Crypto Gann Time Cycles: Counting Calendar Days on a Market That Never Closes

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.

• Cycles - 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 144, 180, 270 and 360 calendar days, ± 1 day, counted from the last major swing high and from the last major swing low.
• Anniversary - any major swing high or low 365 days ago, ± 2 days.
• Also on Degree Levels - the pair also reached, or is within 0.5% of, a Square of 9 degree level from its last major swing today (the Degree Levels page).

What is different on crypto

• A cycle is also a candle count. On NSE, 45 calendar days hold only 31 or 32 sessions, so Gann's calendar count and the chart's bar count disagree. On crypto they are the same number, and a weekend day counts like any other.
• A match shows for several days. The ± 1 tolerance means a pair sits on the page for three days running (days 44, 45 and 46), and an anniversary for five (363 to 367).
• A swing counts only once it is major, ten days after it was made. The 30-day count from a fresh swing therefore appears only 20 days after the page started measuring from it.

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.

ETHUSDT, 5 to 7 November 2026: two counts at once

• The swing: a major high of 2,807.34 on 22 September.
• The count: 5, 6 and 7 November are days 44, 45 and 46: the 45-day cycle.
• A second count: ETH's major low of 3,057 on 5 November 2025 was 365 and 366 days earlier, an anniversary.
• What price did: on 5 November, day 44, ETH fell 7.31% to 2,255.30; on day 45 it closed at 2,228.05. Neither count said which way; the move said that.

ETH was not on the Also on Degree Levels tab. Its degree levels, counted down from the 2,807.34 high, ran out at 720° (2,399.47), which it had already passed, so there was no next level to be near.

SOLUSDT, 30 October 2026: price and time on one day

• Time: 30 October was day 44 from SOL's 16 September major low of 95.82: the 45-day cycle.
• Price: the same day SOL reached the 270° degree level, 93.67, counted down from its 27 September major high of 124.95. That put it on the Also on Degree Levels tab.
• The day: the market-wide sell-off. SOL fell 6.71% to 94.06 on 2.77× its average volume, with a low of 92.34.

Gann's idea is that turns come where price and time meet. Here they met on a flush day, and the close was already below the 16 September low the count started from. SOL bounced to 96.21 the next day, then kept falling to 90.42 by 6 November: the meeting marked a day to watch, not a bottom.

1. Start with Also on Degree Levels. Cycle dates are common: in the 30-pair sample from April to November 2026 there were 787 cycle rows and 2,015 anniversary rows across 3,742 liquid pair-days, but only 33 that also sat on a degree level. That short list is Gann's price-and-time idea.
2. Know which pairs can be on it. Square of 9 steps depend on the size of the price. Under about 2 USDT a 90° step is several times the price, and the levels below it do not exist, so no pair under about 2 USDT got a degree tag in the sample. BTCUSDT got none either: from its 84,898 high the whole ladder from 90° to 720° spans only 2.7% of the price, so it is used up within days. In practice the tab is about ETH, BNB, SOL, BCH, LTC and a few pairs priced in the tens of dollars.
3. Look for clusters. ETH on 6 November matched a 45-day cycle and an anniversary at once. Two counts on the same day carry more weight than one.
4. Let price decide the direction. A date says when to watch; it does not say up or down. Note the day's high and low, then wait for a close beyond one of them.

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 cycle-day range break

• Setup: a pair on the Cycle tab. Mark the high and low of the three-day window (days 44 to 46 of a 45-day cycle).
• Idea: a daily close outside that range, after the window, is the direction the date resolved in.
• Invalidation: a close back inside the window's range.

2. Price and time together

• Setup: the Also on Degree Levels tab, like SOL on 30 October.
• Idea: watch the degree level that was reached. A close back on the other side of it in the next days (SOL above 93.67) says the level held; a further level reached (SOL's 360° at 84.24) says the move is carrying on.

3. Anniversaries of big turns

• Setup: the Anniversary tab, filtered by eye to swings that were real turning points a year ago.
• Caution: anniversaries are the most common rows on the page, and some point back to extreme candles, such as the crash of 10 to 11 October 2025 when several altcoins printed lows near zero on Binance. Read the Swing Price before giving a row any weight.

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, Cycle, Anniversary and Also on Degree Levels. Rows on a degree level are listed first.
• Swing / Swing Date / Swing Price - which major high or low the count starts from.
• Days Since - calendar days since the swing.
• Cycle - the cycle length matched, or Anniversary.
• On Degree Levels - Yes when the pair reached, or is near, a degree level today.
• Chart - a pop-up with the days since the swing shaded and the swing price drawn across.

A pair can appear twice, once for its swing high and once for its swing low, and again for each anniversary that matches.

• 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 → Time Cycles (switch the market to Crypto). The NSE version is explained in the Gann Time Cycles guide.

The other crypto Gann guides: Swing Chart, Square of 9 Levels, Level Cross, Cardinal & Diagonal, Degree Levels, Retracements, Gann Fan, Price-Time Squaring. 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.