New Product Review-Market Analyst Software- Gann Analyst Program

Every few years I spend some time in my letter reviewing products that I think may be helpful or even essential to
the trading community. Over the past year a number of successful traders from around the world who have come to
New York to attend my personal advanced seminars have asked me what I knew about Market Analyst Software in
Australia. I said I didn't know much but the program a few of them had seemed to be able to do the types of things I
was teaching them and up till then I had to program everything myself and give my programs to my students. Shortly
there after one of the buyers of my course was so excited about the "Box Method" I introduced in my course that he
approached the Market Analyst Software people to see if they would program it as a "plug-in" for their package. A few
discussions later and they now have a whole set of "Jenkins" tools that do many of the absolutely essential proprietary
techniques that I use everyday. Because these tools are proprietary discoveries of mine there is almost no available
documentation on them so this review will be a first attempt to explain what they do and how they work as well as give
a brief overview of the entire program. Obviously you should check their authoritative website for more details
(www.Market-Analyst.com, or www.GannAnalyst.info) and latest updates.
This is a relatively new program which is being updated all the time so check the web or email them if you have
questions. I also have some examples of the Jenkins tools on my own website (www.Stockcyclesforecast.com).
Suggested hardware is a relatively new computer with speed and decent ram memory, and a Windows "XP" operating
system is suggested but not mandatory. An internet connection is also needed for the help files and various updates.
Data sources may be somewhat limited at present but that is being worked on so check if you need a special data feed.
For my review I used standard Metastock end of day data which works fine as does CSI. Live intra-day operation is
starting over the next month or so. I might add that the company has a very liberal 14 day free trial download of the
program so you have nothing to lose checking it out, and they are running a sale special through month's end.
The basic program is a technical analysis package that does almost everything from every category of technical
analysis- charting, volume, relative strength, averages, drawing tools, oscillators, color coding of bars and studies,
statistics, all kinds of charts (i.e. bar, candlestick, line, kagi, swing, etc.) and just about every tool available in other
packages including a scanning utility to search trading criteria. The Gann tools are the attraction for me and here they
have Gann boxes, Square of Nine, date calculations and graphing, and of course the essential astrology- aspects
between planets, sign ingress's, degrees moved, declinations, Helio, Geo, and Sidereal calculations, planetary line
overlays, time by degrees, searching of aspects, and when you include the fact that most of these can all be customized
with your own inputs the variety of what you can do is difficult to describe. I've always had a hard time finding one
package with all the technical tools plus the astrology tools necessary for serious Gann work, but this product seems to
fit the bill nicely.
One unique aspect to this program is its use of "transparency overlays" so you can put all kinds of studies on a
chart in different layers and make each layer invisible or transparent so you can see the raw chart and still have all your
set ups in the background whenever you want to check them. This is great for when you have angles, or planetary
aspects hitting in future time periods and you can pop up that transparency to view those lines or you can adjust the
transparency intensity so it is very light and you can just faintly see it without taking away too much from the general
chart. This kind of transparency is part of a "workbook" architecture that allows you to set up numerous workbooks
with unlimited numbers of individual stock charts and studies all tabbed for easy reference. That way you can set up
permanent charts with studies you use all the time in one workbook and set up another with plain graphs or differing
methodologies. This is helpful in trading to organize like this rather than jumping around each day re-doing all your
studies and missing most of them at the big market turns when you're not prepared. There are so many facets to this
program I suggest you check the website or download the free trial.

I would like to demonstrate some of the program features with my tool set and the first and most important is the
"Jenkins True Trend Line". This is a discovery of mine that is not in any other software package to my knowledge but is

Stock Cycles Forecast June 18, 2004 Page 9

essential if you want great results. Every program can draw a trendline but most trendlines don't do what they're
supposed to do- allow you to trade off of them with absolute confidence. My "True" trendlines are mathematically
specific to each chart and indeed specific to each point on that chart. They incorporate a time and a price coordinate
that balances the chart in perfect harmony so when angles cross or square out techniques are used they always work.
When the price hits my angles it always produces a change in trend. Prior to this program I had to make a series of
calculations by hand for each trendline and that always took several minutes. Now I can just click the mouse on any high
or low and the computer calculates and draws a perfect trendline every time. You can adjust the lines individually to get
fan lines or steeper slopes for strong stocks but the calculations will insure that the time and price harmonics always
balance.
The daily chart of DuPont below, has three uptrend lines and four downtrend lines of various slopes. The lines
have been drawn double thick to show up better in this report but on the computer they are quite thin and elegant. What
you want to see with a good trendline is what happens to the stock when it hits the line. It should either reverse
direction (support or resistance line) or it will accelerate the trend (usually a midpoint- useful for calculating termination
of a move). Also note what happens when good trendlines intersect- that should always be a cycle turn. In this chart the
prices follow the lines very well and if you were to draw horizontal lines across the highs and lows you would see big
changes when these angles intersected those range limits.
Similar to trendlines are "Jenkins Lines" which are horizontal support and resistance lines that are geometrically

related to each high and low. If you have read my books you know that stocks go up and down to target prices based
on the square roots of their origin price. One full cycle around the Gann Square of Nine is calculated by taking the
square root of the number and adding 2 to it and re-squaring it to get the next level up. In the vast majority of cases
stocks only move 45 degrees before encountering resistance and that is an increment of .25 added to the square root of
the start. This next chart below shows these .25 root increments and you can see how they form natural and very
precise support and resistance barriers to the stock. Note how the prices exactly hit these lines and trade off of them or
consolidate around them. When they go through they always go to the next level up. Since there are 8 of these to a full
cycle (square root + 2) you can often see strong levels at the 4th line (1/2, 180 degrees) or every 2nd one (1/4, 90

