8 trigrams make up the 64 hexagrams that comprise the I Ching. The Book of Changes. That is because 8 is the maximum number of ways to combine 2 types of lines (open or closed) in sets of 3 (trigrams) closed ___ open _ _ trigram for water is a broken line under a solid line, under a broken line _ _ ___ _ _ Meantime it looks like the stock is headed back to .05, then we can talk about Chinese 5 Elements Theory!