W.D.Gann, Coffee, and Astrology

Written by Myles Wilson Walker

The following excerpts are from a letter that financial astrologer W.D.Gann wrote in 1954 in which he talks specifically about the planets relationship to coffee prices.He doesn't spell out the whole secret behind his timing but never the less it is very interesting and is also important as confirmation that astrology was behind his famous price and time forecasts. 1954:

March 24-Heliocentric Jupiter enters Cancer.
June 24- Heliocentric Jupiter is 120 degrees of Saturn.
April 12th Sun 60 degrees of Jupiter Geocentric.
April 13th Jupiter 135 degrees of Saturn Geocentric.
April 15th Sun 180 degrees of Neptune Geocentric.
April 16th Jupiter 60 degrees of Pluto Geocentric.
April 26th Jupiter 120 degrees of Neptune Geocentric.
April 26th Sun 180 degrees of Saturn Geocentric.

The month of April is very important.There should be great activity and wide swings in prices due to these aspects. GEOCENTRIC MAPS MOVEMENTS from low prices on coffee-- 1931 April 16th to August 7 1953- Mars has made 12 round trips.

1954 October 29- Mars will be opposite or 180 degrees from its place on April 16 1931.
1936 October 1st to to September 19th 1953- Mars made 9 round trips of 360 degrees each.
1954 Dec 9th- Mars will be 9 and a half round trips or opposite its place Oct.1 1936.
1940 May 15 to June 12 1953- Mars made 7 round trips or complete cycles.
1954 April 9th - Mars is 7 and a half cycles and is opposite its place on May 15 1940.
Due to the retrograde position of Mars it will again be 7 and a half July 7th and Aug.17
1954 or the third time in opposition to its own place which is very important. 1940
August 19 to September 15 1953- Mars had completed 7 round trips. Note low on coffee at that date.
1954 December 4th - Mars 7 and a half round trips or opposite its own place on Aug. 19
1940. If coffee starts to decline between March 22 and 24 1954 it should continue down to around April 15 when the adverse aspects of Jupiter to Saturn and the Sun to Neptune are completed.From these dates you should watch for the possibility of a rally up to April 16 1954 when Jupiter is 120 degrees of Neptune and the Sun 130 of Saturn.This might cause a quick rally followed by a sharp quick decline.

By studying all of the data outlined above and applying it to coffee you will be able to learn more about what causes changes in trend.

So there you have it, straight from W.D.Gann himself In my last article I did an astrological analysis of W.D.Ganns May Soybean chart based on the actual notations that he made on that chart.That dealt with Jupiters planetary ingress (Jupiter changing signs in the zodiac) and the price targets that this generated.Interestingly enough this same method as spelt out in my book Super Timing nailed the low on Soybeans again this year on July 9th.

In Super Timing I took all of Ganns trades that he mentioned in his last promotional booklet entitled -Why money is lost on commodities and stocks and how to make profits plus numerous other trades that I gathered from other sources.By doing this I was able to find the one common timing factor that linked all these trades plus price targets using one of W.D. Ganns calculators that I had discovered previously.I have called this the 1908 price target method named after the date that Gann said that he made his greatest discovery.

To my knowledge this is the first time that anyone has been able to unify all of Ganns
predictions using the same method.It solves his famous wheat prediction where Gann said wheat must trade at $1.20 by the close of trading on the 30th of September 1909 plus all the other price targets mentioned in The Ticker interview. It also solves the trades he made in 1954 at the end of his career on the coffee market using the same price and time method. The reason I think that his booklet Why money is lost on commodities and stocks and how to make profits was an important place to begin research on Ganns method is because it was written when he was 76 years old (one year before his death in 1955) and it was the perfect place for him to sum up what he considered to be the most important aspects of his work. Just to give you another idea of how planets can time the markets I will tell you another technique that I picked up when analyzing the sequence of trades that make up Robert Gordons great campaign in cotton from Ganns book The Tunnel thru the air.

Gann writes,

June 25th 1927.
October cotton declined to 16.80 Bought 500 October at 16.83 and 500 December at 17.15. He figured that it would run up for about thirty days.

July 25th 1927.
Sold 500 October cotton at 19.00 Sold 500 December at 19.20 Went short 500 December at 19.20. Decline followed as he expected.

To understand the reason for the timing of these trades just imagine a triangle and at each corner there is a planet.This is called a grand trine. What is happening in this case is that there are two slow planets that don't move much and they are 120 degrees apart(trine) Then a fast planet, Mercury in this case comes around so that it forms a triangle with the other planets (at the low of the market) it moves away so that there is no grand trine anymore but a month later the Sun comes around to where Mercury use to be and formsthe triangle again (at the high of the market).

This simple technique works but there is more to it than this and there were also price targets involved but everything is covered in depth in Super Timing as well the tools to do this work. As well as Ganns trades I've looked at examples from recent markets and find that the time and price target methods are still working well.To help people learn these techniques quickly I've also added a tutor that I originally wrote for the first purchasers of the book and put up as a website for them.This tutor is now at the end of the book and covers time cycles from recent S+P Soybean and Beanoil futures,these techniques can be used on every market. I havepurposely not covered any material presented elsewhere or rehashed the usual Gann knowledge that is in the public domain.