FWIW i thought i would add to this topic as i enjoy using cycles as well. i use cycles as one of my TA tools and see them as that, they add to the analysis, and at times are more useful than others. early in my education i thought they may be the holy grail, now i know that does not exist.

the easy way to describe then for the unitiated is as support and resistance lines only in time instead of price. so i treat them exactly as you would  a suppport line or a trend line. if there is a particular cycle date coming up, you watch, it may have an effect or price may crash right through it. Just like a trend line if previous dates in a particular cycle have had an effect the stronger it is, (the more touches on a trendline, the more important). There are many different brands of cycles, i like Gann ones, but funnily enough the more i learn of them the more they all have in common with each other. Gann and elliot/fibonacci are so similar sometimes you think they were all in the same coffee shop one morning. hurst has variations but comes back to the same thing, i see matt and steve write about "symmetry" in the market, and that chart of matt's with the big circle, all the same thing really.

but anyway, i am sitting and watching several cycles at present. there was a minor gann one for monday 4th, next fractal july 3rd, but the really interesting one is a 5 year cycle next due early october, chart attached (i hope). the chart is as far back as i could get with any detail but this 5 year cycle has been marking highs and lows since at least 1982 including some major ones. so on the basis that it has been hitting 100% for at least 30 years i am keen to see what october brings.

 in my opinion mondays low was not "it" for the year