Quote from ProfLogic:
My mentor was a HUGE Gann fanatic and cycle nut. He studied cycles for over 25 years before he took me under his wing. He was constantly trying to find a unified number or average where he could find the averages number of bars in a cycle.
What I first confirmed and then discovered was that every chart is made up of cycles but that there is NEVER a consistent or repetitive number of bars in any cycle. It didn't make a difference whether the bars are created using Time, Ticks, Volume, Range or an other variable way of building a bar there was NEVER a consistent or repetitive number of bars in any cycle or cycle group (regardless of group size).
What was perfectly consistent was the fact that every chart cycled . . . over and over and over without end. I discovered that if this were the case then I needed to find a way to confirm when each cycle top and each cycle bottom had completed. If I could confirm ALL cycle tops and bottoms then I could ALWAYS determine immediate price direction. I later found a way, using the same confirmation process, to determine directional strength as well. With these two tools, I've been able to build a highly consistent way of reading any chart and extracting profit from it.
These same tools, when laid side by side with Gann charting proved the inconsistencies that Gann saw loosely as consistencies in his arcane environments.
Technological advances gives each of us the ability to use that new information to further our abilities to improve on our probabilities of success in trading. Ignoring those advances would be the same as ignoring advances in medical procedures when do so would potentially be life threatening.