A major shift in planetary energies

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 July 22, 2013

Shift in planetary energy

Wall Street completed its Grand Trine week with the SP500 closing at a new all-time High.

But the rest of the world did not. It has been one of those relatively rare instances where American markets rallied all the way through the Mercury Retrograde cycle.

And that's part of what now leaves everyone just a little more vulnerable.

Because this week brings a major mood shift as various planets change signs, or direction. The Sun goes into Leo, Venus into Virgo; Uranus has gone Retrograde and Mercury is turning Direct again.

Mars will conjunct Jupiter, providing a last burst of energy to the Grand Trine involving Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. By the end of the week, the energy shift of the planets could turn markets from optimism to pessimism.

The Sun will square Saturn and Mars will start igniting the Uranus/Pluto square again ... as a precursor to Jupiter making the same aspects in what I mentioned last weekend Ray Merriman calls a bankruptcy signature.

Since we've been discussing the danger that markets are now in the process of topping-out the Bull run, I'll publish some more targets for non-American markets this weekend.

We will deal first, however, with a little more of The Spooky Stuff. Probably the two most significant transits in the immediate future are the Mars conjunction to Jupiter followed by Mars square Uranus.

Many of you may have heard dire, dire warnings of ... gasp*shock*horror ... "the Mars-Uranus crash cycle". I have dealt with this before. It's carp. And, yes, that's a misspelling. Mars makes some aspect with Uranus a couple of times a year ... and the hard aspects have no regular, reliable track record of producing a crash. Not even a little one.

In the chart below I have marked the Mars-Jupiter conjunctions with thick blue bars and Mars-Uranus squares with thick red ones. We have eight examples of Mars-Uranus squares ... and not a single one of them produced any sort of crash. In fact, one could argue the reverse.

There is more danger of Mars-Jupiter conjunctions producing an intermediate top.

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Either one of these aspects does carry enough punch to turn markets in a new direction. BUT! Time and Price have to "meet" precisely before one can predict a change with any degree of certainty.

I was watching Pollyanna, the SP500, and the ASX 200 quite closely last week to see if either of them intended making that "meeting". They didn't.

But, they do have another chance early this week. For Pollyanna, the two key Price levels are at 1704 and 1654. Allow about $3 either side of those numbers.

IF Miss Pollyanna jumps to 1704 and immediately starts to back down strongly, get out of Dodge! This is the Time & Price meeting place in space for the whole Mars-Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune interchange.

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It's interesting that Miss Polly was not the only index to studiously avoid that meeting last week. So close ... and, yet, so far, was also the case for the ASX 200.

Auntie ASX just stopped in mid-air, flatly refusing to go to a meeting that could have forced the index to change direction.

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And it was mid-air, which is a little more obvious in my personal planetary chart for the ASX below. Had either of these indices hit those exact price levels and failed to break through, it would have been a very bad sign for further gains in the intermediate future.

The Time & Price meeting place is activated again early this coming week and the action - and reaction - will have to be watched very closely if Polly hits the very early 1700s, or 5042ish for Auntie.

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 Failure to hit the exact Price levels, on Time, makes it a lot more difficult to determine a significant change of direction.

Now, I showed Bull target levels for Pollyanna, the FTSE and the ASX last weekend and indicated I'd update charts for other indices in the coming weeks.

This weekend, we'll look at India, Singapore and Shanghai.

INDIA

Our first chart is a long-range monthly for the Sensex. It is once again approaching the key level in the 20,200s ... and with a medium-term oscillator looking distinctly unhappy. Obviously, to eliminate the danger implied by making a triple-top, the index needs to break through the long-range barrier decisively.

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The Weekly Planets chart for the Nifty is below. It ended last week retesting a Saturn-Neptune price zone. It's a key level the index must break through decisively to trigger the final potential targets for India's Bull.

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If it can do that, the next danger zone is in the range from about 6200 to the mid 6400s. This is the range of the planetary line-up which stopped the two previous Bull peaks. If the Nifty gets through that barrier, the target becomes the 7000s.

