Crypto Gann Degree Levels: 90-Degree Targets from a Swing

Several Gann pages measure from the last major swing. A swing point comes from Gann's two-bar swing chart (see the crypto Swing Chart guide); it is major when its high or low is also the highest or lowest of the ten days on either side of it. Crypto has no holidays, so that is ten calendar days: a swing becomes major ten days after it is made.

• The start is the last major swing: from a low the ladder counts up, from a high it counts down.
• Levels at 90°, 180°, 270°, 360°, 450°, 540° and 720° from it, by the Square of 9 formula.
• Degree Reached - the furthest level the day's highs (or lows) have touched since the swing.
• Reached tab - a level was touched for the first time today.
• Near tab - the close is within 0.5% of the next level.

What changes on crypto

• BTC's ladder is tiny. From BTC's 21 October 2026 high of 84,898 the 720° level is 82,583.02, only 2.73% lower. BTC touched all seven levels on 22 October, the day after the high. From 31 October, when the high became major, BTC's row showed 720° reached and no next level.
• Cheap coins' ladders barely exist. Counting down from a high, the square root runs out after a few steps: from NEAR's 6.00 high the 450° level would be below zero, and from ADA's 0.2824 high the 90° level is 0.00099, 99.7% lower.
• The useful middle. From ETH, BNB, SOL and LTC the steps are a few percent to about ten percent, the range in which a 90° level is a realistic target.

• The start: a major swing high of 124.95 on 27 September 2026. From a high the ladder counts down.
• 90° at 114.02: touched on 8 October, when SOL fell from about 117 to a low of 105.71.
• 180° at 103.59: touched on 13 October (low 101.69); the page's Reached tab listed SOL that day.
• 270° at 93.67: touched in the 30 October sell-off (low 92.34), and SOL was on the Reached tab again.
• Next, 360° at 84.24: on 5 November SOL closed at 89.61, 6.0% above it. Not yet Near, which needs 0.5%.

Three quarters of a turn in five weeks, each step taking a week or two. Two other ladders from the same autumn:

• LTCUSDT from its 75.00 high on 26 September: 90° at 66.59 on 29 September, 180° at 58.68 on 15 October, 270° at 51.27 touched on 6 November.
• ETHUSDT from its 2,807.34 high on 22 September: the whole ladder to 720° (2,399.47) was reached by 15 October.

1. Check the swing first. The From column names the swing and its date. Make sure it is a swing you recognise on the chart, not a crash wick from long ago.
2. Read Degree Reached against time. 270° in five weeks, like SOL, is a steady move; 90° in three months is a slow one.
3. Use the next level as a target or reaction point. Traders already short treat SOL's 84.24 as the next stop of the fall; buyers waiting for a pause watch how price behaves there.
4. Use the last level reached to judge a bounce. A daily close back above the last level reached (SOL's 270° at 93.67) says the selling has paused.
5. Skip the rows that cannot help. BTC with nothing ahead, or a cheap coin whose next level is 90% away, has no usable target here.

These are ideas to study, paper-trade and backtest, not recommendations or signals, and not a promise of any result. Every condition below can fail. Crypto trades around the clock and can move sharply at any hour; leverage and options can lose more than you expect, and past behaviour says nothing certain about the next session. Size, entries, exits and risk are your own decisions.

1. The next level as a target

• Setup: a mid-priced pair (ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC) trending away from its swing, with the next level a few percent away.
• Idea: for a position you already hold with the trend, the next degree level is a natural place to take some off.

2. The Near tab as a reaction watch-list

• Setup: a pair on the Near tab: within 0.5% of the next level.
• Idea: study what the next one to three days did at that level: a pause, a bounce, or a clean break to the following one.

3. A reclaim of the last level reached

In a fall, a daily close back above the last level reached is the first sign the move from the swing has paused. A close below the next level opens the step after it.

4. Line it up with time

Gann looked for price and time together. A pair that reaches a degree level on a day that is also a time cycle from the same swing is the case he paid most attention to; the Time Cycles page flags it. See the Time Cycles guide; on crypto, cycles count calendar days with no holidays.

How to test these

Pick past days, note the pairs on Near and Reached, and record how often the next level was reached and what happened in the days after. Leave BTC and the sub-dollar coins out of the sample.

Risk per trade - risk a small, fixed share of capital on any one idea. Crypto never closes, so a stop is the only exit while you sleep; with leverage, keep the liquidation price well beyond the stop. When selling options, prefer defined-risk structures (spreads, iron condors) over naked positions.

Test before you trade - write the rules down exactly, test them on past data (see how to backtest an options strategy and the Option Simulator, which supports crypto), then paper-trade at least 20 occurrences before committing real money. Keep a journal of every trade, including the ones you skipped.

• Tabs - All, Reached (a new level today) and Near (within 0.5% of the next level). Rows with a tag come first.
• From - swing low or swing high, with its price and date.
• Degree Reached - the furthest level touched so far, and its price.
• Next Level / To Next % - the next level and its distance from the close. Empty when the ladder has run out.
• Chart - the swing and the ladder of 90° levels on the daily candles, reached levels solid and the next one dashed.

• Pairs. The live USDT pairs in Unfluke's crypto archive (34 on 8 November 2026). A pair whose 20-day average range is under 0.25% of price is not scanned, which is meant to keep stablecoins out; after a few wide wicks in late October 2026, USDCUSDT was briefly back on some lists.
• Liquidity first. A pair is listed only if its 20-day average turnover is above US$500,000, today's turnover above US$100,000, and today's volume above 0.8× the average of the previous 20 days. There is no circuit rule; crypto has no price bands.
• Days. Daily candles are IST calendar days, 00:00 to 23:59, rolled up from the one-minute Binance spot archive. Everything is end of day, and the newest day is topped up during the day, so it can be partial until 23:59 IST.
• Quiet days empty the page. The volume rule compares a day with the 20 before it, and weekends trade less. On Saturday 7 November 2026 one pair passed; on Sunday 8 November none did, so every Gann page was empty. Signed-in users can pick an earlier session date.
• Universe. All, Futures (pairs with a perpetual future in the archive) or Options (BTC and ETH).
• Look-back. The swing-based pages read about 400 days of history. One extreme candle, such as the crash of 10 to 11 October 2025 when several altcoins printed lows near zero on Binance, stays in that window for over a year and can dominate the swings measured from it. If a row's swing dates point at a crash day, read it with care.

Gann levels, angles and cycles are research references. They describe geometry on a price chart, not a forecast, and prices move through them regularly.

Open the page at Gann → Degree Levels (switch the market to Crypto). The NSE version is explained in the Gann Degree Levels guide.

The other crypto Gann guides: Swing Chart, Square of 9 Levels, Level Cross, Cardinal & Diagonal. For floor pivots on the same pairs, read the crypto pivot points guide; for a day's unusual volume, the crypto Volume Shockers guide. Sign up free to open the Market Terminal.