Stock Cycles Forecast June 18, 2004 Page 10

degrees) of a cycle. The program instantly calculates all these with a simple mouse click and allows you to change the
increment to anything you want. This is very powerful and when combined with a trendline on the tool (not shown here)
the intersections of that trendline with these lines gives you great trades precisely timed.
One thing to note about the charts shown is that I made most of them all "black and white" so people getting
various deliveries of the newsletter (printed, email, web) will all see the same thing. The program allows you to choose

what color you want for up bars and down bars and trends, as well as all study colors and line thicknesses. It's a very
customizable program and quite attractive looking.

This next Jenkins Tool is the "box" tool that is so popular since it works great and gives very big trades when they
are set up properly. In the past you had to do a lot of drawing on paper with various angles and interpolation into the
future to get the dates, but now the program does all that instantly so you can set it up on every chart you have and
never miss a big turn. You will then also note "clusters" of hits on many stocks at the same time and be more prepared

Stock Cycles Forecast June 18, 2004 Page 11

for a general market turn. The actual calculations of the "box" are given in the advanced section of the course and for
that reason must remain undisclosed to the general public. This program, however, easily gives you the results. The chart
above of General Motors shows the general box view with three levels of time and price. The third level is usually the
extreme that ends all long term trends. Sometimes the third level time and price come together or sometimes a third level
price and a second level time but the gist of it is that the price levels will show massive support or resistance and the
vertical time zones are when to look for a change in trend. In the first chart the first level time and price became a big
consolidation level, but the second levels were the top although in terms of price there was a brief overshoot of the ideal
target. Note the big third level time target for the culmination of GM's trend is 7/29/2004. The next chart below is
MMM. This long term weekly chart shows how long term cycles also work with the box method and you can see the
first price level was a big resistance level for the stock and we could surmise that the first time box would also be big.

Here it was the top of the move.

The next big one is September
2005. Weekly turns last for
weeks.
Another tool is the "Jenkins
Angle" (at right) which sets up a
series of parallel trendlines that are
harmonically related in time and
price to any point on a chart. You
can take a high or low and the
computer will divide that price up
into segments and create trendlines
of one unit of time to one unit of
price. These angles will provide
good support and resistance and
as they form the "arrow" point, a
change in trend is often made. This chart of Intel shows the low as the start and the angles coming down. Note the blast
off in the stock when the last arrow hit but also note minor moves at many of the other points too. This next chart is the

Stock Cycles Forecast June 18, 2004 Page 12

same but with the "box" attribute of the tool activated. This gives a more clear view of the vertical time counts and
horizontal resistance. Remember these can all be color coded.
These next charts are not part of the "Jenkins" specific tool kit but are a neat part of the program and I'm always

eager to show some interesting astro stuff for the non-believers. These are charts of IBM, the first with Mars increments
of 48 degrees Helio, the second 7.50 degree separations between Jupiter and Saturn Helio. Charts like these should
make you want to give up what you're doing and study further! By the way, that Mars cycle worked perfectly the next
year and the next occurrence is August 5th 2004. You don't have to be an astrologer to watch and be prepared to
trade an astrological event.

Stock Cycles Forecast June 18, 2004 Page 13

 This is IBM with 7.5 degrees separation of Jupiter and Saturn. August 26th is the next turn.

This next chart is an example of AA with a chart of Mercury going through its declination cycle in the lower panel.
The general rule is stocks go up with rising declinations and fall with declining declinations. That's why we have Spring
and Summer rallies in the market- Sun, Mer, & Venus are all rising in declination.

Stock Cycles Forecast June 18, 2004 Page 14

 Many programs will find aspects between two planets for you but this is a simple, fast, elegant interface that will
do the job quickly. Here we see a few of the contacts between Mars and the Node of the Moon. Note the July 8th
2004 square. March 25th 2000 was also a square.

There is much more to the program than these few features demonstrated above and I am assured that in the near
future even better tools and functions will be available. I've put a few snap shots of the tool bars below to give you a hint

of the dozens and dozens of technical techniques this program offers. This is truly a program that fits a big void between
regular charting software and specialized Gann and astro charting techniques. It's one of the best all around packages
I've seen in quite some time so I would recommend you check it out for yourself. (www.GannAnalyst.info)

Michael S. Jenkins
Stock Cycles Forecast
Stock Cycles Forecast June 18, 2004 Page 15