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Lo, Mamaysky and Wang use explicit pattern definitions rather than asking a reader to recognize shapes by eye. In their 1962-1996 U.S. stock sample, the same research procedure produces different pattern frequencies across exchange groups. Their reported head-and-shoulders counts are 1,611 for NYSE/AMEX stocks and 919 for Nasdaq stocks. Those counts are historical results for chart patterns, not evidence about Gann cycles. The design suggests a transfer test for a timing rule. Choose its count, response criterion, and cost assumptions in the development market. Then carry those choices unchanged into a separately identified destination market. Re-estimating the period after seeing the second market's results creates a new rule, not a successful transfer. Separate occurrence from usefulness. A detector may fire less often without having a worse outcome per occurrence. Conversely, an equally frequent signal may have a different return distribution. In the destination market, record eligible opportunities, triggers, and subsequent outcomes separately. Match calendars and return units before comparing them. A shared chart shape or instrument nickname is not enough to establish that a rule travels.

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Synthetic unchanged detector: market A has 12 responses in 20 eligible windows; market B has 5 in 20. Compute the rates and the B-minus-A difference. May the analyst tune B and still call it the same transfer test?

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The cited paper tests chart-pattern information, not this cycle-transfer protocol. The synthetic rate gap has no significance claim. Currency, trading hours, opportunity definitions, and costs can differ across markets.

Source

Lo, Mamaysky and Wang, Technical Analysis, Section III.B, sample design, printed p. 1728; Section III.E, NYSE/AMEX versus Nasdaq frequency comparison, p. 1731. Peer-reviewed Journal of Finance 55(4), 2000, pp. 1705-1765. University-hosted article; U.S. stock sample 1962-1996. It studies automated chart patterns, not Gann cycles.

NASA's solar eclipse glossary defines magnitude through diameter and obscuration through area. These words cannot be exchanged just because both can be printed as percentages. For a partial eclipse, the hidden area is the intersection of two offset disks. Draw an ideal Sun and Moon with equal unit radii, their centers one radius apart. Along the line joining their centers, the overlap extends one radius out of the Sun's two-radius diameter. The eclipse magnitude is therefore one half. The covered area has a curved boundary, so it is not half the solar disk. Divide the overlap into two identical circular segments. Each segment is a sector minus a triangle. In radians, the combined area is 2 times arccos of one half, minus the square root of three divided by two. Dividing that area by pi gives obscuration of about 0.391, or 39.1 percent. This construction explains why a magnitude column cannot be relabeled percent area. Both disk sizes and their separation belong in an actual eclipse calculation.

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For the equal-unit-radius, one-unit-separation disks, evaluate [2*acos(0.5)-sqrt(3)/2]/pi in radians. Compare it with magnitude 0.5.

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The equal disks are a teaching model, not a dated eclipse observation. The circle-segment derivation is elementary geometry, not a formula quoted from NASA. Area coverage is not a direct brightness measurement because the solar disk is not uniformly bright. No market consequence follows.

Source

NASA, Solar eclipse glossary, Entries eclipse magnitude and eclipse obscuration. Primary institutional astronomy reference. Worked examples are explicitly hypothetical, not observed market effects.