GANN ACADEMY

How It Works

The Square of Nine is a spiral of numbers built outward from a center point. Numbers that land on the same angle of the spiral (90°, 180°, 270°, 360° apart, and so on) tend to act as price support or resistance for each other. Our indicator takes any swing high or low you choose as the center, then projects 21 of these angle levels outward in both directions.

Key Parameters

• Anchor direction — a swing high projects downward, a swing low projects upward
• 21 angle levels from 0° to 450° in 22.5° steps
• Cycle multiplier — a fixed choice of 1×, 10×, 100×, 1,000×, 10,000× or 100,000×, scaling the tool from penny stocks to Bitcoin
• Swing HIGH / LOW price — entered manually, and set to 0.00 by default. Nothing is drawn until you supply your own anchor prices, which is deliberate: the whole method depends on choosing the right swing.
• Independent colours per direction — red from the swing high, green from the swing low

How To Read It

Each projected line is labelled with its angle and price. When price approaches one of these lines, watch for a reaction — a stall, reversal, or acceleration. The closer several angle lines cluster together, the stronger that zone tends to be.

How It Works

This section actually runs three separate tools that can all be on at once: real Fibonacci sequence numbers (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…) mapped to nearby price, standard high/low retracement percentages, and Gann's own Law of Vibration — his theory that a market has a natural harmonic rate of movement, expressed here as 25 levels in steps of 1/8 from a reference candle you choose.

Gann's Retracement Fractions vs. Fibonacci Ratios — They're Not The Same Thing

These two get blended together constantly online, so it's worth being precise. Gann's own retracement rule divides a price range into simple, equal fractions — 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 2/3, 3/4, 7/8 — based on his Law of Vibration, with no relation to the golden ratio. Fibonacci retracements (23.6%, 38.2%, 61.8%, 78.6%) come from a completely different source — the golden ratio sequence popularised by later technicians, not by Gann. Our indicator plots both because many traders find value in watching where they agree, but they come from two unrelated mathematical origins, and only one of them is actually Gann's method.

Key Parameters

• Reference High/Low — manually set which candle the Law of Vibration levels are measured from
• Gann fractions (LOV steps) — 1/8 through 8/8, plus 2/1 and 3/1 extensions — this is the genuinely Gann-derived set
• Fibonacci retracement set — 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8%, 78.6% — included for reference, not from Gann's own work
• LOV step size — 0.000 to 3.000 in 1/8 increments, with resonance points highlighted

How To Read It

Look for two or three of the three modes agreeing on the same price — a Fibonacci retracement lining up with a Gann fraction is a stronger signal than either alone, precisely because they come from independent methods rather than the same math restated twice. Built-in alerts fire at the 50%, 61.8%, and key Gann-fraction multiples.

How It Works

Gann's Odd and Even squares (1², 2², 3²…) are simple perfect squares that repeatedly act as price magnets in his method. The indicator finds the nearest squares above and below the current price automatically — no manual input needed.

Key Parameters

• Auto-detection — draws 6 levels above and 6 below the current price (12 in total), recalculated from the square root of the close
• Odd squares (half ends in .5) shown in Maroon
• Even squares (half is a whole number) shown in Navy

How To Read It

These levels work best as a quick reference grid layered under other tools like the Square of Nine or Gann Fan — when a square level lines up with another Gann level, that zone deserves extra attention.

How It Works

The Gann Fan draws 9 diagonal angle lines radiating from a swing pivot — ratios like 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1/1, 2/1, 3/1, 4/1 and 8/1. The most important is the 1×1 (45°) line, drawn thicker: markets in a healthy uptrend tend to ride above it, and breaking below often signals a trend change. Our version fans out from both the dominant high and low at the same time, with automatic pivot detection.

