Monday, March 31, 2014

April 2014, Astrological Calendar - Transits for NY NY, The NYSE

Astrology calendar showing the day and times of planetary aspects for the NYSE, for the month of April, 2014.
April 2014,  Astrological Calendar - Transits for NY NY, The NYSE
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Using locational transiting aspects is critical in market timing.  Have these calendars BEFORE they are posted each month.

Calendars come complete as full 13-month calendars January 1, 2014 through January 31, 2015.

 There are three separate 13-month calendars -  transit to transit aspects for the NYSE, FTSE, and ASX.

Download these handy PDF calendars to your iPad, or other electronic reader and/or and phone, and of course, to your computer to read. (They are printable as well.)

Included are transit to transit aspects; dates of Moon Phases, Planets Stationing (changing directions) and Eclipses; and a schedule of open hours and days for each market, New York, London, and Australia.

These calendars can be purchased individually for $8.00, but all three are available for $16.00 Click to purchase.

April 2014 Astrological Calendar - Transits for London, England, The FTSE

Astrological Calendar showing the day and times of planetary aspects for the FTSE, for the month of April, 2014.
April 2014  Astrological Calendar - Transits for London, England, The FTSE
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Using locational transiting aspects is critical in market timing.  Have these calendars BEFORE they are posted each month.

Calendars come complete as full 13-month calendars January 1, 2014 through January 31, 2015.

 There are three separate 13-month calendars -  transit to transit aspects for the NYSE, FTSE, and ASX.

Download these handy PDF calendars to your iPad, or other electronic reader and/or and phone, and of course, to your computer to read. (They are printable as well.)

Included are transit to transit aspects; dates of Moon Phases, Planets Stationing (changing directions) and Eclipses; and a schedule of open hours and days for each market, New York, London, and Australia.

These calendars can be purchased individually for $8.00, but all three are available for $16.00 Click to purchase.

April 2014 Astrological Calendar - Transits for Sydney, Australia, The ASX

Astrology calendar showing the day and times of planetary aspects for the ASX, for the month of April, 2014.
April 2014  Astrological Calendar - Transits for Sydney, Australia, The ASX
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Using locational transiting aspects is critical in market timing.  Have these calendars BEFORE they are posted each month.

Calendars come complete as full 13-month calendars January 1, 2014 through January 31, 2015.


 There are three separate 13-month calendars -  transit to transit aspects for the NYSE, FTSE, and ASX.

Download these handy PDF calendars to your iPad, or other electronic reader and/or and phone, and of course, to your computer to read. (They are printable as well.)

Included are transit to transit aspects; dates of Moon Phases, Planets Stationing (changing directions) and Eclipses; and a schedule of open hours and days for each market, New York, London, and Australia.

These calendars can be purchased individually for $8.00, but all three are available for $16.00 Click to purchase.

Significant Astrological Events of the Spring Season

Significant Upcoming Astrological Events of the Season

Mar 20 SUN into Aries
Mar 29 (Saturday) VENUS Square SATURN, VENUS Trine MARS
Mar 30 (Sunday) NEW MOON

Apr 01 SUN Square JUPITER
Apr 02 SUN Conjunct URANUS, MERCURY Trine SATURN, MOON opposition SATURN
Apr 03 SUN Square PLUTO
Apr 05 (Saturday) VENUS into Pisces
Apr 07 MERCURY into Aries
Apr 08 SUN Opposition MARS
Apr 11 VENUS Conjunct NEPTUNE
Apr 14 PLUTO Retrograde, MERCURY Conjunct URANUS, Square JUPITER, Square PLUTO, MOON Conjunct MARS
Apr 15 FULL MOON/ LUNAR ECPLISE
Apr 16 MERCURY Opposition MARS
Apr 17 VENUS Trine JUPITER
Apr 18 VENUS Sextile PLUTO
Apr 19 (Saturday) SUN into Taurus
Apr 20 (Sunday) JUPITER Square URANUS, JUPITER Opposition PLUTO, MOON conjunct PLUTO
Apr 21 URANUS Square PLUTO
Apr 22 MARS Square JUPITER
Apr 23 MARS Square PLUTO, MARS Opposition URANUS, MERCURY into Taurus
Apr 25 SUN Conjunct MERCURY, VENUS Trine SATURN
Apr 29 NEW MOON / SOLAR ECPLISE, MERCURY Trine PLUTO

