The law of vibration was initially established by my mentor, W.D. Gann (William Delbert Gann) who was born on June 6, 1878, and died on June 18, 1955. He followed the greatest book, Bible, and lived for 77 years, that's right he lived 77 years.
This is the introduction of the Law of vibration.
To understand the market analysis of W. D. Gann, it is important to bear in mind that he was a cycle student. This is clear in his writings:
"Since all great swings or movements of the market are cyclic they act in accordance with periodic law"
<The Ticker and Investment Digest, December 1909, p. 53>
"Every movement in the market is the result of a natural law and a Cause which exists long before the Effect takes place and can be determined years in advance. Everything moves in cycles as a result of the natural law of action and reaction. By a study of the past, I have discovered what cycles repeat in the future."
< “Forecasting” course, p. 1.>
"... everything works according to past cycles ... history repeats itself in the lives of men, nations and the stock market."
< The Tunnel Thru the Air (Financial Guardian Publishing Co., 1927), p. 76>
Gann used a variety of cycles. Some of these cycles were astrological or astronomical in character. As early as 1914, and probably before that time, Gann sat on a board of extremely accomplished astrologers.
The respected Journal of Commerce stated in 1921 that Gann used astrology in his work. In 1927, Gann wrote a novel entitled The Tunnel Thru the Air: Looking Back from 1940, which he said contained "a valuable secret, clothed in veiled language". The book in very unveiled fashion repeatedly made pointed reference to the enthusiasm of its hero, Robert Gordon, for the study of astrology. For example, Gann wrote, "Robert was a great believer in Astrology because he had found this great science referred to so many times in the Holy Bible. He had made notes as he read the Bible at different times where it referred to Astrology or the signs in the heavens and was thoroughly convinced that the influence of the heavenly bodies govern our lives."
<Gann, The Tunnel Thru the Air (Financial Guardian Publishing Co., 1927), p. 172. >
"William D. Gann, a Wall street broker, is the discoverer of the law of vibration and its application to matters mundane ...
“... his researches showed that the ancients had knowledge of natural laws of which we can scarcely dream, that in a sense they were wiser than we are today. The fact that the ancients wrote their numbers and letters in geometrical figures opened the way to his discovery of the law that rules all things. He found that every letter and every number was written in a geometrical angle that determined the power of its vibration. Knowing this vibration in the letters of an individual's name, in the letters contained in the name of a stock or in the letters of the name of a country or a ruler, the destiny of that individual, that stock or that ruler and country can be correctly seen.
“Mr. Gann does not care much for money except to meet his daily needs, and these are simple. He made a fortune simply that he might have the leisure necessary for him to follow his ambition – to study mathematics and delve into the knowledge held by the ancients. He does not want to be regarded as a prophet or a seer, but rather as a man of science.
“'An astronomer can predict to the minute when a eclipse is going to occur,' he said, but you would not consider him a prophet, would you? Of course not. He simply makes use of mathematics based on known laws of the movements of the planets in their orbits. I have found in my researches that the Chinese understood all those laws and computed the coming of eclipses thousands of years before the Egyptians and Chaldeans. It is marvelous the knowledge that these ancients had. In making my predictions I used geometry and mathematics just as an astronomer does, based on immutable laws which I have discovered. There is nothing supernatural or weird about it. Some weeks ago I read an interesting article on the failure of astrologers in their predictions regarding the war.
“'Now there is a great deal in the vibrations of the planets, but to make accurate predictions the great law behind it all, which the ancients understood, but which they purposely refrained from putting in their books, as they wanted to keep the secret for themselves, must enter into the calculation. That is why astrology fails for nothing can be accurate that is not based on mathematics – and so few astrologers are mathematicians.”
<The New York Herald Magazine, Jan. 5, 1919, p. 15.>
Gann told this interviewer that he had discovered the Law of Vibration through the way in which numbers and letters were written, not through astrology or the planets. Furthermore, Gann says here plainly that planetary calculations are not sufficient to predict the future; “the great law behind it all” – the Law of Vibration – must also “enter into the calculation”. In other words, something must be used in addition to astrology that is not astrology and that something is the Law of Vibration! Gann then adds that “astrology fails,” and why? Because “nothing can be accurate that is not based on mathematics”. Thus, Gann implies, the Law of Vibration – “the law that rules all things” – is a mathematical law. Here we have only to determine what mathematics are involved – what Gann means by the term mathematics – and we will be in a position to attempt to look at the markets as Gann himself looked at them.
We will have begun to understand the Law of Vibration.
Romeman
August 17, 2011