading program. When I found

something useful I kept it. At the end of 1982, for the first

time since I had been trading I had a net profit for the

entire year. I had spent very little time trading the markets

that year. In other words the less time I spent trading the

more money I made.

Since I had so much more free time now that I wasn't looking up

squares and time periods and divisional points of price and

angles and calculators and getting quotes every hour. I

decided to spend that free time looking for one thing. Yes, you

know me. The master time factor. I knew that without it and

maybe even with it that the rest of the Gann material was

worthless to me as far as trading the markets. I had not wasted

my time in studying the Gann material though, because I had

re-discovered the value of my creed, and you remember that this

was the most valuable knowledge that I ever found.

I had copies of every piece of material that I had been able

to

acquire about Mr. Gann. I had every piece of all of the published

material that Mr. Gann had ever written except for a small

copyrighted booklet entitled "Senator Warren Harding of Ohio

Will Be Our Next President". You may not have ever heard of

this booklet. I had never heard of it either. But I found it

listed in the copyright section in Washington D.G. It was

supposed to be in the Library Of Congress but they could not find

it. Yes I went to Washington to see what I could find out about

Mr. Gann and his work. I told you I had looked hard. Well,

as I said, I had all his published materials and several pieces

of documents, letters,

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and unpublished materials. I had notes that I had made in

interviews with different people that knew Mr. Gann. I even

went to Miami once to interview the people in the

neighborhood that Mr. Gann lived in his latter years. Also, I

had talked with a man that knew who Mr. Gann’s personal

astrologer was. I never knew until then that Mr. Gann would

have a personal astrologer. I guess its like thinking that a

physician would not have a physician. I will tell you about

Mr. Gann's astrologer in a later chapter. Anyway, what I am

trying to say is that I had a pretty fair collection of material

written by Mr. Gann. I decided to use what I had and analyze it

in ever way that I could.

First I analyzed every word that he used when he talked about

time. I looked the different words up in the dictionary and

compiled a glossary of sorts. I checked to see if he used

different words at different places to say the same things. For

example, I found that when he used "or" between two words those

two words meant the same thing to him. But they would not have

necessarily meant the same thing to me. I would have ordinarily

understood them differently. I made a list of words that were

different, but meant the same to him. This process began to

give me a sort of mindset to the language and expressions of Mr.

Gann and I began to see some new meanings to things that he

said that I had earlier understood differently.

The next thing that I did was to analyze his quotations and

see how many of them that I could find. I also wanted to see

why he used them where he did and were they used for any

other reason than what they appeared to be on the surface. I

knew that my grandparents had expressions that were quaint to

our expressions today. I wanted to see if any of those old

expressions had different meanings than they do today. So, I

checked on all these language aspects. I found that dictionaries,

encyclopedias, and vocabularies were areas of great potential

for learning about anything. They give you concise brief

accurate descriptions about any specific word idea or concept.

Frequently I found that my understanding of a word or concept

was much more vague and ambiguous than I had realized. By

looking up important words and even simple words I began to

have a clearer mental picture of concepts. By understanding the

precise meaning of words and concepts and the various shades of

meanings I began to understand better and I began to sense some

subtle things that I had not earlier comprehended.

Another thing also came to my attention about this time

(Spring and Summer of 1982). That thing was the introduction of

the Stock Index Futures to the commodity markets. I told you

earlier that I had never been interested in buying and

selling stocks themselves. Because of my lack of interest in

the stock market I had never spent much time studying Mr. Gann’s

stock market books and his stock market course. Oh, I had read

"Truth of The Stock Tape" and M45 Years In Wall Street" about 30

times each and I had pretty well memorized certain parts of them.

And I had read and studied the Stock Market Course some 20 or

30 times. But I had always read and studied them looking for

clues regarding time and

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trying to apply this information to the commodity markets. I

was not interested in the information about the Stock

Market. I simply rejected this without thinking about i t .

I wasn ’ t interested in what he had to say about the Dow-Jones

or the Stock Market.

If I may digress again this brings up another curious part

about life to me. I have noticed and I am sure that you have,

that the very thing that we reject as being of no value to us

frequently turns out to be the most valuable of all-THE

BUILDER'S STONE-lf you will. I have noticed it over and

over in my life, that person whom I thought wouldn't amount

to anything, that piece of real estate that I thought would never

be worth anything, that book or idea that wasn't worth

pursuing, they all too often turned out to be the true thing of

VALUE. And we have the tendency to reject them because we

think that they have no value. Why is this? I think that the

answer lies in the area of what I call "mindset". If we learn

through habit to look at something positively or negatively,

then continue to practice that way of looking at something,

then after a period of time, our understanding and our

comprehension of these things tends to take on the nature of

the way we viewed them over time. If we viewed them positively

our understanding would reflect to us our viewing rather

than the truth. In other words our understanding or

comprehension is a reflection of the way we look at

something rather than the truth about something. OUR

KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD AROUND US IS A REFLECTION OF

THE WAY WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE WORLD. If we have problems

seeing things as they really are, it means that we have built on a

FOUNDATION OF KNOWLEDGE that is wrong. Therefore, we must

tear out that foundation and replace it with a good one.

Otherwise, we stay in a vicious cycle that grows worse with

time. The way to avoid this jaundiced view of reality is be

AWARE. Be aware that we have this tendency. Reading and

living by my creed will make you aware.

Now, it is obvious that Mr. Gann wrote more books and material

on the Stock Market than he did on the commodity markets. But I

had rejected the stock market material except as I could

apply it to the commodity markets. Again the reason I had

rejected it was not that it wasn't important, but simply that I

VIEWED it as not important or useful. By doing this, I had

rejected the BUILDER !S STONE. Because this would be where I

would find the master time factor. To show you how our view of

things change and why they do, I have to tell you that when

the stock index futures started trading, I realized one day that

I had the opportunity to study Gann ’s stock market books

and material and that I could trade that information i f i t

proved useful by trading the index futures. Now, do you

see why I was willing to look at it now and saw value to it

where I didn't see it before. The reason was that now it was

acceptable to me because it wasn't the stock market anymore

but it was now the commodity market. I was BLIND to its value

until it appeared in a form that I could see through the

"f i l te rs" tha t I had put on mysel f . Th is f i l t e r of course

filtered my vision but as I said above my vision turns out to

be my understanding or comprehension or knowledge.

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Now I went after the rejected "builder's stone" with great

energy. The same material now had new meaning to me. There were

many things to study and learn. (This is the same material, it

hadn’t changed, I had, or my ATTITUDE towards it had). My

"mindset" or attitude or vision now allowed me the freedom to

search for the truth. Remember seeing and finding the TRUTH

will make you FREE. If you don’t get anything else out of my

material, it will be worthwhile to you, if you can just

understand what I am trying to say. It is our attitude that

gives us our vision and it is our vision that allows us to see

(know) what we do and we can only profit in the markets and

in life as we react to our knowledge which is based on our

vision which is based on our attitude. Tills previous sentence is

the most important truth that I will be able to offer you in this

booklet. Perhaps you have already realized this and it doesn't

see-m important to you. If you have already seen this then it

doesn't mean as much to you as it does to me. I guess truths

learned mean more than truths known already and I learned this

one with much difficulty.

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CHAPTER 6

THE STOCK MARKET, ASTROLOGY,MINDSET,MR. GANN,

AND ME.

In ray renewed pursuit of the master time factor via study of Mr.

Gann’s stock market material which I had previously rejected as

related in the last chapter, I happened across two items in

particular that were sudden bursts of revelation to me. I guess

I am a strange person but when I receive insight of a clear

nature about something that has troubled or perplexed me for a

long period of time, this sudden dawning of inspiration

almost overwhelms me. This is the feeling I had when I

received the first revelation. It is difficult for me to put this

into words because there was no logical reason for me to be

excited about seeing this for the first time, it really didn't

mean that much but for some subjective reason lights flashed

all over Inside me. You will think I have taken leave of my

common sense again when I tell you what it was that caused

this feeling. I still am not able to describe this feeling to

you appropriately, so I will just drop it here. Maybe you

understand what I am trying to say.

The thing that caused this feeling was a quotation that Mr. Gann

used in his book, "Truth Of The-Stock Tape". I told you that

I had been looking up and studying the quotations that he had

used in his books and courses. I have a library and study

downstairs on a semi-basement level in my home. I am able to

get away from all distractions down there. One day I went

downstairs and picked up the above mentioned book and just

absent-mindedly opened it to page 1. Under the title there were

headings of BOOK I and then PREPARATION FOR TRADING.

Under this was a quotation from Emerson. It read, "No man can learn

what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his

eyes is the object. A chemist may tell his most precious

secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser-the

secrets he would not utter to a chemist for an estate."-

Emerson.

I tell you, truthfully, I felt like I had been knocked down. It

floored me. It overwhelmed me. This simple quotation that I read

many times, but had never seen, almost took my breath away.

For the first time I knew that all Mr. Gann's "time periods,

time cycles, time was up, time was not up, time had run out,

time had not run out, the time factor, and yes, the MASTER TIME

FACTOR"-all his references to time were astronomical cycles

and divisions of them. You notice I said astronomical-not

astrological. I knew this in a "direct-way" that gives me

problems describing. The seeing of this and the feeling that

it gave me to see this clearly was overpowering.

Now, I knew all the time that Mr. Gann ’s work was based on

astrology, and I knew that his time cycles were based on it

too. But I could not bring or did not bring myself to look at his

time cycles from an astrological viewpoint for several

reasons. The most important reason I didn't, we have already

discussed and it

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is most important that you and I always remember this and be

aware of this tendency in our make-up as human beings. Of

course, the primary reason I couldn't look at the time cycles

from an astrological standpoint was that I had rejected

astrology because I saw no value to it. It was outside my

experience. Just like in the previous examples my way of

viewing an object or concept by putting value to it or not putting

value to it with my viewing caused me not to see what was there

even though it was there. You understand? Mr. Gann said plain

enough in the quotation by Emerson that he had laid his

secrets out clear enough but if we did not have the preparation

(or FOUNDATION or BASE) then we would not comprehend

what those secrets meant. In another way this principle is

demonstrated by something as simple as an "Easter Egg Hunt".

Don’t you remember how sometimes those eggs that were hardest

to find were laid out on the ground with nothing hiding

them. They were in plain sight. But, because we were looking

for them to be hidden, we sometimes had trouble seeing them.

Now, I am not telling you that all of Mr. Gann ’s material was

laid out well enough for us to see it. If you had only one of

his books and didn't have his courses you wouldn't understand

what I mean. But I had all of his books and courses and some

unpublished material that had circulated around over time.

Another reason that it had been hard for me to look at his time

cycles from an astrological standpoint is that I thought

present day astrologers had not been able to take his material

and make profits with it. I should amend the previous

statement to read that I had not been able to find or hear of

an astrologer that had deciphered Mr. Gann’s work. The only

profits I had heard of being made by astrologers were those selling

seminars or books on using astrology trading Mr. Gann. But I

knew no one that had been able to trade it. So, I just

discarded the possibility of my finding out how to use the

time cycles by studying astrology. I guess I thought that if the

professional astrologers who knew much more than I did

couldn’t find it or hadn't found it then it was useless for me

to try to use astrology to find the master time factor. My error

again, IMPROPER THINKING, as always. You and I have all

that we need to do anything. We Just need to realize where

our source of supply comes from and then allow it to work.

You can read about this source of supply in "The Seeker's

Creed". Reading doesn't do it though, you have to practice

what’s in there.

I know that it is hard to follow me in this chapter. The title

of it, alone, is enough to make you run the other way. Its just

that I'm not a writer (I'm a seeker) and I have difficulty saying

the things I want to say to you. For the rest of this chapter

please try to bear with me and realize that I am talking about

how the stock market which I had previously rejected, led me

to the astrology part which I had previously rejected, because

of a "mindset" that I had built out of my attitude and habits

of associating or disassociating value with whatever I had been

led by myself or others to think that value should represent.

This is a common problem, I believe, and I hope that I have

been able to

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correct it somewhat in myself.

Another problem in writing this chapter is that I have two or

three things to tell you about; but they didn't happen

sequentially, they occurred simultaneously. So I may jump

from one to the other in telling you about these different

things.

In the beginning of this chapter, I told you that there were two

revelations. I have related the one about the quotation. On the

very same day that the first occurred, the second occurred

too. As I was thinking about the above I went to the stock

market course to look at the chapter in the course on page 90.

The one entitled "FORECASTING BY TIME CYCLES11. For those of

you who do not have the stock course, you will find a complete

copy of the chapter "FORECASTING BY TIME CYCLES" in Appendix I

of my booklet. Please read only the first page of that appendix

at this time.

I am quoting the second paragraph of Mr. Gann 's "FORECASTING

BY

TIME CYCLES"-----"The ancient hunters had a rule that when

they were searching to locate an animal in his den, they

always followed his tracks backward, figuring that it was the

shortest route to his lair. The quickest way for you to learn

how to determine future market movements is to study the

past."

So what, huh? Well that quotation after the first one I mentioned

above gave me precisely the directions to the path that would

lead me to the master time factor! I saw from that quotation

that I needed to get into astrology some more and that

further I needed to trace back in time the things Mr. Gann had

said about time and see if I could track him back to his

lair. I had documents and fragments of unpublished materials

and his books and courses. So I could date most of the things he

had written. I would take the latest material first and then go

back into time to his earliest material and see if he always

said the same things in the same way. Furthermore, I had all

kinds of old astrology books that I had purchased earlier but

had not really gotten into; so I would look at astrological

cycles and let the signs and houses go.

Excuse me for jumping around again, but here's another side

trip, and we will come right back. .1 have been on many many

paths searching for the master time factor. They have all been

dead-end. Now I "know" that the path which ends in "master

time factor" is nearby and I promise you that It will not be

long before we will get on. Anyway, this side trip. I had

talked with an elderly gentleman one time and he said that he

had known Mr. Gann by reputation but had never met Mr. Gann.

He did say though that Mr. Gann had an astrologer by the name of

Edward Johndro who helped him in his work on the markets. Well,

you know me, I began to see what I could find out about Mr.

Johndro. It was my intention to see if I could find him and if

he had already died, I intended to try to find his family and

see if he had left any papers. I called the American Federation

of Astrologers and had them send me the rest of Mr.

Johndro's books that I didn't already have. Then I learned

from them of a man that had studied

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Johndro work as much as any other living person. I then

contacted that gentleman in New York and I learned that Mr.

Johndro had died in approximately 1955 at about the same time

as Mr. Gann. The death was apparently "sudden" and because this

Mr. Johndro was a famous astrologer and had clients that were

high officials of the Canadian government, his papers were

burned by his family at the request of these officials. I did

not pursue the matter further from here. The gentleman in New

York said that he was not interested in talking about financial

astrology except to say that Mr. Johndro had some very

Interesting ideas on it. I tried reading Mr. Johndro 's work

several times but I did not have a good enough foundation

(preparation) to understand it very well. I noticed that the

cover on his booklet "A New Concept Of Sign Ruler ship"

appeared to resemble some of Mr. Gann’s circular calculators, but I

just assumed that it was because Mr. Gann's calculators were all

related to something from astrology. The important thing that I

learned from this was that Mr. Johndro was a mundane

astrologer. So I began a study of mundane astrology. Furthermore

I wanted to look only at the writings from 1920 back in time

because I knew that Mr. Gann had begun trading by 1902.

So, my approach now, was going to be threefold. One-I would

study to see what mundane astrologers thought at the turn of

the century and earlier; two-I would try to identify each one of

Mr. Gann's Important time cycles by an astrological time cycle;

and, three-I would try to relate the first two approaches

together and see if there were any parities or disparities

between them. At the same time I was going to track the

writings that he had made back in time from those nearest his

death to those earliest in his life. I was excited now because I

"knew" that I was getting somewhere.

In my searching through astrology books for old mundane

astrological precepts I came to the conclusion that the useful

part of astrology for me at that particular time would be

something similar to the following. I had read where some people

said that they did not believe in astrology, but that they did

believe that the planets In the solar system caused magnetic and

electric fields in our earth's atmosphere and certainly we must

respond to them in different ways at different times. Some of

these disturbances could cause waves of optimism and pessimism

and weather disturbances. Certainly I could believe that and

I was now willing to look at ideas and concepts that I would not

earlier have looked at with sincerity. Now, you understand, I was

FREE; free to look at things that I would have earlier not been

able to see, even if I had looked at it, because, now I had my

filters and blinders off. Also, to me I was studying astronomy, a

science; where astrology is merely an Interpretation of events

and conditions that may in fact have been caused by astronomical

relationships. Also, I knew that earlier generations were more

practical than we give them credit for today. They knew more

than we think they knew. In fact, I believe that they knew

more than we do today about some things. I knew from my

real estate activities that if I found an old ditch on a farm

and someone said that I needed to put a new ditch on the

farm, the best place

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for me to put that ditch would be exactly where that old

ditch had been dug. Old-timers had to dig a ditch by hand.

They were not about to dig one where it was not needed.

Over the years, I have learned to acquire a great respect for

the ancients and what they thought. I knew that their fables

and myths all had some important truths behind them. I had

also learned from HARD experience not to reject anything as

having no value just because my educational background and

Social circle saw no value in it.

I have mentioned to you earlier about the great value I had

found in using dictionaries and encyclopedias. One of the

best sources of general and specific information about

astrology that I have found Is a book, "Encyclopedia Of

Astrology" by Nicholas deVore. Even though I had glanced

through this book several times in the past I had my blinders

on and therefore could not see. Now that I was free I was

almost blinded again by the light that came from looking at

this and other books. Everywhere I looked, one book after the

other the following messages came through over and over.

Major conjunctions (of the planets, where two superior to

earth orbit planets appear to be in the same spot in the sky)

are very important in the consideration of world events,

and in all mundane affairs. Used in connection with the

solar ingress charts, they serve as focal points of the greatest

influence, and reveal the cosmic forces radiating Upon the

earth. "The old astrologers placed GREAT importance upon

the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, and rightly since this

conjunction involves the two largest bodies of our solar

system. It has always seemed that the conjunction of these

two planets has had the greatest influence and significance

upon the course of world affairs. The 'life1 of the Influence of

these great conjunctions upon world affairs and Individuals

remains in force until the next conjunction of the same pair of

planets. THE TIME FROM ONE CONJUNCTION TO THE NEXT

CONJUNCTION OF THE SAME PAIR OF PLANETS MAY BE

CONSIDERED AS A 'CYCLE1. Major conjunctions when considered

in the light of Cycles1 MEASURE periodical historical events, or

the epochs in the changing world conditions, and even the r i s e

and fa l l o f c iv i l iza t ions .

Again, more—"To the ancien ts the longest orbi ts ( the t ime

period that it takes for the planet to make one revolution

around its orbit) within the solar system were the orbits of

Jupiter (12 years) and Saturn (30 years) (approximately); The

points at which Jupiter caught up with and passed Saturn

marked the greatest cycle with which they were able to deal.

This occurred every 2.0 years (approximately). Jupi ter and

Saturn in their relat ionship to each other in these cycles of

t ime from conjunct ion to conjunction were called by the

ancients-the great CHRONOCRATORS, or Markers of Time."

Then cycles of cycles of 20 years were important and marked.

(Did you know that the cycles of cycles of 20 years that I just

mentioned was Mr. Gann's "Square of Twenty" and that he

used it specifically for the stock market. Also, be aware of

the fact that cycles of cycles is the same as squares or

squaring. Apply this knowledge to other things.) I could go

on

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talking about things that I found about the 20 year cycle in

books about the old astrologers.

Another very important cycle to the ancients was the 3RD 20 year

cycle of Jupiter-Saturn. This cycle was the most important of

all to them and they watched it with GREAT INTEREST. What

happens is that the Jupiter-Saturn cycle (conjunction t !0"

.back to conjunction "0") takes 19.859 (average) to complete

one cycle. The occurrence of the next cycle takes place at an

advance of approximately 123 degrees in longitude in the

circle of the zodiac. After three such cycles, 59«577 years

have passed and with each 123 degree advance in the zodiac the

conjunctions have come full circle of 360 degrees plus an

additional 9 degrees (approximately) more. This is called a FIRST

ORDER RECURRENCE CYCLE of Jupiter-Saturn (mean values

are given). This was very important to the ancients because the

conjunctions were now taking place very close to the same

spot in the zodiac that they had occurred 60 (approximately)

years earlier. This 60 year cycle is the one that the ancients

spoke so much about. Everywhere I looked in my old books I

read where the ancients really paid great attention to this 60

year cycle.

This term "first order recurrence cycle" was new to me. I had

READ it before but I had never seen it. You understand. While

looking up more information about first order recurrence

cycles, I found that the orbit time (mean) of Jupiter in

tropical years (from spring to spring) was 11.858 years; that

of Saturn was 29.42 years; that of Uranus was 83-75 years. I

searched further into these cycles listed in the encyclopedia of

astrology and I found more. For instance, (all values are mean)

the time period from conjunction to opposition (0 to 180

degrees) in the Jupiter-Saturn cycle of 19«859 years was 9^93

years (almost 10); the time period of conjunction to opposition of

the Saturn-Uranus cycle is 22.68 years (almost 22 1/2).

One cycle after another, I was finding Mr. Gann's same time

periods or time cycles. The following are all cycles of time

from one conjunction to the next conjunction between two

planets. Mars-Jupiter, Mars-Saturn, Mars-Uranus, Mars-Neptune,

and Mars-Pluto; all these taking place at about every two years

(different times); then Jupiter-Uranus occur about every 14

years; Jupiter-Neptune occur about every 13 years; Jupiter-Saturn

about every 20 years; Jupiter-Pluto about every 12 years;

Saturn-Uranus about every 45 years; Saturn-Neptune about every

36 years; and Saturn-Pluto about every 33 years.

Now, I know what you are thinking. You are right now saying to

yourself, Oh, NO!-not again-another Gann booklet with more of

the same old astrology junk. Please, just bear with me because

soon I am going to re-discover Mr. Gann's Master Time Factor.

See, you are having some of the same problems that I was having.

You are putting filters and blinders on your vision and not

seeing what is before your very eyes. You are refusing to see

something of truth because your educational background or

social circles or prior way of looking at things has not

allowed you to see

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anything of value in looking at astrological concepts. But, if it

helps you and I to see better, lets say that we are looking at

astronomical (scientific) concepts to see if there could be any

correlation between these astronomical relationships relative

to us (earth beings) and our reaction to them. What we are

really faced with is this common problem of shutting up our God

given powers of understanding when we refuse to see things

because they are outside our experience. In "The Seeker's Creed"

you can read about the necessary knowledge to develop a

"mindset" that will allow you to overcome this vision problem

that we all have to some extent. But reading about it will not

help you as much as practicing it. The reason that I knew that

you were looking at the above "astrology" with a jaundiced eye

is because I have been there. Also, you are a seeker and I am a

seeker and we seekers are all alike. Aren't we?

Now, these cycles that I have been enumerating above are all

scientific facts. They are time periods of planets and planetary

relationships. I just happened to read about them in an

encyclopedia of astrology. I could have read about them in a

college textbook of astronomy. The interpretation of the

meanings, if any, as applied to these relationships makes what we

call astrology. Well, in all this "sales pitch" that I have been

giving you, trying to convince you that it is all right for us to

look into this area or any area where truth may or may not be

found, I have forgotten to tell you that I have been having those

overwhelming "feelings" again.