May 02 VENUS into Aries, MERCURY Opposition SATURN,
May 07 MERCURY into Gemini
May 10 (Saturday) SUN Opposition SATURN
May 11 (Sunday) VENUS Opposition MARS
May 14 FULL MOON, VENUS Square PLUTO,
May 15 VENUS Conjunct URANUS, MERCURY Sextile VENUS, MERCURY Sextile URANUS,
May 18 (Sunday) VENUS Square JUPITER
May 20 MARS Direct SUN into Gemini
May 24 (Saturday) JUPITER Trine SATURN
May 28 NEW MOON , SUN Square NEPTUNE, VENUS into Taurus,
May 29 MERCURY into Cancer

Jun 07 (Saturday) MERCURY Retrograde
Jun 09 NEPTUNE Retrograde
Jun 12 FULL MOON, VENUS Opposition SATURN,
Jun 14 (Saturday) MARS Square PLUTO
Jun 17 MERCURY into Gemini
Jun 21 (Saturday) SUN into Cancer Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)


Read Randall Ashbourne's weekly Eye of Ra reports and his Forecast 2014 for more specific information as to how transits and planets changing directions might affect the market.

Randall Ashbourne's Forecast 2014 now includes a special report on GOLD.  People who purchase a copy of Forecast 2014 will receive the special report emailed  by Randall Ashbourne. 

You can purchase Forecast 2014 at www.astrologicalinvesting.com  as well as www.theidiotandthemoon.com



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Sunday, March 30, 2014

An Astrological Trip Around the New Moon in Aries

Astrological Investing New Moon forecasts show general trends and financial outlook for the month. The New Moon in Aries, 2014 - Chart from the point of view of Wall Street and the NYSE. 
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
- Frederick Douglass

The New Moon in Aries is involved in a dynamic configuration - a T-Square - with Uranus, Jupiter and Pluto. The nature of these planets and their signs are pitted against each other to force an outcome. (Read The Spring Equinox, March 20, 2014)

The quote above reminds us, "...power concedes nothing without demand." This T- Square is extremely demanding, agitated energy.   With the Aries New Moon, Pluto, Uranus and Jupiter, the dynamic of this agitated aspect says "something's GOT to give!" So what does that mean for the NYSE?  April will be unpredictable and volatile.

Times like these are when it is extremely important to pay attention to the charts that are posted weekly on the blog and at Randall Ashbourne's web site theidiotandthemoon.com in his Eye of RA report.

 An Astrological Trip Around the New Moon in Aries Chart
 The Sun in Aries rules the Leo rising chart of the New Moon. The New Moon (Sun/ Moon) is in the ninth house conjunct Uranus - The focus this month is on global affairs, and international markets. Foreign affairs, foreign trade, overseas traffic by sea and air are matters of the ninth house.

With the New Moon conjunct Uranus, square Jupiter, and square Pluto, events may be surprising, confusing, unrestrained, and reactionary. This energy creates conditions that cause great volatility in the markets. 

Uranus is as unpredictable as lightning.  In one of my previous articles, I wrote of what Charles E. O. Carter, the great Twentieth Century British Astrologer, had to say in the book, Mundane Astrology, The Astrology of Nations and States, "Uranus represents the administration of power, the administrative officers of the State and all their functions."  Additionally Carter states, "Uranus rules power on the physical plane - dynamos and all power generators."  With such electric energy, Uranus is as unpredictable as lightning. When afflicted by difficult aspects Uranus is rebellious and anarchic.  
Jupiter's
energy is expansive and excessive - typically, Jupiter is favorable, but it can make mountains out of molehills, and when challenged will over-react.

Pluto can be very destructive, using a scorched earth policy whenever it faces noncompliance.

The houses that come into play with the T-square involving the new Moon are: ninth, eleventh, and the fifth.  All matters of these houses will be influenced, and that includes a long list! To name a few: corporations, courts of law, foreign affairs, foreign trade, religion and clergy, overseas traffic; stock and commodity exchanges; entertainment, education, gambling, and investments!


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When reading the newsletter on the web site, be sure to take note of the Moon Phases section and get the "Head's Up" - upcoming astrological events list.

Understanding the potential of planetary cycles and what the technical charts tell us is our best bet for successful trading. We need to see the whole picture! I encourage all of you to look at the weekly technical charts by Randall Ashbourne (posted weekly on this blog).

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His latest eBook The Idiot & The Moon, Forecast 2014 has predictions, price targets and trend change dates - it is the perfect companion to his book, The Idiot & The Moon, Compleat and Utter Idiot's Guide To Trading Stocks.

