Financial Astrology: W.D. Gann Planetary Lines, Astro Indicators, Intra-Day indicators


The Gann Planetary Support and Resistance module is based on the astrology related work by W. D. Gann.

Astro Indicator modules use various astrological indicators along with close of day and intra-day stock prices.


Gann Planetary Support and Resistance:

To generate planetary support or resistance line according to W.D. Gann, please follow these steps:
  1. Select the Finance/Gann Planetary Lines... menu.
  2. Enter the Start Date and the End Date.
  3. Enter the Ticker of the company you want to analyze. For markets outside of the USA, make sure to select the appropriate Country/Market. Note: Historical data for Euronext and India markets are available for the last 3-4 months only.
  4. Type - select the Type of security. This can be a stock, FOREX currency or cryptocurrency (crypto).
  5. Select the Price type (Open, Close, High, Low, or Average).
  6. Select the stock chart Style: Candlestick, OHLC chart, Area chart.
  7. Set the Planet to be used for support/resistance lines calculation.
  8. The Clockwise? option allows you to chose between Clockwise or Counter-clockwise longitude calculation.
  9. Set the Scale.
    1. Degree is the number of degree changes that correspond to the price movement. 
    2. deg=? is the price movement ratio. For example, 10 degrees and 1 deg=? values mean that 10 degrees of movement in longitude corresponds to 1 price point change.
  10. Set the Harmonic value. 1 is the default (no harmonic selected).
  11. Select the Coordinates System:  Geocentric, Heliocentric, or Topocentric.
  12. If you want to use more than one indicator in a chart, select the Color for the current indicator.
  13. Click the Add-> button. The indicator calculation parameters will be added to the Indicators table.
  14. Repeat steps above if you want to add and research more indicators.
  15. Once done, click the Calculate button. The stock chart (Candlestick or OHLC) will appear.
  16. The chart displays the following information:
    1. Candlestick values are the daily prices movements.
    2. The lines are the Gann planetary support or resistance lines
    3. The bottom pane displays trading volume data.
    4. The Show Statistics button invokes a table with statistical correlations between stock prices and each of the planetary indicators.
    5. You can also use the Zoom controls to zoom in on 10 days, 1 month, YTD or Max date ranges.


Astro Indicators:

The Astro Indicators module allows you to research correlation between stock prices and various astrological indicators. To use it:
  1. Select the Finance/Astro Indicators... menu.
  2. Enter the Start Date, End Date, Ticker and Price Type (Open, Close, High, Low, or Average).
  3. Select the Type of security. This can be a stock, FOREX currency or cryptocurrency (crypto).
  4. Select one of the available Indicator:
    1. Essential Dignities
    2. Accidental Dignities
    3. Dignities Complete - All Dignities
    4. Longitude
    5. Latitude
    6. Distance (AU)
    7. Speed
    8. Speed in Latitude
    9. Speed (AU)
    10. Sum of All Distances
    11. Phase
    12. Elongation
    13. Apparent Diameter
    14. Magnitude
    15. Siderograph
  5. Select the Planet
  6. Set the Color for the indicator line.
  7. Click the Add-> button. The indicator calculation parameters will be added to the Indicators table.
  8. Repeat steps above if you want to calculate additional research indicators.
  9. Click the Calculate button. The intra-day trading stock chart will be shown along with the requested indicators.


Astro Indicators for Intra-Day Traders:

To analyze intra-day data along with astro indicators, please use the Finance/Intra-day Astro Indicators... menu.

The process is very similar to the close-of-day analysis. The main difference is that the Start and End Date filters are not available. The data will always be available for 5-10 trading dates prior to the last (or current) trading day.

Note 1: intra-day data are available for the range of 1 or 2 weeks back from the current date.

Note 2: intra-day data are available in 15 mins intervals.


Technical Indicators and Transits:

AstroApp offers 90+ technical indicators. Technical Indicator charts can be combined with astrological transits.

This module can be used just for Technical Indicators analysis and also to combine Technical Indicators and Astro Transits.

If you want to view transits along with the indicators, please make sure to create and save your Events search criteria first:

  1. Go to the Research/Transits: Search... menu.
  2. Enter your Events Search criteria, enter the Events Search Name and click the Save Search button.
  3. Once events criteria are saved you can proceed to the next set of steps.

Using Technical Indicators and Saved Events:

  1. Select the Finance/Technical Indicators +  Transits... menu.
  2. Enter the Start Date, End Date, Ticker and Price Type (Open, Close, High, Low, or Average). Note: most indicators rely on the Close price and for those indicators the Price Type setting will be automatically overridden.
  3. Select the Type: stocks, crypto or FOREX currencies.
  4. Select the technical chart style (Candlestick, OHLC, Area).
  5. Select an indicator from the Indicators drop-down.
  6. Optionally, enter description for this indicator.
  7. Click the Add-> button. The indicator calculation parameters will be added to the Indicators table.
  8. Repeat steps above if you want to combine multiple technical indicators on the same chart.
  9. Click the Calculate button. The technical indicators chart for the selected security will be shown.
  10. If you want to add Transits to the technical analysis chart, click the Show Events button.
  11. In the Advanced Events Search window, select the previously saved Events Search Criteria and click the Events Search button.
  12. The Transit Events will be added to the technical chart. The Events will be marked as light blue triangle flags.
  13. Multiple events can be added to the technical analysis chart. Simply, repeat steps 10 and 11 as many times as required.


Trading System and Strategy Analysis

The Strategy Analysis graph shows price changes along with buy and sell events as defined in your testing strategy. To create and analyze trading strategy:

  1. Go to the Finance/Trading System... menu.
  2. Define your Buy and Sell rules.
  3. Select start and end dates
  4. Select the stcok ticker.
  5. Analyze the strategy.
  6. In the Trading System: Analysis results window, click the Trade Graph button.

The price chart with corresponding buy and sell events marked with B and S flags will come up.

The performance data represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate; therefore, you may have a gain or loss when you sell your shares. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted or used.


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