Why, I don't know- (well, I do because that's what we ’ve been

talking about)- it took me so long to clearly see that each and

every one of Mr. Gann’s time cycles and time periods were

planetary in nature. The reason I felt overwhelmed again was

that I had experienced that wonderful thing again- INSIGHT. It was

now Spring of 1983. It had taken me four long and painful years

of searching to see what his time cycles were. I am some kind of

"seeker11, huh? Turtles and I-hmm. Well, lets test me on some of

these time cycles. In the Commodities Course on page 64 (newer or

older courses may be different page #) of the chapter

entitled #5, "forecasting grains by time cycles" Mr. Gann says,

"The Great Time Cycles are most important because they record the

periods of extreme high or low prices. These cycles are: 90 years,

82 to 84 years, 60 years, 45 years, 30 years and 20 years." A

couple more notes here- (there are now quite a few things that

I can tell you about what Mr. Gann means when he says something,

but they are difficult to place in context of this story every

time I run across a word that I have learned what he means.

Also, I do not want you to think that I have a "know-it-all"

attitude towards Mr. Gann’s work or anything else. I am

acutely aware of my personal limitations, but if I may appear to

sound immodest this one time, I have had lots of insight

lately and I have put in enough time studying Mr. Gann that I

have learned some subtle meanings that he intended with his

choice of words. In the above statement when he says "Great"

he means superior as in astrological terms to indicate

planetary orbits outside of the orbit of the earth. Also when

he used "Major" he meant the same

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thing. The other two things that I wanted you to look at while

we are on the adjoining page is to turn over to page 65 in the

Commodities Course (if you have it, of course) and note that he

says, under the 90-year cycle heading, and I quote, "The 90-year

Time Cycle is one of the very important ones because it is

2x45." Now why would you suppose that he would say that the

90-year cycle is important BECAUSE it is 2x45 (or twice 45).

While you are thinking about that, lets look at the headings 84

year cycle and 60 year cycle. I wonder why he didn't say much

of anything about them and particularly the 60 year cycle. He

just said to compare 60 years from tops and bottoms. Almost

just the word compare, no elaboration at all. Maybe, not so

important, huh? Then look down at the 20-year cycle heading.

He says that the 20-year cycle is a very important cycle-

WHY?-because it is 1/3 of the 60-year cycle. He just mentions

the 60-year cycle by the word compare; but he describes the

importance of the 20-year cycle because of its relationship to

the 60-year cycle. In the 90-year cycle he described its

importance in terms of the fact that it contained 2- 45-year

cycles. But the twenty-year cycle was described in terms of

the 60-year cycles. There is a reason for the manner in which

he described the above referenced cycles. As you begin to go

back over Mr. Gann’s books and courses and read them with a

new awareness that I hope to be able to give you before this

story is over, you will appreciate that many passages that were

difficult or worded "funny" had special meanings. O.K., back to

the test.

The 90-year cycle is the "first order recurrence cycle of Saturn-

Uranus. The actual cycle of conjunction to conjunction of Saturn-

Uranus is 45 years. That is why Mr. Gann mentioned that 90

years wad Important because it was twice the 45 years. It

actually takes an average of 90.72 years to recur. But all these

years are rounded off by these old astrologers because they were

close and because it was easy to take divisional parts of them

and use them in simple math. The 82 to 84 year cycle is of

course the time it takes Uranus to complete its orbit. The

significance to Mr. Gann was that the planet spent 7 years in

one sign and 12 x 7 was 84. The 60-year cycle is the "first

order recurrence" cycle of Jupiter-Saturn, the one that the

ancients, who could not see Uranus or other farther out

planets, thought was the very important cycle. Yet Mr. Gann

Just skips over it with the word compare. Very quietly almost.

The 45-year cycle is the one multiplied by 2 that gives the

"first order recurrence" cycle of 90 years. Just the 45-year

cycle is the time from conjunction to conjunction (or "0" to "0")

of Saturn-Uranus. In other words, the 45-year cycle is the

Saturn-Uranus cycle. I have seen one of Mr. Gann's 3-D Charts on

Wheat dated from the Spring of 1852 as M0". There was a beginning

(and ending of course) of a 45-year Saturn-Uranus cycle on March

15, 1852. Coincidence? The 30 year cycle is of course as we have

all known all along the period of time that it takes for Saturn

to complete its orbit. The 20-year cycle is of course the

Jupiter-Saturn cycle. The one the ancients called the

chronocrators or "markers of time".

The reason that I have spent so much time on the above is that

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need for you to understand that I simply did not know what

those cycles were until the spring of 1983- I, who, had spent

thousands of dollars t ry ing to pursue Mr. Gann’s master

t ime factor , did not even know what the above time cycles

were; yet I knew that Mr. Gann used astrology and planetary

movements in his work. You see, i t had taken me 4 years of

my life and many thousands of dollars to find out something

that should not have taken 1 month. But, AGAIN, the reason

that I could not find it out WAS BECAUSE I HAD BLINDED

MYSELF TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEEING WHAT WAS OBVIOUS BECAUSE MY

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND

HABITS BUILT OVER A LIFETIME HAD DEVELOPED INTO AN ATTITUDE

WHICH CAUSED MY PERSPECTIVE TO BECOME A "MINDSET" THAT

WOULD NOT ALLOW THE REASONING PART OF MY MIND TO SEE

ANYTHING THAT IT CONSIDERED VALUELESS OR NOT WITHIN THE

BOUNDARIES OF BONAFIDE "APPROVED" EXPERIENCES. Th is i s

PRECISELY th e reason tha t we lo se mo ney in the market. We

have developed a "mindset" that precludes our seeing the

proper course to take to make profits.

Well, I was really excited, I had seen these cycles of Mr.

Gann’s. This was a big step for me. I knew that if the ancients

called Jupiter-Saturn the "markers of time" or chronocrators

that Mr. Gann certainly should have looked at the Jupiter-Saturn

cycle as an indicator of time cycles that would repeat. Then

in following my approach of tracking his comments back in time

from the last period of his life to the first period of his

business life, I found what I had always read in his material,

the mention of Jupiter and Saturn and their aspects to each

other. See my Appendix II in the back of my booklet. Read that

Appendix now please. SEE IT? It’s been there all the time I've,

read in the one of the last letters he wrote, dated January 18,

1954, that it is the "power of Saturn and Jupiter aspects,

working out time that causes the major changes of trend in

soybeans. I’ve read this letter over and over during the last 3

years but I would not or could not see what I was reading.

Look back to the earliest documents that I have managed to

acquire. They are in the same Appendix II. They are 4 pages of his

"METHOD FOR FORECASTING THE STOCK MARKET" SEE IT?

It’s been there all the time. He says that "7" is the basis of time and

that "7" is ruled by Saturn. He also says that the most

important time cycle is the 20-year cycle. He also says that the

next major cycle is 30 years, which is caused by the planet

Saturn. SEE IT? He says the same thing from his earliest

writings to his last writings. Saturn and Jupiter.

I knew now that I had finally learned what Mr. Gann's time cycles

were. I had also found out that they were the same ones that all

astrologers had used from time immemorial. But that still didn ’t

tell me how Mr. Gann used them and it still did not tell me what

the master time factor was or how Mr. Gann used it. All I knew

was that I had the knowledge for sure that these were the time

cycles that Mr. Gann had talked about all of his life. They

really were not astrological but in fact astronomical. If I had

not been blinded by my "mindset" I would have known long ago

that any time cycle had to be based on natural phenomena. There

was no other answer because the movements of the planets (of

course I mean primarily the relationships of the Sun, earth and

moon) are

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the basis (foundation) for our whole timekeeping systems. Now,

what I needed to do was find or learn the way that Mr. Gann

used his time cycles and then try to identify the master

time cycle that he so often talked about.

One day in the late spring of 1983, at about the same time

that all of the things described in this present chapter 6 of my

story occurred, I was reading an old copy of Mr. Gann's lesson

entitled simply "FORECASTING". It was written in November,

1935, and someone had given me a copy of it at a Gann seminar

that I had attended in 1980. I was reading all my pieces of

material for the purpose that I related to you earlier, tracking

Mr. Gann back in time, to see if there were any disparities in

what he said from time to time. I saw that he called the 60

year time period the MASTER TIME PERIOD. I had read this

piece of material several times in the past, but I had never paid

much attention to it because it was forecasting stocks and I

have already told you how I felt about stocks. I was a commodity

trader and he had put more emphasis on the 90-year cycle as the

GREAT cycle in the commodity course. You understand of course,

that I had never paid any great amount of attention to it because

of my "mindset11 that we have been talking about so much.

Now that I knew that the ancients paid SO MUCH ATTENTION

to the 60-year cycle, it IMMEDIATELY caught my attention. Also,

when I read the lesson on forecasting that he wrote in August

1939 and which is the same, word for word, that is in the

stock course today; I noticed that it was different from the one

that I was reading that he had written in 1935.

But the thing that really caught my attention was where he was

describing on page F-9 of the lesson how he had set up his

"master forecasting chart". The thing that I had never noticed

to be curious before (because of my "mindset") was the fact that

he started his cycles across the chart from a year ending in "1".

Everything else he did he started with "0" as the beginning. Even

when I reached for my ephemeris to look at the appendix in the

back of the book, which had a listing of all of the major

conjunctions of the period from 1800 to 2000, I knew the answer

would be the following. In my ephemeris I read CONJUNCTIONS OF

JUPITER AND SATURN-October 21, 1861, April 18, 1881, November 28,

1901, September 10, 1921, August 8 and October 20, 1940 and

February 15, 1941 (triple conj.), February 19, 1961, January

1 and March 8 and July 24, 1981, and May 26, 2000.

My friends, a cold shudder came over me as I realized with

crystal clear and vivid awareness that I was READING THE elusive,

legendary, much sought, "MASTER TIME FACTOR". The painful

costly search that had taken four years of ray life and many

thousands of dollars was now at its conclusion. What made me

shudder was the fact that I had possessed this document since the

summer of 1980. I already had what I had paid "my friend" for

and which he didn’t give me. Furthermore, I gave him free the

thing which allowed me to discover the master time factor. That

thing was "My Creed". I had learned a lesson at great cost.

The lesson that I learned was, THAT which we all SEEK, is

exactly and precisely where the

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ancient world religions have always said it was. It is within

us, wa i t ing for us to f ind the means to SEE IT. I had

pa id a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money for a formula of

worthless gibberish, but had refused to seek the real treasure

(THE Builder’s STONE) in the only place that I could have ever

found it. THE REASON FOR THIS, OF COURSE, WAS THAT MY

ATTITUDES AND HABITS AND EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL AND

CULTURAL BACKGROUND BUILT ON AN ERRONEOUS FOUNDATION HAD

DEVELOPED INTO A "MINDSET" THAT WOULD ALLOW MY TRUE

REASONING FACULTIES TO BE PUT TO SLEEP, AND PAY FOR SOME

WORTHLESS FORMULA, BUT MY "MINDSET11 WOULD NOT ALLOW ME TO

SEE THE AREA WHERE I WOULD FIND THE TREASURE (TRUTH),

BECAUSE I HAD SEEN IT HAS HAVING NO VALUE. I TELL YOU AGAIN,

THIS IS ALSO THE REASON THAT WE DO NOT MAKE MORE PROGRESS

IN THE MARKET AND IN OUR LIFE.

Now, I know that I will never recover my SUBSTANTIAL amount of

money from "my friend", there seems to be a character flaw

involved there somewhere; but, I tell you that the value of the

knowledge that I have acquired will remain with me for the

rest of my life and if I use that knowledge, I WILL HAVE

FOUND SOMETHING MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEY. I rediscovered

"my creed".

If you will, please turn to the back of this booklet and read

all of the Appendices and get familiar with the charts. Read

and study Appendix IV in particular. It has the master time

factor in it. Read it several times; then, read it more. Compare

it with Appendix I word for word. Read appendix III several

times. I know III is hard to read but I wanted you to see it as

it was. Please do not go to the next chapter until you have

become very familiar with the material in the Appendices. STOP.

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CHAPTER 7

I DISCOVER THE LEGENDARY MASTER TIME

FACTOR!

In writing this little booklet, I thought, if I could just get

to the part about the master time factor, I could write about

it with ease because that had been the object of my search.

But, alas, I now find it to be the most difficult chapter of

all. Perhaps, its has something to do with the "fatal" evil

number. (Just kidding.) As I told you earlier I am a

seeker, not a writer, but, since we are here there is nothing

for me to do, but plug along. There are several reasons for

my difficulty in writing this chapter for you. One, I may have

set a goal higher than I could reach. My goal, simply has been

to write the most lucid explanation of Mr. Gann’s Master Time

Factor that has yet been put in print. I already know that I have

not done as well as I had hoped. I feel that part of the

cause for this relates to the nature of the material that I am

dealing with. There has been tremendous mystique built up about

and around Mr. Gann. Part of this Justly, because he was a

remarkable man; but part of it has been built up to allow the

commercialization of his works. I am participating in that

commercialization (gosh, that's a long word, do you realize

it has 17 letters in it?) right now at this moment. There is

nothing wrong with the word commercial. Profits is a beautiful

word. It is the GOOD(s) received for the GOOD(s) given. It’s just

that we get in trouble sometimes when we want to receive more

than we want to give. Also, we get the order reversed, we

must GIVE-then GET, not GET-then GIVE, (this is all cohered in

"The Seeker’s Creed"). My goal in writing this booklet has been

to give you your money^ worth. I hope that I accomplish this, if I

do nothing else.

Another difficult problem that I have in writing this chapter

is the nature of the diversity of the exposure to the Gann

materials that is represented by my readers. Some of you know

more about the Gann work than I do; some of you have had

very little exposure to his work. So I must try to encompass

both extremes. There are many things that I would like to say

to you, but I can only cover so much in this little booklet. I

want to merely show you where I found the "path" to be, and

say, here’s a good place to start. Every person is unique and

his (her) trading rules need to be unique. Once, you "see"

the path, many of you will achieve a much better understanding

of the Gann material and I am sure that you will learn many

things of market value in the months and years to come.

Another problem that I have concerns the fact that Mr. Gann

left no clear explanation (that was available to me) of what

his master time factor was; nor, did he explain it anywhere

(that I have ever been able to find), except as I have given

you in Appendices III and IV. And in those two beautiful

pieces, he didn’t just come out and say, "O.K., here it is and

here's how

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you use it as the master time factor". He HID IT, just like he said he was doing in the quote

from Emerson in his book, "TRUTH OF THE STOCK TAPE". He hid it because he knew

that if it was passed around with it all spelled out in his lesson then anyone could see what it was

and that would be the end of the mystique of the master time factor and his livelihood depended to

a large extent on the sale of his advisory letter and annual forecast until he sold it in 1947-48.

And he hid it because he said it was too valuable to be "spread broadcast". He hid it the way the

ancients did-out in the open. Then if someone that was not supposed to have it should

stumble across it or steal it, it would do them no good, because they could not understand it. And,

that, in my opinion is why we find no copy of it today other than the one that I give you in

Appendix IV. If you can see this clearly it will help you with the explanation as we go

through it.

Then I have two more problems (nothing but problems, huh?); and they are related to a certain

extent. The first one, we have talked about until you are tired of hearing it (but if I can't get

you to SEE IT, perhaps I can get you to HEAR IT); and that problem, many of my friends, is

that you will not believe what I tell you because, YOU, TOO, JUST LIKE ME, HAVE

DEVELOPED YOUR OWN "MINDSET" THAT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SEE

(RECOGNIZE) THE TRUTH EVEN WHEN IT IS THERE FOR YOU TO LOOK AT. You have

already set in your mind from what you have read about Mr. Gann’s master time factor, or what

you have heard about it, or what some Gann expert has told you it was, or what the myths of

commercialization has indicated that it was, or that "formula11 that someone has that no one can

decipher, or some idea of your own-that it will call all bottoms or tops, or the hour or the day of

this or that-, whatever you are "looking for" is what you expect to see (My creed explains

this to you). How do I know that many of you will approach the explanation of the master time

factor in this manner? Because I HAVE BEEN THERE ALREADY. My entire story thus far,

has been designed to get you to understand this MOST IMPORTANT TRUTH. From the very

beginning of my story, I have been trying to get you to SEE how this tremendous fault (and potential

for good if changed) has caused all of my problems. I have been trying to get you to the point

that you would SEE my mistakes clear enough that you would not make them yourself. I

knew that if I didn't help you prepare a base (foundation) by first exposing the old bad

foundation in my building, then you would not be able to see the bad foundation in your own

building. You must tear out the bad or weak foundation in your own building before you can

build a positive new foundation. (This may have been what the New Testament parable meant

about putting new wine in an old wine skin. Matt. 6: 22-23- Yes, I looked for the master time factor

there too. I found that the Bible is Indeed a book of natural laws. Read the above verses and you

will SEE EXACTLY what I have been trying to say. If you are a "seeker", and you are, otherwise,

you would not be reading this booklet, "A SEEKER" WILL LOOK AT ANYTHING, HE (SHE)

WILL LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED. HE (SHE) IS NOT AFRAID TO LOOK, BECAUSE

TO SEEK MEANS TO LOOK. EVEN THE WORD SPECULATE MEANS TO LOOK AND

OBSERVE. IF YOU WON'T LOOK, THEN

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DON’T SEEK, BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT SEEKING MEANS AND IF YOU ARE NOT

WILLING TO DO THAT WHICH YOU SET OUT TO DO THEN WHY START?

DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKES THAT I MADE. As I said the whole

precedence of th is s tory has been to br ing you, some of my

readers, to th is exact point . We have been building a

foundation for YOU, a " spec ia l pa i r o f g las ses" , i f you wi l l ,

so t ha t you can see a t this point in time with your fil ters and

blinders removed. The reason that I have had to take so much

time with this preparation (foundation) is that I had to assume

that some of you may have been in as "bad of shape" as I was.

The second of those two related problems that I started the above

paragraph with re lates to the fac t tha t I real ize that my

"s ty le of wr i t ing" , i f you want to ca l l i t tha t , makes i t

d i f f icu l t for you to follow my train of thought. I know that I

"jump around a lot" when I am trying to tell you something.

And I know that i t makes it harder for you to SEE when I am

jumping so. If you want to know the REAL REASON for this

jumping around, though, it is because I am simply writing this

"THING" as it "comes" to me what to say to you . I apprecia te

your fo rbearance wi th me to th i s point . I ask that you just

a l low yoursel f to watch f rom here forward; and with as

unjaundiced eye as you can possibly muster. Don ' t f ight i t , i f i t

i s not wha t you were looking for ; REAL TRUTHS are seldom

what we think they should be; THEY ARE BETTER; i t 's our vision

and understanding that is lacking.

Now, here comes the bad news. My jumping around is going to get

worse, because in my searching for a way to present the master

time factor to you, IT HAS "COME" TO ME, that I must try to

explain it by analyzing it for you in the same manner that I did

it for myself ; and I can te ll you that i t wil l real ly be "jumpy";

but remember this "THING" is just "COMING" and I don't really

have any control at this point . Final ly , here goes.

I assume, now that you and I can both see out of the same eyes,

that you have read Appendix IV, entitled simply "FORECASTING".

I told you that this was as good an explanation of the master

time factor as you are probably going to get from Mr.

Gann ’s own words. The rest of the explanation is going to have

to come from our ab i l i ty to th ink , see , and observe every

c lue tha t i t i s possible to observe. We cannot overlook the

smallest detail. You will see things that I don't see and vice-

versa. We must pay a t tent ion to what he says, what he doesn ’ t

say , and his "sty le" of writing about other things and at other

times. We are going to SEE now. I ASSUME that you are entirely

familiar with the lesson "FORECASTING", and my charts that I have

made in accordance with the way he would have made them. I also

ASSUME that you have read and studied the sales brochure entitled

"LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE OR WHY YOU HAVE LOST MONEY IN

STOCKS AND HOW TO MAKE IT BACK". This is in my Appendix III.

Now I am also going to assume that you are pretty well frustrated

and disappointed in the master time factor at this point and

that you are in fact pret ty well convinced that this is just

"another rip-off" and that it is not even that wonderful,

mysterious, legendary, much sought after "Master Time Factor".

Legends aren't made from such stuff as that JUNK. This

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is WORTHLESS. Just GARBAGE. Why I even WASTED MY TIME with

this STUPID booklet in the first place, I don't know. Now my

money is GONE. That guy, "THE SEEKER" wouldn’t even use his

own name. I don’t blame him. Taking people’s money like that.

"His friend" stuck him, now he's found a way to get his money

back. Now I know that some of you are thinking and saying

these things to yourself right now. I am about to lose your

attention as my reader because you see NO VALUE to the

master time factor in Appendix IV. Look at the words that you

have just used to describe your feelings; they are all

CAPITALIZED meaning that they are ALIVE with meaning for

you. They are also the same old "mindset" that I must get you

to see. Because you have used the above words to describe your

reaction to SOMETHING you cannot now see any value to it

all. Your emotions as expressed in words has now blinded you.

O.K., I need to do two things, FAST.

The first thing I need to do is to get you to look at

something else nearby since the object that has the master

time factor in It has disappointed you and you have blinded

yourself by your refusal to see it. Since you won’t look at

"FORECASTING11, I will ask you to look at the sales

brochure in Appendix III, Perhaps some of the "light" that

you refuse to see in Appendix IV may be "reflected" in Appendix

III in "LEARN NOT TO LOSE".

The second thing that I need to do is to get your

attention. I will try to do this by asking you to glance at my

monthly charts of the Dow-Jones Averages. You will find

them inserted behind Appendix VI. When you are looking at

the whole (big) picture, you can lay them out on your floor in

1,2,3 fashion with Sheet 1 (lowest prices) nearest you or

your feet, then Sheet 2 joins Sheet 1, then Sheet 3 joins

Sheet 2 and you have prices from 0 to $1440. The scale on

each sheet increases (you can do scales anyway you want

to when you know the master time factor, also you can do

angles any way you want to when you know the master time

factor) by an increment that I have chosen to show you a

possible way to chart (any way is O.K., just so long as YOU

know what you are looking at) prices. The prices are not

important in this example. I just want to get your attention

for a minute so that you will be willing to look at what I am

showing you about the master time factor. Now, looking at

the big picture for the years marked 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th

year zones. Just look at those year zones from the green color

on Sheet 1 (that’s 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945.) Then look

at the yellow color on Sheet 2 (not the yellow on Sheet D-

AGAIN, the yellow on Sheet 2 (that’s 1962, 1963, 1964, and

1965). Lastly, look at the red color on Sheet 3 (that’s 1982, we

are in 1983, and 1984 and 1985 are YET TO COME). Now, you

will notice that there is quite a (coincidental?) similarity

in the patterns of 1942, 1962, 1982, 1943, 1963, so far

1983,1944, 1964, 1984(7). Would you like a more in depth

view of what we are looking at? If so, please turn to your

Appendix VII and read about my weekly charts for the periods

of 1941, 1942, 1943; 1961, 1962, 1963; and 1981, 1982, 1983.

Take the weekly charts out; look at them, I have drawn 1,2,3

zones on them for to you stack the 1,2,3 years from 1940s at

bottom, then 1960s, lastly 1980s one over the other and line

up the year marks

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t h a t I h a v e m a d e f o r y o u . T h i s p i c t u r e t h a t y o u h a v e s e e n

i n monthly and weekly PATTERNS OF MARKET MOVEMENT

without regards to prices should SHOW YOU THE VALUE OF

STUDYING AND LEARNING THE MATERIAL THAT I HAVE GIVEN

YOU IN APPENDIX IV. YOU SHOULD NOW BE ABLE TO GO BACK

AND KNOW THAT EVERYONE OF MR. GANN'S TRADING RULES

WERE DESIGNED TO BE UTILIZED WITH THE TYPE THING THAT

I HAVE JUST SHOWN YOU. HOW WOULD YOU HAVE LIKED TO

HAD THIS INFORMATION IN THE EARLY SPRING OF 1982? HAVE

YOU EVER WONDERED HOW TO APPLY MR. GANN'S RULES FOR

PYRAMIDING. DO YOU SEE ANY POSSIBILITIES FOR THE REASON

THEY WERE DESIGNED AND WHEN THEY WERE DESIGNED TO

BE USED. I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING

ABOUT MR. GANN'S TRADING SYSTEM HERE, I AM JUST

SHOWING YOU WHERE TO START FOR YOURSELF. ASK

YOURSELF THE QUESTIONS, WHICH RULES OF MR. GANN»S

WOULD I UTILIZE TO TRADE A PATTERN LIKE THIS, OR BETTER

HOW WOULD I DESIGN MY OWN RULES TO TRADE PATTERNS LIKE

THIS. WHEN YOU ARE ABLE TO DEVISE YOUR OWN RULES JUST

FOR YOU, YOUR OWN SITUATION, THAT ALLOW YOU TO TRADE

WITHOUT HOPE OR FEAR, BUT ON KNOWLEDGE, THEN YOU

HAVE ARRIVED AS A TRADER. ONE FINAL CLUE IN SETTING UP

YOUR RULES. IN MR. Gann’s DAY (HIS PRIME) WE WERE IN THE

HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS. NOW WE ARE IN THE JET AGE. TIME

SEEMS TO MOVE FASTER AND MORE VOLATILE, BUT A SCORE IS

STILL A SCORE.