The Idiot and The Moon, FORECAST 2014 by Randall Ashbourne

NOTE: Planetary price targets for gold are contained in Forecast 2014 - as are the targets for the major stock indices.

With each purchase of  FORECAST 2014 you will receive a separate special edition report on Gold. "The report details the timing of potentially important transits this year to the "birth" chart of modern gold trading, looks at the how the price of gold is performing, intermediate and long-term, in relation to the planetary price movers, and also looks closely at the technical condition of the charts."RA

            FORECAST 2014 CHAPTERS INCLUDE
  • 2014 ... and let slip the dogs of war
  • Jupiter Square Uranus ... and the danger of déjà vu
  • Mars ... the mover of markets
  • Bradley Model - 2014 major and minor trend change dates
  • Moods of the Moon - Lunar phase trading performance in 2013
  • Month by Month - monthly astrological transits in time map form
  • Technical conditions and planetary price targets
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13 months of Astrological Investing Calendars! - The monthly transit calendars published on the blog are available to purchase as a full 2014 calendar through January 31, 2015 - for New York, London and Sydney. Download these handy PDF calendars to your iPad, or other electronic reader and/or and phone, and of course, to your computer to read. (They are printable as well.)

Included are transit to transit aspects; dates of Moon Phases, Planets Stationing (changing directions) and Eclipses; and a schedule of open hours and days for each market, New York, London, and Australia.

These calendars can be purchased individually for $8.00, but all three are available for $16.00 Click to purchase.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

April ... the month that could be "it"!

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning March 31, 2014 
 
  Monday brings the end-of-month and end-of-quarter, a time when the bonus babies cook the books to ensure a nice, fat cheque is in the mail.

And unless Monday brings an explosive splurge, Wall Street's main index, the SP500, will finish March leaving a price bar that could be The Top.

 April shows all the signs of a long-range turn in the tide.

Of course, I am talking about astrological expectations ... and those of you who have read last weekend's special report on gold know that I reiterated my view about relying on expectations of any kind.

Still, I showed in Forecast 2014 the huge pile-up of planetary energy due to be unleashed in the latter part of the month when Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto will be lined-up in a configuration called a Cardinal Grand Square. And, as we've discussed before, the Cardinal signs and transiting Squares are very much "action" signatures.

It will be compounded by the first Solar and Lunar eclipses of the year. We should get a small taste of the energy in the coming week, when the travelling Sun, now in the action sign of Aries, squares Jupiter, conjuncts Uranus and squares Pluto.

In the chart below, Sun conjunct Uranus is marked with blue bars; Sun square Pluto with red bars; and Sun square Jupiter with green bars.

I've circled the three previous instances where the Sun's conjunction with Uranus happened almost simultaneously with a square to Pluto. And I'm not sure from the track record that we can draw any reliable conclusion.

In fact, the Sun squares to Jupiter (the green bars) seem to have more impact; there seems to be a tendency to accelerate the existing trend - whether it's up or down. This week will be the first time the Sun makes aspects to all three outer planets within a few days ... so, I would expect the month-long sideways shuffle is about to end abruptly.


The shuffle is probably best seen using the 500's daily bars on the index's Weekly Planets chart, where nearly all of the price action since late February has been constrained upside and downside by Saturn price barriers. This is either accumulation for a splurge higher ... or the big boys have been quietly selling over the past 6 weeks.


There is not, in my mind, such clear-cut evidence from the state of the daily oscillator to be able to predict the next move with any real certainty.

However, the level of negative divergence continues to build very solidly on both weekly and monthly charts, regardless of whether we're consulting the Canaries or the fast MACD.

And we are likely to have Pollyanna end the month leaving a bar that's potentially quite dangerous. What we have, in essence, is a bar that highlights a rather extreme amount of indecision.

It displays a very tight range, where both the upside and the downside have been tested ... and the bar seems likely to finish Monday trading in the middle of that range. In short, no-one seems certain what to do next.


My "expectation" is that April will bring an end to the indecision. We break out, or we break down. The Wall Street indices aren't alone in this condition.

The ASX 200 has also spent the past 6 weeks largely contained by its Weekly Planets Saturn barriers. Again, the Big Bird weekly oscillator is not giving any obvious and clear hints as to whether it will be a break to the upside or downside ... but at least we have the key price levels to watch for the first clues.


