Frank what I know and use I picked up in part from Voltaire who...

Frank what I know and use I picked up in part from Voltaire who no longer posts. He was a wealth of knowledge on Market history and he was a big fan of Martin Armstrong's 3141 day cycle and the eighths and twelfth divisions of that cycle. Also a good sound understanding of Fib numbers and ratios helps. From there I just started using a day counter to count between market highs and lows and then dividing and multiplying those number of days to look for mathematical relationships like Fib ratios or even pythagoras relationships. Also I have minor fascination with the connections between the stock market and the movements of earth and venus ever since I found out that the only 2 major bear market lows since 1987 happened on the day venus turned retrograde which is about a 1 in 583 day event. Mostly after studying a bit of Armstrong, a bit of W D Gann, a bit of sacred geometry and a bit of planetary movements it is just a matter of staring at the charts and focusing on it until something pops out at you. Oh, and don't get me started on my theory of 911 or we will really be off topic. Hope that helps to get you started anyway. Most of my methods are my own by trial and error....lots of error. If you want to ask me anything else then please post on the XJO thread and tag me and I will answer you there. A post or two here is ok but we don't want to get too far off topic or someone will report us.