Key Parameters

• Draw Gann Fan Angles — the master control, and the one people miss. Four modes: No Pivot (the default — nothing is drawn), Both Pivot, Top Pivot or Bottom Pivot. If your fan is not appearing, this is why.
• Loopback Period — how far back the script searches for a swing pivot (default 280 bars)
• Pivot Period — how many bars on each side confirm a swing high or low (default 5). A pivot cannot be confirmed until this many bars have closed after it, which is why the fan re-anchors with a deliberate lag rather than chasing every spike.
• Linefill zones — shaded bands between each angle pair showing the "active" price range

How To Read It

Price riding along or above the 1×1 line suggests trend strength; a clean break below it is one of the more reliable Gann reversal signals. Steeper angles (4/1, 8/1) mark overextended, unsustainable moves.

How It Works

Gann believed the sun's position in the calendar year influenced market turning points — particularly the four Cardinal Points (the equinoxes and solstices), which he considered his strongest reversal dates. This tool marks those automatically, plus 90° and 15° solar-degree dates, monthly turn dates, and custom cycle projections (90/144/180/270/360 days) from any pivot date you set.

Key Parameters

• Cardinal Points — Mar 21, Jun 21, Sep 23, Dec 21 (fixed, not adjustable)
• Custom Pivot — enter any year/month/day as your own cycle start date
• Projection lengths — 90, 144, 180, 270, and 360 days from that pivot

How To Read It

Each date appears as a vertical dotted line. These aren't price levels — they're a heads-up that a reversal is statistically more likely near that date. Combine with a price-based tool (like the Fan or Square of Nine) for the actual entry level.

How It Works

The Hexagon Chart is one of Gann's lesser-known tools — numbers spiral outward in a six-sided pattern, with each ring adding 6 to the previous increment. The indicator locates which ring the current price sits in, then projects the 6 cardinal price levels of that ring (at 0°, 60°, 120°, 180°, 240°, 300°).

Key Parameters

• Rings — 1 to 6 rings above and/or below the current price (default 3)
• Fill Between Hex Rings — shades the band between each ring pair, with adjustable transparency. Off by default; turn it on when you want the ring structure visible at a glance rather than as bare lines.
• Six angle colours — 0°, 60°, 120°, 180°, 240° and 300° are individually coloured, so you can see which face of the hexagon price is reacting to
• Direction — above only, below only, or both
• Base price — manual entry or automatic from the current close

How To Read It

Because it's less commonly watched than the Square of Nine, hexagon levels can catch reversals that price-only traders miss. It works best stacked with Square of Nine levels — where both agree is typically a stronger zone.

How It Works

This is Gann's core "squaring of price and time" idea made visual: a box where the width (bars of time) equals the height (price range). When price and time "square out" — the box becomes a true square — Gann considered a reversal imminent. The indicator draws this from both the swing high and swing low, subdivides it into halves and quarters, and adds diagonal fan lines from each corner.

Key Parameters

• Pivot detection — automatic, or manually enter your own swing high/low and how many bars ago they occurred
• Inner grid — 6 horizontal + 6 vertical division lines
• Corner fan — 20 diagonal lines radiating from all four corners

How To Read It

Watch the right edge of the box — as price approaches it in time, that's the "squaring" moment Gann flagged as high-probability for a turn. The box automatically chains forward once price passes the current edge.

How It Works

A simpler, structural tool: horizontal lines marking the previous quarter's, month's, week's, and day's high and low. These aren't unique to Gann, but they're exactly the kind of "obvious" institutional support/resistance levels his time-and-price framework assumes the market respects.

Key Parameters

• Four independent toggles — turn any period on/off separately
• Line style — solid, dashed, or dotted per period
• Colour — Quarter (black), Month (red), Week (light blue), Day (purple) — each adjustable

How To Read It

Use these as a backdrop for your other Gann tools. A Square of Nine or Gann Fan level that lines up with a previous month's high, for example, is a much higher-confidence zone than either alone.

How It Works

An intraday time tool: it divides the trading session into Gann "degree windows" (90°, 120°, 135°, 180°, 225°, 240°, 270°, 315°) as vertical time markers, while separately counting Gann Square numbers (1, 4, 9, 16, 25…) and Master Numbers (3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 21…) as bar counts from the session open.