Now that I have your attention again, I will say that you

should always observe everything if you are going to be a

seeker. And pa r t i cu l a r ly , i f y ou a re go ing to t ry to s eek

so meth ing a s elusive as the master time factor. You should

always see THE BIG PICTURE and the small picture BECAUSE

you never know what you might find in unexpected places. YOU

SHOULD NEVER ALLOW YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF SOMETHING TO

DISTRACT YOU FROM SEEING THE REAL THING JUST BECAUSE YOUR

EXPECTATIONS WERE DIFFERENT. IF YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM, THE

WAY TO CHANGE IT IS TO CHANGE YOUR EXPECTATIONS, Don’t

TRY TO CHANGE THE TRUTH. The truth is-THAT I'M GOING TO PROVE

TO YOU FROM MR. GANN»S OWN WRITINGS THAT I AM GIVING YOU HIS

MASTER TIME FACTOR.

The first thing that we want to do is prove that the master

time factor is in fact contained in the lesson "forecasting 1 1 .

What we are going to do i s to ana lyze the ent i re brochure

in appendix III , " learn before you lose". I wil l just address

whatever comes to me and you will get the general idea and

can come back later and look at everything he says in the

booklet. Again, the copy is hard to read, but, I wanted you to

see that it was Mr. Gann’s own writing. That is why all material

in the appendix is copied from the original. In his brochure, I

will be referring to his page numbers in the brochure and

they are reproduced in my appendix-two brochure pages to the

single page in the brochure, except for the last brochure page

which would be page 19 in Mr. Gann ’s brochure. For example,

the page number 1 is "LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE11-, then page

2 of the brochure is on the same page with page 1, and so on

until you get to page 19 which is on a page by itself.

Remember, I will not cover everything of Importance, but just

what comes to me to say to you that will prove to you that it

is the master time factor in Appendix IV. Then we will go to

Appendix IV after that and analyze it.

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One other thing at this point- I have published this booklet in a

bound format for your convenience. The easiest way to follow this

material is to make photocopies of the appendices that we are

discussing and hold them next to each other and follow the

analysis as we go. You will be working primarily with

Appendix III and Appendix IV.

Page 1-"LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE"—Three main reasons- he always

says the same and today I would add a fourth-our Inability to see

because of our mindset. My experience has shown me that his

reason #1 is an important problem that we have today. In all this

discussion when I say we, I am talking about traders that try to

trade by the Gann method as taught in his books. The reason

that #1 gives us so much trouble is that we have not understood

the master time factor as the base on which all his rules

function . Once we understand it we will alleviate this desire

to overtrade to some extent. We must learn to slow down our

sense of timing as regards the activi ty of the market .

Page 1-further down-he says WA smart man cannot follow

another man blindly even though the other man is right,

because you cannot have confidence and act on advice when

you do not know what it (the advice) is based on. " Exactly,

we could not follow Mr. Gann ’s rules because his advice

(rules) was based on the mas te r t ime fac tor and we didn ' t

know what i t was . Next sentence, he says, "You will be able

to act with confidence and make profits when you can SEE and

KNOW for YOURSELF why STOCKS should go UP or down.11

O.K., lets look at this. See how he is using capitals in words he

wants to stress in a certain way. I have been doing the same

thing throughout this story using the same words at t ime. I

wasn ' t t rying to f i l l pages, to me the sooner something can

be said and done, the better i t is, but, I was trying to develop

a mindset in you that would allow you to see how. Mr. Gann

changed his language when he wanted to tell you the secrets but

yet hide them and keep them back. I even planned my brochure

the way he would have done (and in fact did) his. I tried to make

my brochure mysterious enough to get your interest, let you

know that there was something worthwhile here, but not scare

you off by saying too much, but yet TELLING THE TRUTH IN THE

BROCHURE. Go back later sometime and see what I mean, it will help

you understand Mr. Gann better. So, here what he is telling us

is that once we know the basis of his advice (rules-as given in

his books and courses), then we can SEE (the same as ray SEE

throughout this booklet). And of course the basis of his

advice is the master t ime factor that is presented in the best

manner that you will probably ever see it by him.

Page 2-Mentions what he spent ($300,000) developing a worthwhile,

practical method of Stock Forecasting. That worthwhile method of

forecasting that he is talking about here is the same material in

appendix IV, plus the use of his other rules as based on

"FORECASTING".

Page 2-1 will address this much publicized article by Mr.

Wyckoff

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Page 3-lst paragraph-In the interview, Mr. Wyckoff says, "He

bases his operations upon certain natural laws, which, though

existing since the world began". Certainly, we know that those

natural laws are the movements of the planets (astronomy)

as observed through empirical study of how markets

reacted at different time periods of a cycle of planetary

movements. This SEEN relationship over long periods of time

was his master time factor. The "master" meaning a guide or mold to

go by. There were variances from time to time but this was the

guide and the variances could also be explained to a certain

extent. Wheels within wheels.

Page 3-next para. - Part about new idea not welcomed by majority.

Still very true today and what we have been talking about this

whole booklet. It is hard for the majority (of us) to see what

we don't want to see.

Page 3-right column, 4th para. -part about "Early this year he

figured that the top of the advance would fall on a certain

day in August-" Mr. Gllley is talking about 1909 and you will

see when we study my chart based on Mr. Gann’s format why he

figured the top for then. Again, all these comments and

predictions are based largely on the master time factor and if

you study the rules about the calendar year "1" through

"10" or "0" as given on page F-6 in "FORECASTING" in

appendix IV, now, you will be able to follow every one of his

predictions as we talk about them in this brochure in

appendix III that we are presently going through.

Page 4-2nd para., left column- the part about during the month of

October, 1909-if you will look at your calendar years and rules,

you will see that the 9th year at that time was the "blow-off"

year in the cycle; the reason for this was because Jupiter-

Saturn, the cycle that the master time factor is based on reached

approximate position of opposition approaching; and symbolically

(ideally) and actually past study of his indicated that this was

why and how the stock market actually acted in past similar

cycles. Giving (as he said) not only the cause but the proof of

market action. The same thing happened in 1929 but it was a much

bigger "blow-off" because it was the end of the 60-year cycle

(or 3rd 20 year cycle). This also points out just what an astute

businessman Mr. Gann was. If he was going to make predictions

for a newspaper article (free publicity) he chose deliberately

to make them at a time right after (shortly after the 9th

of October) the blow-off top would have confirmed itself. Not

taking anything away from his remarkable feat, but emphasizing

how he probably used the master time factor here at this

point; I suspect that he waited for confirmation (probably

from the averages and US Steel) to show that the top had been

made and then had his selection of trade prospects which he

knew inside and out, ready; then he had someone, (perhaps

Mr. Gllley) call

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and offer to set up the demonstration for the article. Knowing

that the top was done, he probably traded the swings from the

short side, selling every rally at its rally resistance point and

then buying back at places on hard breaks for small rallies

to re-sell on. The markets at that time (1901-1920 on your

chart sheet 1, in yellow) performed remarkably well for 3 points

moves and divisional points of resistance. Partly due to the

nature of the market then. Also, I would like to point out to

you why I think that US Steel was watched so much by Mr.

Gann. Of course, it had good volume (liquidity) over the years

as time passed by; but Mr. Gann began following it early. If

you will notice US Steel’s birthday you will notice that it was

incorporated on February 25, 1901, and trading first began on

March 28, 1901. Also, you will notice that 1901 was the

beginning of his natural 20 years cycle on his master

forecasting chart. (Today this chart is #19 in a packet of charts

sold by Lambert-Gann Publishing Co.) I have indicated to you

earlier that there was also a conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn in

November 1901. When you are looking at a general monthly

chart over a period of 240 months (20 years), the few months

between March and November are not important; they were in

the same year and the "1" year on his charts are really the "0"

point of the chart; the M0W representing both the beginning

of the chart in time at January 1901 and the "0" representing

the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction itself in November 1901.

Astrologers (and astronomers, I guess) represented the

conjunction by "0" with quotations around it because it

indicated the beginning of a time relationship of whatever was

being looked at and it in fact also represented 0 degrees in that

cycle. The conjunction was always the starting point in the cycle

to measure from. Mr. Gann had said at other times that his

forecast could be made one year or more in the future WITH JUST

MINOR ADJUSTMENTS OVER TIME. If he knew what he was

looking for (he did-and you are beginning to) he could allow for

small adjustments in time on the repetition of these 20 years

cycles. That's where his other rules begin to be developed

and used. So, I speculate (to observe and believe as a result of

the observation) that Mr. Gann watched US Steel because it

was born at the natural time (year) of the conjunction and was

therefore (in his eyes) under the "influence" of the natural time

cycle (Jupiter-Saturn). In fact in his stock course later he says

that Steel (meaning US) made its all time high on September

3, 1929. And of course the averages did too. So, I think that

he used "Steel" as his natural barometer to trade off of the

natural cycle (Jupiter-Saturn) that seemed to "influence" the

stock market most. Naturally, he could not then trade the stock

indexes as we have today but he had to find an actual stock

vehicle to trade and US Steel was the natural choice. I

believe that Mr. Gann made those trades for the "Ticker Magazine

or Magazine of Wall Street" or whatever, in some fashion very

similar to what I have described for you. If this

speculation is approximately accurate, then that shows you just

how good Mr. Gann was in his prime. We cannot expect to be

able to forecast anywhere near that good, but as I will show

you when I bring the master time factor up to date through the

years that we can achieve a new perspective in regards to time,

when we utilize our new found understanding of Mr. Gann ’s

rules based on

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this time factor.

Page 4-2nd para., right column- part where he predicts market

toward lower prices until March or April, 1910, -Look at his

rules on calendar years again on Page F-7 in "FORECASTING",

Appendix IV. (By the way I am going to start calling

"FORECASTING" and Appendix IV the master time factor. O.K.? It

saves us time and me typing. I am getting tired of typing. I

am a seeker, not a "typer". Back to his rules on Page F-7 in

the master time factor. Under year No. 10 he says, "No. 10 is a

bear year. A rally often runs until March and April;-"--also,

while we are right at it look at what he says in the rule above

about calendar year No. 9-he says, "No. 9 the highest digit

and the 9th year, is the strongest of all for bull markets. Final

bull campaigns culminate in this year after extreme advances

and prices start to decline. Bear markets usually start in

September to November at the end of the 9th year and a

sharp decline takes place. See 1869, 1879, 1889, 1899, 1909,

1919, and 1929-the year of greatest advances, culminating in

the fall of the year, followed by a sharp decline." Now,

look back at page 4 in our brochure that we are analyzing. We saw

above that he had predicted top in October 1909, later we will

see that he predicts top for 1929 in late August or

September. He says that top comes in the 9th year between

September and November. How does he determine which month and

date that it will come. I speculate that he used some

astrological technique along with the confirmations of his

rules to pin point the top to a more specific time. I don ’t

know. I know very little about astrology. But you don ’t have

to know about astrology all you have to do is to be able to

look at a picture (the swings on the chart). See how each year

(he called them zones W1M through W20") looks: when you just look

at the 5th zone for instance. NOW YOU KNOW WHY HE CALLED THE 5TH

YEAR THE YEAR OF ASCENSION. In other places he said the 5th

year, 5th month, 5th day, or 5th period of anything, but he

really meant that figuratively speaking and again he was

saying the 5th year of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle and the 15th

year of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, because the first thing you

always do with a circle if you are an astrologer (I don ’t know

I'm not one, but he was and he said it), is to divide it by 2. This

gives you the maximum point of where action turns into

reaction. Something (in this case, the 20 year Jupiter-Saturn

cycle) will start at W0M, its beginning and will advance to its

maximum moving out (widest point of separation) until it can ’t

go any further (opposition or 180 degrees); then when it has

reached its furtherest point out (action) it begins to retreat

(separation at its widest begins to narrow back to the next

conjunction) back into its self. This is the law of all cycles

and it is sometimes expressed as the law of action and

reaction. This is symbolism of the circle and circle represents

nature (astronomy and astrology, cell division, time periods,

life, anything). See my creed on the section about rhythms

and seasons and time (Section IX). So getting back to his 20 year

circle divided by two, gives you the opposition or maximum

outgoing or separation from the base or the blow-off which

actually comes slightly before the 10th year, sometimes in the

ninth year the opposition generally takes place on a mean

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average of 9.93 years from the conjunction, but we have not begun

from the exact conjunction but almost one year earlier January

1st, 1901 instead of November 28, 1901, which almost throws

us off a full year. BUT, AS MR. GANN, SAID IT MAKES NO

DIFFERENCE WHERE WE START MEASURING FROM (talking about

time); JUST SO LONG AS WE "KNOW" THAT WE HAVE STARTED FROM

THE PROPER PLACE. You understand? We are starting our monthly

charts from month of January, 1901 as the first month of the

cycle, while in fact the CAUSE of the cycle doesn't start until

November, 1901. But he adjusted this (and we do the same thing)

by being consistent over time with what we are watching. We

couldn ’t be consistent before we learned HOW TO SEE (OR WATCH)

BECAUSE WE HAD BLINDED OURSELVES and therefore could not see

because we didn't know what we were watching in the first place

so how could we be consistent. Once you have been freed by

the knowledge of the master time factor you are a t l iber ty to

depend on yourse lf , because being free means you have the

liberty to experiment on your own for yourself and you wi l l no t

have to be a f ra id tha t your sca le , o r your angle , or your

t ime per iod wil l be off . That is an example of what is meant by

the TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE. I know that this is hard to

follow for some of you, but come back to it and reread if often,

the more you read i t , the clearer i t wil l become. You will see

new things and have new understanding each time. For now just

understand that when we construct the master time chart the

same way year after year and stack each 20 year cycle over and

over on the same price scales you will have a relationship that

causes the same type of movers at approximately the same yearly

t ime per iods wi th in the cycle that you are looking at ; in th is

case the 20 year cycle. And remember in here that we are dividing

the circle (20 year circle) the way Mr. Gann divided all his

circles; first by 2 to get 120 months (10 years) and the

opposition (actual); then by 4 to get the 5 year periods, the

5th year being the year of ascension because it was the 90

degree angle or at the approximate 90 degree aspect

(angles is the astrological word for aspects and the word angles was

used by old astrologers to indicate the division of the circle on

a square surface.) And of course we can carry this symbolism

(symbolism is truth in a subjective inner sort of way) on by

pointing out that the 5th year is a 90 degree angle or aspect

then the 10th year is also two 90 fs or 180 and Mr. Gann ’s

rules reflect this by 5th year ascension up and another 5th year

(10th year from beginning) down or bear year. Over time this

will become clear to you.

In order to get back to the original line of thought that I

started with at the beginning of the previous paragraph, I

want to say that on page 4 of the brochure where Mr. Gann

said in November 1909 that the trend of the stock market should,

barring the usual rallies, be toward lower prices until March

or April 1910. Then on page F-7 in the master time factor

lesson, you see under No. 9 that top is made September to

November in 1909, then you look to see what happens from

there, so you look at No 10., or 1910 and you see that it is a

bear year from 1909 top in October, but that rallies often-

run until March or April;- then you look back to page 4 in the

brochure and you now SEE how Mr. Gann made his forecast.

Pretend it is now 1910 or 1911. How would

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you make a forecast for 1929 and 1930. You might say with

the rules in lesson on the master time factor on page F-7 that

you would look for a top in September to November of 1929

and then you would look for a sharp decline with the market

trending lower with some rallies until March or April 1930,

then you would look for another severe break to run until

November or December 1930 at which time that cycle would

end (talking about a 10 year cycle now or the same thing as

one-half of the twenty year cycle, just so long as we are

consistent in our stacking of the cycles and just so long as

we know what we are looking at and why) and a new one would

begin. Hey, YOU HAVE FORECASTED THE STOCK MARKET 19 OR 20

YEARS INTO THE FUTURE. And if you have some more good proven

rules to give better indications of this forecast you are in a

strong position to makes lots of money, if you keep your

health and money and if you are alive 19 or 20 years in the

future. Oh, also, I forgot that you must have some plan to take

advantage of this wonderful information, maybe some trading

rules designed just for your forecast, because you could be

wrong you know, you may have miscalculated, and you must

protect yourself if you have. Also, don't forget that just

because something has worked in the past, it may not work in

the future. Hmmm. So many things to think about. YOU MUST HAVE IN

YOUR POSSESSION SOMETHING LIKE A MASTER TIME FACTOR TO

MAKE A FORECAST LIKE THAT 19 YEARS BEFORE IT HAPPENS.

Lets wait and see what happens.

Still page 4-same two para. -Now you will have to admit that

we have done a lot of analyzing on two paragraphs, and we may

have looked at 1909 and 1910 more than you ever wanted to,

but, you will have to admit that we have learned

something’s that are beginning to look interesting. But

there's lots more, in showing you the path, the place to start,

I'm helping myself because I'm learning new things al l the

t ime. My creed says that 's what i t means when you GIVE

FIRST-THEN YOU GET. As far as analysis goes, we haven't even

done a good job on this page 4 of the brochure. One last

reference to page 4 and we will leave i t .

Page 4-third para, from bottom of page-he says, "In 1912 Mr. Gann

forecast the election of Woodrow Wilson and has been correct in

forecast ing the election of every President s ince that t ime.

-"-Now this gives me an opportunity to show you something

you already know, but some people think that Mr. Gann never

made a mistake in his forecasts and that he never told a lie

about his records. I have told you several times how I feel

about Mr. Gann and his work. My search in his work allowed

me to rediscover my creed . The most valuable object that I

have ever found. BUT, IF WE WANT TO SEE CLEARLY, WE HAVE

TO LOOK AT WHAT WE SEE. Here is an example of how we

overlook whatever we want to when we don’t want to see it.

This brochure was written probably in late 1939 and published

in early 1940 (probably). Mr. Gann, like all businessmen and

economic forecasters and people in general advertised his

hits and successes and never let us forget them (that ’s why

he reminds us; so that we will buy his services (courses);

but he forgets and overlooks his mistakes and his failed

forecasts and predictions and just never mentions them

again. I can tell you that he made many public predict ions

that

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didn't pan out. I will also show you that most of them were predicated upon this same master

time factor that we are talking about. Later, I will cover one of them in particular detail so that we

can see why he was predicting something that turned out to be totally wrong. This is good for us to see

because we must never get to sure of our forecasts. Now to finish this page 4; Look on page F-11 in

the master time factor lesson and you will see one of the very rare Instances where you get to see Mr.

Gann make a forecast for the next year BEFORE It actually happens. If you look back at all his

material you will find particularly in later years that these forecasts are merely mentioned in his

books and discussed after the fact. In other words he says he forecasted so and so; and most of the

time he was right. I know because I have gone back and checked all of them to see if they were true.

There is another Instance that you will have an opportunity to see a forecast made before the fact

and it too was wrong. I will cover it later, but for those of you who can’t wait, it is in his book, W45

Years In Wall Street". When you find the predictions, they are glaringly wrong, figure out why he made

them, now, based on what we have already learned to this point. If you do figure it out now you are

well on your way to admitting that you have the master time factor. But, until, you can come up with an

acceptable reason for his being wrong on that particular prediction then you still have a ways to go. I

will offer you an explanation. You can accept it or reject it. It doesn't matter, because, by then you will

have seen enough that you are ready to start on your own forecasting methods for yourself. Again, to try

to get back to the subject at hand, Mr. Gann missed his forecast on the presidential election, as

you can plainly see, furthermore, you can see by that, that the paragraph on Page 4, about his

forecasting the election of every President since 1912 was not true; because he wrote this brochure, as I

said In late 1939. So, he apparently forgot missing that one. Besides that, his 1936 market forecast-

would not have been any good to try to trade either. But, it appears to me, that he just miscalculated

and didn't follow his own rules entirely, because his rule says that it would be a bull year generally. As

a final note on this; for a long time when I read this back in 1980 and 1981, I thought that he had taken

this lesson off the market, so to speak, because of the bad forecasts, and that he didn't want

anyone to see it since it was not correct. This may have had something to do with it, but, now I AM

CONVINCED THAT HE TOOK IT OFF BECAUSE IT MADE THE MASTER TIME FACTOR

TOO PLAIN IN OPEN WRITING. He also just sold this lesson as his MOST VALUABLE ONE. HE

CHARGED MORE FOR THIS ONE THAN OTHERS. HE ALSO SUBSTITUTED LESS

VALUABLE LESSONS FOR LESS MONEY. We will cover all this in detail later. For now, just

remember that Mr. Gann wasn't perfect in his life and his forecasting and trading the markets AND

WE DON'T HAVE TO BE EITHER. We just need to do better, on balance both in the markets

and in life. In the markets we need to make more profits than losses on balance. In life we need to

make more good moves than mistakes on balance. Both are learning arenas and we should continue to

progress and learn from our mistakes.

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Page 5-lst para. - part about "His Stock Forecasts for 1920

and 1921 indicated a bear market with sharp declines.-" Now

look at page F-7 in the master time factor rules on calendar

years. See again No. 10 year (or 1920); indicates a bear year with

sharp declines-March and April. Also, look at page F-6

(remember anytime I precede the page # with F, that’s the

page # in the lesson on the master time factor); see again No.

1 year (or 1921) is the first year in a new decade (a ten

year cycle-but it is also the first year and new beginning of

the 20 year cycle; basically it ’s like a triangle, the left

side of the triangle going from "0" (remember that’s

conjunction) to 180 degrees (remember that’s opposition or

top), this time period from W0n to 180 consumes 120 months or

ten years; then it starts down from opposition which is the new

"0" in the 10 year cycle but only half way in the 20 year

cycle but it is at the top of the triangle and coming down

to the original base for the ending of one cycle and the

beginning of a new one. Since it is like a triangle within the

circle (or square), you have one 10-year period going up and

another 2nd 10-year period going down. Since the left side of a

triangle looks like the right side of a triangle, just like

your left hand looks like your right hand, except that one is

on the left and the other is on the right you have similar

yearly patterns going up the 1st 10'years and then coming down

the 2nd ten years. You generally have the top made in the 8th and

9th year. Mr. Gann explains it simply by saying that 9 is the

highest digit. This is simply a way for him to say it is the 9th

year without telling you that it is the opposition of Jupiter-

Saturn that causes this phenomena in the markets to occur.

This is generally the blow-off year. And again the reason that it

comes in that particular year is because of the way and time

frame in which we have devised the chart that shows us the

picture of how the swings look over the two halves of the 20 year

cycle. Remember we did not start our chart at the exact date of

the conjunction in 1901 but at the 1st month of the year in 1901.