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 SINGAPORE

The STI is also approaching a key barrier. I used the American charts last week to show how Big Bird and the medium-range oscillator tend to give advance warning when markets are making either a long-range top, or bottom.

And there are further examples below. The double-bottom in Price terms of the early 2000s Bear showed clear positive divergence in the oscillator ... as the run into the 2007 Bull peak showed clear negative divergence.

And then, another obvious case of positive divergence at the 2009 Bear bottom. And I repeat what I've been saying about Pollyanna ... we are not yet receiving warning sirens that suggest we are in dire and imminent danger. There is some relatively mild divergence in the current state of the oscillator versus price. The sirens are starting to go off ... but they're not yet becoming strident.

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Now, while the chart above shows a technical level of significant resistance in the early 3300s, the STI's Weekly Planets chart, below, offers three higher targets if the topping process is going to continue into the August-October timeframe.

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CHINA

It's difficult to get a read on Shanghai, which continues to test the validity of the Bear low. Mild positive divergence in the oscillator seems to be trying to build, but so far can't manage to get traction.

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But the index needs to recover the Neptune level at around 2056 on the long-range planetary chart below ... or it's in danger of plunging another 25%.

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Okay, for those of you unskilled in technical mischief, you can do a right-click on any of these charts and save them as an image to consult in the coming weeks. Yes, I know ... India, Singapore, China. Not a lot of technical ineptitude going on there.

Keep a close eye on what prices Polly and Auntie get up to on Monday/Tuesday. Loud warning sirens if Polly especially goes to around 1704 and poops her panties! If she goes through ... decisively ... we'll probably go back into goo-goo/ga-ga/gush mode.

Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013, 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 2013 , Jupiter's cycle and its effects on Wall Street and a posting of the weekly Eye of Ra report in this blog, titled A look at the Venus Retrograde effect
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2013

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Targets for The Top of the Bull market

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 July 15, 2013

".. astrological expectations never over-ride
technical conditions"

We will spend some time this weekend reviewing the growing danger signals that the Bull run is topping out.

I indicated last weekend: "There is a strong chance, at least from an astrological viewpoint, that the next downleg of the multi-week correction is due to start."

However, the normal Mercury Retrograde spurt-and-reverse cycle has not played out.

I did also say: "There is some chance the correction is over and the bounce will continue. July tends to be a stronger month for the Wall Street indices than June."

However, repeating that now is just mealy-mouthed arse-covering. Basically, I got it wrong. I'd thought the normal tendency of the Merc Rx cycle, combined with the statistical negativity of the New Moon to Full Moon period would drag on stock markets and it didn't.

There is some danger everyone will do a complete "re-think" when Mercury goes Direct again at the end of this week, especially since the Grand Trine involving Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune becomes exact mid-week. I dealt with this recently and the full report can be found in the Archives.

Once that aspect finishes, the next major one will be Jupiter making a T-square with Uranus and Pluto, an aspect renowned financial astrologer Ray Merriman describes as a "classical" bankruptcy signature.

But, I am much less concerned with The Spooky Stuff  than I am with the warning sirens starting to go off in the technical condition of the markets - especially on Wall Street where everyone is hooked on the cheap money the US Federal Reserve has been pumping into the financial system.

Every few years the May to October timeframe produces market behaviour which turns out to be a major, long-range turning point. And this may well be one of those times.

So, let's begin. And, courtesy of the Incredible Charts software, we'll start with a quarterly chart of the Dow Jones Industrials. At an eyeball glance, the DJI appears to be making a multi-decade megaphone pattern. And it has the uberBears drooling. They believe the Dow is getting set to drop not just to the lower line of the "jaws of death", but will plunge down through it.

Maybe, maybe not. That's something we'll have to try to judge sometime in the future; not now. What is concerning is that these new price highs in the DJI are not being fully-endorsed by the mid-range oscillator. I've placed an orange horizontal at its recent peak - and it's a level that has shown up as marking out a topping pattern several times.

