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  • Welcome to the Investors Trading Academy talking glossary of financial terms and events.

  • Our word of the day isGann AnglesWD Gann created a method of predicting price

  • movements through the relationship of angles on charts.

  • There are many variation of Gann's theory.

  • Gann Angels believe that there is an ideal balance between time and price which exists

  • when prices move identically to time, which occurs when the Gann angle is at 45 degrees.

  • In total, there are nine different Gann angles that are important for identifying trend lines

  • and market actions.

  • When one of these trend lines is broken, the following angle will provide support or resistance.

  • Gann was fascinated by the relation of time and price.

  • Gann drew his angles from all significant price pivot point highs and lows.

  • He used just one pivot point to draw an angle that rose (or fell) at predetermined and fixed

  • rates of speed.

  • Gann angles are a popular analysis and trading tool that are used to measure key elements,

  • such as pattern, price and time.

  • The often-debated topic of discussion among technical analysts is that the past, the present

  • and the future all exist at the same time on a Gann angle.

  • When analyzing or trading the course of a particular market, the analyst or trader tries

  • to get an idea of where the market has been, where it is in relation to that former bottom

  • or top, and how to use the information to forecast future price action.

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