Original Time Cycles - W.D Gann

Starting Point (Anchor)

→ History repeats itself. That is what I have always contended, that in order to know and predict the future of anything you only have to look up what has happened in the past and get a correct base or starting point. Page [75]

→ It is just as easy to figure 100 years or 1000 years in the future as one or two years ahead if you have the correct starting point and know the cycle which is going to be

repeated. [Page 77]


→ Starting Point - Anchor: initial reference in Gann’s Time Cycle Calculations.

→ This indicator puts the concept into motion:
  • Every cycle begins from an Anchor Date — the point from which all future movements unfold.
  • From that base, time flows in measured intervals, and the cycle repeats under fixed law.
  • Select a key historical date a market top or bottom, a war, astronomical event or an invention and use it as your Anchor to forecast future turning points.