For the moment, the oscillator is maintaining its own uptrend angle from the Bear bottom in 2009. But it is starting to falter.

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 We'll go next to a DJI monthly chart and use the 50CCI ... what I call the long-range Canary, or the Big Bird. We've been watching and waiting for a while now for Big Bird to start to diverge from the price action. If you look at the 2007 topping pattern, I've put a thick, red diagonal on the May-October price action of that year ... and while it went north, Big Bird went south during that period.

For the moment, the DJI's price continues at an angle which is too far, too fast to be sustained ... and while the price of the index has climbed above the 2007 peak, Big Bird has not reached the lofty levels it did then; which is long-range negative divergence in itself.

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Next we go to the weekly chart. And it's here we see the warning sirens are starting to become quite strident. Divergence between the price and the weekly version of Big Bird became very, very obvious ... and the warning is not simply that Big Bird went down the falling red diagonal while price rode the climbing red diagonal in that timeframe.

You'll see a thin, orange horizontal in both price and oscillator areas. Price came down and turned back up after reaching the level of an earlier consolidation. Big Bird didn't; it plunged through. It did not lose the +100 level, which is near-term Bullish.

But! The warning sirens are going off and week-by-week, they're starting to get a little louder.

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 In 2007, markets put in a volatile topping pattern from May through to October; in 2011 they plunged during that period. It's a timeframe which needs to be watched carefully - especially if a Bull market top is now being put in place.

And we can see the potential for that to happen in Pollyanna, the SP500, as well as the DJI. While the Dow nears the top line of the megaphone, Miss Polly is rising again to challenge the top of her channel - a redline barrier with a history of producing sharp price reversals when it's breached.

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 Monthly Big Bird has not started to screech horribly in the chart above - though it's still below its 2007 peak, with the price of the index higher. That's not exactly a sweet, clear song.

And weekly Big Bird in the chart below is now getting distinctly unhappy.

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 I've been stressing lately that the danger signs are increasing; which doesn't mean that The Top has already been reached. Well, not for Wall Street. I think some other indices have probably arrived at their Bull highs and are now just marking time, waiting for Wall Street to face the reality that printing money to prop-up stock prices is ... "irrational exuberance". Again. Slow learners.

To find out exactly where Miss Pollyanna might top out this Bull run, I do need to turn to The Spooky Stuff ... my long-range planetary price chart for the index.

I had fully expected this run to stop, or at least stall heavily, in the Pluto/Node range from 1519 to 1574. The state of the Birds never did agree with me. As I've said often: astrological expectations never over-ride technical conditions. And they didn't this time, either.

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Anyway, the chart above gives three clear potential target areas for the Bull to exhaust himself at. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll try to update the targets for other indices, including the major Europeans, India and Asia.

Fairly regularly, I update what I call my Weekly Planets charts for various indices - and if you're not taking advantage of them, you're mad. It's really not that hard. You do need to be able to use an oscillator in conjunction with the price targets to know when the technical signals for a turn are obvious.

I had a truly irritating email during the week from someone who asked: "What's an oscillator?" Well, darling, if you're too damn dumb, or too damn lazy, to spend a few minutes going through these FREE weekly reports, don't waste my bloody time.

For those of you do read and seek to learn - and that, I know, is about 99.98% of readers - here's a quick how-to using the FTSE WP and ASX200 WP charts.

Given the level of negative divergence in the Big Bird as the FTSE temporarily breached the 6849 level, it was a fairly safe place to Short that index. There was no early positive divergence signal as the index breached 6047, though the rapid recovery did indicate it was a reasonable place to go Long again.

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It was pretty much a case of "ditto" for the 200, where there was oscillator divergence at the price high and a small case of positive divergence at the price low.

