The Geometry of Stock Market Profits: A Guide to Professional Trading for a Living

Michael S. Jenkins’ The Geometry of Stock Market Profits is a practical and philosophical trading guide that blends Gann-inspired geometry, cycle analysis, and professional trading psychology into a comprehensive framework. Drawing from his extensive Wall Street experience and his influential Stock Cycles Forecast newsletter, Jenkins demonstrates how price and time can be forecasted with precision using geometry, proportion, and harmonic cycles.

The book begins with Jenkins’ personal journey from a young market enthusiast to a professional trader, emphasizing lessons learned through early failures and breakthroughs. From there, he introduces the foundations of cycle theory, chart construction, impulse waves, and proportional analysis, showing how geometric relationships—angles, circles, squares, and triangles—hold the keys to market timing.

Jenkins stresses that the market is driven not by fundamentals but by human emotions of fear and greed, which manifest in mathematically definable cycles. He provides practical trading rules, options strategies, professional money management techniques, and even a trader’s checklist and daily worksheet to instill the discipline required to succeed.

Richly illustrated with charts and exhibits from his newsletter, this book is both a manual for applying geometry to price forecasting and a mindset guide for trading as a profession. For serious traders, Jenkins offers a rare combination of technical precision and philosophical depth that elevates speculation into a disciplined art.

💡 What You’ll Learn:

• The principles of cycles and why markets move in predictable patterns.
• How to construct and scale professional trading charts.
• The role of geometry, proportion, and harmony in forecasting price and time.
• Techniques for identifying and trading impulse waves and retracements.
• Practical strategies for options and futures trading.
• The psychological discipline required to trade professionally.
• Jenkins’ Ten Trading Tips to Make You Rich and his common-sense rules for speculation.
• Tools for daily practice: Trader’s Checklist and Daily Worksheet.

The Geometry of Stock Market Profits: A Guide to Professional Trading for a Living By Michael Jenkins