Gann · Squaring

Squaring price and time

Gann’s idea of squaring is that when price and time have travelled an equal distance, a move is due to change. Geometriya’s squaring tools turn a low, a high or a whole swing into squares on the chart, and a price into a date.

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Geometriya chart of RELIANCE with Squaring of Range: a square sized by the 224-point swing, with its circle, diagonals and 2×1, 1×1 and 1×2 time lines.
Squaring of Range on RELIANCE (daily), projected from the end of a 224-point decline, with its dated time lines.

Squaring a low, a high or a range

Squaring of Low
The low’s own price becomes the side of a square: as many bars wide as it is price units tall, at the current Mitotic scale. Click the low, then walk the grid with ▲ ▶ ▼, each click placing the next square edge to edge.
Squaring of High
The same construction anchored on a high, walked out in time from that pivot.
Squaring of Range
Squares the height of a swing (high minus low) instead of a single price, so the square is sized by how far the move travelled. It projects forward from the second point you click, the end of the move.

How to read the squares

Each square boundary is a checkpoint in both price and time. The dashed verticals mark the bar each boundary lands on, so the date can be read straight off the chart, and price arriving at a boundary on or near that date is the reading squaring is looking for.

Converting price into time

Price → Time
Converts a price into a forward bar count using the Mitotic scale and drops time lines there, plus the same count at 0.618, 1, 1.618 and 2.618.
Price Lookback
The backward twin: takes the current price as a bar count and marks the bar that many bars in the past, used to confirm a change in trend.

Questions

What does squaring price and time mean?

It is W. D. Gann’s idea that price and time are interchangeable units. When a market has moved as many units of time as of price from a pivot, the two are "squared", and a change in trend becomes more likely.

Why does squaring need Mitotic Scaling?

To make one unit of price equal one bar, the chart needs a fixed price-per-bar scale. Mitotic Scaling provides it, so the squares stay true squares at any zoom.

Can I scan for stocks at a squaring level?

Yes. Squaring of Range is one of Geometriya’s scanners.

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