I Look Into Financial
Astrology
I have also done a fairly thorough examination of financial astrology
as published in many newsletters, books, etc. I have read everything
from a 5000 year old Indian Astrology text, though the works of George
Bayer, to the modern work of current astrologers.
Much of this work is a repackaging of astrological fortune telling,
moved from the personal world into the financial world. Much of what
is generally available is junk. While there are occasional successes,
there are many inconsistencies between astrologers. There are many
conflicting sets of rules, all subject to interpretation, all usually
voiced as absolutes rather than probabilities.
Relatively few people have done good solid original research in financial
astrology, deriving their own rules experimentally. Carol Mull, Arch
Crawford, Norman Winski, Gregory Meadors, Larry Pesavento, Jeanne
Long, Bill Meridian, Ray Merriman, Ruth Miller, Mason Sexton and others
have all done respectable work in financial astrology. Yet it remains
more art than science.
Some people have even tried to convince me that I was an astrologer.
I don't consider myself one. I've never see much mathematics or
physics in an astrology book, just rules of interpretation. We certainly
are working with the same planetary system. I am probably doing
what the classic astrologers back in Nostradamus' era tried to do. They
tried to uncover the true nature of the effects of planetary cycles
on mankind.
It is well known that Kepler, who solved the equations of planetary
motion, was an astrologer. Kepler was different from today's astrologers.
He was a scholar who could work out all the mathematics and all the
physics of the heavenly bodies, and scientifically look for cause
and effect. I've gone back to that kind of foundation, and tried
to bring it up to date, to apply my programming and computer tools
and more modern knowledge of physics, and the latest in chaos theory
to the problem. If that makes me an old-fashioned astrologer
in the tradition of Kepler, I could agree.
W. D. Gann was also a financial astrologer. But I don't think he
had good data on the real position of the planets. I've found evidence
his information was in serious error on several occasions. I'm not
quite sure where he was getting his ephemeris data, but I do know
that in several cases it was not accurate. Perhaps this is because
Gann had a staggering task of calculation to do, but no computer.
All the graphical overlays that W. D. Gann came up with were simplified
approximate calculators, designed to remove the need for heavy calculation. They
worked to an extent, especially if you understand why they
are built the way they are. I have also come to the conclusion that
Gann resorted to a somewhat mystical approach to astrology as a smoke
screen to deter those seriously intent on uncovering his best secrets. As
near as I can tell, that smoke screen is still working today.
I Study Cycles
As I worked with planetary cycles, one question I addressed, which
I have seen no one else consider is, "How many planetary cycles are
there?" Basically, there are thousands and thousands. This is one
reason you see so many inconsistent results and disagreeing explanations
for why the market turned at this point or that point. Without including
the stars, if you just take the planets and our moon you've got 10
heavenly bodies. Each one of them creates at least one cycle. Each
pair creates a cycle. Each set of three creates a cycle. Each set
of four creates a cycle, etc. up through sets of ten together. If
we just go through sets of 4 there are over 7200 cycles. I've computed
them all. I have learned is that it is critical to have tools to extract
one cycle out of the many.
I've developed just such tools. They are quite unique, and are taught
in my Market AstroPhysics course. I've developed tools to extract
precisely and scientifically which cycle is controlling which market
at which moment. I've also developed the rules for combining cycles
and for figuring out how cycles tend to repeat.
My Cycle Work Pays Off
One of my greatest uses of these tools is reported in the article
called "Tomorrow's Wall St. Journal". It tells the story of how I
was able to plot a curve of the Crash of 1987 in advance and to
trade it relatively calmly. It was the first day I ever day traded,
and what a day it was. Trading just a few Major Market Index options,
I made over $14000. That experience did two things - it proved to
me that trading can be fun and profitable. It also proved to me that
markets, when they go chaotic, totally baffle, frighten, and puzzle
most people, including the so called market experts. I decided I
needed to learn more about chaos.