Several reasons for this, 1st we want to look at several 20 year

cycles stacked on the same time periods; the 12 months of a year

allow us the most consistent way to look at them, 2nd, if he

starts his charts from the actual conjunction, he has given away

his master time factor. (He gave it away to me by simply starting

from "1" year instead of "0", how do you think it would have

looked to start it from November 28, 1901.) So, you see that it

makes no difference where we start from, if we start from the

proper place (that we know) and be consistent. We can just

shift our reference point in our minds and say, O.K.-the 10th

year will be the blow-off year in this cycle because its at the

top of the cycle, or we could shift our reference point to

the left (backwards in time) and say that the 9th year will be

the blow-off year (or top), or we could shift our reference

point two years to the left (backwards in time) on our charts

and now the 8th year becomes the blow-off year (or top) of

the triangle, square, circle or cycle that we are looking at. It

makes no difference what we call them they are all the same. THE

MOST BEAUTIFUL AWE-INSPIRING WAY TO SEE TRUTH THAT THE

ANCIENTS AND ADEPTS USED TO DEMONSTRATE PRICELESS

INFORMATION AND CONCEPTS

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FROM THOSE WHO WERE NOT PREPARED TO APPRECIATE AND

UNDERSTAND THEM WAS HIDDEN IN THIS MANNER, BY THE

SYMBOLIC USE OF THE CIRCLE, THE SQUARE, AND THE TRIANGLE. THE

ANCIENTS HID THESE WONDERFUL THINGS FROM THE UNPREPARED (NOT

YET READY) BY PUTTING IT OUT WHERE EVERYMAN COULD SEE' IT IF

HE WOULD. But if he (Everyman) had not learned the proper

mindset; then he couldn't see this beauty because he didn't know

how to look. He just saw something of no value; yet the thing of

no value was the very priceless thing that he needed (THE

REJECTED BUILDER'S STONE). Now you can look at any cycle or

circle that you want to with the above symbolism and mindset that

I have described. You may not believe it now, but I have given

you enough information in this paragraph for you to acquire

dominion over any market. But, you must first acquire dominion

over yourself. Once you do that the market really becomes of

inconsequential Importance. What a s t range, cur ious ,

wonderful , beaut i fu l world. We seek in the markets for

treasure, but that search when concluded leads us not to gold but

to something which we first rejected as refuse; then this refuse

when properly assimilated into ourselves, gives us the ability

to take the gold from the markets almost at will, but then once

we can take it at will, it becomes Inconsequential to us. Don't

you find that a strange wonderful thing. I am not implying

that I can do any of the above. I'm not there- by a long shot.

But I am telling you that I see this path and I

rediscovered it as a direct result of my search for Mr. Gann ’s

Master Time Factor.

Page 5-2nd par a. -Mentions the Book, "TRUTH OF THE STOCK TAPE",

-I used to think that this was probably his worst book because

it was his earliest, now to me it is his best book. The book

didn't change, I did. The book is his best to me now because I

found the gold there in the form of one quotation from Emerson.

Page 5-next para. -"His Stock Forecasts for 1924 2nd 1925 outlined

the bull market which followed." Look at your colored charts

(Sheet 1). Look at 1924 and 1925 in red. Look at 1904 and 1905 in

yellow in the previous cycle right below. Also, look at your

master time factor rules on page F-6 and F-7 covering No. 4

and No. 5« Do you see why Mr. Gann called the 5th year the year

of Ascension. This gives you an opportunity to see how he

related market observations to biblical events in his descriptions

of the phenomena of an observed pattern in the markets. Also,

shows why he said on the 3rd day he arose. (This is also an

astrological hidden commentary- meaning the arrival of spring

from "0" the depth of winter December 21; you have three

periods. Or from anywhere because the third period (30 degrees

x 3 = 90 degrees) and of course the important square aspect

(angle) that also comes into consideration during the 5th year

and has significance in the cause of that phenomena of the

year of Ascension. This according to astrological

interpretation of astronomical events and to Mr. Gann.) I

don't know anything very much about astrology, but being a

seeker I can read a picture or map and therefore I don't have to

spend any more time with Astrology. — This brings me to

another side trip. I had several people that inquired about

ordering my booklet, respond by writing me that

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The above is my speculation about the possible meaning and

explanation of the cause of the master time factor. I have strong

reasons for this conjecture. Also, before I forget, one

reason Mr. Gann (and the ancients and astrologers) called the

60-year cycle the Master Time Period is because it contains

approximately 2 cycles of the orbit of Saturn and 5 cycles of

the orbit of Jupiter. There is a great amount of material in the

last sentence alone. I cannot cover it here, but sometimes

look at the relationship above and see how the square of 12

(144) is involved and what it means and how you think Mr. Gann

was using his square of 12 and 144 and more importantly why he

was using them. It would take volumes to cover an analysis of Mr.

Gann’s work. I ONLY WANT TO SHOW YOU THE PATH IN THIS BOOKLET,

SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE PLEASURE OF DISCOVERY FOR

YOURSELF. I see now that I can barely cover the master time factor in

this booklet. There are so many other things that I wanted to go

over with you. But, all in due time.

At this point let me say again to those of you who are

disturbed by the astrology or astronomy references herein. If

looking at astrology disturbs you just ignore it; it doesn't

matter. ASTROLOGY DISTURBS ME TOO, but it makes sense to

me that there can be some causes of our behavior tied to

variations In our magnetic life fields and as a result of this

thought process, I can at least look and see if there is some

repetitive behavior observable in the market that I can trade

off of. You don't have to understand electricity to use it. I

have to mention astrology here, because we are discussing Mr.

Gann and the cause, use, past history, and future usefulness of

his master time factor. Mr. Gann was an astrologer and

therefore we must discuss it. If you plan to use the master time

factor in your trading, then you at least need to know what the

time factor is based on according to the man that developed it

and spent a lifetime developing rules to utilize its repetitions.

I can ASSURE you that Mr. Gann ’s whole trading system when

properly understood and applied is the most POWERFUL system

of trading that I have ever seen. I have looked at every system that

I have ever heard of. And as you know from my story I couldn't

say that earlier, before I discovered his master time factor.

Besides, we do not have to believe in or study astrology to use

his material, but we do need to know the fact that it was

astrology that led him to search for the repetitive patterns

in the cycles and that as far back as history is recorded man

has had similar beliefs about the causes of human activity. Page 6-

3rd para. - "On March 1. 1933, by the use of his Master

Time Factor Mr. Gann forecast bottom----M - You can read the rest

of his para, for yourself. On page F-6 in the master time factor

rules, No. 3, year No.3, in this case year No. 1933- well

read the part about how the decline from the 2nd year (1932)

may run down and make bottom in February or March of the

No. 3 year (1933). Then look at ray Master Time Factor Charts Of

The Dow-Jones Averages, Sheet 1, in red for 1933 in the 13th

zone. This brings up another thing that you need to know about

what Mr. Gann

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means when he says something. To him the 3rd zone and the 13th

zone were interchangeable words. When he says year No. 3 in the

master time factor lesson on page F-6, he means year No. 3 in the

decade. This actually applies to the 3rd year from the beginning

measuring point of the 20-year cycle ("0" or conj.), but it also

means and applies to the 13th year or zone. This could be

confusing to us especially if we did not KNOW what caused the

20-year cycle to be important. Also, I want to point out that

there are other cycles of great importance. The 60-year was

most important to the ancients because of s izes of the

involved planets and Saturn was the most distant planet that

they knew. I am busy with some very interesting computer work

now on some original cycle work that I have fel t the need to

pursue as a result of some of the things that my speculat ions

about Mr. Gann's work has led me to. Back to the para, on page

6-The last sentence says "This is another proof of the great

value of Mr. Gann’s discovery of a Master Time Factor." That

sentence is also another proof here today 43 years later that I

have now given you the sincere student, Mr. Gann's Master Time

Factor. It SHOULD NOT BE ABUSED. USE IT FOR YOURSELF AND

USEFUL PURPOSES ONLY. IF YOU ABUSE ANY THING USEFUL, IT IS A

NATURAL LAW THAT IF YOU SOW THE WIND, YOU WILL REAP THE

WHIRLWIND. Just the possession of the master t ime factor will be

useful to you to see the unfolding trends, but you must master

yourself first, then all other useful things become more useful

with use.

Page 7-1 is not going to continue to point out every forecast and

where it came from in this booklet. There are two more on this

page and many more in all Mr. Gann ’s other books and courses. For

practice and more insight you should find everyone of them and

study them. Also, remember to look for and be prepared for

variations at times. You must also look for abnormal moves

such as in war times, etc. There is one thing on this page that I

want to point out to you though about Mr. Gann's language, so you

will remember every time in the future exactly what he is saying

-down at the bottom of the page- "The man who guesses and

gambles on hope is sure to lose while the man who follows

science makes profits." The word "science11 always mean the study

of the heavens either astronomy (cycles) or astrology (the art

of interpreting the heavens). Next sentence. -"There is cause

and effect for everything and by time element and the cycle

theory everything can be mathematically determined."- Here he

always means cause is the movement of some planetary body or

bodies or relationships; by the word "effect” he means the moves

of prices up or down through time as a result of the cause; and

by "time element and the cycle theory" he means his master

time theory that I have been explaining to you; "mathematically

determined"-you might first think he means the calculations

necessary to determine the positions of the planets and this is a

frequent expression used by astrologers, but Mr. Gann doesn't

mean that here. What he means is that if you have his master

time element (factor) and his cycle theory as mentioned in

the same sentence, the mathematically determined means simply

counting the years on your the digits of your two hands. Just

simple counting-1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. - Hey, that’s math and THAT

IS EXACTLY WHAT

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HE MEANS. He always did his advertisements that way. It appeared

more scientific to say mathematically determined than to say

rules for counting to 10. Mr. Gann ’s natural genius for selling

his products have been overshadowed by his forecasts but his

sales ability was by no means small.

Page 10-about 7 para, down- talking about his 1937 forecast.

"This year comes under a time cycle which definitely indicates a

bear year in most stocks and a panicky decline— fl see his No.

7 on page F-7, same old story now with the forecasts, but you

have another opportunity to see why "7" was attached to the end

of something; in this 20 year cycle (Jup-Sa) the 7th and l7th

year were "downers". Downers had bad connotations, so he picked

up on the biblical and astrological connotations of seven to

reflect and describe the empirical relationship that he saw in

the cycle. HE OFTEN DID THIS.

Page ll-6th par a. -"Advance in December- -Mr. Gann was asked

how it was possible to make such an accurate forecast one year

in advance. "He stated that it was his own discovery of a

mathematical master time factor and cycle theory which

enables him to tell when certain cycles recur and great panics

and booms take place. -" By now you KNOW what he means. Look

below in the next two paragraphs. Quote to yourself from your

knowledge of the master time factor rules on F-7 for 1938, the

8th (and 18th) year.

Page 11-bottom of page- AGAIN WE REPEAT: - He is telling us

over and over about his method of forecasting -and he is

telling us more here than we first see. Here is one of my

favorite quotations: "Prove all things and hold fast to that

which is good." Well, it is sound advice for sure, but did you

know that it has another meaning to and that is why he is saying

Again WE Repeat: above it. "Prove" is an old-time meaning for

SQUARE and "things" is an old-time mystical meaning for

circles. This quotation has dual meanings, the second hidden

under the 1st.

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The above quotation brings up a quick side trip. I did not

intend to get into angles, calculators, master squares, etc. in

this booklet. As I said, le ts just too much for one time. Besides

the master time factor is the most important and if you are a

sincere student you will be able to come to all of this now on

your own. But, lets look on page F-15 in the master time

factor lesson, since we are talking about squaring all circles

and holding fast to those which are good (proven, also

squared). At the bottom of the page, the "NEW YORK STOCK

EXCHANGE PERMANENT CHART"- For those of you have seen it so

many times, did you know that this "master" chart that is the

SQUARE OF 20, meant that it was the square of the Jupiter-

Saturn cycle. Did you see how Mr. Gann has squared or "proved"

the "master" circle (20 years). Did you know that this lesson

with the knowledge of what the master time factor is and

how it can be used gives you the key to understand Mr. Gann’s

calculators and other master charts. This is a quick side trip,

so we can't get into all this now. I just want to mention

two or three things. Almost all of Mr. Gann's calculators

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are designed to calculate the position of prices and natural

resistance levels based on their positions within the square of

their natural cycles (which everyone you are looking at-and

some of them are designed so that there are several different

cycles within the same square or calculator). Almost all of-Mr.

Gann’s squares and calculators are the squares and square-roots

(origin of) different planetary cycles (M0Mto "0"). You can figure

them out. But it is a waste- to put so much time on them- we do

it, because we humans love exotic and scientific things like

mysterious "mathematics" Instead of dull things like counting on

our fingers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Aren't the calculators so much

more fun, BUT HAVE THEY BEEN MORE PROFITABLE FOR YOU? While I am

thinking about counting, I mentioned to you earlier that we

seekers must ALWAYS be looking into all kinds of things (seek

means to look). We must look into the meaning of words and the

meanings behind words and languages. Take the word "SCORE", for

Instance, of course it means 20; but how many other meanings can

you think of for it-scores, I bet. It means to tally, keep count

of, make a round trip around the baseball diamond (circle,

square), it means to mark something until the next time, It even

has slang meaning for things of a more personal social nature.

Look at how we use some of the words and relate them to the

SCORE of years it takes to repeat one cycle across Mr. Gann’s

master time chart. I have made a copy of the square of scores

for you. The square of twenty from the birth of the New York

Stock Exchange on May 17, 1792 (according to the figure that Mr.

Gann used), has an Interest ing i tem in the center where al l

the central angles cross. You would expect some type of change

in trend their of major significance, since this is a square

that covers 400 years, now lets see, is that 1982? I wonder how

long this bull market should last? Do I have any way to

forecast i t? The last point I want to make here is: Again,

you have to watch Mr. Gann’s words, on page F-15, he says the

square of 20 can be used to measure days, weeks, months, or

years- but he really means YEARS, days, weeks and months are

contained in years, but he doesn't mean the square of 20 days, or 20

weeks, or 20 months. HE MEANS ONLY ONE THING - THE SQUARE OF 20

YEARS. He couldn't just come out and say the SQUARE OF 20 YEARS,

BECAUSE THEN YOU WOULD KNOW THAT HE MEANT THE SQUARE OF

THE JUPITER-SATURN CYCLE. So he tosses in the other time

periods of days, weeks, and months to confuse the issue. You must

always determine what he is talking about at the time in order to

know which time period to select. Another example, most of the

time when he talks about the square or 360, he is talking about the

SATURN ORBIT or 30 years (approximately) or 360 months. Then

he means a monthly chart even though he will say daily, weekly,

monthly, yearly, to make you think he is talking about all of

them simultaneously. There are several others , the 45, 90, 12,

e tc . etc .

As usual tha t s ide t r ip turned out to be longer than I had

intended. I have two comments that I want to bring to your

attention on pages 13 and 14 of the brochure. First, page 13- wOne

of the rules is for trading for fast moves after the market

gives a definite signal—"- Oh, the trouble I have had with the

Gann rules, before I discovered his master time factor. I got

signals

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all the time-and most of the time wrong signals. -The reason-

I was trying to trade to often. You see for yourself you

should plan your trades by the YEARS- not by the days or

hours. The monthly chart shows you the MAIN TREND. Have you

ever had any trouble determining what the main trend was? I

can't begin to estimate the hours that I have spent trying to

determine what the main trend was. CAN YOU BEGIN TO SEE SOME

BENEFICIAL things that the KNOWLEDGE of the master time factor

is going to do for you in your trading? You must take the

knowledge and then go back to everyone of his rules and see

what he was really trying to do with each rule and what its

purpose was. Did BOTTOMS AND TOPS ever give you trouble

understanding what and how he meant them to be used. DO YOU

SEE THEM IN A NEW LIGHT YET? On the bottom of page 14 Mr.

Gann makes another quotation from the Bible, and says, "Ye

Shall Know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free". He

ties useful information that he will give you if you order his

course or courses to a truth from the Bible. This gives you

some Insight to what the quotation really means. Can you

begin to sense a certain freedom that you have now in your

understanding of Mr. Gann's work now that you know what the

master time factor is and now that you understand the idea

behind it so that you can experiment, study, and research

market movements on your own? Or, haven’ t I convinced you

yet that I have given you and am giving you the master time

factor? If I haven11, the best proof is yet to come.

Page 15-3rd para. -"If the average man or woman would only

spend the first few hundred dollars they lose in the market

in acquiring knowledge and learning the rules for buying and

selling at the RIGHT time, they would then make profits-not

losses". Mr. Gann was telling you this to sell you his courses,

but he was telling the truth. If you have not been making

profits in the markets, but have Instead been making losses, you

need to STOP TRADING, stop completely, take the information

that I have given you on Mr. Gann's master time factor, learn it,

study it, go back and study his other rules, learn now with new

insight and understanding what they meant, realize that you do

not need to trade to often and only at the right TIME,

prepare a set of trading RULES just for you, made by you,

designed by you, based on this remarkable man's work. Then and

ONLY then go back into the market with prudence and common

sense, if you do not start making profits almost immediately, then

STOP TRADING, find out what's wrong, TEAR THE PROBLEM

OUT, and start over again.

Page 15-bottom of page-His description of what he calls his

Complete Course- "The Complete Course is in Four Lessons: --"-

Then he goes on to describe the contents of this course. I

learned a lot about how Mr. Gann used his words and his language

by reading the descriptions in sales pieces that he had written

about his courses and materials over the years. I have

mentioned to you before, that it is the little things that are

so important to observe when you are studying his work.

For instance, take this course that he calls his "Complete

Course", you would assume at first glance that this would

contain

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all of his material, but this "Complete Course" does not

contain the "FORECASTING" or master time factor lesson, the

one written in November 1935 (the real THING); instead, this

course contains the one he had just written 3 months earlier in

August, 1939, a substitute, and a poor one when compared to the

"real McCoy". You may ask how I know that; it is simple. I know

it by studying what and how Mr. Gann has advertised in the past;

by the previous relationship between how he advertised other

past material and the style that he used to do so, I found that

he would make something in an advertisement sound

scientific, mystical, Intriguing, or tied religiously to the Bible

or some worthwhile quotation; then he would mention some

phrase or sentence in the ad and tell you what the value would

be to you in certain terms, this phrase or sentence would be in

the piece that he advertised, this would then tie them together

and when you ordered the book or course you would see the

relationship. By studying the past (his materials), then I can

see him do the same thing in the future and now. In other

words what he did in the past, he will likely do the same way

in the future. He is a creature of habit Just like you and I

and the patterns of the market and the seasons. The purpose

of my bringing all this to your attention is that I want you to

see that it is the little everyday things that we do everyday

that is so important in the long run. By studying patterns we

learn about all kinds of things. Patterns in the market when

learned will give us truths that will allow us to profit; patterns

in our minds will give us truths to live by that will set us free

(the proper mindset); the patterns in Mr. Gann's past

advertising habits will give us ironclad conclusive hard

evidence out of his own mouth that I have been giving you his

master time factor. He protects it so well by hiding it out in

the open (just like the ancients) and never really

identifying it, but then his advertising habits allow us to SEE

it clearly. HERE COMES MY FINAL EVIDENCE. I WANT YOU TO KNOW WITH

CONFIDENCE THAT YOU KNOW HAVE MR. GANN»S MASTER TIME FACTOR.

In my Appendix I you will find a complete copy of the August 1939

lesson tha t Mr. Gann had wr i t ten 3 or 4 months before the

publication of this brochure. At the bottom of page 15 in the

brochure he describes the lessons that will be included in

the four-lesson course which he is calling his complete course

here (at other times in past advertising pieces he has called

the different courses by slightly different names). At any rate

when he describes Lesson III he calls it Time Elements and Time

Rules lesson. He doesn’t call it by the name "Forecasting By

Time Cycles11 that you see on the Title page under his letterhead in

my appendix I. But the key to knowing that this is the lesson

that he is talking about comes in the next sentence after

Time Elements and Time Rules. He says, "There is a definite

relation between price and time. -" Then under appendix I, lesson

entitled "Forecasting By Time Cycles", the fourth paragraph

down on the title page starts with the sentence "There is a

definite relation between TIME and PRICE." Mr. Gann always did

this- he would take one or more words or sentences directly out of

the thing he was going to sell and he would use it or refer

to it when he advertised it. Now I know that you think that

this is a trifling

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thing and that I am pulling at straws but you need to just bear

with me because the fact that he has this habit of doing this is

going to show you for yourself without any doubt that you NOW

HAVE THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. You see going back to the Course

Description that we are considering; it is necessary to identify

which course that Mr. Gann was talking about in his brochure

because he had so many and different ones at different times.

It's like I changed certain parts of my story in this booklet and

sent some of you different versions. To show you that the 1939

lesson on forecasting By Time Cycles11 is the one again that he

is describing, look back at that same paragraph "There is a

definite relation between Time and Price. -Then next sentence-

"In the previous Lessons you have learned about Formations

and Resistance Levels-M-Now look back to page 15 in the brochure

and you see the Lesson I and Lesson II matching the description

and order of this described course. This is all in the Stock

Market Course today. Now on page 16 he calls this same course

described on page 15 as his Course No. 2 Complete Course of

Instructions-consisting of Four Lessons -the ones we have Just

described except for the Volume Lesson which wasn't important

to my discussion. Now in this course No. 2, look at the price,

he says it is more complete than ones he has sold for $5000 in

the past, and he says that it is worth $5000, but now in 1939-40

times are hard; so hard (he doesn't say this-that’s my

observation) that he is going to reduce it to $1000. No

mention of the master time factor. If this course is better than

what he sold in past years for $5000, then I'm glad I didn't

get it, because I have it now, you do too, if you have the Stock

Market Course, and I could not trade off it well enough to make

any money without knowledge of the master time factor. On

page 16, look at Course No. 1, that's the starter set for young

people it is Lesson 1 and 2 only and it costs half the price of

Course No. 2 because it is half the course. In case you are

wondering what the initials mean in the description of Lesson 1

under Course No. 1, it means break-a-way points. Also notice the

difference in the description in this Lesson 1 in Course No.

1 and the description in Lesson 1 in Course No. 2-; but, they are

the same lesson in both cases, just advertised in different words

to appeal to different pocketbooks and tastes.

P a g e 1 6 - b o t t o m o f p a g e - N o . 3 M a s t e r F o r e c a s t i n g M e t h o d -

N O W W E COME TO THE "REAL McCOY", THE COURSE NO.

3, THE MASTER FORECASTING METHOD, THE ONE WITH THE

BEST DESCRIPTION OF THE MASTER TIME FACTOR THAT YOU

WILL EVER SEE IN MR. Gann’s OWN HANDWRITING. BUT MY

BACKGROUND INFORMATION THAT I HAVE BEEN GIVING YOU

IN WMY STORY-A SEARCH FOR W.D. Gann ’s MASTER TIME

FACTOR" IS THE THING THAT ALLOWS YOU TO KNOW WHAT IT

WAS AND HOW TO USE IT, BECAUSE MR. GANN STILL DID

NOT WRITE IT OUT AND SAY "HERE IS THE MASTER TIME

FACTOR", EVEN WHEN YOU PURCHASED THE COURSE.

BECAUSE, LIKE THE ANCIENTS AND ADEPTS, HE DIDN'T

KNOW IF THE PEOPLE HE SOLD IT TO WOULD ALLOW

OTHERS TO COPY IT, OR RENT IT, OR GIVE IT AWAY TO

FRIENDS, JUST TO BRAG THAT THEY HAD THE MASTER TIME

FACTOR. IF YOU WILL, IT WAS HIS METHOD OF "COPY-

PROTECTING" AS IS DONE TODAY WITH COMPUTER SOFTWARE.

I REALIZED THAT WHEN I SOLD THIS BROCHURE TODAY

THAT I WAS VIOLATING THIS

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PRINCIPLE, BUT I FELT THAT THE GOOD OF SHOWING THIS INFORMATION

TO A SELECT FEW SERIOUS STUDENTS THAT HAD WORKED HARD

TO UNDERSTAND MR. GAHN'S TRADING PHILOSOPHY VERSUS ITS

POSSIBLE (PROBABLE) ABUSES WOULD MAKE IT WORTHWHILE TO DO SO.

