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Sales of existing homes is the indicator helping to trace the number of sold houses per year on the existing home market. Also it can assist in forecasting about current confidence of buyers (consumer optimism) and their sentiment to buy precious assets. Index value is subject to great season fluctuations characterizing real estate market. Increase in volume of construction is closely related with the growth of income of population and is favorable towards economic growth. The data on the amount of sol houses is published on the fourth week of every month at 10:00 EST (New York). Market respond to this index is weak. Index growth is a positive factor for consolidation of national currency.

William Delbert Gann considered that markets move in accordance with the laws of geometry. One of his major geometrical instruments was the line at an angle of 45º. He also use angles built on the basis of this line. The Gann line is also called a balance angle (1×1), in which one price range corresponds to one time period.