Now let's turn our attention to gold. I went through the big picture in last weekend's special report and you know I've been expecting some sort of retest of the rising primary Sun line.

That retest got underway during the past week. There is an intersection of the rising primary Sun with a secondary Pluto horizontal in the next few days - at $1273. It is an "obvious" bounce level if it is hit.


There is no guarantee it will be hit, however, since Friday bounced from another "obvious" level - the 50% retracement marker of the post-December rally. This could be an important level, and if it can hold, leaves gold in a position to mount another strong rally leg.


We are getting signals from the 3 Birds of a potential turnaround in the gold price. The green Fast Bird is turning and is above the red Medium Bird, which is also starting to diverge from the price plunge. If you're watching the charts of the gold miners, some of those are already showing a shift in the stacking of the Birds into approaching rally mode ... meaning both Fast and Medium Birds have already climbed higher than the blue Big Bird.

Safe trading - RA
Randall Ashbourne
Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2014, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2014
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Spring Equinox, March 20 2014

Spring Equinox, March 20, 2014
Mar 20 2014, 12:57:05 pm, EDT +4:00
Washington Dist of Columbia,
38°N53'42'', 077°W02'12'

click here to read article in full

 The beginning of the astrological year is when the Sun enters the zodiac sign of Aries.  The entrance of the Sun into one of the four cardinal signs - Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn - are the most important solar ingress charts of the year as they form the background for which various other astrological events of the season take place.

After a long, hard winter we look forward to spring.  In anticipation, we move our clocks forward forcing additional hours of daylight into the hours we are awake.

But who are we really kidding?!? Changing the clock doesn't make the day longer - it's the tilt of the earth and the movement of the Sun that brings forth longer daylight hours.

And it's the planetary lineup that paints the color of Spring.

The astrological energy in 2014 is powered by the Pluto - Uranus square. This spring it is exaggerated as Jupiter, the planet of expansion, sits on the Ascendant of the Washington D.C. Chart and opposes Pluto while squaring Uranus.

The nature of these planets and their signs are pitted against each other to force an outcome. The aspect is not just affecting the US, the influence is worldwide. It is quite understandable then, that the world has been embroiled in political and economic crises.
(Draw a chart for your location to see what houses of the horoscope these planets reside in.)

The tension of Pluto - Uranus intensifies in April.  Dates listed below are when the tension is great. And, as Mars Retrograde aspects Jupiter, Pluto and Uranus the tension will be even greater.  On the 20th of April, the Moon will conjunct Pluto, activating a developing Grand Square with Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and Uranus - exact on the 22nd of April.


With that in mind, let us look at the chart as the framework in which the transiting planetary aspects of the season act.

The 2014 Aries ingress for Washington D.C chart above has the Sun placed in the tenth house in Aries; very dynamic energy adds stress to this chart. The Moon is in Scorpio and is the ruler of the Cancer rising chart. It quickly moves toward a conjunction with Saturn in the fifth house.  Jupiter is on the Ascendant in a T-square with Pluto on the cusp of the seventh house and Uranus in the tenth house.

The Equinox Sun in the tenth house normally is favorable. However, Uranus resides in the tenth causing problems for matters of this house.


The Sun is exalted in Aries. In the tenth house it represents the "Boss" - the Leader, or the Man in Charge for the location of the chart - in this case, the President of the US. Without any hard aspects, this position should strengthen his prestige with added good will toward his government. However, Mars, the ruler of the Aries Sun, is in Libra - retrograde - a very unfortunate position for the Warrior Planet.  Diplomacy is the best effort Mars can muster in this position; however, diplomacy is frustrated - and frustrating the President!  (read the rest of the article)

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Significant Upcoming Astrological Events of the Season

Mar 20 SUN into Aries
Mar 29 (Saturday) VENUS Square SATURN, VENUS Trine MARS
Mar 30 (Sunday) NEW MOON