Remember these are weekly charts and the dailies can be used for fine-tuning Entry and Exit points ... Just as I did earlier in the Dow charts. The quarterly shows the danger signs starting, but not strident ... while the weekly shows just how strongly the klaxons are starting to growl.

Using the Weekly Planets charts for intermediate-range moves is just a variation. They set the potential targets, but you use daily charts to tell you whether your anticipated trade is ready for Entry or Exit. And once the move starts, in either direction, you have ideal prices to use as the base for Loss Stop provisions.

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Okay, that's a wrap for this weekend. Frankly, I have no idea what the short-term direction is ... and I believe Benign Ben is due to make an appearance before the House this week. Personally, I live in dread anytime Ben is presented with an opportunity to "clarify" the Fed's current position!
 Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, and The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013, 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 2013 , Jupiter's cycle and its effects on Wall Street and a posting of the weekly Eye of Ra report in this blog, titled A look at the Venus Retrograde effect
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2013

The Idiot and the Moon, Forecast 2013  Sale price 1/2 off!

• Major trend change dates for the full year, plus a month-by-month breakdown of high-energy trading dates and critical reversal dates.

• An index-by-index analysis of Moon Trading across major American, European, Asian and Australian stock indices-

• Identifies the major indices where following the phases of the Moon can dramatically cut profits, or even result in large losses.

• Old Gods & Gold ... a Eureka! discovery about exactly what drives gold prices during rallies and corrections and charts showing highly-reliable target levels to both the upside and downside.

These price charts are individually-tailored to each index and cover Wall Street, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, India, England, Germany and France.

You will not see these charts anywhere else on the Internet!

And much more...

It is NEVER too late in the year to have this monthly information!
Sale Price $10.00

Analysing the risk of a high speed U-turn

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 July 16, 2012

Analysing the risk of a high speed U-turn

 High volatility is likely to continue in world stock markets over the next week ... with a higher-than-normal risk of a severe U-turn developing into the end of the month.

This weekend, we will examine the tendency of markets to go into a spurt-and-reverse cycle when the boy messenger of the Old Gods goes Rx. The retrograde movement of planets is an optical illusion. They never actually reverse course.

However, when viewed from the Earth, they sometimes seem to go backwards ... and as ancient astrologers watched the waltz of the planets, they added nuances to the symbolism of their interpretations. For example, if you happen to have Saturn Rx in your birth chart, there's a very, very strong chance your father will "go missing" by the time you reach your early teens.

Oh, I know that has nothing to do with financial astrology! But then, we both know you don't come peeking into the fortune teller's tent just to hear me waffle on about the dead Italian guy or whether the Canaries are croaking.

So, we're going to begin this week with a little look at The Trickster ... Mercury in Rx mode.

Let me start with some background.  The late Kaye Shinker, who was kind enough to review The Idiot and The Moon when I published it online a year ago, made a specific study of the Merc Rx impact on the Dow Jones Industrials and came to the conclusion that most of the time, the Dow would end the Merc Rx period with price within 1% of where it started the cycle.

To put this simply ... on August 8, the price of the DJI should be within 1% of where it closed last week.

Ray Merriman, the guru of financial astrologers, has noted a tendency for stock markets to start a move at the Rx date and then reverse course halfway through the cycle; which is just a variation on Kaye's findings.

Now, I guess if I were an American, I'd probably be from Missouri; IF my memory serves me correctly, that's the "don't tell me, SHOW me" State.

So, I'll show you.

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There's a lot to absorb from the chart above, but firstly let me apologise for that irritating thick, pink vertical; it's a glitch in the software that occurs when a planet enters Aries. Please try to ignore it.

Okay, so this is a daily chart of the SP500 and it's obvious the index has a general tendency to travel within Mercurial corridors and finds either Support or Resistance when it meets up with the planetary price lines.

The retrograde periods begin when the pink lines stop rising and start dropping for a few weeks, before resuming their upward direction ... which is the shift from Rx to Direct again.

