Ihab Salloum[ad_1]
**In the next 10 minutes, I’m going to reveal to you what took me over thirty years of intensive eyeball-to-chart research to discover!**
**The road has been long and sometimes bumpy with plenty of unexpected twists and turns along the way.** And, guess what…it hasn’t ended yet! **The more I learn, the more I realize there’s more to learn.** So, fasten your seatbelt and experience the excitement I felt on this road of discovery…it’s truly been a ride to remember!
**Let’s start at the beginning.** I made my first commodity trade in 1968 while a student at the University of Montana working towards a Master’s Degree in Business Finance and Investments. **I was fascinated by the leverage you could get on your investment capital by putting up a relatively small margin fee in order to control a much larger quantity of some commodity…leaving open the potential for substantial gains…and by using stops supposedly limited risk.** And, since I was a cash-strapped student with a “relatively” small amount to invest, this really appealed to me.
**So, one memorable Tuesday afternoon, I skipped gym class and hiked downtown to open my first commodity trading account.** I was nervous as a cat…but, I knew it was something I just had to do. **The broker was understanding and after about an hour of filling out forms and waiting for an OK from headquarters, I plunked my money down and began what I imagined would be an illustrative career as a “professional” commodity trader.** I just couldn’t wait to get started!
**Early the next morning, I was chomping at the bit and decided to start off by trading corn futures.** Then over the next two weeks, **the worst thing that could happen to a beginning trader happened to me…I had three big winning trades in a row!** I was convinced I was the King Kong of trading…and frankly couldn’t figure out why everyone told me trading was so hard to be successful at. **Then, as you’ve probably guessed…the fourth trade murdered me.** I lost everything I had already made plus $200 more than I even had in my account! **So much for the supposedly limited risk.** You can guess where the book fund for that quarter went! **My trading “career” appeared over about as fast as air rushing out of a balloon.**
**I went away from that experience licking my wounds, but absolutely convinced there was an underlying and identifiable pattern or rhythm in the markets.** I could sense it. **I knew it was there…but, I had no idea what it was.** I wrestled with questions of how such a thing could exist. **Or more to the point, since I saw evidence of its actual existence…how could I prove it existed?** Even though initially I even questioned my own perceptions, **I just knew in my bones it was there!** I was determined to do whatever it took to identify it, pick it apart and ultimately find out exactly what made it tick.
**It was then I realized that if you could discover any sort of regular or consistent pattern in market movements…you would have the key to successful trading!** Why? Because you then could trade in sync with the timing patterns controlling market movement. **This was certainly a goal worth devoting a lifetime of research to…and, as it turns out…I have!**
**I started my search by going to the source…the markets themselves!** I studied charts from every market I could get my hands on…some constructed from data going back to the start of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1848! **I knew that if there was a pattern that repeated itself in the markets, I could find it…given enough time, effort and stacks of charts to look at.**
**After night after night of painstaking study, a bit of inspiration arrived from somewhere and I came to the conclusion that by simply using daily futures charts…where each vertical bar represents a single trading day, I could possibly detect tradable patterns by identifying reversal points in normal ongoing markets…specifically, reversals that tended to occur on the same number counts over and over again when counting forward in time from any significant high or low point…in the past.**
**It was about this time that a fellow trader related to me that W. D. Gann, the world famous market timer, was purported to have said “if you want to know how to time the markets…read the Bible three times!”**
**I had generally studied the writings of Gann and was frankly never able to get much out of his cryptic and obscure ramblings other than to note his focus on time as opposed to price pattern analysis.** Nevertheless, this got me to thinking…is it possible that specific number counts where reversal energy is demonstrably exposed…critical time points I had already identified in my relentless search through endless chart examples…is it possible as some sort of confirming device that those same numbers are numbers prominently mentioned in the sacred texts?
**Since it was my custom to regularly read in the Bible, I decided to keep a notebook handy to jot down specific numbers mentioned in the Bible as I came across them.** I had no real expectations one way or the other, but I was looking forward to comparing the numbers my private research was turning up with the numbers prominently mentioned in the Bible.
**So what did I find?** Actually, a head scratching puzzle. **What I noticed right away after collecting months of references was that there were an amazing number of near misses…numbers from the Bible that were in most cases off by just one number count from the numbers I had already identified through research.**
**This wasn’t the only thing that bothered me.** I’d been in a quandary for years over a quotation from Jesus found in Luke 24:46 which said “Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day.” **With my persistent mindset, I just couldn’t see how Sunday was the third day.** It seemed to me that if Christ was crucified on Friday, then Saturday…Sunday… and then Monday should be the third day. **It had been a long running and seemingly irreconcilable question in my mind.**
**Then out of the blue it struck me.** To make the biblical order work, you would have to count Friday as day number one! **Why this had been so hard for me to see was I suppose understandable.** Counting that way was just not how we were taught to count since grade school. **Nevertheless, this was a critical breakthrough…since I had now learned how God counts!**
**The next step was obvious…** use the newly learned counting method on the charts I was studying and see how the number counts compared with what I was doing before. **I picked up one of my trusty old charts and started counting days forward from an important high point reversal day on the chart.**
**Immediately, it jumped off the page at me.** By adjusting the number count of each newly discovered reversal energy number…by just one day to reflect the new counting method, **the correlation between Bible numbers and specific number counts I had already collected were now almost perfectly…in sync!**
**I say “almost” perfectly because what showed up was a pattern of hits…** that is, actual reversal days occurring on the chart that would tend to “hit” (1) on the day just before, (2) right on or (3) the day just after the individual counting number being projected.
**This was heady stuff.** Clearly, by using the 40 different and proven counting numbers so painstakingly identified through research and confirmed in most cases by biblical references, I could now exactly pinpoint and project into the future perfectly defined and extremely powerful 3 day “reversal zones” or “timing windows”…on any chart for any market…at any time!
**It’s important to note that the strongest reversal energy always exhibited itself in the center day of the 3 day zone or window.** I don’t know why, but the image of Christ crucified between 2 malefactors came to mind as I worked with this material. **And, as it turns out, the idea of a 3 unit zone or window with the most powerful energy focused in the center unit became over time an even more powerful research concept…as we shall soon see.**
**And here’s another curiosity.** Apparently, there’s no way to determine or foretell whether anticipated reversals will occur within this 3 day zone or window or not.
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