Apr 01 SUN Square JUPITER
Apr 02 SUN Conjunct URANUS, MERCURY Trine SATURN, MOON opposition SATURN
Apr 03 SUN Square PLUTO
Apr 05 (Saturday) VENUS into Pisces
Apr 07 MERCURY into Aries
Apr 08 SUN Opposition MARS
Apr 11 VENUS Conjunct NEPTUNE
Apr 14 PLUTO Retrograde, MERCURY Conjunct URANUS, Square JUPITER, Square PLUTO, MOON Conjunct MARS
Apr 15 FULL MOON/ LUNAR ECPLISE
Apr 16 MERCURY Opposition MARS
Apr 17 VENUS Trine JUPITER
Apr 18 VENUS Sextile PLUTO
Apr 19 (Saturday) SUN into Taurus
Apr 20 (Sunday) JUPITER Square URANUS, JUPITER Opposition PLUTO, MOON conjunct PLUTO
Apr 21 URANUS Square PLUTO
Apr 22 MARS Square JUPITER
Apr 23 MARS Square PLUTO, MARS Opposition URANUS, MERCURY into Taurus
Apr 25 SUN Conjunct MERCURY, VENUS Trine SATURN
Apr 29 NEW MOON / SOLAR ECPLISE, MERCURY Trine PLUTO

May 02 VENUS into Aries, MERCURY Opposition SATURN,
May 07 MERCURY into Gemini
May 10 (Saturday) SUN Opposition SATURN
May 11 (Sunday) VENUS Opposition MARS
May 14 FULL MOON, VENUS Square PLUTO,
May 15 VENUS Conjunct URANUS, MERCURY Sextile VENUS, MERCURY Sextile URANUS,
May 18 (Sunday) VENUS Square JUPITER
May 20 MARS Direct SUN into Gemini
May 24 (Saturday) JUPITER Trine SATURN
May 28 NEW MOON , SUN Square NEPTUNE, VENUS into Taurus,
May 29 MERCURY into Cancer

Jun 07 (Saturday) MERCURY Retrograde
Jun 09 NEPTUNE Retrograde
Jun 12 FULL MOON, VENUS Opposition SATURN,
Jun 14 (Saturday) MARS Square PLUTO
Jun 17 MERCURY into Gemini
Jun 21 (Saturday) SUN into Cancer Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)


Read Randall Ashbourne's weekly Eye of Ra reports and his Forecast 2014 for more specific information as to how transits and planets changing directions might affect the market.

Randall Ashbourne's Forecast 2014 now includes a special report on GOLD.  People who purchase a copy of Forecast 2014 will receive the special report emailed  by Randall Ashbourne. 

You can purchase Forecast 2014 at www.astrologicalinvesting.com  as well as www.theidiotandthemoon.com




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 Marley

Saturday, March 15, 2014

This weekend's Crimea vote isn't "it"

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning March 17, 2014 
market direction depends on Western political reaction
According to the headlines this week, the direction of major Western stock markets now depends on how Crimea votes this weekend.

In truth, the market direction really depends on the Western political reaction to an outcome which is a foregone conclusion.

The reaction is eminently predictable, as well. Forked tongues will speak incessantly and loudly.

The current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania will make noises about democracy and the right of all the people of Ukraine to have a voice ... something he is never likely to grant to all the population of Cuba about the fate of the eastern end of that island.

The current resident of 10 Downing will repeat the script ... ignoring his country's long refusal to allow a free vote of all residents of that large island to the left about what happens with its northern provinces.

Anyway, this week won't see the main game. Those of you who have Forecast 2014 might want to have another look at the graphic on Page 6. As I said there: "And the danger of military conflicts expands as diplomatic solutions fail."

The graphic shows two timeframes "when the issues are likely to become unavoidably obvious". The first was the February/March changeover ... and the next is still several weeks away.

In the meantime, we need to concern ourselves with the charts. I think we'll chat a little more this weekend about the Bi-BBs, since once again they've proven to be very useful in giving us a warning about where markets were headed.

Last weekend, we looked at those charts and their implications for a fast move in gold ... and a stall or correction starting on Wall Street.

Firstly, to the weekly Bi-BB chart for Pollyanna, the SP500. We had discussed how the Bollinger Bands were beginning to tighten, which almost invariably precedes a fast move, and how a breaking of the outer bands almost always stalls a trend or provokes a change in trend direction.

I circled previous examples of an upper band break and pointed out how even the little ones caused a reaction ... and right on cue, it happened again.


So far, price has retreated from one weekly Saturn cluster down to another. Big Bird, the 50CCI, has dived rather deeply. This is a fairly strong indication we could now be in an intermediate decline and will probably need a divergence reading in the oscillator before a new rally can be sustained.


The next chart shows only the primary planetary lines currently having an impact on the 500. We had a false break of the long-range Pluto line priced at 1876, confirming that it is a very strong resistance level for the index. Given the unhappy state of the Big Bird, it's likely the index will need to drop to one of the lower primary price levels shown below.