I've inserted black verticals at both the Rx and Direct dates. If you look closely at the three most recent instances, it's fairly easy to see what Kaye and Ray talked about. In the first example to the left of the chart, the index was dropping already, but continued the drop before bouncing roughly halfway through. By the time of the second black line for that cycle, price had climbed back very near to the bar marked by the very first black vertical.

In the second instance, the Merc Rx date produced a strong rebound ... changed direction about halfway through ... and then began climbing again after Mercury Direct.

The effect isn't quite as obvious in the third instance, but it is true that the price of the index at the second black line of the cycle was pretty damn close to where it was at the first vertical.

So, what does it all portend, eh? Well, as I said earlier ... a higher-than-normal chance of a spurt-and-reverse ... either a rally or a decline which goes high-speed into a U-turn halfway through the cycle, which means around July 27.

Okay, so that's the "show me" part. Now let me deal with some other astrological stuff about Mercury Rx. Some astrologers warn against trading during this period; others will tell you that the technical read-outs will give an abnormal number of "false" signals. I'm not one of them.

Mercury goes Rx for a few weeks at a time three or four times a year. I don't know about you, but I think life is too short to spend a quarter of the year sitting on your butt worrying and doing nothing because some pissant rock appears to be going backwards.

My real-life experience of Mercury Rx is this ... YOU make mistakes. And, usually, because you're not concentrating. I've learned over the years that the worst that happens is that I occasionally hit the bloody Buy button when I meant to hit the Sell. So, double-check everything you do for the next few weeks and make sure you actually did what you intended to do. And the chances are you'll get through the cycle totally unscathed.

Now, I guess I could tell you that's the end of The Spooky Stuff for this week ... but ... cue the X Files theme music, please ...

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Yes ... it's the FTSE ... and yet another bounce from contact with the rising Sun line!! Spooky, indeed. How long will it last? GeeZeus, why are you asking me?! Okay, we're starting to get increasing fade-out in the state of the green and red Canaries - the green one is short-term and the red is intermediate. The yellow bird, the long-range, is still okay. But, the internal strength of the rally is starting to wane. That's the only daily we'll be looking at this week because I want to have a look at the big picture, especially with the high volatility implied by the Mercury Rx cycle and the Mars-Uranus potential for a crash cycle we went into last weekend.

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The chart above is a monthly Gann for the FTSE. She lost the primary Gann angle on a closing basis in May, but has regained it, though June ... and July so far ... have failed to recapture the totality of the earlier losses.

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Turning our attention again to Pollyanna, the SP500, it has also failed to recapture the earlier losses. It is playing by the Bi-BB rules outlined in The Technical Section of the book. I draw your attention to the three instances of negative divergence in the height of the fast MACD histograms, compounded at the price high by a lower peak in the MACD signal lines. The climate grows increasingly toxic, despite the hopes of a QE3 bailout from Ben.

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Last week's decline stopped on contact with the 1325 long-range Node target and bounced back to finish near the Pluto line at 1358.

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The ASX 200 has recovered about two-tenths-of-bugger-all of the May plunge. The extremely small range consolidation over June and July-to-date is either extremely Bullish or unbelievably Bearish. I have a very strong leaning towards the latter scenario. The depth of the long-range Canary plunge last August and the index's extremely weak recovery ... in an economy supposed to be one of the strongest in the Western world ... suggest things could get really ugly, really fast.

