The 12 rules:
01. Determine the trend 02. Buy at single, double and triple bottoms
03. Buy
and sell on percentages 04. Buy and sell on three weeks' advance or
decline 05.
Market moves in sections06. Buy or sell on five to seven point moves
07. Study
volume to determine change in trend 08. Study factor and
periods to
determine change in trend 09. Buy on higher tops and bottoms10. A
change in
trend often occurs just before or after holidays 11. Buy on a second
reaction
at a higher bottom. When it reacts only two days, it is in a very
strong
position. 12. Price gains in fast moves doesˇnt last very long.
Gann's 24 rules
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The 24 rules: 01. Never risk one tenth of capital in one trade 02.
Always use stop loss orders 03. Never overtrade 04. Never let a
profit run into
a loss 05. Do not buck the trend 06. When in , get our or donˇt
get in 07.
Trade only active stocks 08. Equal distribution of risk in four or
five stocks
09. Trade market order 10. Donˇt close your trades without a good
reason 11.
Accumulate a surplus 12. Never buy just to get a dividend 13. Never
average a
loss 14. Never get out/in of the market because of impatience or
anxiety 15.
Avoid taking small profits and big losses 16. Never cancel a stop
loss order
after you placed it 17. Avoid getting in and out of the market too
often 18. Be
just as willing to sell short as you are to buy. Let your object be
to keep
with the trend and make money 19. Never buy/sell just because the
price is
low/high20. Wait till the stock is very active and has crossed
resistance
levels before pyramiding 21. Select stocks with small volume of
shares
outstanding to pyramid on the buying side 22. Never hedge one stock
by
another23. Trade with a plan and do not get out without a definite
indication
of a change in trend 24. Avoid increasing trading size after a long
period of
success
Read his "romance" novel "Tunnel Thru The Air or Looking
Back from 1940" published in 1927. Gann said "Kowledge is more
important (powerful) than capital" and "Verify EVERYTHING and hold
on to true and good!".