Financial Astrology makes the Game FUN

"You have to get into the game" Jim Cramer CNBC

Financial astrology gives you the confidence to get into the game and it even adds to the fun of watching and investing in the markets.

Consider August when Mercury was retrograde and everyone was positive the markets would tank. However you read the Leo New Moon report at Astrologicalinvesting.com. You knew this was a temporary phenomena. August had a very normal Mercury rx. About seven days into the 21 day cycle the markets hit a low, creeped along the low for a few days and then when Mercury went direct they returned to almost the same index number.

In the Leo New Moon news letter at Astrological Investing we explained the astrological phenomena and suggested that traders take a vacation.

Calendar Game

You will notice that each month we publish a calendar on the blog. Each day lists the time when the Moon makes an exact aspect to any planet as well as the times when planets make exact aspects to each other. Our students print the calendar then mark each day as to whether they think the markets will be up or down. They use the knowledge they gain from the Textbook for Financial Astrology as well as the rules they acquire from the Idiot and the Moon. After a few months of practice and a bit of back testing they might miss a day or two, but usually they catch even the interday changes in direction of the indexes.

Portfolio Game

Another game where students enjoy testing their knowledge is the portfolio game. Each of the e trading sites offers a practice portfolio where you can design a pretend portfolio and then try all of their bells and whistles. Our students learn how to chose stocks that are at a low and have a good chance of increasing in value. They learn to predict when to buy then when to sell the stock for a profit with the calendar as an additional tool to determine the mood of the markets.

Back testing Cycles

Every Financial Astrologer will explain how they back tested astrological patterns and arrived at their prediction for a particular aspect that will appear in the near future. This method works. It is also fun. However, before you put down real money you need to learn how to read the calendar and understand how each planet effects the progress of the markets.

Starting with the Textbooks for Financial Astrology, and the taking a class or two it takes only a few months to learn the basics and then it is a matter of practice, practice, practice. My testimonial: "Yelling at my TV or Radio guru's is fun especially when my astrological reason is right and they are wrong.

Financial astrology classes based on Kaye Shinker's Textbook for Financial Astrology
FA 101 - Sun: Nov 6 8:00pm EDT FA 101 - Mon: Nov
7 12:00 pm and also 8:00 pm FA 102 - Tues: Nov 8 8:00 pm EDT(other classes can be arranged. Email Kaye about classes - shinker@astrologicalinvesting.com )
Classes run 6 weeks in order for you to experience the effects for astrological changes in the market.
CHATROOM FORMAT
Classes are about 2 hours. We discuss the Textbook for Financial Astrology
Lessons and how they apply to real time in today's markets. After class I send you our dialogue.
SKYPE FORMAT
Classes are one on one, and last about 1 1/2 hours. Your computer can
record our conversation. We discuss the Textbook lessons two at a time and how
each lesson applies to trading and investing. The objective is to learn the
value of timing the markets and to help you gain the self-assurance required to
buy, sell or hold.
Lesson 1 starts with the basic astrological concept of Void of Course Moon and Mercury Retrograde. Both are trader's red flags.

The Moods of the Moon

An article from our web site on Profitable Stock Trading using the Moon Cycles by Randall Ashbourne.

Trading the mood swings of the monthly Lunar cycle will produce three-to-six times the profit of a simple, buy-and-hold strategy. I know that’s a dramatic call, but I intend to prove it.

All astrologers, and not a few experienced traders, know that – statistically – Full Moons tend to occur near temporary price lows and that New Moons tend to occur near short-term price highs.

And we all know there are Lies, Damned Lies – and Statistics. Many of the Lunar trading articles found easily on the internet tend to suggest the potential gains are relatively minor, or that the phenomenon inverts so often that it can’t be used as a reliable trading technique.

Even if we go to the trouble of mapping the Loonytoons on a price chart, a simple eyeball of the chart tends to make us think it works some of the time, but can be downright dangerous to our cash at other times – as with this 2011 chart of the SP500.
What “eyeballing” does is give you an impression. It doesn’t give you the facts.

Over the past year I decided to test the assertions for myself and log the results in a spreadsheet to test just how profitable it is to trade the mood swings of the Moon. The results were simply mind-blowing.(click the image to view larger size)

Not simply because they showed truly massive stock market profits during certain periods, but also because they showed when it was absolutely UNSAFE to risk your money.

What I discovered was that, statistically, the old assertions not only hold up, but when traded consistently over time, produce big profits for small amounts of time exposed to market conditions.

By introducing a simple mechanical filter before making a decision to trade, the spreadsheets showed not only which Moon phases could be traded safely, and when, but which trades should NOT be placed under any circumstances.

The results were so staggering they form a standalone system of trading in my new book, The Idiot and the Moon. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so let’s see what the facts are when we trade The Moods of The Moon during the first 6 months of 2011 on the SP500.

Read the rest of this article at  http://www.astrologicalinvesting.com/html/articles_pages/articles-ra_Moon-Trading_lunar_Cycles.html