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Financial Timetable

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Summary

The Financial Timetable is PSE’s structured framework for overlaying historical year patterns on the current year to generate a forecast curve (“Roadmap”). The 2026 Roadmap compares current markets against 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 90-year-ago market shapes (i.e., 2016, 2006, 1996, 1986, 1976, 1966, 1936). The key comparisons for 2026 are the “20/60 grey line” (1966 and 2006) — with 1966 being bearish (Vietnam/Fed tightening) and 2006 being bullish (Iraq war but up year). The number 60 and the 82-84 year cycle are also active in 2026. The decade-cycle overlay method traces to W.D. Gann’s own 1929 forecast methodology, which used 20-year (1909) and 60-year (1869) repeats.

Core Claims

  • 2020-02-28-feb-2020-forecast-class-phil-session1-financial-timetable (2020-02-28): Phil presents the Financial Timetable in detail — A-K pattern within 18-year columns, origins in 1909 document. — confidence: high
  • 2020-02-28-feb-2020-forecast-class-phil-sessions3b-4 (2020-02-28): Historical walk through every Financial Timetable column 1896-2030 with McWhirter North Node overlay. — confidence: high
  • 2026-01-07-roadmap-2026-available (2026-01-07): 2026 Roadmap shows what happened 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 90 years ago. — confidence: high
  • 2026-01-09-gann-dates-2026 (2026-01-09): Gann used 20-year (1909) and 60-year (1869) repeats for 1929 forecast. — confidence: high
  • 2026-03-31-roadmap-update-march (2026-03-31): Markets now following the bearish 20/60 “grey line” (1966). — confidence: high
  • 2026-03-31-roadmap-update-march (2026-03-31): 1966 pattern: 10% correction into March, lower high in April, further falls to September. — confidence: high
  • 2026-03-31-roadmap-update-march (2026-03-31): 2006 pattern: up year, higher highs through year despite deteriorating economy and Iraq war. — confidence: high
  • 2026-06-30-gann-20-intermarket-breadth-cmg-stop (2026-06-30): Red-line emphasis increases. With breadth becoming more positive (RSP making new highs while MAGS pulls back) and financial conditions remaining loose, Anderson states: “we may need to put a larger emphasis on the red line in our 2026 Roadmap.” The red line still points to “a period of sideways and volatile price action into the fourth quarter” but is “plotting the more bullish path for the year that we’ve seen unfold so far.” This is the strongest pro-red-line statement since the March shift toward the grey-line scenario. — confidence: high [Source: PSE Gann #20, 2026-06-30]
  • 2026-07-01-pse-sub-28-roadmap-notes-into-july (2026-07-01): Red line confirmed as primary guide. Anderson explicitly endorses the red-line scenario: “The 20/60 line has been fabulous for forecasting each year for over a decade up til now. It seems it’s the red line presently. At least until it isn’t.” Acknowledges the March deviation (actual ran counter to red-line forecast) but frames the late-March low as a yearly low called in early April. June’s sharp one-day reversals cited as a bullish Gann signal. — confidence: high [Source: PSE Sub #28, 2026-07-01]
  • 2026-07-20-pse-sub-32-from-the-vault (2026-07-20): Anderson directs subscribers to revisit the February 2020 Forecast Class as essential material for understanding Gann’s time cycles and the North Node, stating the principles “are not dated” because they address long-term cycles still unfolding. Surfaces Gann’s explicit forecast: “Another bad period for the United States will be 2026 to 2030” — connecting the Financial Timetable’s decade-cycle framework to a specific multi-year bad period that aligns with the K-wave winter and post-peak cycle downturn. — confidence: high [Source: PSE Sub #32, 2026-07-20]

Mechanism / How It Works

  • PSE generates forecast “curves” by overlaying multiple historical year shapes on the current year
  • The “red line” is the primary decade-cycle scenario; the “grey line” (20/60 year) is the bearish alternative
  • Real market action is overlaid throughout the year to see which line it’s tracking
  • Inflection months (e.g., April) are key decision points for which scenario is unfolding

