Crypto Gann Price-Time Squaring: When a Coin's Move Matches the Days

All four pages measure from major swings. 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, and until then the pages keep measuring from the one before it.

• Unit - the 14-day ATR on the swing's date.
• Points in units - |close − swing price| ÷ unit.
• Days - daily candles since the swing, which on crypto are calendar days.
• Angle - the angle the move's pace is closest to: 1x1 (one unit a day), 1x2 (half) or 1x4 (a quarter).
• Squared - the pace is within 5% of that angle. A 1x1 square is Gann's true square: as many ATR units moved as days passed.

How often each angle squares on crypto

Crypto moves fast, but not one full ATR a day for long. In the 30-pair sample from April to November 2026 there were 187 squared pair-days among 3,742 liquid ones: 9 on the 1x1, 38 on the 1x2 and 140 on the 1x4. A 1x1 square is rare enough that each one deserves a look; the 1x4 is the everyday case.

The page's newest days when this was written, 7 and 8 November 2026, were a weekend and listed one pair and none (see the volume rule below), and past dates need a signed-in session. So the rows in this guide come from running the page's own Gann code on Binance spot daily candles grouped into IST days, the source of Unfluke's crypto archive. The page's figures for these days should match, or differ by a day where the archive's feed missed one.

BTC's 21 October high of 84,898 became its last major swing on 31 October, ten days later. Until then the page measured from the older 22 September high of 87,395.67. The unit is the ATR on 21 October, 2,146.45.

• 3 November (day 13): close 77,670.02, 3.37 units from the high: 0.259 units a day against the 1x4's 0.25, a difference of +3.61%. Squared on the 1x4, with the angle line at 77,922.03.
• 4 November: a rally to 80,600.01 cut the move to 2.00 units, far off any angle (−42.79%).
• 5 November: back down to 76,176.01, 4.06 units in 15 days, +8.36%.
• 6 November: 4.21 units in 16 days, +5.31%: just outside the 5% band, so not listed as squared.
• 7 November: 4.24 units in 17 days, −0.31%, squared again, but on 0.48× average volume: a weekend day the page did not list.

Over three weeks BTC's fall kept close to a quarter ATR a day, the 1x4, crossing back through the band whenever a rally or a sharp day pushed it off. That is the 1x4 doing what Gann's angles describe: a pace, with price leaning on its line.

1. Check the side before anything else. Points in units are a distance, either side of the swing. On 1 October HBARUSDT was listed as squared on the 1x4: 5.77 units in 24 days from its 7 September high of 0.0832. But HBAR was at 0.1037, 25% above that high, after its 28 September volume shock, and the 1x4 line from the high was down at 0.06189. Compare the close with the Swing Price: above a swing low, or below a swing high, is the side the angle is on. In the sample, 6 of 118 squared rows on 18 large pairs were on the wrong side.
2. Read the Angle Line. It is where the matched angle is today. Price holding that line and moving on keeps the move on schedule; price turning away from it after the square is the turn Gann watched for.
3. Give a 1x1 square the closest look. GRTUSDT squared on the 1x1 on 27 and 28 September: 11.96 units in 12 days from its 16 September low of 0.01692 (unit 0.001176). On 28 September it spiked to 0.0367 and closed at 0.03099, on the 1x1 at 0.03103. That high was not taken out through 8 October, when GRT closed at 0.02597, down 16% from the square.
4. Line it up with the other Gann pages. A square on the same day as a time cycle or a degree level from the same swing is price and time agreeing twice.

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.

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 1x1 exhaustion

• Setup: a pair on the 1x1 tab after a fast run, like GRT on 28 September: as many ATR units in as many days.
• Idea: a long upper wick and a close back on or under the angle line suggest the pace has peaked. Study a short or an exit near the square day's close, with the square day's high as the line that cancels it.

2. Lean on the 1x4

• Setup: a pair squared on the 1x4 from a high, like BTC on 3 November, with Position on the Gann Fan page "Between 1x4 and 1x2".
• Idea: while closes stay on the trend side of the 1x4 line, the decline is on schedule; rallies that stop at the line are the sellers' entries to study. A close well through it says the pace has broken.

3. Skip the wrong-side rows

Before any idea, compare the close with the Swing Price. A row like HBAR's on 1 October is a coincidence of size, not a square, and is better left out of any test.

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 - Squared (the default: within 5% of any of the three angles), 1x1, 1x2, 1x4, and All (every pair with a major swing, squared ones first).
• Swing / Swing Price / Swing Date - the last major swing the move is measured from.
• Days Since - daily candles since the swing.
• ATR Unit - the 14-day ATR on the swing's date.
• Points In Units - |close − swing price| ÷ unit.
• Angle - the closest angle, marked "squared" within 5%.
• Angle Line - where that angle's line is today: swing ± rate × unit × days.
• Difference % - points ÷ (rate × days) − 1.
• Chart - a pop-up with the days since the swing shaded and the matched angle drawn, the 1x1 beside it for reference.

Without signing in you see the default Squared tab for the newest day; the All tab and earlier dates need a free account.

• 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 keeps stablecoins out.
• 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 and Sunday 8 November 2026 most large pairs traded about a third of their average, so the Gann pages listed one pair and then none. A row can also drop out on a weekday: XRPUSDT closed exactly on its 50% level on Tuesday 20 October, on 0.79× its average volume, and was not listed.
• Day counts. "Days Since" on the Fan and Squaring pages counts daily candles; Time Cycles counts calendar days. On crypto these are the same number, except where the archive is missing a day (August and September 2026 have one each), when the candle count is one lower.
• Universe. All, Futures (pairs with a perpetual future in the archive) or Options (BTC and ETH).
• Prices. Shown to two decimals at 1 USDT and above, and to four significant figures below it, so 0.003499 is not flattened to 0.00.

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 → Price-Time Squaring (switch the market to Crypto). The NSE version is explained in the Price-Time Squaring guide.

The other crypto Gann guides: Swing Chart, Square of 9 Levels, Level Cross, Cardinal & Diagonal, Degree Levels, Retracements, Gann Fan, Time Cycles. For a day's unusual volume, read the crypto Volume Shockers guide; for positioning in the perpetuals, the OI Buildup guide. Sign up free to open the Market Terminal.