HIS COMPLETE METHOD WHEN PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD BY USING THE

MASTER TIME FACTOR AS THE FOUNDATION AND THE REST OF HIS

TECHNIQUES AND RULES AS THE BODY OF HIS TRADING SYSTEM IS TOO

VALUABLE TO BE ALLOWED TO GO TO WASTE BY LACK OF

UNDERSTANDING AND IT IS TOO VALUABLE TO HAVE PEOPLE

"TURNED OFF" BY ALL OF THE COUNTERFEIT ANALYSIS OF HIS WORK

THAT IS ALL TOO PREVALENT TODAY. BY MY SMALL, NOT WIDELY

DISSEMINATED PUBLICATION I HOPED TO ACCOMPLISH BOTH OF THE

ABOVE OBJECTIVES AT THE SAME TIME. FURTHER, I TRIED TO PUBLISH

THIS VERY VALUABLE INFORMATION AT A PRICE THAT EVERYMAN

(includes everywoman) COULD AFFORD, SO THAT NO PERSON WHO

DESERVED THIS INFORMATION WOULD BE LEFT OUT. THERE IS NO

REASON FOR YOU TO EVER PAY ANYONE ELSE AGAIN FOR MR. Gann’s

MASTER TIME FACTOR. I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU. YES, GIVEN. I DID NOT

CHARGE YOU FOR MR. GANN'S MASTER TIME FACTOR, THAT WAS HIS

DISCOVERY. I COULD NOT CHARGE YOU FOR ANOTHER MAN'S WORK. I

CHARGED YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THE MOST VALUABLE COMMODITY

THAT YOU HAVE. I CHARGED YOU FOR THE TIME THAT YOU WOULD

HAVE HAD TO SPEND OUT OF YOUR LIFE TO ACQUIRE THE INSIGHT

AND KNOWLEDGE I HAVE GIVEN YOU IN THIS BOOKLET ABOUT MR. Gann’s

MASTER TIME FACTOR. AND- I TRIED TO PAY YOU- PAY YOU FOR ALL

THE HOURS THAT YOU HAD SPENT ON HIS WORK, TRYING TO FERRET

OUT THE GRAINS OF GOLD FROM THE DROSS OF MATERIAL

AVAILABLE. FINALLY, I DID NOT BELIEVE THAT MR. GANN WOULD

HAVE WANTED HIS MATERIAL TO BE HARMFUL TO SINCERE STUDENTS,

SO I TRIED TO PAY YOU ON HIS BEHALF, SINCE HE COULD NO LONGER DO

IT FOR HIMSELF. TIME-WILL TELL WHETHER I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO

ACCOMPLISH THIS OR NOT. Page 16-bottom of page- under "No. 3 Master Forecasting

Method11-he says, "This Method contains all of the form Rules, Resistance

Level and Volume of Sales. -"---------------This is the same identical three lessons that is

in Course No.2 and the same identical lessons (except for Volume of Sales) that is in

Course NO. 1. BUT IT HAS A DIFFERENT LESSON ON TIME. IT IS NOT THE

SAME LESSON THAT IS COURSE NO. 1. COURSE NO. 1 HAS THE LESSON

ENTITLED "FORECASTING BY TIME CYCLES" AND WRITTEN AUGUST 3,

1939- IT IS IN MY APPENDIX I. COURSE NO. 3, THE ONE WITH THE MASTER

TIME FACTOR IN IT IS DIFFERENT IN REGARDS TO THE LESSON ON TIME IN

IT; IT HAS THE TIME LESSON ENTITLED SIMPLY, "FORECASTING" AND WAS

WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER 1935. IT IS THE ONE THAT WE HAVE ALREADY

BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND IT IS IN MY APPENDIX IV. READ AND

COMPARE HOW THEY ARE DIFFERENT. SEE WHAT HE LEFT OUT OF THE

LATER ONE AND TRY TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHAT HIS

REASONS WERE FOR CHANGING CERTAIN PARTS, SECTIONS, AND

WORDS.

Look at the same sentence in the brochure on page 16, in the paragraph that we are

discussing. He says, "and my secret discovery of the Master Time Factor and a new way

of Forecasting by Mathematical Rules that are simple and practical." HERE WE

HAVE THE CONCLUSIVE PROOF OF WHAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU. Go

to you lesson called simply "FORECASTING", the one I have been calling the master

time factor lesson, the one in my Appendix IV; look at page F-9, the first sentence under

the heading, 1929 FORECAST; it says, "According to my discovery of the 60 year

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cycle--"-----See the use of his language! Even now after, you

would have ordered his No. 3 Course, he does not come out

and say this is my master time factor; but by studying his

advertising habits in the past, we know that this thing

that he calls in the advertising brochure "my secret

discovery of the Master Time Factor" and the words that he

uses in the lesson itself on page F-9, "my discovery" tells

us that he is now talking about the master time factor. You

see he left out the word "secret" in the actual material,

because if someone pirated it, they might understand it;

but in the sales brochure he was advertising to get your

business, and therefore, he called it what it really was-"his

SECRET DISCOVERY OF THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. That, dear

readers, is your much sought after, much talked about master

time factor. You are one of only a few that now know what it

is. Don’t you think that it would be a good idea to keep it that

way? AT LEAST UNTIL YOU HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNTITY TO GO BACK

AND APPLY HIS OTHER RULES WITH NEW UNDERSTANDING TO YOUR OWN

TRADING SITUATION. IT WILL TAKE TIME AND WORK ON YOUR PART FOR

YOU TO LEARN JUST HOW VALUABLE THIS INFORMATION IS. YOU MAY

NOT IMMEDIATELY SEE ITS VALUE, BUT IT IS THERE, IT’S JUST THAT

YOU MAY NEED TO CHANGE YOUR SELF (MINDSET) SOMEWHAT. I HAVE

BEEN TRYING TO HELP YOU THERE TOO.

Page 16-bottom of page- same sentence that we have been

analyzing—, to continue, -"and a new way of Forecasting by

Mathematical Rules that are simple and practical."—That new

way of forecasting is reflected under the heading, RULES FOR

FUTURE CYCLES, on page F-3 in the master time factor

lesson, but the part that he called the "Mathematical" part

of the forecasting, that is based on pages F-6 and F-7 under

the heading Bull and Calendar Years on page F-6. He says that

part (the mathematical part) is simple and practical. And

counting 1 through 10 once, then twice is the simplest math

that you can come up with. He tells you in the second

paragraph under the heading Bull and Bear Calendar Years,

that "All you have to learn is to count the digits on your

fingers in order to ascertain what kind of a year the market is in".

NOW, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD CALL SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL MATH.

WOULDN'T YOU?

Page 17-Top of Page-under the heading "MATHEMATICAL RULES OR

REASONS:"-The f i rs t sentence reads, " I t i s poss ib le to get

as many as n ine confi rmat ions or reasons why a s tock should

be bot tom or top at a cer ta in t ime and the greater number of

confirmations the surer the chances of making profits."—This

sentence relates to information that he gave in Lesson 2 of the

4 Lessons included in the No. 3 Course ( the one with the

master t ime factor in i t ) . This Lesson 2 was ent i t led

"RESISTANCE LEVELS" and i s no t inc luded in my

append ices . I t i s in the present day W.D. GANN STOCK MARKET

COURSE AND IS PAGES 293 THROUGH 311- The nine

confirmations he is talking about begin on page 309, under the

heading "NINE PROOFS OF RESISTANCE" and continues to half-

way of page 309- (If you have an older course than my copy,

you may find that the page #s are not the same).

Page 17-2nd par a. -In the last sentence of this paragraph he

says,

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"This course gives mathematical proof of how I forecast the 1929

Bull Market and the Panic which followed to 1932. "--Again, from

Mr. Gann’s advertising habits, we find another proof that I have

given you the master time factor. Look on page F-9 of the master

time factor lesson under the heading-"1929 FORECAST"-read both

paragraphs; also, in the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph under

that heading, he says, "There is no other way, outside of using

the 20 and 60-year cycle that we could have forecast this great

bull campaign and its culmination so closely in 1929."—THERE YOU

HAVE AGAIN, IN MR. GANN'S OWN WORDS, PROOF, that I have given

you Mr. Gann’s master time factor in my booklet, "My Story-A

Search For W.D. Gann’s Master Time Factor". If I had had any

doubts that his master time factor could have been anything

else, I would never have charged you for your time. But I have

gone into so much detail, BECAUSE, I wanted you to SEE IT

clearly, because this is going to be the base (foundation) of

your future use of Mr. Gann’s trading system.

Again, I wil l summarize for those of you who want to compile

this No. 3 Course-MASTER FORECASTING METHOD- as advertised on

pages 16 and 17 of the brochure. The Course consisted of Lesson

1-“FORM READING and RULES FOR DETERMINING TREND OF

STOCKS”(today, you w i l l f i n d t h a t l e s so n i n t h e S t o c k C o u r s e o n

p ag es 3 1 t h r o u gh 55); Lesson 2-"RESISTANCE LEVELS"

(today, you will find that lesson in the Stock Course on pages 293

through 311); Lesson 3-"FORECASTING" (it contains the master

time factor and is not present ly in any of Mr . Gann ’ s publ ished

books or courses, but i t i s g i ve n t o yo u i n i t ' s en t i r e t y i n my

Ap pe nd ix I V , an d I hav e been referr ing to i t as the master

t ime factor lesson) ; Lesson 4- "VOLUME OF SALES" (today, you

will find this lesson in the Stock Course on pages 128 through 144).

THE ABOVE GIVES YOU THE ENTIRE COURSE NO. 3 AS ADVERTISED

BY MR. GANN IN 1939- HE CHARGED 2 AND ONE-HALF TIMES MORE FOR

THIS COURSE THAN HE CHARGED FOR WHAT HE CALLED HIS

COMPLETE COURSE (COURSE NO. 1). THIS WAS IN 1939 DOLLARS

AND IT IS THE MOST VALUABLE OF ALL HIS COURSES BECAUSE IT GIVES

YOU THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. HE DID NOT TELL YOU WHAT YOU

NEEDED TO KNOW TO USE THIS MASTER TIME FACTOR, NOR DID HE

TELL YOU WHAT IT WAS THAT HIS MASTER TIME FACTOR WAS BASED

ON; BUT I HAVE TOLD YOU THE ANSWERS TO BOTH OF THE THINGS HE

DIDN'T TELL YOU; AND, I HAVE ONLY CHARGED YOU FOR YOUR TIME,

BECAUSE WHAT I REALLY WANTED YOU TO SEE WASN'T THE MASTER TIME

FACTOR, BUT MY CREED.

Now you have been given the best proof that I am able to give

you, that, you do, in fact, have in your possession, the master

time factor. The best proof that you can give yourself is to go

back and begin reading and studying all the Gann rules with the

"new light" that you now have. If you will learn and acquire

knowledge before you trade you will be successful.

There are 3 more pages of this brochure that we have been

analyzing. I have given you my best evidence already, but

there is more useful information in the last 3 pages too, so

we will cover them too and we will have the added benefit of

acquiring a habit of finishing what we start.

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Page 17-the part under the heading, "WHY YOU CAN MAKE MORE

PROFITS TRADING IN COMMODITIES THAN STOCKS"— the first

paragraph, he says, "In trading according to my Mechanical Method &

Trend Indicator or according to my 1936 New Master Forecasting

Methods on Cotton, Grains, Rubber and other commodities there are

many advantages over trading in stocks"- . Then he lists the

advantages. This paragraph allows me the opportunity to address the

s i tuat ion that I had when I adver t ised my brochure. I lost most of

my orders because commodity traders did not want to know anything

about the stock market. They had the same mindset regarding the

stock market that I, myself, had and the one which I have been

describing to you in my story. They refused to see the value in

what I was offering (even though I used the master t ime factor

i tself) , because it was not what they wanted to hear or it was not

what they thought they wanted to hear; they wanted something that

would tell them all the tops and bottoms in the commodity market

that they wanted to trade. I had many people respond to my

advert isement by saying, "I only trade beans-I don ’t trade stocks,

your brochure didn't mention beans, it only ment ioned stocks; i f i t

doesn ’ t cover beans, then I am not interested in i t" . I used to feel

that same way myself . I was a bean t rader . I d idn ' t want to know

anything about s tocks. I rejected the stock market as being

valueless to me. That mistake in my mindset is what cost me so

dearly in time and money. You see, I didn't seem to care whether I

could make PROFITS, BUT, I JUST SEEMED TO CARE THAT I COULD

TRADE BEANS! My mindset confused trading a part icular market with

trading for profi ts. I couldn't tell these people that wanted the

master time factor to be about beans (o r go ld , whea t , ca t t l e ,

be l l i e s , e t c . ) tha t i t would be that way. THE TRUTH IS WHERE WE FIND

IT; NOT WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE. (Fortunately, for us the truth is

everywhere, but most easily found in that which we reject as having

no value; once we find it in the refuse , then we can go back and

f ind i t in the p laces where we. once searched so vainly.) There are

a couple of good reasons that I could not address the bean market

(and other commodities). One PRIMARY reason is that I did not

have the adequate data in the form of prices back to 1901 (or

further). Without the data, I could not tell you how the master time

factor would work with the different types of commodities. I knew

that beans did not always follow stock prices. I had the data In the

stock market in the form of the Dow-Jones Averages that I could carry

back to 1901, AND I HAD MR. GANN'S STOCK MARKET LESSON ON THE

MASTER TIME FACTOR. (Actually, I had it for a long time, I was just

unable to be aware of it because I INSISTED ON SEARCHING FOR IT IN

MY BEAN MARKET.) Now that I have the stock market master time

factor and the data accumulated, AND THE VEHICLE (stock indices

futures and options) TO TRADE IT, why do I need to insist that I have

to trade something else that I don't have the data on, but just

simply l ike to trade (out of habit) . Of course, i f you are making

prof i t s consistent ly in whatever you are t rading, then you

should hold fast to tha t which is a l ready working. If you are a

hedger, and you want to use the master time factor in your part icular

commodity, you will have to develop your own data back in time

or get someone to do it for you. I am

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in the process right now of acquiring data back in time to i860 on several different

commodities. Until that time I will not try to utilize the master time factor with other

trading vehicles, because I have seen that each has its own variations. I only need one vehicle

to specialize in and if I am a speculator, I already have it, as I said above.

Mr. Gann says in that paragraph on page 17 that his master forecasting methods work

on all commodities as well as his method works on stocks. But, I can't prove that at this

point, simply because I don’t have the necessary data. But I can (and will) get it. You can too.

We just have to do some work and searching. Do you understand what I'm saying? In the

meantime, while we are acquiring the data in these other commodities that we want to

trade, we can study and learn to use what we have already. My creed tells you that if you

want something, FIRST USE WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE AT HAND, and then

the other things that you need, will come. Besides, Mr. Gann did not have the stock

indices to trade as we now have. It is my opinion that he would have told you to trade the

stock indices if he had had them, because his master time factor apparently works

better with the Stock Averages than with anything else. Therefore, until we can acquire data,

and do better, every one of these comments about trading commodities that he mentions

on pages 17 and 18 apply equally well (perhaps MORE APTLY) to the stock indices and

options that we can trade today. WE HAVE A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY

HERE-THINK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES! I tell you-FOR THE GANN

TRADER, THE STOCK INDEX MARKET CAN BECOME "KING" FOR A

LONG TIME TO COME. Page 18-under heading, "FORECASTING METHOD ON

COTTON OR GRAIN11-right under that he says,” Contains Master Time Factor". —

Now, there are many more things that I have not been able to tell you about Mr. Gann's work.

My goal in this booklet was stated. I only wanted to show you the path where you can start. I

hope I have done that. I have tried to show you that you can start in the stock market

index or options. For those of you who Insist in only looking at beans and agricultural

markets (if you are a hedger, this is understandable), I am going to show you a path that

you can start on in your search for the master time factor in grains. On page 18, when he

says that his Forecasting Method on Cotton or Grain Contains the Master Time Factor,

we have another clue available to us. If you have the W.D. Gann Commodities

Course, you will find the nearest version to what he is talking about in the Chapter #6,

entitled, "the basis of my forecasting method for cotton11. In my course it starts on page 68 and

goes through page 89» But the part that contains the master time factor that he is referring to

starts on page 80 under the heading, "forecasting cotton by time cycles". Now, you will note

there, that the 60-year cycle is the same old master time factor that we have in the stock

market, but if you have learned ANYTHING from my story and the Importance of

OBSERVING, you may see some different possibilities for the importance of certain time

factors within the master periods. Also, you know what the time cycles represent; therefore,

I have given you the knowledge (sincere Gann student) where to begin in

agricultural commodities. Just because the 20 year period is the most

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important factor within the master t ime periods (and is

therefore , a lso the same th ing of which i t i s a par t ) of the

STOCK MARKET, it does not have to hold true to the same degree in

the grain markets, there can be other factors within the grain

markets that are more important than the 20 year period. If you

don't understand this now you need to study my story more and Mr.

Gann’s work then you will SEE. Naturally, you must first acquire

good clean data far enough back and you must organize it into the

proper format to be useful to you.

There are 19 pages in this small, overlooked, pretty-well unknown

advertising brochure that we have been analyzing. On the 19th

page, Mr. Gann gives some pretty good advice, and the title of

the brochure, "LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE OR WHY YOU HAVE LOST

MONEY IN STOCKS AND HOW TO MAKE IT BACK" tells you the

truth too. But, the most appropriate way that I can think to end

this chapter is by paraphrasing the last paragraph on Page 18, the

one under the heading, "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER".

Webster said: "The man who can teach me something is the man I

want to know." You may think my price is high, but stop to

consider that you have the use of these Methods during your

entire lifetime and that the knowledge I have given you about Mr.

Gann’s knowledge will be worth the money you paid me. You can

easily lose in the market on one trade the price you paid me

for my story, and the market leaves you with no valuable

knowledge after your losses. LEARN TO SEE AND KNOW FOR YOURSELF

WHAT COMMODITIES AND STOCKS WILL DO; THEN YOU WILL MAKE A

SUCCESS.

Well we are approaching dusk in my story. But before the sun goes

down, whi le there i s s t i l l l igh t , I wi l l t ry to show you a pa th

that you can take which will lead you to more insight about Mr.

Gann’s Master Time Factor. That is what "a seeker" is supposed to

do; just find the path. I can tell you again that the best, most

rewarding path leads to Appendix V. "THE SEEKER'S CREED". It’s the

one jus t beyond the mas te r t ime fac tor appendix . I to ld you

earl ier that they probably go together!

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CHAPTER 8

HERE IS A PATH. YOU COULD TRY THIS ONE

Well-, I have come quite a "way" from where I first stumbled into the

Gann jungle. I t was such a big wilderness with so many dangers.

I have tried most of the paths that I saw in there and I got

"banged-up" and bruised pretty-badly on some of those paths. Finally I

climbed a mountain by the name of "Master Time Factor" and it

allowed me to get high enough to see the surrounding t e r r i t o r y . I

t h e n s a w t h a t I d i d n ' t h a v e t o g o t h r o u g h th a t jungle to f ind

what I was looking for . I had i t a l ready. Right wi th me. So do

you. I d idn ' t want you to have to go in to the jungle l ike I did. So

I thought that I would wri te my story for you so that if you did

insist going into the Jungle, you would at l eas t be ab le to t rave l

eas ie r than I d id .

If I were looking for a proper course to take now that I "know"

what Mr. Gann's master time factor is, I would study the maps

(charts) in great detail . I would go back and check every one of his

forecasts so that I could see where he was right and where he was

wrong. I would log those detai ls and see if his r ight ones were

more right at certain times and if his wrong ones were more wrong at

cer tain t imes. I can tel l you that he was not a lways right . But he

was right more than anyone else that I studied. I would rea l ize , i f

I were looking for a proper course to take , that no forecast ing

tool is a lways correct and I would never expect more from any

market tool than it could deliver. What has happened in the past seems

to happen in the future to a certain extent, but hardly ever to the same

extent. We CAN NEVER BE TOO SURE THAT SOME EVENT IN THE

MARKET WILL OR WILL NOT OCCUR. WE MUST NOT ALLOW AN ABSOLUTE

MINDSET TO TAKE CONTROL OF OUR PRUDENCE. Mr. Gann sometimes made

this very common human mistake. If you have his book "45 Years In

Wall Street 1 1 , there is a sub-book inside of it by the name "NEW STOCK

TREND DETECTOR", if you turn to page 26 in that sub-book you will

find the heading, "WILL STOCKS GO BACK TO 1929 HIGHS?". Mr. Gann

gave the answer, "I am confident that the Dow-Jones 30 Industrial

Averages will NEVER sell at 386 again". Mr. Gann should have

known better than to make a statement like that. He made this

statement in the latter part of 1935, but he included the material in

a book that he published in the summer of 1949, so he still believed

it then. Remember, he would rarely, if ever, publish something that

he thought might not prove true in a book, because it was then "set

in stone" so to speak and he had a remarkable record of correct

forecasts and it does not look good for a forecaster to have bad

forecasts lying around in books where anyone can see them. So, I

be l ieve , tha t even in 1949 he s t i l l be l ieved his s ta tement tha t he

made on page 26.

I wi l l t e l l you why he bel ieved i t a f t er we look a t another

forecast he made in the same book "45 YEARS IN WALL STREET", but by

now when you see the forecast, you will know why he said what

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he did, because, now you have the master time factor. On page 130 of

tha t book, he says , under the heading, "Future Trend of Stocks",

-"The Master Time cycle which I have used to forecast every

important boom and depression or panic for more than 30 years, will

in my opinion accurately forecast the next panic. "-He is writing this

in the summer of 1949. He goes on to say, on page 131, "My cycle

theory indicates that the business boom following the war ended in

1948 and that the trend is now down." In the next paragraph he

says, "My study of time cycles Indicates that the business

depression wil l get worse in the last half of 1950 and in 1951 and

1952 we will run into real panicky and depressing conditions which

the government will be unable to cope with." Finally, on page 132,

under the heading, "Preview of 1951 to 1953", he says, "1951 and

1952 indicate very depressing years for business and a bear market in

stocks. Many stocks will go much lower than people ever dreamed

they could go.11

You see, of course, that he was looking for the top to come in

1948 , o r 1949 , jus t as in the pas t , and then the sharp bear

market from 50, 51> 52. Look again on page 129 of the same book.

He says, "The depression and panic will come before the New Deal

(Roosevelt Administration carried on by Truman) goes out of office

in 1953. NOTHING CAN PREVENT IT. PANIC AND DEPRESSION HAVE ALWAYS

FOLLOWED WAR.W See he is forecasting by his master time factor. But look

at my charts. This time he was wrong. Or was it tha t the master

t ime fac tor was wrong? I t ’ s the same th ing, because all of his

forecasts are based on the master time factor. But often it is a very

valuable tool for forecasting. Look at how it has been working for

the 1941-1944, 1961-1964, 198l-19current periods. Do you begin to see

how it can be useful to you? It’s not perfect. I want you to see that

here in my booklet. I don ’ t want you to find that out in the market.

You must have learned from my story that you must exercise

prudence.

O.K., then where is the path? First, you go back to studying his

method. You review with whatever materials that you have on hand or

that you want to acquire. In part icular, you look at every forecast,

right and wrong, and you look at my monthly charts and see what

happened and didn ’t happen. You now look at his rules again and

understand what he meant by double, triple, bottoms and tops, etc. We

haven ’t gotten into studying price cycles in this booklet, because I

couldn't cover all those things. But you can apply the same studies

to price that we have to time. Don't worry about the angles. They are

not the same as they were when Mr. Gann created his rules (by

empiricism). All they were and are is the division of circles of

different t ime periods and different price cycles and the

relationship of the two together. As I told you, old astrologers

utilized ANGLES as ASPECTS, which is the division of the circles. YOU

CAN USE ANGLES TODAY, BUT YOU MUST CREATE THEM THE SAME

WAY THAT MR. GANN DID, BY EMPIRICISM. But you are free to do that,

now, because you have the master time factor and they were created

to reflect movements at the time of the 1901-1920, 1921-1940, cycles.

