Definitely marking my difference.
If you already know the truth, you will understand these words.
If you are blind and deaf, you will see me as an old mad loony.
Premise: one must know what he is doing in the Market. If you have a detailed enough Mental Road Map... then...
the main objective is to manage actions and natural reactions of the market with UNOBSTRUCTED PERCEPTION!
Here comes the idea of Discipline and Moral Law.
Discipline is both an idealized state and a concrete set of internal strategies.
Discipline works to remove each trader's concerns and desires from his economic judgements.
Faith, humility and self-regulation become concrete. They are facts: acceptance and obedience.
Acceptance and Obedience lead to flexibility and adaptation to the course of the current and the tide.
To properly understand Gann one must embrace this religious view of things.
I test myself every single day. I either made money or I lost money. I'm a good person or I'm a bad person.
The rational and moral purpose is to maintain acute alertness in the present moment (each effect has a cause).
All the techniques are finalised to control the impact of loss (to play a good defense)
while I try to maximise each single opportunity.
Mother Market holds absolute truths. She determines my financial fates and acts as the arbiter of my own moral worth.
If I fight I only demonstrate my stupid and insolent ego.
(Different question is to fight to save your life... but it is a particular, exceptional case.
And it is always your fault: you have put your life at risk! Only you and your bastard ego.)