For my home market readers, I'll show the ASX 200's state-of-play within its daily All Planets chart. For the second time in recent weeks, the Saturn barrier now at 5467 proved too difficult to overcome and Auntie went on another dive down to the Saturn at 5330.

What is different this time is that that two of our Canaries - Big Bird (yellow) and Medium Bird (red) - have fallen off their perch. Fast Bird, the green oscillator, is suggesting the potential for a little bounce, but we probably need to see a clear instance of positive divergence forming in the red line before this correction shows firm signs of being finished.


Now let's turn our attention to gold. Last weekend we discussed how price was trying to set itself for a stronger run to the 1363 Pluto level and how the daily Bi-BB chart showed "we're probably about to see a fast move".

And we all know what happened ... the fast move just blew past Pluto.

I've been promising a special report on gold and have been waiting to see the structure of this rally. I will now put that report together and email it out late in the week, or next weekend.

If it's the latter, there probably won't be an Eye of Ra next weekend.

Safe trading - RA
Randall Ashbourne
Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2014, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2014
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2014

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Still in search of some certainty

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning March 3, 2014 
in search of certainty
Gee,Zeus! It's like trying to herd cats! Some markets are flying north ... others seem to have gone for a long walk on a short pier.

In the USA, the Russell, the 500 and the Nasdaq 100 have again hit new highs ... while the Dow Jones Industrials and Transports continue to lag.

Other markets, as diverse as Argentina, France, Denmark, New Zealand and India all rode to new highs ... while Britain and Germany heard the word "Crimea" and went into a funk.

Maybe they just have a genetic memory that getting involved in that particular piece of land tends not to end well for either of them.

I ended last week's edition with the words: "The next move isn't obvious ... well, it's not to me. I lean more towards a probable decline, but there is a danger in getting married to that expectation. Hopefully, the next few days will provide greater certainty."

I'm really not sure they have provided greater certainty ... not with a few indices going higher and other major ones going lower.

So, we'll go to some charts and try to get some sense of the possible, if not the probable.

The star performer last week was India, Mumbai's Nifty index finally broke free of planetary price resistance clustered near the 6400 level.

It has run into another line of resistance. There are no screeching warning sirens from the oscillator on a weekly basis and if the index can now hold the next minor correction no lower than the early 6400s, much higher prices can be expected.

Somebody mentioned Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade to London's FTSE and the teapots tumbled to the floor.

The FTSE has been having a LOT of trouble getting through these weekly Saturn lines; and there's nothing in the oscillator readings to give a clearcut indication of which way the index will break.

Similarly, the ASX 200 could break either way. Auntie's daily All Planets chart is below. It didn't make a precise touch of either of the light blue Saturn lines last week.

Monday dived and bounced back into a Venus support line; Tuesday couldn't decide whether to breakout above a downtrending Venus; and Wednesday jumped above it.

If the index can clear 5511 decisively in the coming week, new highs are on the cards, since there should be a relatively easy run higher into the 5600/5700s.

Now, let's turn our attention to the Paris Hilton of stock indices ... Miss Pollyanna, the SP500. She finished the previous week with a touch of the Neptune line at 1864 ... dived on Monday ... and went on a tearaway on Tuesday.

These are daily bars on a Weekly Planets chart for the index and a breakout opens a target zone from 1917 to 1932.

It would probably take some good news to get there quickly, however. We've been talking about how the 500's weekly Bollinger Bands had started to tighten. They're now opening wider again ... but with a breach of the upper outer barrier.

We've been discussing Bi-BB trading at some length since early in the year. I've circled each of the Bi-BB breaks on the chart below. Every one of them, even the little ones, either stalled the uptrend, or provoked a correction.

Gold. Now, I haven't forgotten that I did promise to compile a special report. I'll get it done in the next 2 weeks. In the meantime, there is a chance the correction is over and gold is on a new multi-year Bull run.

And the reason I say that is because I'm a silly old bugger who plays with planets. And, as I explained in Forecast 2013, my research tells me the Sun drives gold between Pluto stations.

The thick green lines on the chart below are primary Sun lines. And gold has now completed its fourth week outside the primary channel which constrained almost all of the downside and upside price action since the great drop began in 2011.

Okay, so that was a big picture. Now, let's return to the daily. Short story ... still climbing the Sun line and trying to hold the 1336 Pluto to make a run at a stronger 1363 Pluto.