You have the FREEDOM, now to experiment with all these things, now

that you "know" why he had them and what he was looking at.

Squaring price and time of

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course was the same as using the angles, that is what we are

talking about, the relationship that occurred when the angles

squared out. Now you will be able to go back and really study

these relationships and see what they were telling him. YOU MUST

OBSERVE. Pay attention to all the patterns within a cycle and

over all the cycles. For instance, you have seen where Mr. Gann

would be talking about a cycle and he would say that one time

period put a base or foundation on a cycle and that other time

periods would make up the walls and that another would make up

the ceiling or top of a cycle. Just l ike in a building, he would

say. LOOK AT MY CHARTS. LAY THEM OUT 1,2,3- FROM BOTTOM TO TOP

(SHEETS). LOOK AT THE CYCLE FROM 1901-1920 IN YELLOW ON SHEET 1.

THEN LOOK AT THE SHEETS 3 AND PART OF TWO. ALSO IN YELLOW FROM

1961-1980. NOW WALK AROUND THE SHEETS LAID OUT 1,2,3- AND LOOK

AT THEM FROM THE TOP TO BOTTOM DOWN. Do you notice the

similarities between the top one and the bottom one (in the

swings-ignore price, we aren't talking about price; we are talking

about bottom cycles and top cycles and walls in between them).

These are the types of things that you must observe.

Check each zone in the 5th year of the 20-year cycle. What

happened to the price swings, generally, in the 5th year? Would

you want to approach that 5th year market from the short side?

How would you write your rules to trade that 5th year? What could

you have worked out in the 4th year and said, "I will start

out on January 1st , and I wil l look for . . . . ; then if that

happens. . . or new.... takes place.... etc. I will put my stop;..."

You must do these things for yourself. YOU HAVE LOTS OF WORK TO

DO, BUT THERE ARE REWARDING PROFITS WAITING. You must look

at monthly chart as THE MAIN TREND, but you will have to use the

weekly charts to see what is Inside of the monthly charts; then

you can catch your entries, pyramids, and exits from the daily or

semi-daily charts-BUT ONLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ABOVE TWO MOST

IMPORTANT CHARTS. You unders tand WHAT THE MAIN TREND IS NOW,

don ’ t you?

It appears that there may have been a "shift" in the cycles

during the period of 1948-on. Mr. Gann, you will recall,

forecasted panics and depressions that did not come. Instead new

all-time highs took place. With the proper rules (which you can

devise for yourself) you can still utilize the master time factor

(and others that you can study and learn) to trade times like

these. But one question that occurs to me is whether, the time

cycles may have begun to perform differently after 1940. I think

that there is some basis for suspecting that they have changed

somewhat. I won't get in to that here but it may have

something to do with the "natural man age" that I talked

about earlier. I have lots of Interesting research that I want to

do now and I am sure that you will have lots that you want to

do.

The most important thing for you to do is to develop your own

trading rules based on what you WILL BEGIN to see as you go

back and study Mr. Gann’s trading method with the new insight

that you have about time. His rules are all useful. Some will

be more useful to you than others. But, YOU NEED TO CREATE YOUR

RULES FOR YOURSELF, YOUR OWN SITUATION. Make sure you

understand what it is

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that you want to do.

I do not want telephone calls, because they interfere with things

that I try to do each day and one phone call sometimes throws my

whole day off schedule. But if you want to write me a short

statement about yourself, your situation, capital that you are

using, time that you have for the market, and time that you

have for study, your objectives in the market, problems you

have had or are having, what rules you are using or trying to

use; I will try to respond with whatever comments that I can.

Of course, whatever you write will be confidential. I am

willing to act as your "sounding board11, if you will. However,

you must have written out your own rules and tell me how you

plan to use them and tell me enough about your situation that I

can see what you are trying to do. I am not soliciting this

from you. You understand? Just if it will help. And, again, I

am certainly not implying that I know the answers. I am just

offering to look at what I can.

Well, there is the path. Looks rocky already, huh? I never said

that it would be smooth. I just promised to show you a path that

started with "The Master Time Factor". And I have kept my

promise.

The master time factor is probably not what you thought it

would be. It wasn't what I used to think it would be. But

that's the way it is. There must have been some reason for you

searching for it. There was a reason for me searching for it.

I found the reason. It was so that I could find MY TREASURE at

the end of one of the dead-end paths that I took when I was

looking for the master time factor. My treasure is called "THE

SEEKER'S CREED". I will share my treasure with you if you

want me too.

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CHAPTER 9 WTHE

SEEKER'S CREED11

I have been telling you throughout my whole story that the most

valuable thing that I found in my search for Mr. Gann ’s Master

Time Factor was my old discarded set of beliefs that I had

dropped by the wayside in my search for exotic treasures of the

market place.

It is true. If I never make any money in the market or if I never

trade the market again, it is not important. WHAT IS IMPORTANT is

that I have found something that allows me to conduct my life

in the proper manner. I plan to trade the markets. I KNOW

that I will make profits using Mr. Gann's method based on the

master time factor. (I already have, but if I don ’t I will STOP

trading until I find out what is wrong.) BUT THE MARKET IS OF

INCONSEQUENTIAL IMPORTANCE; MY LIFE AND MY FAMILY AND MY

NEIGHBORS AND MY COUNTRY AND YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR

NEIGHBORS AND YOUR COUNTRY ARE THE IMPORTANT THINGS FOR US TO

PRESERVE AND PROTECT, FOR THERE IS WHERE THE REAL LONG LASTING

TREASURE LIES.

" T h e S e e k e r ' s C r e e d " i s a g u i d e t o t h e n a t u r a l l a w s o f t h e

universe. I t requi res thinking and act ing on what you see in the

guide. It allows you the distilled knowledge of all the past

throughout the history of the human race. It gives you the

WISDOM to protect and preserve those important things

mentioned above. It is broken down into ten parts, just like

my story, and just like Mr. Gann's counting of the decades

in his master time cycles. The first question in this booklet

asked, Where Can WISDOM be found? The last answer in this

booklet tells you where you can find WISDOM. WISDOM is found in

"The Seeker's Creed". As always WISDOM is found in the circle.

You can even find information about how to trade the market

in the Seeker's Creed. Look under Section IX. LAW OF TIME, CYCLES,

RHYTHMS, SEASONS. But be sure to read the other nine sections.

Don’t just read them, put them into practice. In your

business, in your health, in your family affairs, and yes in

the market, you will find that the practice and proper use of

this Seeker’s Creed will do wonders for you.

The concepts given in the Seeker's Creed were nuggets of gold

found in all my seeking throughout all the strange places I had

looked in during my lifetime. None of them are mine. I just

picked them up. That’s the way it is with REAL TREASURE. Its just

there for the having. It’s not stealing when you pick it up.

It’s yours. It was meant for you and me. As I said, none of

these ideas were mine I gleaned them from great souls over the

ages. But they don’t care if you and I use them. And I don ’t

care if you use them. Make copies of "THE SEEKER'S CREED" in

Appendix V. and give them to all whom you think can benefit from

knowing the natural laws and principles that govern the

universe.

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If the seeker's creed seems too long to you, just take out and

use what you need. It was written to cover any and all situations

that a seeker may encounter off in some wild forsaken no manes

land. It was also written to allow the seeker to look at every

side of the same "elephant", because the seeker has a bad

habit of building blinders and mindsets that keep him from

seeing clearly.I f you want to know what i s the most importan t p iece o f information that I can tell you after my long years of searching for the mysteries of the markets and life, I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT THE SEEKER'S CREED CONTAINS ALL THE GREATEST MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE COMPILED INTO ONE BOOKLET. THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THESE MYSTERIES PERFORM

WONDERFUL FEATS BUT THEY HAVE TO BE LIVED RATHER THAN JUST READ AND NO ONE KNOWS WHY THEY WORK!

In the next and final chapter, I will do just that.

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CHAPTER 10 FOR ME - THE

CLOSING OF A CIRCLE

Now I'm at the sunset of my story day. Like any regular day, my

time has passed all too quickly. That's the way it is with

time. It will not stand still for us. We must go with it. It

will not wait for us. There are many things that I wanted to

tell you in my story day, but now the sun is going down and it

(time) will not wait for me to tell you. The working time is

gone and just as in every day, the things that we wanted to do

may not all get done.

In looking back over my story the time seems to have been so far

away when I first began my search for W.D. Gann’s Master Time

Factor. Yet, it seems only yesterday. But-when I look in the

mirror of life and reality, I see that time has been here. My

hair is beginning to gray and I can feel that I had a wearisome

journey in my Gann trip. But that's the way it is with

seeking. It takes time and it causes you a few knocks and

bruises (and gray hairs).

And that's the way it is with time. With the master time

factor the scores of years just keep rolling along. But we

seekers, we just have three scores and ten (at the time) to do

our seeking in before the sun sets. IF THE MASTER TIME

FACTOR is inside of us (and my seeking has taught me that it

is); then we need to be sure that what we spend our time

seeking is worth the time that we have to pay for it with.

Because, the final currency that we must use to pay for

everything, is the time of our lives. The essence.

Fortunately for me, I was able to find a great treasure-a REAL

TREASURE- behind the secondary one, the one that I thought

was the final answer to the markets. Now, I had to pay a GREAT

PRICE for this REAL TREASURE, because of the way I went

about looking for it. I could have used much less of my final

currency if I had looked around my own yard before I went

off to the exotic, faraway places seeking mysterious treasures.

The circle has come full now. One thing that I learned was

that my creed really works. When I first advertised my

brochure in late June of this year (1983), I knew what the

master time factor was; I had not even the slightest doubt, but

I had no way to properly prove it in Mr. Gann's own words. Nor

was I convinced that I should write my story; but I felt a

compulsion to do so; almost like my compulsion to search for

the master time factor. So, I just went with the teaching of my

creed, and said that I would start what I felt to be the right

thing. I would use what I had at hand (the desire to tell other

seekers my story) and if it were meant for me to finish the story,

fine, if not I WOULD CLOSE THIS CIRCLE OF MY LIFE, ONE

WAY OR THE OTHER. But, I still lacked the firm evidence that I

needed to show without doubt that I had

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found Mr. Gann’s Master Time Factor. On August 7, 1983, after my

advertisement was already out and I was getting response, MY

SUPPLY came in. It came in the form of "Learn Before You Lose-"

which you have seen in my Appendix III, exactly as it came to

me. I had never seen nor dreamed that such a document existed

and I had searched all over for all of Mr. Gann's documents and

papers. You have witnessed the actual working of "The Seeker's

Creed" in action. I had started something that I felt great

desire to do (not knowing why, because I am a very private

seeker and did not nor do not want publicity of any kind, nor

did I want to reveal Mr. Gann's master time factor); then I

used what I had at hand, did the best I could and let nature (if

you want to call it that) take its course. Nature's course was

to do what it always does. It gave me the supply once I

created the need. And IT did it in the most curious strange

fashion (as always).

The document came to me through a friend only 14 miles away,

right in my yard, so to speak. This friend had lived right

there for years and years, and I had met him at the first seminar I

had attended in Florida. But we had never known one another

(this is a rural area). Even then, after meeting him in Florida we

never really got to know one another well, until the last few

months (as it became time for my story to be told). My friend

knew that I was writing my story, but he didn't know that I didn’t

have the thing that I needed to give undisputed evidence. One

night, August 6, 1983, he told me in a casual phone conversation

that a friend had sent him a copy of an old Gann sales brochure

and he wondered if I had seen it. Of course I had all of Mr.

6annfs old ad pieces that I had been able to find and I

assumed that I had that one too, - so did my friend. But he

started reading the name of one of them to me and I had never

heard of it. I went to his home the very next morning

and....now you have it in appendix III. Coincidence? Maybe?

But I got the supply that I so badly needed and this story

would not have been told without it. Stranger still is that my

friend in Dillon, S.C, 14 miles away had a friend in

Mississippi who had sent the brochure to him, and that friend

turned out to be the same person that was the first one to

order my booklet. Naturally, I felt obligated to send him a

complimentary copy because, without him the story would not

have been written either. What a strange curious circular

story.

I could not close this story without acknowledging that my friend

who lives 14 miles away has been the greatest possible help in my

story. I simply could not have completed this story without his

help. He supplied my badly needed CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. He did my

weekly charts for me in Appendix VII. He encouraged me to

finish my story whether I published it or not. I had looked all

over the country for someone to create some computer software for

me that would allow me to do research that I want to do after

this story is completed. As usual, I learned that the BEST GANN AND

MARKET COMPUTER EXPERT that I had found anywhere was right

here in my back yard, only 14 miles away. I also learned that

this friend that helped me so much was already practicing a

creed similar to mine, even though he didn't even know I had a

creed. I must thank him. Without his help there would not have

been the telling of

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this story. He has the most valuable piece of computer

software for researching the market that I have seen anywhere.

I predict that some day in the not too distant future his software

and his company will be a household name for commodity and

stock traders and researchers.

Also, I want to thank Interstelle Communications, Tucson,

Arizona for their idea for the cut of the man holding the lamp

(hermit) and for their excellent handling of my

advertisement in Commodities magazine. I told you I was

"lucky". I always seem to find the right people at the right

time.

I could not conclude this story without mentioning to you that I

also heard from "my friend"; you know, the one who took the

"SUBSTANTIAL" amount of money from me and gave me nothing in

return. He called me for some "reason"; the first time I had

heard from him since I had "given up" when the man at the bank

said he had never heard of him. "My friend" said that he

called me to let me know that he had been thinking about how he

had done me and that he was sorry about the whole thing and that

he didn’t know why he had done me that way. This call came on

Sunday morning, the 14th day of August, 1983- "My friend"

said that he was going to open a savings account and from time

to time put money in there until he had it all "back to me". My

creed has taught me that you judge a tree by the fruit it"

produces. I sure hope that savings account doesn't get in the wrong

bank and gets mislabeled "children's hospital11. But my creed

teaches me that I must forgive "my friend" because if I want

forgiveness for my errors, then I must first forgive In

order that I may be forgiven. Besides, harboring bad thoughts

hampers one's attention from the real task at hand; -seeking. If

you are going to be a seeker you cannot allow distractions to

color your vision. It must be clear so that you can observe

all the little things.

I have sent a complimentary copy of My Story-A Search For W.D.

Gann’s Master Time Factor to “my friend" because I knew that he

had searched long and hard for the master time factor (and would

probab ly NEVER f ind i t , i f d idn ' t g ive i t t o h im) ; and because

he, l ike you and I , and al l "Seekers" have been promised that "I f

you seek, you wi l l f ind . I f you knock, the door wi l l be opened" .

And I sent a copy to "my f r iend" because I to ld you I had f i r s t

GIVEN him the thing that I PAID HIM FOR, WHICH HE DID NOT

HAVE, BUT WHICH I ALREADY 'HAD AND GAVE TO HIM, AND HE SOLD

ME THAT WHICH HE DID NOT HAVE, BUT I GAVE HIM WHAT WE WERE

BOTH LOOKING FOR. I GAVE HIM THE CREED IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS

CIRCLE AND NOW AT THE ENDING OF THIS CIRCLE I GIVE HIM HIS

LONG SOUGHT AFTER MASTER TIME FACTOR. BUT I WANT HIM TO

KNOW THAT I HAVE LEARNED THAT THE FIRST WAS MORE VALUABLE

THAN THE LAST, AND THAT WITHOUT THE FIRST AS THE BEGINNING

(BASE) THE LAST IS NO GOOD. And I gave him a copy of this booklet

to demonstrate again to myself and you and him and any seeker

tha t may read th is l i t t le bookle t in the future that my creed says,

THAT IF YOU PAY THE PRICE THE THING IS YOURS, NATURAL LAW

AS REVEALED IN MY CREED SAYS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE PAID THE

PRICE AND KEPT YOUR BARGAIN (WITH LIFE), THAT YOU WILL NOT BE

DEPRIVED OF WHAT YOU PAID FOR; NATURE (if you want to

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call i t that) WILL COMPENSATE YOU IF NO ONE ELSE DOES.

JUST LIVE BY YOUR CREED OF NATURAL LAWS AND LET THE

REST TAKE CARE OF ITSELF.

And finally, I gave a copy to "my friend" so that I could close

this circle for me, for him, for you, and for Mr. Gann.

Because, we are back to the beginning of a true story of a

strange and curious search for a strange and curious secret of a

strange and curious man who died almost 30 years ago. --Oh! -I am

writing the preface again. Well-

GOOD

SEEKING, "THE

SEEKER"

September 28, 1983

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APPENDIX I "FORECASTING

BY TIME CYCLES"

WRITTEN: August 3, 1939 BY:

W.D. GANN

BACKGROUND:

THIS IS WORD FOR WORD THE FOURTH CHAPTER IN THE PRESENT W.D.

GANN STOCK MARKET COURSE (pages 90-106). THIS COMPLETE COURSE

CAN BE PURCHASED FROM LAMBERT-GANN PUBLISHING CO. INC., BOX

0, POMEROY, WASHINGTON 99347. IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE MR.

GANN'S METHODS, THIS COURSE IS WORTH YOUR MONEY. AGAIN, I

HAVE NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER WITH THE PUBLISHER.

I THANK LAMBERT-GANN PUBLISHING CO. FOR PERMISSION TO COPY

THIS 1939 LESSON BY MR. GANN. I HAVE INCLUDED IT SO THAT

YOU CAN COMPARE THIS LESSON WHICH MR. GANN APPARENTLY

PUBLISHED IN ALL HIS REGULAR STOCK COURSES, TO THE LESSON

HE PUBLISHED EARLIER (NOVEMBER 1935) WHICH CONTAINED THE

MASTER TIME FACTOR AND WHICH HE APPARENTLY QUIT PUBLISHING

EXCEPT IN THE COURSE ADVERTISED IN THE BROCHURE IN APPENDIX

III.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU COMPARE WORD FOR WORD WHAT

IS SAID AND NOT SAID IN THIS LESSON, DATED AUGUST 3, 1939,

RELATIVE TO WHAT IS SAID AND NOT SAID IN THE EARLIER

NOVEMBER, 1935 LESSON IN APPENDIX IV.

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

FRAGMENT OF 4 PAGES

"METHOD FOR FORECASTING THE STOCK

MARKET" WRITTEN: APPARENTLY IN WINTER OF 1921 BY:

W.D. GANN

BACKGROUND:

THIS IS A FRAGMENT OF THE OLDEST UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL

THAT I FOUND. I HAVE INCLUDED IT SO THAT YOU COULD SEE

AGAIN HIS REFERENCE TO THE SAME TIME CYCLES (JUPITER-

SATURN) FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE LATEST DATES ON HIS

UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND LESSONS. ALWAYS IN DIFFERENT

WORDS AT DIFFERENT TIMES IN HIS LIFE WE SEE THE SAME

REFERENCES TO JUPITER AND SATURN AS THE CAUSE OF THE MAIN

TIME CYCLES.

AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME HE DID NOT MENTION THE 60 YEAR CYCLE

BUT HE DID SAY AGAIN THAT THE 20 YEAR CYCLE WAS THE MOST

IMPORTANT CYCLE OF ALL AND THE 60 YEAR CYCLE IS OF COURSE

THE 3RD 20 YEAR CYCLE.

ALSO:

ONE PAGE OF A LETTER

ENTITLED: SOYBEANS-PRICE

RESISTANCE LEVELS

WRITTEN: January 18, 1954 BY:

W.D. GANN

BACKGROUND:

THIS IS ONE PAGE OF THIS LETTER WHICH EVERYONE SEEMS TO

PUBLISH -WHEN THEY WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT MR. GANN'S WORK. I

JUST INCLUDED THIS ONE PAGE SO THAT YOU COULD SEE FROM THIS

LETTER; ONE DATED NEAR THE END OF HIS LIFE, THIS SAME THEME

(JUPITER AND SATURN ASPECTS). HE PLAINLY STATES THAT THESE

RELATIONSHIPS IN TIME CAUSES THE SOYBEAN MARKET TO CHANGE

TREND.

IN THIS PARTICULAR LETTER HE DID NOT MENTION THE 20-YEAR

CYCLE NOR THE 30-YEAR CYCLE NOR THE 60-YEAR CYCLE, BUT HE

WAS SAYING THE SAME THING.

APPENDIX II

APPENDIX III

"LEARN BEFORE YOU LOSE

OR

WHY YOU HAVE LOST MONEY IN

STOCKS AND HOW TO MAKE IT

BACK."

WRITTEN: APPARENTLY IN LATE 1939 OR

EARLY 1940 BY: W.D. GANN

BACKGROUND:

THIS WAS AN ADVERTISING BROCHURE THAT MR. GANN

MAILED OUT TO

PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF HIS COURSES.

I HAVE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL ABOUT HOW MR. GANN

THOUGHT AND THE EXPRESSION OF HIS LANGUAGE IN THE

DIFFERENT ADVERTISING PIECES HE USED. HIS VARIOUS

DESCRIPTIONS OF HIS COURSES AND BOOKS IN DIFFERENT

ADVERTISING PIECES HELPED ME RE-DISCOVER HIS MASTER.

TIME FACTOR,

THIS BROCHURE IS VERY IMPORTANT EVIDENCE ABOUT THE

MASTER TIME FACTOR AND WE WILL ANALYZE THIS PIECE OF

MATERIAL IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. IT IS ANOTHER PROOF OF

THE MASTER TIME FACTOR AND IT IS IN MR. Gann’s OWN

WORDS.

THIS COPY IS HARD TO READ, BUT IT IS THE BEST COPY I

COULD GET FOR YOU. I FELT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO

COPY IT DIRECTLY, RATHER THAN RETYPING IT, SO THAT

YOU COULD SEE THAT IT IS AUTHENTIC.

I OBTAINED THIS COPY OF THIS BROCHURE FROM A FRIEND

ON AUGUST 7, 1983 AND IT IS THE FIRST TIME THAT I

HAVE EVER SEEN THIS BROCHURE. IT IS THE FINAL PIECE

OF EVIDENCE I NEEDED TO PRESENT CONCLUSIVE PROOF THAT

MY ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING THE MASTER TIME FACTOR WERE

INDEED ACCURATE.

MY ACQUIRING THIS BROCHURE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES

IN WHICH IT CAME TO ME IS ALSO FURTHER EVIDENCE TO ME

OF THE TRUTHS REVEALED IN "THE SEEKER'S CREED". SEE

SECTION IV. PARAGRAPH 21 OF “THE SEEKERS CREED11.

APPENDIX III

APPENDIX IV

"FORECASTIN

G"

WRITTEN: NOVEMBER 1935

BY: W.D. GANN

BACKGROUND:

THIS 21 PAGE DOCUMENT IS IN MY OPINION THE MOST

IMPORTANT MATERIAL OF ALL OF MR. Gann’s WORK. I DO NOT

BELIEVE THAT WE WILL FIND A BETTER EXPLANATION OF MR.

Gann’s MASTER TIME FACTOR. (AT LEAST NOT IN HIS OWN

WRITTEN WORDS.)

THIS DOCUMENT WAS THE CENTRAL LESSON THAT MR. GANN

INCLUDED IN HIS NO. 3 MASTER FORECASTING METHOD.

IN 1939 MR. GANN CHARGED $2500.00 FOR THIS COURSE NO. 3

AND HE PLAINLY STATES THAT THIS COURSE INCLUDES HIS "SECRET

DISCOVERY OF THE MASTER TIME FACTOR AND A NEW WAY OF

FORECASTING BY MATHEMATICAL RULES THAT ARE SIMPLE AND

PRACTICAL". (SEE MY APPENDIX III-BROCHURE "LEARN BEFORE

YOU LOSE-", PAGES 16 AND 17.)