2026 Scenario Status

  • Through February: followed bullish curves correctly (Feb pause/dip called correctly)
  • March (post Iran war Feb 28): shifted to tracking grey/bearish 20/60 line
  • Critical test: April 2026 — if rally produces lower high → bearish (1966); if higher high → bullish (2006)
  • April 22 update: Anderson reaffirms “red line” (bullish overall for 2026) despite breadth concerns. Roadmap forecast: late April peak → weakness and choppy Q2/Q3 → strong Q4. S&P 500 crossed 7,000 but with only 12 constituents at new highs. [Source: PSE Gann #07, 2026-04-22]
  • April 28 update: Anderson identifies May 4 (seasonal solstice/equinox midpoint) as the key Gann date where “various forecast curves are aligned in seeing a peak soon that could mark a top until a fourth quarter rally sets in.” The Roadmap-warned change-in-trend is now reinforced by (1) Dow 30 Bubble Index red-line steady decline, (2) cyclical double-tops in XLB, Dow Transports, FCX, RIO, and (3) XLF/XLI below earlier-2026 highs. [Source: PSE Gann #08, 2026-04-28]
  • June 30 update (Gann #20): Roadmap emphasis shifts back toward the red line (bullish 2006 analogue) for the first time since the March shift to the grey-line scenario. The trigger is breadth improvement — RSP (equal-weight S&P) making new highs while MAGS (Mag 7) pulls back, inverting the narrow-leadership pattern of April–May. Anderson: “With breadth becoming more positive again while financial conditions remain loose overall, we may need to put a larger emphasis on the red line.” The red line still calls for sideways/volatile price action into Q4, but the year-to-date price action is tracking the more bullish path. This does not revoke the late-cycle thesis (peak “months, maybe even a year” per Sub #26) but suggests the March–June grey-line read may have been a mid-cycle correction rather than the cycle-peak signal it appeared to be. [Source: PSE Gann #20, 2026-06-30]
  • July 1 update (Sub #28): Anderson reaffirms the red line as primary guide and explicitly acknowledges the March deviation: “Actual events (green line) ran counter to the red line forecast over March.” However, he frames the 30-month count from October 2023 as the expected emotional turn — “which is what we got” — and the late-March low as a yearly low called in early April. June’s sharp one-day price reversals are cited as a bullish Gann signal (“Time turns the trend, not price”). Anderson also restates the cycle-peak precondition from the 2026 Roadmap (p.25): markets haven’t risen enough yet; “all the talk of ‘AI bubbles’ has to cease” and short sellers must be “put out of business” before a crash can occur. The 20/60 line is endorsed as “fabulous for forecasting each year for over a decade.” [Source: PSE Sub #28, 2026-07-01]
  • July 2 update (Sub #29): Anderson previews an extended “Roadmap out to 2031” document — “a sort of Roadmap 5 years out to 2031” — to extend the decade-cycle analysis from the Melbourne Q&A into a publishable framework. The document aims to “put a date on the troubles beginning, as is usually highlighted by the stock market.” This is the first time PSE has explicitly extended the forecast horizon to 2031, suggesting the cycle-peak window may be wider than the late-2026/2027 framing implied by earlier updates. [Source: PSE Sub #29, 2026-07-02]

Historical Confirmed Predictions Using This Framework

  • Foldvary 1997 → 2008: “1990 + 18 = 2008” — confirmed ✅ [Source: foldvary-depression-of-2008.pdf]
  • Harrison 2005 → 2007-10: “By 2007, Britain and most other industrially advanced economies will be in the throes of frenzied activity in the land market… on the verge of the collapse that will presage the global depression of 2010.” — confirmed ✅ [Source: gaffney-role-of-land-markets-2009.pdf]
  • Harrison 2022 → 2026 peak: “It will be in 2026, that is at the end of a 14-year cycle in house prices within a business cycle of 18 years.” ⏳ PENDING [Source: harrison-moneyweek-2026-interview-2022.md]

Applications

  • Annual Roadmap is generated each January using this framework
  • PSE subscribers use it as a “north star” to avoid reacting to short-term noise
  • The red and grey lines serve as scenario brackets

Contradictions & Open Questions

  • 1966 is an “odd-man-out” — Phil flagged that it doesn’t fit neatly into the typical decade cycle
  • Markets currently tracking the grey line — outcome of April rally will resolve ambiguity
  • The timetable framework draws on Gann’s methodology but its theoretical underpinning (why do 20-year and 60-year patterns repeat?) is not fully explained in PSE sources

WD Gann Financial Timetable — Clean Chart Gann Financial Timetable — years mapped with seasonal turning points and cycle overlays. Source: PSE Video

2026 Dow Jones Forecast Curves 2026 Dow Jones forecast curves — current-year timetable projection (red/grey scenarios). Source: PSE Video

More Charts

WD Gann Financial Information Slide WD Gann’s Financial Information — foundational reference for the timetable framework. Source: PSE Video

Dow Jones Forecast Curves 2025 Dow Jones forecast curves for 2025 — composite curve projection used in PSE Roadmap. Source: PSE Video

2024 Dow Jones Forecast 2024 Dow Jones forecast curve — prior-year composite curve for validation.

Dow Jones Forecast Curves Chart Dow Jones forecast chart — example of the composite curve methodology. Source: PSE Video

Chart of Various Composite Curves Composite curves — multiple decade overlays for the composite forecast approach. Source: PSE Video

2020 Nasdaq Forecast Curves 2020 Nasdaq forecast curves — how the timetable was applied during COVID markets. Source: PSE Video

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