And ... we're probably about to see a fast move. Remember the lessons from the past few weeks ... tightening bands provoke a fast move and the first move is usually in the wrong direction.


Safe trading - RA
Randall Ashbourne
Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2014, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2014
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2014

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Stocks and gold hit an inflection point

Randall Ashbourne, an associate of Astrological Investing, posts a weekly market report on his web site, theidiotandthemoon.com The following is this weekend's Eye of RA report: Week beginning March 3, 2014 

Pollyanna, the SP500, logged a new all-time High on Friday, just a tad above the 1864 planetary line we thought should be hit last week.

The Nasdaq 100 also managed a new High, but the Dow Jones Industrials did not ... and nor did most of the other major world indices.

This weekend is highlighted in Forecast 2014 as a potential turning point, with the next major turn not due, astrologically, until the second half of April.

Mercury has now finished its Retrograde cycle, but both Mars and Saturn have now gone Retrograde and Jupiter will change from Retrograde to Direct later this week, just after Venus changes signs to Aquarius.

This morning, I've hit the "publish" button on the Archives 2014 page three times ... and three different versions of the page have appeared online, all containing some sort of gremlin. Merc Rx can really give you the ... irrits!


Trading in the next few days should tell us whether this rally is now ready to roll over, given the apparent divergence between the Pollyanna index and the relative under-performance of other major indices.

If the rally does now fail, the correction is likely to run an intermediate length - several weeks, rather than days.

Alternatively, Miss Polly - and others - will spurt ahead, with the SP500 probably heading above 1900.
We'll begin this weekend by taking another look at Polly's primary planets chart we've been using for the past few weeks. I indicated the 500 was playing in a price zone defined by two sets of primary planet lines ... one rising and the other falling.

The index continued to maintain contact with the pink Mercury line for the first four days of last week, surging on Friday to make a potential false break of the falling, dark-green Venus line.

If the rally now stalls and prices decline, we have some idea of the downside targets. If it continues heading north, we can use the Weekly Planets chart to determine the upside targets.

I said last weekend: "Since we're in the statistically-positive period between 3Q and New Moon ... and with the Sun due to trine Jupiter ... 1864 remains a valid target for the coming week."

Polly went to 1867.92 on Friday, before backing away. There is another layer of Saturn price resistance just below the 1880s. However, a breakout above 1864, is likely to open up the 1920s area as the next major target for the rally.

We also need to watch what happens now with the Bollinger Band scrunching on the weekly charts. I mentioned this last weekend, since the Bi-BB trading rules outlined in The Technical Section of The Idiot & The Moon worked so well on daily charts in the preceding weeks of decline and bounceback.

If the rally reverses course, we need to bear in mind that the first move is likely to be in the wrong direction - meaning that after the potential correction completes, the index will launch into a very strong rally spike. And, if the bands suddenly start to widen as Polly soars north into the 1900s, we need to be aware that it will be the final leg of the current rally and will be followed by a very sharp and fast plunge.

Last weekend, we also took a look at the planetary lines containing price action on the ASX200 and I indicated the relative strength of the Big Bird oscillator suggested 5466 or 5504 should be hit last week ... but that the other Birds were rolling over "suggesting the end of this rally is now very close".

Auntie didn't quite hit 5466, but is now fairly obviously falling under the influence of a downtrending Venus line.

The price of gold has stalled after a one-day break of the 1336 Pluto line and is also in danger of losing the support of a rising Sun line. Intermediate-range positive divergence remains intact on weekly charts, but Big Bird is not a picture of glowing health on the daily, where the last price high coincided with a decidedly lower peak in the oscillator.

It would seem then that both stocks and gold have arrived at an inflection point, having reached the planetary price targets we thought "should" be hit ... with a smidgeon over on Polly and a whisker under on the ASX.

The next move isn't obvious ... well, it's not to me. I lean more towards a probable decline, but there is a danger in getting married to that expectation. Hopefully, the next few days will provide greater certainty.
Safe trading - RA
Randall Ashbourne
Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2014, writes a free weekly column titled, The Eye of Ra on his web site in  which he explains the potential impact of astrological aspects and the current state of technical conditions. Ashbourne's charts are revealing illustrations of exactly what has occurred in the market and the probability of what to expect.
Important reading:  Randall Ashbourne's The Idiot and The Moon, Forecast 2014
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2014

Saturday, March 1, 2014

An Astrological Trip Around the New Moon in Pisces 2014

Astrological Investing New Moon forecasts show general trends and financial outlook for the month. The New Moon in Pisces, 2014 - Chart from the point of view of Wall Street and the NYSE. 