IF YOU HAVE PURCHASED THE PRESENT W.D. GANN STOCK MARKET

COURSE-AND TAKE CHAPTER 2,"FORM READING AND RULES FOR

DETERMINING TREND OF STOCKS"(pages 31-56); ALSO CHAPTER

5,"VOLUME OF SALES"(pages 128-144); AND CHAPTER 10,

"RESISTANCE LEVELS"(pages 293-311) AND THEN ADD THIS

LESSON ON "FORECASTING THAT IS IN THIS APPENDIX-THEN YOU

HAVE PRECISELY WHAT MR. GANN CALLED HIS COURSE NO. 3

MASTER FORECASTING METHOD WHICH HE SOLD FOR $2500 IN

1939 DOLLARS!

THE MASTER 20-YEAR FORECASTING CHART THAT MR. GANN REFERS

TO IS IDENTIFIED AS CHART #19 IN A PACKET OF GANN CHARTS

SOLD BY LAMBERT-GANN PUBLISHING CO. THIS WAS A SWING

CHART THAT MR. GANN MADE, BUT IT WAS POORLY REPRODUCED.

THEREFORE, I MADE MY OWN COLOR CHARTS (MONTHLY), FROM

1901 THROUGH THE PRESENT (1983) SO THAT THIS IMPORTANT

MATERIAL ON THE MASTER TIME FACTOR WOULD BE CLEARER TO YOU.

MR. Gann’s WHOLE TRADING METHOD IS BASED ON THE

FOUNDATION OF THIS MATERIAL IN THIS 21 PAGE LESSON. YOU

MUST UNDERSTAND THIS MATERIAL BOTH IN ITS SYMBOLIC

TERMS AND IN ITS REAL TERMS. ALL OF HIS RULES ARE BASED ON

THIS TIME FACTOR. STUDY IT WELL. IT GIVES THE MEANING TO

THE REST OF HIS BOOKS AND COURSES AND RULES.

I HAVE COPIED IT DIRECTLY AS HE SENT IT OUT IN 1935- YOU

SEE IT IN HIS OWN WORDS ON HIS OWN LETTERHEAD EXACTLY AS

HE SENT IT OUT I N 1 9 3 5 .

ALSO, I HAVE INCLUDED AT THE END OF THIS PARTICULAR

APPENDIX, A COPY OF THE SQUARE OF 20 YEARS THAT HE

REFERRED TO AS THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE PERMANENT

CHART. IT IS IMPORTANT AND I HAVE DISCUSSED IT IN MY BOOKLET.

APPENDIX IV

APPENDIX V

"THE SEEKER'S CREED"

WRITTEN: JUNE 1971;

BY: "THE SEEKER"

BACKGROUND:

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY "THE SEEKER" IN 1971, 8 YEARS BEFORE THE

'AUTHOR EVER HEARD OF MR. GANN. IT WAS WRITTEN FOR THE

PERSONAL AND PRIVATE USE OF THE AUTHOR. IT WAS NOT

INTENDED TO BE MADE PUBLIC. IT IS COPIED HERE EXACTLY AS IT

WAS TAKEN FROM THE AUTHOR1 S PERSONAL NOTEBOOK.

THE ONLY PERSON THAT THIS WAS EVER GIVEN TO PRIOR TO THIS

TIME WAS THE MAN THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SELLING THE AUTHOR

MR. Gann’s MASTER TIME FACTOR. THE BOOKLET, "MY STORY-A

SEARCH FOR W.D. GANN'S MASTER TIME FACTOR" DESCRIBES WHAT

HAPPENED.

"THE Seeker’s CREED" WAS WRITTEN IN AN EFFORT TO ALLOW THE

AUTHOR TO COMPILE HIS BELIEFS AS LEARNED FROM A LIFETIME OF

READING AND SEARCHING FOR THE NATURAL LAWS AND

PRINCIPLES OF LIVING SUCCESSFULLY. NOTHING IN THIS CREED

WAS ORIGINAL WITH THE AUTHOR. IT WAS ALL STATED IN

DIFFERENT BOOKS THAT GREAT PEOPLE HAD WRITTEN OVER THE

YEARS. THE AUTHOR TAKES NO CLAIM THAT THESE IDEAS OR

BELIEFS ARE ORIGINALLY HIS. HE MERELY LEARNED THEM FROM

OTHERS, THEN COMPILED THEM AS THE BEST OF TRUTH THAT HE

HAD FOUND, THEN TRIED TO LIVE BY THEM, AND HIS EXPERIENCE

PROVED THEM TO B& VERY VALUABLE. HOWEVER, IN THE HUMDRUM

OF EVERY DAY LIVING AND IN THE SEARCH FOR OTHER MORE

EXCITING THINGS, THE USEFULNESS OF THIS CREED WAS

FORGOTTEN-LOST, IF YOU WILL. IT TOOK THE EXPERIENCES OF

THE SEARCH FOR THE MASTER TIME FACTOR TO CAUSE THE AUTHOR

TO RE-DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE VALUE AND TRUTH OF THIS

CREED.

THIS CREED IS NOT MEANT TO BE A RELIGION OR ANYTHING

RELIGIOUS. IT IS MEANT TO BE AND IS A GROUP OF NATURAL LAWS

THAT ARE TRUE AND WORK. IT IS SCIENTIFIC-IP YOU WILL. I DO NOT

UNDERSTAND WHY THIS CREED WORKS, BUT IT DOES. THE AUTHOR

WAS BROUGHT-UP IN A PROTESTANT CHURCH BUT HAS NOT BEEN

PARTICULARY RELIGIOUS. WHATEVER YOUR FAITH-JUST

SUBSTITUTE AS YOU LIKE IN THIS CREED. ALL IS THE SAME IN

NATURAL LAWS; THERE ARE NO ETHNIC DIFFERENCES, THESE ARE

MAN-MADE. IF YOU WILL ADOPT THIS CREED FOR YOUR OWN AND

LEARN IT BY HEART AND PRACTICE IT, YOU WILL BE AMAZED TO

FIND THAT YOU WILL VASTLY IMPROVE ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE.

TRY IT!

THE DIRECT USE AND APPLICATION OF THIS CREED IS WHAT ALLOWED

THE AUTHOR TO FIND THE MASTER TIME FACTOR. THE KNOWLEDGE

AND PRACTICE OF THIS CREED IS FAR MORE VALUABLE THAN THE

MASTER TIME FACTOR OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT THIS AUTHOR HAS

EVER FOUND.

APPENDIX V

"THE SEEKER'S CREED"

.CREATION

II................................................GOD1 S LAWS

III...............................................THE LAW OF ACTION

IV..............................................LAW OF HARVEST

V.................................................LAW OF INCREASE AND EXPANSION

VI...............................................LAW OF PURPOSE

VII.............................................LAW OF ATTRACTION

VIII.......................................... .LAW OF SPECIALIZATION

IX..............................................LAW OF TIME, CYCLES, RHYTHMS,

SEASONS

SUMMATION

"THE SEEKER'S CREED"

I. CREATION

1. I believe that God is the one Supreme Being, the Creator and

Ruler of the Universe! I believe that God is the primary

Cause. I believe that God always was and always will Be.

2. I believe that God is Mind.

I believe that God is Love.

I believe that God is Energy, or that Energy is the

instrument of God.

I believe that God (the energy of) is in all nature: the air,

the sea, the land, the cosmos. I believe that God is in

everything.

I believe that God is in me.

I believe that God is Truth and that Truth reveals God. I

believe that God is all Powerful, all Knowing, and all

Pervading in the Universe.

I believe that God has dominion over the Universe. I believe

that God is Infinite Supply. I believe that God is unlimited

Resources and Energies. I believe that God is Positive,

Love, Faith, Hope, Trust, Praise, Blessing, Joy, Happiness,

Peace, Health, Riches, and Infinite Power. I believe the God is

Perfect.

3. I believe that God created the Universe in the beginning and

that it (this creation) is a continual process.

4. I believe that God created the world out of His Mind through

imaging by a positive force of will caused by desire to

create. I believe that I and everything in the universe

is

part of God’s expression.

5- I believe that God created the universe by His Word (mental

image) first.

6. I believe that God created the universe and all in it by

imaging it; then by taking action to bring the image into

reality. The action took was using part of himself (His

Flux

or Energy). This creation was effected by His Desire

to

create something out of Him.

7. I believe that God set up the functioning systems or laws of

the universe at the same time that He created the

universe

and that He used the laws that He set up in order to create

the universe.

6. I believe that God created the universe through:

(1) Imaging.

1. 2.

3.

4. 5.

6. 7.

8. 9.

(2)Desire To Make Image Real.

(3) Action (Using Energy or Flux in proper manner to

create

image).

(4) Giving Of Himself (Putting part of His Energy into

the

creation).

(5) Using principles or laws in the creation, which

would

also govern the creation.

II. GOD»S LAWS

I believe that God created the universe in accordance

with certain principles or laws.

I believe that all of nature including man prospers and

functions best under these laws.

I believe that these laws are expressed in the bible,

in other religious writings, and throughout life and

the universe.

I believe that they are shown throughout the universe and

throughout history.

I believe that these laws are designed to show the glory

of God and to reveal God.

I believe that health, morals, mental, spiritual,

phys

ical,

econ

omi

cal,

and

in

fact,

all

phas

es

and

aspects of life are governed by these same laws.

I believe that specific things in life are symbolic

of these laws and that all natural phenomena reflect

these same natural laws.

1. 2. 3. I believe that for each action there is an equal

reaction

4. I believe that you ACT (do the thing) first and you shall have the power. You get the power by ACTING (doing the thing). I believe you must ACT first.

III. THE LAW OF ACTIONI believe that Action is one of the first natural laws. I

believe that there must be action (You must act).

I believe that there must be movement for anything to be

5« I believe you must act (pretend movement) the part you

want. I believe you must act the way you want to feel. I

believe you must act as if you are already what you want

to be. I believe you must act as if you already possess what

you want to have. I believe you must act as if you have

already created what you want to create.

6.I believe that acting in your imagination provides the

realization of what you Imagine. Thought is action

in

rehearsal. I believe that continuous Impulses of thought

have

a tendency to clothe themselves in their physical

equivalent.

7. I believe that energy follows the action of the mind.

(What

you think is what you get).

8.I believe you will be the way you act. How will you act when

you get what you want? Act that way now, thinks that way

now,

let that way of acting and thinking becomes a habit. I believe

you must relax when you act and concentrate your attention

on

the way you act and think.

9« I believe that when you act something enough, you BELIEVE

it; and BECOME it!

10. I believe that man is made by his belief.

11. I believe that as you believe, so you are. I believe that

as

a man thinking in his heart (his subconscious or image

making

apparatus), HE BECOMES (is).

12. I believe that your manner shows your attitude. I believe

your attitude shows what you expect- - -and WILL GET!

13« I believe that you should assume a virtue if you don ’t

have it. Look-the part. Dress the part. Speak the part.

Act the part. Soon you will have the virtue. This

wonderful law is how you acquire anything that you want

which you don't have. But, look out! It is a two-edged

sword. It cuts both ways.

14. I believe that you can only act one part at a time. I believe

that this is also evidenced by "You cannot serve two masters

at the same time". I believe this part of the law is also

further emphasized by the law of specialization.

15. I believe that if you act something in your own mind and

daily and frequently repeat it, before long you will BE it.

16. I believe that heat produces action and action produces

heat. I believe that heat causes uncomfortableness and

that uncomfortableness causes heat. Heat increases motion.

Action cause heat and therefore increases motion.

Uncomfortableness

is one of the catalysts of achievement.

Action,directed,causes production of achievement.

14. I believe that resistance should not be offered to

directed

Action. Live spelled backward is evil. Any resistance

offered to God ’s laws is taking away from directed action.

Life is action. Every act rewards itself. Therefore any

resistance offered to action (life) directed (laws) is what

constitutes evil (the reverse of l ive).

V. LAW OF HARVEST

1. I believe that a basic law of the universe is: DIVIDE .. and

GROW!

2.I believe that this is the only method of increase known

nature since the beginning of time.

3. I believe that God divided part of Himself (HIS ENERGY) when

He created the universe.

4.I believe that all nature has its own built in image — except

man, whose reproductive image is built in, but man's mind

(sub-conscious and conscious) can produce images of its own,

making man a small God.

6.I believe that growth is caused by. Desire from within.

Desire

to be what the image is.

7.I believe that desire is the planting of the seed. The seed

is the mental image. The seed is the WORD.

8. I believe that like reproduces like. I believe that

everything reproduces after its own kind (its image) (whose

seed is in itself). Everything reproduces in its own

image

(likeness). BETTER WATCH YOUR IMAGES!

9. I believe the seed (image) has the ability to draw unto

itself what it needs for growth to perfect its maturity

(reproduction of itself after its own kind (image)).

10. I believe the growth of this seed is fertilized by blessing,

praise, giving, and thankfulness.

11. I believe that heat (desire) causes the seed to burst out

of

its shell (mindset or mold of habits) and to move towards

the

accomplishment of growing into its own image.

12. I believe the heat is caused by burying the seed in the earth

(in the subconscious); by giving it (seed) away to the earth,

by sowing i t in the ear th, by le t t ing i t (seed) die to the

giver or sower. It must be given, or used, or die before it

can be reproduced in life. Then after the seed is sown, God’s

sunl ight ( ins ight and desire) causes the heat in the

earth

(subconscious mind), and the shell expands and bursts

forth

new life from this heat.

10. I believe that this is the same thing that happens in man es

mind. The seed (mental image) must be burled with desire

in

the subconscious. It must be buried in the

subconscious

before it can come alive. That is why I must be very careful

about the images (mindsets) that I allow myself to develop.

11. I believe that each seed then can only reproduce itself,

whatever it was or is. It cannot produce something it is not.

15- I believe the seed dies when it stops dividing and growing. I

believe that the law of cycles further emphasizes this. When

growing (outgoing) reaches a peak (maximum out-growth),

disintegration begins (contracting phase begins).

16. I believe that the seed and plant draws upon the surrounding

energy for what it needs for growth, at will when needed and

in the amount needed. God supplies this energy through

his creative principles and laws!

17. I believe that God is the Source of All Supply. He is the

Provider of All. (This is most important that I

understand

this at all times). "How blest are those who know this

(their

need of God as the Source of All Supply)—the kingdom of

heaven (expansion and growth) is theirs.

18. I believe that there is a mystic pattern behind the Law

of

Harvest and that it symbolizes all of God’s laws in their

relationship to man’s creations. I believe that it goes like

this: Preparing the soil before planting; then

planting the seed; the seed bursting out of its shell and

a

like plant starting as a baby but knowing what its going

to

be like and growing into maturity; being fertilized,

watered, and cared for while growing; the bearing of

fruit

like Itself in due time while specializing in doing that one

thing only; the maturing of the plant and fruit into full

maturity; the harvest when the crop is gathered and the first

and best seed saved for the next planting (at least 10%

or

tithe); then the reaping of the sowing and carrying the

crop

to the market place to get paid for that done (reaping);

then

the plant dies after the harvest when its work

(usefulness)

is completed, its seed has been safely stored and saved

for

next seasons sowing; the no longer productive plant is

cut

under or burned and the field is plowed under and allowed

to

rest for the winter. Then the seed will be sown in the earth

again to die and the cycle will start all over again (and

will be better each year if the best seed is saved and sown)

so long as heaven and earth shall last. THIS IS THE STORY

OF

SEED AND PLANTS AND THIS IS THE STORY OF MAN AND LIFE.

19. I believe that, in growth, the more a plant lacks channels

through which to expand, the more it is inclined to burst

forth and flow with power. Limit the channels for growth and

you direct the growth toward that direction with greater

power. A plant cannot stand st i l l ; i t must grow or start

to

Die. It must move; it must act.

20. I believe a purpose of life is to have dominion—to

overcome obstacles in order to grow.

21. I believe that in the law of growing- you first create

the need, then the means will come. Every form of life

holds within itself vitality (energy) enough to draw to

it every element it needs for growth and fulfillment.

First, the need, and then the means. When you set

objectives (goals) you create the need and then the need

itself draws the means to satisfy. This is why setting goals

and objectives are so important. You use what you have at

hand and thereby create a vacuum (or need); then nature

(God’s Supply) comes along and fills the vacuum (or need).

V. LAW OF INCREASE AND EXPANSION

1. I believe that everything reproduces after its own kind.

I believe that everything increases after its own kind.

2. I believe that to increase and expand you must increase

the rate of motion (movement). I believe to increase

anything you must use that portion of the same thing that

you have. You must use it; put it to work; release it;

plant it; do it with purpose and deliberate intent. This

is the law of increase and expansion.

3. I believe that to increase a stock of anything, that

thing must be used, put to work, put out at interest.

4. I believe that you work for increase in the form of

whatever

you already have.

5. I believe that you must plant the seed before you can

reap

the harvest. I believe that you must sow before you

reap. I

believe that you must give before you can get.

6. I believe that you must give (First), and you must give

freely (release whatever you give) with intent and with

no

strings attached. (Except a kernel of wheat fall into

the

ground and die, it cannot bear fruit).

7. I believe that you cannot lend it; you must give it (sow),

freely and fully, and with express intent and purpose of

giving freely and fully.

8. I believe that if a thing be dead to you- if it is gone

beyond hope of return (when you have planted it for

an

express purpose of giving and for growth), then you

can

expect and look for a harvest. (The harvest may not

be

exactly in the form that you expected but it will be

a

harvest).

9. I believe that he that finds his life (in order to do so),

Shall lose it (buried in subconscious or turned over to the

subconscious); he that loseth his life (turns it over to his

subconscious properly) for obeyance of the laws shall

find i t .

10. I believe that he that gives all he has (his best efforts) in

the service of his fellowman shall find that in doing so

he

has planted seeds which will bring him a harvest of

happiness

and plenty.

11. I believe that if you do the thing you will have the power.

12. I believe that everything has its price. (When God

created

the universe, He paid the price of putting part of

Himself

into His Creation).

13. I believe that you must pay the price- and then take what

you

have paid for- (and you really want to make it grow, use

it

again).

14. I believe that in nature nothing is given; all things are

sold (paid for).

15. I believe that for any benefit received a tax is levied.

16. I believe that you must pay the full price. It is not

possible to buy anything for more or less than its price. If

you don't pay the full price you don't get the thing; you get

something else.

17. I believe that the law of increase say that what you keep

(hoard) to yourself you lose; that which you give away comes

back to you with more of its own kind (what you sent

out);

that which you send out comes back. BETTER BE CAREFUL

WHAT

YOU SEND OUT TO OTHERS, THEN. The reason for this I

believe

is because time and space is curved.

18. I believe that the tithe is the way the ancients used to

show

man the law of Increase and expansion.

19. I believe that this is so because all motion is cyclic; it

circulates to the limits of its possibilities and

then

returns to its starting point. (You reap as you have sown).

20. I believe that any act, which injures another, is contrary

to

the law of expansion and separates the actor from the

kingdom

of heaven (expansion and growth); any act, which helps

another,

is in accord with the law of increase and expansion and

brings the actor closer to the kingdom of heaven

(expansion

and growth). I believe that you must give (First).

Give

freely of what you have. You’re talents, your knowledge,

your

experience, and your self, whatever you have that you can

give.

You must give it to work for others and by so doing you

will

increase it. This is the law of Increase. When you stop

giving you begin losing.

10. I believe that you cannot hold onto riches; that you must

give (use) them and get greater riches in return. Remember

when you keep something to yourself you stop your need of it

and when your need stops then you have done away with the

vacuum (need); then the nearest vacuum (need) will pull what

you have away. (To have something you must use it; give it

away; put it out to work.) "To him that hath will be more

given; to him that hath not, will even that which he hath be

taken away. (To have not - hold on to what you have just

for

yourself - and you won't have it long! Use it or lose it).

11. I believe that you must be continually giving - and getting.

The parable of the talents expresses the law of increase

and

expansion.

23- I believe that everything you give increases after its own

kind. I believe that you get that which you give. If you give

happiness, health, praise, respect, service, life to others,

you will get the same thing in return - and in the same

proportions.

24. I believe that you cannot increase two things at the same

time. (You cannot serve two masters). You can only give

one

thing at the time. (Law of Specialization).

25. I believe that unhappiness is a criticism of God. I

believe

that it Implies dissatisfaction with the way God did

things.

26. I believe that any unhappy man gets what he gives

-

unhappiness.

27. I believe that any unhappy man cannot be grateful, or at

peace because he cannot be aware of God ’s great truths - if

he is unhappy.

28. I believe that a man cannot love God when he hates

or

dislikes his neighbor (God is in his neighbor). I believe

that a man cannot get or find happiness and service unless

he

first gives happiness and service to others. If a man lives

only for himself he will be unhappy - because he will not be

giving any happiness to anyone and therefore cannot get

because he did not give.

29. I believe that when you love (first), you shall be loved.

30. I believe that you must first give happiness to

get

happiness.

31. I believe that it is God’s plan to make man win happiness

through service, through adding to the happiness of others.

32. I believe that your life and your environment is an image of

what you gave (give).

24.I believe that what you have is an image of what you have

given.

25.I believe that what you have today is an image of what

you

gave (or didn’t give) yesterday (in the past).

36. I believe that what you give (sow) today, you will get

(reap) tomorrow.

37- I believe that the only limit to what you receive (reap) is

the limit (extent) to what you give (sow).

38. I believe that what you do not give (sow) today, you will

not get (reap) tomorrow.

39- I believe that the only limit to opportunities (means) is the

limit of human happiness (needs).

40. I believe that God gives me all I will accept.

41. I believe that fear shuts up or restricts or limits channels

or entrances or doors through which I allow myself to receive

(God can supply from any source). Fear repels, holds on to

what it has (stops giving and therefore loses what it

has)

and is contrary to the law of increase and expansion. I

believe that Jealousy, hate, and envy are forms of fear.

42. I believe that to Increase or expand something you must love

it, praise It, bless it, glorify it, give thanks for it,

desire it, and image it in the attitude of these

emotions.

You must give (release) these feelings to your

subconscious

toward whatever you want to increase.

43- I believe that the law of increase says that use causes

Increase—disuse causes decrease.

44. I believe that a higher rate of motion (movement) (more

use)

causes Increase. Use what you have now at hand, freely

and

without fear (of not getting more) and more will be given

you

back. This is the law of Increase. It is God’s Law. It is

sure. Like the sum coming up in the morning.

45. I believe that what you give, you will get.

46. I believe that what you think will happen because thought is

the giving of mental images. You will get what you give. Your

thoughts are motion (action) in rehearsal. So you must

control and direct your thoughts just as you must control and

direct your actions. Your words represent your Images, so

they (your WORDS) must be controlled and directed too.

Control and direct them to accomplish whatever you wish.

47« I believe that you must appreciate (be fond of) the

things you want to increase. (Where your heart is, there

will be your treasure also).

48. I believe that the first step in using the law of increase

is

desire (to increase whatever you want; then use whatever you

have, right now, whosesoever you are and whatever you are

doing. (Establish the need, and then use what you have to

create

greater need so that law of supply will come in and work.

The

law of supply says that whosesoever there is a demand (need)

it will be supplied when the demand is great enough).

49. I believe that the law of increase works in direct ratio

of

your thoughts to the thing to be increased. (Think in larger

sizes or units and increase is in larger sizes or units -

think in smaller sizes and increase is in smaller sizes).

50. I believe that the natural law of supply and demand is

that

there will be supply according to the demand. (Increase

the

need (demand) - give what you have).

51. I believe that the law of increase is started by desire

(heat). Do you want something? Give that something which you

want to all you come in contact with; give all that you have

(in you) to others.

52. I believe that what you are today is the fulfillment of

yesterday's desires - that which you will be tomorrow will

be

the achievement of today’s visions and images and desires.