Key Parameters

• Market preset — NSE India, US Equity, Gold, Bitcoin, LSE, UAE, SGX (sets the correct session hours automatically)
• Window strength tiers — Strong (90°/180°/270°), Moderate (120°/240°), Minor (45°/135°/225°/315°)
• Cycle mode — Calendar Year or Gann Year (starting Mar 21) for daily/weekly charts

How To Read It

The "Strong" windows are where Gann's intraday time theory predicts the highest odds of a reversal or acceleration. This indicator requires the Market Session Setup to be configured correctly first — it's the foundation every time-based calculation here depends on.

How It Works

Gann treated the open and close of the very first candle of any period as an important reference level — for intraday NSE traders, that's the 9:15 candle; for daily charts, the first trading day of the month; for weekly charts, the first week of the month.

Key Parameters

• Timeframe-aware — automatically picks the right "first candle" depending on whether you're on an intraday, daily, weekly, or monthly chart
• Open & Close lines — blue and solid by default, marking the body of the first candle. Colours and line style set independently.
• High & Low lines — purple and dashed by default, marking the full range of the first candle including wicks. These are the opening-range breakout boundaries.
• Reading the two pairs together — the gap between the body pair and the range pair shows how much rejection the first candle saw. A wide band means the opening range was contested and breakouts from it fail more often.
• Works across market presets — NSE, US, BTC, Forex

How To Read It

These two lines act as session anchors — price often returns to test them intraday. Combine with the Market Session Setup for accurate first-candle timing on NSE hours.

How It Works

This tool was developed by Terry Laundry, not W.D. Gann — we include it because it's a genuinely useful confirmation tool, and we label it clearly so you always know what you're using. Its rule: whatever time it took a move to go from a swing high down to a swing low (the "Left Arm"), the same amount of time tends to repeat for the next move (the "Right Arm") — predicting a "T-Top" reversal date.

Key Parameters

• T-Centre detection — automatic from the key swing low, or manually override with a bars-ago offset
• Shade Right Arm — highlights what the tool calls the "superior returns zone"
• Bars to T-Top countdown — shows "PASSED" once the projected date is behind you

How To Read It

Treat the T-Top date as a time-based warning, not a guaranteed reversal — it works best combined with an actual price signal, which is exactly what Group L below adds.

How It Works

This combines Charles Dow's classical price theory with the Magic T time projection above — neither is Gann's work, but together they give a rare, high-conviction signal. It fires only when three conditions align at once: price is within 2 bars of the Magic T projected T-Top, the last 10 bars are compressed into a tight (under 2%) range, and price actually breaks that range in the predicted direction.

Key Parameters

• Swing Lookback — default 200 bars, tracks Dow-style Higher-High/Higher-Low or Lower-Low/Lower-High structure
• Breakout zone box — always visible, shows the current consolidation even before the full signal fires
• Breakout alerts — toggle on/off

How To Read It

By design this signal is rare — expect long quiet periods. That's intentional: it's a high-conviction filter, not a frequent-trade tool.

How It Works

Market Profile was developed by J. Peter Steidlmayer at the CBOT, not by W.D. Gann. It's a volume/time-based approximation showing where the market spent the most time trading: the Point of Control (POC), and the Value Area High/Low (VAH/VAL) — drawn for both today's live session and yesterday's completed one simultaneously.

Key Parameters

• Value Area % — default 70% (the standard convention), adjustable 50–90%
• Profile Rows — default 24, raise to 40–50 on unusually wide-range days
• Yesterday's profile — drawn alongside today's at 50% transparency and a thinner line. Yesterday's POC and Value Area edges matter more than most traders expect: an unfilled gap between them and today's opening range is one of the more reliable intraday setups.
• Auto LTF selection — automatically steps down to a 1, 3, 5 or 15-minute feed depending on your chart timeframe, so the profile builds from finer data without failing on low timeframes
• Off by default — six extra lines is a lot of chart furniture, so you switch it on deliberately

How To Read It

Yesterday's POC and Value Area often act as reference support/resistance for today's session. We include it because it pairs naturally with Gann's own intraday/time tools — not because Gann invented it.