If you have applied all three squares properly, I would like to think that you have come to these answers extremely confident as to which application of the Square of 144 was the most helpful.
In Chart 1, we have the standard Square of 144, using a point size of 0.01, run from the All Time Low.
Chart 1
As you can see, this is a very busy chart. If you take the time to go through it, you will see a lot of hits, however I would not recommend this chart to a beginner. There is a good chance you will be quickly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of lines, and the sheer amount of milestones that come up. In Chart 2, I have adjusted the Point Size to 0.1 and the Interval Type to Weeks.
Chart 2
Although Chart 2 is much easier to read, there are only a few strong hits over 30 years. At most of the major tops and bottoms, this Square, on these settings, would not have provided a great deal of insight. That leaves us with Chart 3 below, where we move the Square from its Start Value of 2.00 down to 0.00.
Chart 3
To me, Chart 3 is not only the best of these three options, but it would be the version of the Square of 144 that I would use on this market moving forward. You can see loads of major tops and bottoms falling on (or very close to) the 25% milestones of this chart. Importantly, these milestones are far apart. If the milestones were close together, it could be argued that this is “coincidence”, but to me, this is a chart that could give you a lot of confidence, once you have done your Ranges work. If you have a Price Cluster lining up with one of those 25% milestones on the Square of 144, you would be confident that a change in trend is just around the corner.
Remember, the market doesn’t HAVE to stop there. There are times you will see that the market just shoots through several of the milestones without stopping. That is why we need to be on top of our Ranges work first, and it is why the Smarter Starter Pack and Number One Trading Plan manuals come before the Ultimate Gann Course and Master Forecasting Course. If you try to approach Squares (or any other advanced technique for that matter) without having your basic foundations in Price, it is extremely difficult to learn the technique, let alone do anything productive with it.