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I've mentioned a couple of times recently the importance of the 50% retracement levels. The blue Fibonacci lines are the range of the 2007-2009 plunge and the red ones are the Rx levels for the 2009-2010 recovery rally. As y'can see, the post-plunge recovery stalled out at a 50% Rx ... and last week found Support at the 50% level of the smaller range. Okay, that's the show for this week, folks! At some stage, hopefully within the next week or so, I'll write a new piece for the Articles section of the site dealing with how to use The Idiot and a couple of really basic techie tools to trade intraday charts.
In the meantime ... Safe trading - RA

Astrological Investing's associate, Randall Ashbourne, author of the eBook, The Idiot and The Moon, 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 article, Jupiter's cycle and its effects on Wall Street and a posting of the weekly Eye of Ra report in this blog, titled A look at the Venus Retrograde effect
(Disclaimer: This article is not advice or a recommendation to trade stocks; it is merely educational material.)
Copyright: Randall Ashbourne - 2011-2012

Dow 30 Industrials

Marlene and I plan to attend the ISAR Conference in Chicago's western suburb Oakbrook August 20-23. Both of us plan to go to as many lectures as possible on the Financial Astrology track. 

I have learned from experience to assemble in a 3-ring binder a copy of each Dow stock's Incorporation and IPO chart. I carry it with me to the lectures and then make notes right on the chart according to the various observations of the presenters. It is one way I force myself to keep all of the lecture notes in one place. In fact I even put the handouts from the lectures in the same notebook.  

OK Kaye where do you find all of the charts for the Dow stocks?

Easy I share my collection with you all in my Textbook for Financial Astrology Book 3.

ALSO

Available Now at Astrological Investing is an E-Book for Students and Financial Astrologers of the charts for the companies that are included in the Dow 30.  

Students of Astrology who are new to the study of Financial Astrology will just have fun with the Dow 30 E book. It's like a coloring book, black and white pictures of horoscopes with plenty of white space for scribbles.

The Dow 30 E book contains both the Incorporation and IPO chart for each company in the Dow 30.

At Astrological Investing our experience has shown that although the date for the Initial Public Offering is important when determining the direction for price of an individual stock, it is the Incorporation chart that determines the health of the company.  Folks who use the lessons of Astrological Investing need to check both the Inc. and IPO charts before they move on to technical analysis as well as historical research of the company's business. 

Household Hint:  Print the E book.  ( I just printed a copy for Marlene because she has a very slow printer.) Whenever you read a headline, write the date on the chart for the company.  In a few days you will be able to determine how the headline affected the price of the stock. If there is a significant rise or fall in price then you can check the Ephemeris or LLewellyn calendar for the planetary transit involved in the news headline.

We really hope to meet as many members of Astrological Investing as possible. Please introduce yourselves. OK?

Kaye

Sun in Pisces - What a Day for a Day Dream..

My age is probably showing, but since the Sun entered Pisces on February 18th, I've found myself singing lyrics to the song, "Day Dream", by the Lovin' Spoonful; and I can't get the song out of my head!

"What a day for a day dream,

What a day for a day dreamin' boy.

And I'm lost in a day dream..."

Venus turning retrograde March 6th strikes a chord with the irony found in the second verse...

"And even if time is passin' me by a lot,

I couldn't care less about the dues you say I got.

Tomorrow I'll pay the dues for dropping my load.

A pie in the face for being a sleepy bull toad. "

In this Bear market, how much dues do we have to pay for being sleepy BULL toads!

Venus ruler of Taurus, rules our values and money; and in financial astrology, Venus rules the value of stocks.

83% of the time significant trading cycles will unfold within four days of Venus retrograde. (read Raymond Merriman, The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 3: Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles )

On our web site, (Financial Articles, The World At Large January 2009 report ), Randall Ashbourne makes us aware that March 7th to the 8th are dates likely to coincide with a key reversal in the stock market.

We can't let unrealistic hopes and dreams - naturally representative of Pisces energy - allow us to be loose with our money in the market, especially now!

Take advantage of any rally but keep your stops tight!

Is it possible that we are incapable of waking from our daydreams this year?
You may want to read Kaye Shinker's article The Money in Your Chart and Jupiter and the Money In Your Chart, Part II of Money in Your Chart to discover how your horoscope can help you profit from the economic crisis.

"And you can be sure that if you're feelin right

A day dream will last a long time into the night.

Tomorrow at breakfast you may prick up your ears,

Or you may be dreamin' for a thousand years"....