53. I believe that with discipline you will do tomorrow what you

did today. Without discipline you will do the same. The only

difference is like day and night, good and evil. Use

discipline on yourself to get what you want.

54. I believe that the only limit to the amount of creative

force, power, love, money, health, etc. That I get is the

amount of creative force, power, love, money, health,

etc.

that I give (use).

55• I believe that the more you increase what you give, the

more you increase what you get.

56. I believe that skill, power, resources, health, mind,

love,

and all things and emotions grow with use of them and

shrink

with disuse. (They grow because you give them and

thereby

create a need for more of the same).

57. I believe that it doesn’t matter how small something is; use

it (give it) and it will grow. The more used (given) the more

it grows (increases).

58. I believe that the law of increase and expansion says

that

you must have faith (believe) that your commodity is

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60.

61.

62,

63-

64.

65.

66.

67.

68.

69-

70.

71.

Increasing. If you believe something you must act on the

belief. (Faith without works is dead (is not faith).

I believe that the law of increase and expansion says

that the rate of motion causes increase.

I believe that the difference between all things in the

universe lies in their rate of motion (movement).

Everything in the universe is made of God ’s Flux

(energy); therefore, the difference between things

must lie in their rate of motion. (This is the basis of the

law of increase and law of attraction).

I believe that things with equal or near equal rate of

motion attract each other.

I believe that all positive and good things speed up rate of

motion. I believe that negative or evil things slow down

rate of motion.

I believe that something exhilarating to the spirit speeds

up rate of motion.

I believe that whatever your rate of motion, the elements

of like quality will be attracted to you. Think on high

things. (By their fruits you will know them).

I believe that the law of increase and expansion says that

things pulsate. You can't stand still. You must move. You

increase or decrease.

I believe you must grow or feed other who is growing.

I believe that the key to acquiring power lies in using

what power you have, because use releases more power.

(Develops a greater need).

I believe that the one condition coupled with truth and

life

is

its

use

-

you

mus

t

use

it

free

ly. You must act on it.

I believe that the law of expansion and increase calls for

prayer. ("Praise The Lord and be thankful, that then

shall the earth yield her increase; with thanksgiving let

your requests be known unto God; rejoice, be glad,

praise, give thanks, these are the ways to increase).

I believe that when you pray for something you must accept

it immediately and at once begin acting as if you already

have it and start doing the things you would do if you in

fact did have it.

72. I believe that to get results you must think

(concentrate)

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And act on what you want (love, riches, health) not what you

don't want (hate, poverty, illness).

73- I believe that the law of increase and expansion says that

mere increase is not enough, that you must have a purpose

for the increase, that it will be used for; and it (purpose)

must be a good purpose. (You must have need for the

increase).

74. I believe that you must bless and praise what you give, use,

or send out.

75. I believe that you must picture (visualize, image) what

you

want to increase and picture it increasing by your using,

giving, and sowing it. (Into whatsoever house you enter say

peace

be to this house. Give your peace to all you contact. Do

more

- act the part).

76. I believe that the only thing that can increase or expand

without limit is our mind (that part of God most like

Him,

given to man), our imaging faculties. "Seek ye first the

kingdom of imaging (imagery) and all things shall be

added

(increased) to you".

77- I believe that the quality of your thought is the measure

of your power.

78. I believe that clear, forceful, directed, pure thought will

yield energy.

79- I believe that you control your destiny to the exact ratio

to the extent that you visualize (image) it.

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2.I believe that the end result of an action is its purpose.

3.I believe that the effect of the action is the purpose of the

cause.

6. I believe that in order to go somewhere, you must know where

it is that you want to go.

7. I believe that you can only go to where you want to go from

where you are now.

8. I believe that the law of purpose says that you will always

accomplish your purpose (your true goal or objective). "Seek

and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to

you.

Ask and you shall receive." ALWAYS!

9. I believe that you must look to find - and you will find what

you look for (expect to find).

10. I believe that you get exactly what you expect. Exactly what

you think. Exactly what you give (or have given).

11. I believe that you are what you expect you are (what

your

image of yourself is).

12. I believe that you will not be what you expect that you

cannot be (what your image is not - you cannot be).

13- I believe that faith is part of the law of purpose

and expectation. Whatsoever you have faith in - will happen.

VI. LAW OF PURPOSE

15» I believe that your manner shows what you expect — and will

get.

16. I believe that whatever you look for (expect) is right.

If you expect you can — you can. If you expect you can’t —

you can’t. If you sow you can expect to reap. If you give you

can expect to get. If you do not give you can expect that

you will not get. If you expect trouble, poverty, poor

health, and hard times — you will get trouble, poverty,

poor health,

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Hard times; you will get exactly what you expect. If you

expect happiness, riches, health, and a good life - you will get

i t .

! • I believe that a man es attitude tells you what he expects.

You may expect that he will get what he expects. I believe

that a man's condition and environment tells you what he

expected in the past. I believe that a man's attitude today

tells you what he expects — and will have tomorrow.

18. I believe that fear is negative expectation — Looking for

what you don't want to find. But if you look, you have to

find; that is the law. Fear is the anti-law. Don't mess

with it! Don't look for what you don't want to find. That is

a foolish thing to do!

19» I believe that life's purpose is to provide an arena for

expression of God and His Way, Will, Desires, etc.

through His Laws.

22. I believe that the law of purpose says that a purpose must

be

defined. It must be clear. It must be specific. It must

be

sincere. It must have bounds. It must be concentrated. It

must be at a certain level. It must have

potential

(possibility of realization).

23. I believe that the reason I do something is due to my

purpose

behind the reason.

24. I believe that the purpose is my intent for doing it.

25. I believe that I will produce according to the seed (purpose

and Intent) I sow. By their fruit you will know them. (By

their intent and purpose you will know them).

26. I believe that the law of purpose assures us that everyone

will always reach the goal (the real goal, intent, purpose)

desired most (THE REAL ONE!).

27. I believe that the law of purpose says that we do what we

really intend to do. You will always accomplish what your

purpose (intent, real goal, really want to do) is. This is

a

wonderful and frightening law.

28. I believe that the purpose or goal must always be kept in

the

forefront of the mind.

29. I believe that it must be continuously repeated and

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Reaffirmed.

30. I believe that it must be watered with desire.

31. I believe that it must be acted upon. If not it will

evolve

into another purpose (rambling or will to fail).

32. I believe that once you set the purpose (intent, goal, or

objective), you must use a map (to see the best way there

and

the shortest or best route and to see that you don't get

off

track (always stay on track)) to start toward your goal. I

believe that you must see (image) yourself there (getting

there). I believe you must have desire (want to go) strong

enough to pay the price (enough desire to meet

the

requirements) to get there. I believe that you must know

(have faith) (belief, faith, self-confidence from other

successes building toward this one) that you can get there.

I

believe that you must be determined to get

there

(determination and persistence - once hand to plow, don’t

turn back). You must not stop (don't go off somewhere

else)

even if detoured until you get there (its all right to

rest

just so long as you don’t get off the track). You must be

thankful when you get there.

33- I believe my most important purpose in life is my own

personal growth and success in realizing my potential. I

believe that my potential is that which God would conduct

through me without my resistance to Him.

35- I believe that insulation can be strengthened with a

discipline.

VII. THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

1. I believe that you attract that which has like rate of

motion

(movement). I believe that you attract that which has the

same or nearly same vibration.

2. I believe that the only way to change (growth-change)

anything is by degrees, by minutes, a bit at a time, by

changing the rate of vibration or rate of motion by degrees.

3. I believe that this is so because the building blocks of the

universe is pure energy (God’s Flux) and it is the same.

4. I believe that the difference between things is caused

by

their vibrations or rate of motion. I believe that you build

up or tear down by degrees. You change the rate of motion.

5. I believe that you attract that which you are (your rate

of

motion) and repel that which you are not (a different rate

of

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Motion).

6.

7. 8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

I believe that a low rate of motion attracts a low rate

of motion and repels a high rate of motion - and the

inverse is also true.

I believe that to attract something you must have desire

for that which you would attract.

I believe that desire is the emotion that attracts like

to like.

I believe that to attract something you must vibrate with

it, tune it in (think about it with desire- release the

energy of the thought by the transmitter of your desire

within you).

I believe that to attract something you must use it

(that which you would attract).

I believe that you must have a need for something in order

to attract it.

I believe that anything you attract must be something

you have created a need for. I believe that to attract

something you must have a reason (purpose) for needing

it.

I believe that to keep something you must give it away

(use it, work it, spend it).

I believe that giving attracts high rate of motion things

into your environment because giving increases your rate of

motion.

I believe that love, faith, praise, joy, blessing,

kindness, and happiness attracts high rate of motion

things.

15.

16.

17-

18.

I believe that to attract more you must give more.

I believe that whatsoever you give (really give) becomes a

seed that you plant—for God to multiply back to you (by His

Natural Laws). But I believe that you must first initiate the

action yourself; you give first, you smile first, you love

first, you forgive first, you apologize first, you give

happiness first, you serve first.

19-20. 21. I believe that you cannot attract that which you

have not

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I believe that you must first put something in, before

you take something out.

Wanted to attract.

22. I believe that you must attract that which you want to

attract.

23. I believe that you attract today that which you wanted to

attract yesterday.

24. I believe that you will attract tomorrow that which you

want

to attract today.

25. I believe that the law of attraction says that all things

are

equal.

26. I believe that as you give of yourself you attract the

same

amount from the other side of the equation except that God

(through the law of compensation) adds to what you

receive

back. He does this through his natural laws and because He

is

The Source of Supply.

27. I believe that all things with life in them attract to

themselves the elements they require to meet their in-built

Images.

28. I believe that the law of attraction says that "that

which

you give (use) or would willingly give - you attract; that

which you withhold (refuse to use or give) or strongly desire

to withhold - you repel.

29- the law of attraction says that if you want to attract

something - use it; if you want to repel something - do

not use it. I believe that this holds true for everything in

the universe, because God's Natural Laws are universal.

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VIII. LAW OF SPECIALIZATION

1. I believe that all life can accomplish a great deal more

by

specializing.

2.I believe that you can only do one thing at a time. (You

cannot serve two masters).

3. I believe that you should devote all energy, time efforts,

and resources to the accomplishment of one goal. (Then

you

can move on to another one).

5. I believe that you develop concentration by specializing.

I

believe that you focus your power, efforts, attention, and

results by specializing. The law of growth is divide. .

And

grow. Specialize. Nature does.

6.I believe that you should narrow down to specifics. Don't be

too wide.

? • I believe that the wide, broad, crooked road leads to

destruction (disintegration).

8. I believe that the narrow, straight, single purpose road

leads to life abundant.

9- I believe that all God ’s natural laws call for

specialization - but balanced specialization within the

bounds of his natural laws.

10. I believe that in order to achieve there must be a specific,

clear, defined goal. (Just as God had when He created the

universe). This is specialization.

11. I believe that awareness is specialization. That it

exemplifies specialization. Awareness is being fully aware

of

a moment. It specializes in the moment.

12. I believe that the Laws of Action, Harvest, and Growth,

Increase and Expansion, Purpose, Attraction, and Cycles - all

call for specialization. It is one of God ’s natural laws.

IX. LAW OF TIME, CYCLES, RHYTHMS, SEASONS

1. I believe that Energy is the Flux of God.

I believe that Energy is everything. I

believe that pure energy is Infinite. I

believe that Energy proceeds from God.

I believe that God is the Source of All Supply. He is the

Provider of All. I believe that Energy supplies all life and

the universe.

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2. I believe that different forms of energy and of life and of

matter are expressed by different vibratory rates.

4. I believe that energy must flow from a higher level to a

lower level. (Not from a lower level to a higher one).

5. I believe that everything in the universe moves by a repeated

impulse.

6. I believe that there is no such thing as a continual pulse of

energy in our universe. (No continuous pressure or force -

all is in pulses or cycles).

7. I believe that the transmission of energy will be pulsating,not

continual or steady but intermittent (in cycles).

8. I believe that flux or energy is curved outward while

Expanding...and curved Inward..........when contracting. I

Believe that our breathing symbolizes this.

9. I believe that things will be in harmony with each other

according to their vibratory rhythms or cycles. Things will

attract and be attracted by vibratory rhythms in harmonies

with its own rate (harmonics). Everything that you can see,

hears, or touch (and the things that you can’t); everything

you can be aware of in anyway is subject to cyclic law.

10. I believe that everything vibrates at, or responds to, or is

moved in a certain definite rhythm.

.1. I believe that all life and universe is motion, movement,

action, and oscillation. I believe that all motion is

cyclic. I believe that it (motion) circulates to the limit

of its possibilities (peak) and then returns (contracts)

to its starting point. This is the law of cycles.

12. I believe that any thought or action that is initiated while

this impulsing energy is gaining momentum (in its cycle)

carries along quite easily toward success; while those

thoughts or actions begun in a descending cycle (when

impulsing energy is losing momentum or waning) are

reduced due to the reverse cycle of momentum.

13 • I believe that everything in the universe has a cycle of

existence distinctly its own (like fingerprints, voiceprints,

etc.).

14. I believe that all life has cycles, which begin at its (the

life’s) inception.

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15- I believe cycles vibrate at different rhythms (rate of

motion). Low thoughts vibrate at low rhythms. High thoughts

vibrate at high rates. Create and hold high thoughts.

16. I believe that the cycles of day and night, tides, and

seasons of the years are symbolic of the law of cycles.

17. I believe there are cycles, rhythms, seasons for

everything

in the universe and life.

18. I believe there is a mystic pattern behind all cycles and

seasons.

19. I believe that this invisible design is set into motion

through the natural law of cycles (vibration).

20. I believe that this law of cycles says that there is a

time

for everything. There is a time for all things under the sun.

21. I believe that there is a most favorable time for

something

and I believe that there is a least favorable time for

something.

22. I believe that whatsoever thing you are doing at a particular

time - it should be done only, completely, solely, with all

concentration, attention, focus, awareness, zeal, enthusiasm,

and imaging (mind picturing).

23. I believe that when you do one thing you should not think of

something you will do at another time.

24. I believe that there is a time for all things. A time to

sow,

a time to harvest, a time to go to bed, a time to get up

from

bed, a time for everything under the sun that is in

accordance with God’s Natural Laws. I believe that this

and

the law of cycles are also symbolized by the Sabbath.

25. I believe that you plant when the time or season or cycle is

favorable (gaining momentum). When the time, season, or

cycle

is not favorable (waning momentum) you should wait until it

is again favorable.

26. I believe that there is a time to be active and a time

to

refrain from action.

27. I believe that there is a time to be talking and a time

to

refrain from talking.

28. I believe that the cycle of life and basis of the universe

is

symbolized by breathing, wind, waves, and pulsating

vibrations in energy.

29. I believe that thoughts, efforts, work, and anything can

be

most efficient by pulsating in rhythm with natural

relaxation

and ease.

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30. I believe that God ’s law of the Sabbath expresses

this

pulsating cyclic rhythm.

31. I believe that the seventh day should be set aside for rest

and contemplation of the past week, and thanks for the good

accomplished, and thanks and worship to The Source of All

Supply, and for a break between cycles of weeks.

32. I believe that there is a cosmic plan, which encompasses

all

of creation. I believe its principles are:

1. ORDER - In nature all things evolve under system of

order.

2. HARMONY - Universe operates under beautiful

harmonious

system

3- BALANCE - Nature is balanced in her parts.

4. INTELLIGENCE - A reflection and expression of God.

5. GROWTH OR EVOLVEMENT - Must grow plus or minus.

6. ATTRACTION - All things attract elements required

after needs set.

7. FULFILLMENT AND DISINTEGRATION - When usefulness

(cycle complete) ends.

33• I believe that there is a rhythm for every person.

34. I believe that when one develops (finds) his rhythm, his

harmony, he becomes a flowing whole.

35. I believe that the danger of sideline temptations is that one

may break his stride (rhythm) when one steps out of his

rhythm; and it may be difficult to regain it when one steps

back in.

36. I believe that the circle symbolizes rhythm.

37. I believe that rhythm is expanding when there is little

resistance and not attempting expansion when cycle is

contracting or there is great resistance. Rhythm is not going

against the tide of nature.

38. I believe that in order to get your rhythm, you must:

1. Decide on a purpose or objective (in or with your

life).

2. Get into the rhythm of thinking of God’s Natural Laws.

3. Get into the rhythm of giving (using) what you have at

hand.

4. Then start expecting to reap or harvest, because you

have sown.

39” I believe that accomplishment, health, and happiness are

easier if you move through your own rhythm.

I believe, then, that the above is the law of cycles. First

give - then receive (after really giving, then expect to

receive). This is the law of cycles. It (the cycle) starts at

a point (you), goes out to a peak (you give), and then it

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Comes back to where it started (you receive back what

you sent out, plus interest (momentum of the cycle)).

All the other laws also express this. It is also expressed

by "As you sow, so shall you reap". The circle also

expresses it. Time and space are curved. •

X. SUMMATION

1. I believe that the natural laws of God are the truths,

which

have caused all good accomplishments throughout

history. I

believe that these laws must be lived by and practiced.

2. I believe that I and all other men, women, and children

have

a spirit housed in our bodies. I believe that this Spirit

is

the life force and is endowed by God and is a part of

God.

3- I believe that man, being created by God, in the image and

likeness of God, has been endowed with the Spirit of God

in our subconscious and that man possesses as a result,

a part of the creative powers and energies of God.

4. I believe that these powers can be most effectively used

when

they are channeled in accordance with God's Natural

Laws as

expressed in this Creed.

5. I believe that God’s Laws are the most wonderful laws in the

universe.

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APPENDIX VI

"MASTER TIME FACTOR CHARTS OF THE DOW-JONES

AVERAGES" MADE BY EVERYMAN'S INC. JULY 1983- COPYRIGHT

1983.

BACKGROUND:

THERE ARE THREE SHEETS OF THIS MONTHLY CHART OF THE DOW-JONES

AVERAGES. THEY DATE FROM JANUARY 1901 THROUGH THE PRESENT TIME

(JULY 1983). THE PRICES ARE THE LOW CLOSE AND HIGH CLOSE FOR THE

MONTH.

SHEET 1 IS 240 MONTHS OVER IN TIME AND PRICE SCALE IS $1.00 PER

UNIT OF PRICE. PRICE ON SHEET 1 IS COVERED FROM $0.00

THROUGH $240.00. TIME IS 240 MONTHS (20 YEARS). THE YEARS ARE

LISTED AT BOTTOM OF SHEET AS 1ST, 2ND, 3RD, ETC. THROUGH 20TH.

IT IS COLOR CODED. OH SHEET 1, 1901-1920 IS COLORED YELLOW;

1921-1940 IS COLORED RED; 1941-1960 IS COLORED GREEN. SHEET 1 IS

PLACED ON SHEET 2 AT $240.00.

SHEET 2 IS 240 MONTHS OVER IN TIME (SAME AS SHEET 1), BUT THE

PRICE SCALE ON SHEET 2 IS $2.00 PER UNIT OF PRICE. PRICE ON SHEET

2 IS COVERED FROM $240.00 AT THE BOTTOM TO $720.00 AT THE TOP. ON

SHEET 2 RED IS TOP OF 1901-1940 CYCLE; GREEN IS PART OF 1941-1960

CYCLE THAT BEGAN ON SHEET 1; YELLOW ON THIS SHEET IS THE

BEGINNING AND PARTS OF 1961-1980 CYCLE. SHEET 2 IS PLACED ON

SHEET 3 AT $720.00.

SHEET 3 IS 240 MONTHS OVER IN TIME (SAME AS SHEETS 1 & 2), BUT

THE PRICE SCALE IS $3.00 PER UNIT OF PRICE. PRICE ON SHEET 3 IS

COVERED FROM $720.00 AT THE BOTTOM TO $1440 AT THE TOP. ON

SHEET

3 YELLOW IS PARTS OF THE 1961-1980 CYCLE; RED IS THE BEGINNING TO

CURRENT TIME OF THE 1981-2000 CYCLE THROUGH MID-JULY 1983.

THESE 3 SHEETS ARE MEANT TO BE STACKED ON TOP OF EACH

OTHER IN 1,2,3 FASHION. IN OTHER WORDS, EACH YEAR ZONE FROM 1ST

YR THROUGH 20TH YEAR IS PLACED IN LINE VERTICALLY ON EACH OF

THE 3 SHEETS AT THE PROPER 1,2,3 ORDER.

IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO KEEP THIS CHART UP, ALL YOU NEED TO

DO IS TO TAKE THE HIGH CLOSE FOR THE CALENDAR MONTH AND

THE LOW CLOSE FOR THE CALENDAR MONTH AND COLOR IN RED

BETWEEN THOSE POINTS. THIS CHART IS NOT BASED ON THE

MONTHLY HIGH OR THE MONTHLY LOW, BUT THE MONTHLY

HIGH CLOSE AND THE MONTHLY LOW CLOSE. THE REASON FOR

THIS IS THAT THE DATA BACK IN THE EARLY 1900!S WAS ONLY

AVAILABLE TO ME IN THAT FORM AND I NEEDED TO KEEP THE CHARTS

CONSISTENT.

APPENDIX

VI

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APPENDIX VII

WEEKLY CHARTS SHOWING MASTER TIME FACTOR

PREPARED FOR Everyman’s INC.-BY NEXUS RESEARCH

INC.

BACKGROUND:

THESE CHARTS ARE WEEKLY CHARTS OF THE DOW-JONES AVERAGES

FOR THE THREE YEAR PERIODS HAVE 1941-1944, 1961-1964,

AND 1981-CURRENT. THEY ARE BASED ON THE ACTUAL WEEKLY

HIGH AND LOW INSTEAD OF THE WEEKLY HIGH CLOSE AND LOW

CLOSE.

I HAVE DRAWN THE 1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH YEAR ZONES ON

THEM SO THAT YOU CAN STACK THEM ONE OVER THE OTHER BY

THEIR YEAR ZONES SO THAT YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF HOW THE

MARKET HAS BEEN REPEATING.

IT IS VERY USEFUL TO BE ABLE TO JUDGE THE MAIN TREND BY

THE MONTHLY CHART AND THEN LOOK FURTHER BY GETTING DOWN

INSIDE THE MONTHLY CHART TO SEE THE MORE TRADEABLE SWINGS

IN THE WEEKLY CHART. FOR RESEARCH AND TRADING GOOD

ACCURATE CONSISTENT DATA AND A PLOTTER AND PLOTTER

PROGRAM ARE INVALUABLE.

THESE CHARTS WERE PREPARED USING 'CHARTIST1, A

MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWARE PLOTTING PROGRAM FROM:

NEXUS RESEARCH INC.

P.O. BOX 1024

DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA 29536

PHONE (803-774-7006)

APPENDIX VII

"WISDOM"

Happy he who has found wisdom,

And the man who has acquired understanding;

For wisdom is more profitable than silver,

And the gain she brings is better than gold.

She is more precious than red coral,

And all your jewels are no matches for her.

Long life is in her right hand,

In her left hand are riches and honour.

Her ways are pleasant ways

And all her paths lead to prosperity.

She is a staff of life to all who grasp her,

And those who hold her fast are safe.

In wisdom the Lord founded the earth

And by understanding he set the heavens in their

place;

By his knowledge the depths burst forth

And the clouds dropped dew.

My son, keep watch over your ability and prudence, do

not let them slip from sight; they shall be a charm

hung about your neck. And an ornament on your

breast. Then you will go your way without a care, and

your feet will not stumble. When you sit, you need

have no fear; when you lie down, your sleep will be

pleasant. Do not be afraid when fools are frightened

or when ruin comes upon the wicked; for the Lord will

be at your side, and he will keep your feet clear of

the trap. Refuse no man any favour that you owe him

when it lies in your power to pay it. Do not say to

your friend, 'Come back again; you shall have it

tomorrow'-when you have it already. (Proverbs)