The
New Moon in Pisces, March 1, 2014

Chart from the point of view of Wall Street and the NYSE.
 If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.Tom Peters

This has been a season of not only extreme weather, but extremely unpredictable markets. So many planets changing direction! And there's more! On the day of the Pisces New Moon we find Mars stationing retrograde just the day after Mercury turned Direct, and then the next day, Saturn begins to station retrograde, and Jupiter changes direction on March 6!  Whew! With so many changes of direction we can only anticipate market confusion.

"Retrogrades cause confusion,"
wrote Randall Ashbourne in his Eye of RA report for the week of January 27. And he sure wasn't kidding!

Knowing the outlook for the lunar month can give only a broad picture of the potential astrological energy that may affect the market; however, knowing both astrology and technical analysis is your best bet for successful trading.  Randall Ashbourne's "Idiot Method" outlined in his eBook, The Idiot & the Moon, is the most successful approach to trading I have ever used.

The upcoming March Equinox Chart will set the astrological tone for the Spring season. I will send an announcement when my Equinox article will be available online.

 An Astrological Trip Around the New Moon in Pisces Chart
The New Moon (Sun/ Moon) brings matters of the second house to the forefront. Mercury and Neptune are in the second house as well. More importantly, however, the New Moon is trine Jupiter. This is very fortunate.

The New Moon in the second house in it's "natural influence, is beneficial to business, trade, the money market and financial affairs generally"(H.S. Green). Because is it aspected by a trine to Jupiter, it is even more beneficial.

Mercury in Aquarius is stationing Direct in the second house -
We always feel a sense of relief when Mercury stations direct - it is time to get back to business! Usually whatever havoc Mercury seemed to cause during it's retrograde phase has worked itself out. The market is about in the same situation (normally) as it was when the retrograde period started. However, this isn't a typical time with so many planets changing direction!

What we can count on, however, is that wherever Mercury is found in the New Moon chart we will experience a great deal of activity in the affairs of that house during the lunar month. This month there will be a concentration of discussions regarding finance and financial regulations, regulations connected to means of transit, and the Post Office. The stock market will react negatively if there are real (or false!) reports concerning problems in the banking sector.

Neptune in Pisces in the second house -
Fluctuations in the stock market and a failure to realize expectations may be the result of this Neptune placement. Even free from affliction, it is always uncertain how well the market can perform with Neptune in the second.

Saturn in Scorpio rules the rising sign of Capricorn in this chart. Because Saturn is the chart ruler, Saturn is especially influential this lunar month. This is good for stocks, national funds, investments, banking...but not because of growth or increase as in the case of Jupiter, but rather through method, and prudence.
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Understanding the potential of planetary cycles and what the technical charts tell us is our best bet for successful trading. We need to see the whole picture! I encourage all of you to look at the weekly technical charts by Randall Ashbourne (posted weekly on this blog).

 


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FORECAST 2014, an eBook by Randall Ashbourne -
If you have been following the blog, or reading the Eye of Ra at, www.theidiotandthemoon.com, you already know by now that Randall makes what can be a very dry and difficult subject - Financial Astrology - easy to understand, quite interesting, and sometimes amusing! With his witty and wry sense of humor, Randall never holds back, giving us his experienced professional opinion on how the markets are performing.

His latest eBook The Idiot & The Moon, Forecast 2014 has predictions, price targets and trend change dates - it is the perfect companion to his book, The Idiot & The Moon, Compleat and Utter Idiot's Guide To Trading Stocks.

The Idiot and The Moon, FORECAST 2014 by Randall Ashbourne

NOTE: Planetary price targets for gold are contained in Forecast 2014 - as are the targets for the major stock indices.

Randall is working on a special report on gold which will include the exact timing of gold's most important transits for the year ahead. This report won't be published in his free weekend reports, but will be emailed to everyone who has bought a copy of Forecast 2014.

            FORECAST 2014 CHAPTERS INCLUDE
  • 2014 ... and let slip the dogs of war
  • Jupiter Square Uranus ... and the danger of déjà vu
  • Mars ... the mover of markets
  • Bradley Model - 2014 major and minor trend change dates
  • Moods of the Moon - Lunar phase trading performance in 2013
  • Month by Month - monthly astrological transits in time map form
  • Technical conditions and planetary price targets
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