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Gann's wheat narrative describes months of trading at elevated levels before a further rise. He reports that May wheat reached 1.85 dollars per bushel in May 1898, names the episode the Leiter Corner, and says Leiter could not sustain the high price after accumulating a large position. The same passage reports a collapse back below one dollar. Keep two questions apart. What does this source report? And what can we independently establish about the event? The passage answers the first. It does not supply an audited trading record for Gann, a full account of Leiter's financing, or a verified sequence of executions. The case is a good reading exercise precisely because its dramatic ending fights against a tidy chart story: a period labeled accumulation says nothing by itself about how long later prices can be held up. Extract the reported sequence, name the missing evidence, and resist the urge to manufacture an entry, an exit, or a profit that the text never claims.

Try it

Classify three statements. (A) The book reports May wheat at 1.85 dollars in May 1898. (B) Gann personally bought the breakout and sold the top. (C) Every long accumulation must produce a durable advance. Which does the cited passage support?

Limits

This is a single-source historical account with no independent corroboration retrieved. The passage is not an audited record of Gann's trading or proof of forecasting skill. The text extract omits chart images, so no chart reconstruction is claimed.

Source

W.D. Gann, Truth of the Stock Tape (1923), Chapter XXXII, Monthly Range of Wheat Prices, Leiter Corner account. Primary author text, public domain. Digital reproductions can contain OCR errors; cite by chapter.

Today

The latest completed ZW=F daily close sits 10.86% below the one-year high; this measures price position only, not accumulation or who holds the position. CBOT wheat front-month futures (ZW=F), As of 2026-09-25T04:00:00+00:00: 100 * (latest_settle / fifty_two_week_high - 1) = -10.860457621656462 percent (inputs: fifty_two_week_high=775.75, latest_settle=691.5). Data source 1

Calculated astronomy: Horizons quantity 21 is the elapsed time since the light observed at print-time left or reflected from the target. JPL reports this one-way down-leg interval in minutes. It is a propagation delay, not a timezone correction and not the difference between civil and dynamical clocks. Suppose a deliberately simplified observation is stamped 20:00 UTC and its down-leg interval is four minutes. The target event represented by that received light occurred at approximately 19:56 UTC. The observation still belongs in the 20:00 receiving-time row. Relabeling it 19:56 without explaining the change would mix reception records with target-event records. The phrase one-way matters. This value is not a radar round-trip delay. Nor does it include an arbitrary delay from when an observer downloads the data. In an observing worksheet, keep reception timestamp, delay, and inferred target-event timestamp as three fields. If a market price is placed beside the observation, align it to the reception timestamp unless the research design explicitly calls for something else. Otherwise a basic timestamp error can look like a discovered lead or lag.

Try it

A simplified received observation is dated 20:00 UTC and its one-way down-leg interval is 4 minutes. State the approximate target-event time and the timestamp for a reception-aligned price row.

Limits

The worked times are hypothetical. Precision work must preserve Horizons time conventions and apparent-position model. A propagation delay is not evidence that a planetary event leads market prices.

Source

NASA/JPL, Horizons System manual, Observer-table quantity 21, "Down-leg light-time," definition, units MINUTES, label 1-way_down_LT. Primary NASA/JPL technical documentation; calculated astronomy, not astrological doctrine.

Today

The BTC reception-dated minute close stays on the 11:00 UTC row; Venus light left the target about 3.16 minutes earlier, so the price row is not shifted backward to manufacture a lead. BTC-USD minute close and geocentric Venus down-leg light-time, As of 2026-09-25T11:00:00+00:00: delay_seconds = 60 * one_way_down_LT_minutes = 189.8113968 seconds (inputs: delay_minutes=3.16352328, price_usd=84699.23). Data source 1 Data source 2