Planetary Cycles Trading (EUR/USD)

With a holiday (who marks)!

It is a little classics and alternative avatar ZAP.

Good luck and pleasure.

Hi all,
Pretty busy week this week astrologically. Let's see how the markets compare.

Pluto goes retrograde on Wed (Aust time) and Saturn retros back into Virgo on Thurs.

Pluto going retro is usually significant in the markets as it is when it goes back to direct (14 Sept 2010).

By my tech analysis it appears that AUD will go up a bit more but I am thinking that that will happen before or just as Pluto goes retro.
Happy successful trading to all

heyas astrotraders,

well... my gateway is working now !
new and shining stuff oh lala
(i hope its better than prior router)

oui! its a crazy month ahead , similar forecast (this is financial overall, general, transits):


April 7 Pluto retrograde at 5 Capricorn

Statistically this reverses markets. If the trend has been up for the past month then it will go down, and if the trend is down for the past month then the market will go up and continue the trend until Pluto goes direct in September 14. When Pluto went direct September 11, 2009 the Dow was at 9700. It has traded in the seven months following in a range of about 10%. up. At 10,400 the Dow average began to stall (less than a 2% change) and the past few months show the average between 10,200 and 10,800. The Pluto retrograde trend change now suggests a volatile market, therefore investors will have to pick stocks they have researched thoroughly. Pluto retrograde also indicates an excellent time to begin researching new businesses and products worthy of your investment.

April 7 Saturn returns to Virgo

Time to revisit really unsolved problems such as unemployment, unions, healthcare. We will see them in a new light and understand the need for practical solutions. Maybe various governments will decide that an increase in employed workers will add taxes to their coffers, and instead of throwing away borrowed money they will decrease taxes on the employers.

April 18 - May 11 Mercury retrograde

The statistics are 85% for this astrological market indicator. We find the Dow ends the retrograde period within 2% of where it starts. As a result, I recommend that traders take a vacation. During Mercury retrograde it is a good idea to do things that begin with ”re”, for example, read and repair.


source: Financial astrology. Author; Kaye Shinker, Astrological Investing website

Trading style and what astrology tools are more for you...

Trading Styles
by Marlene Pfeifle


Whether you have decided to become a trader with a particular time frame in mind for entering and exiting your trades, or you would rather be an investor with a long term buy and hold strategy, the best place to begin is with a basic understanding of the principles of financial astrology.
Styles of trading/investing can be defined in various ways and categories. But the most important style of trading is the one that fits for you! Personality is perhaps the most critical aspect of choosing a trading style.

Intra-day trading, (day trading), is done by professional full-time traders who take an aggressive approach to trading, taking both Long or Short positions. The positions day traders take can be held from a few seconds to a few hours or an entire day. Most day traders exit their positions before the end of the day, but there are some who don't. Day traders define their day trading style into sub-categories representing how long they actually hold their positions. Timing is critical for Day traders, as they need to find the proper windows during which positions can be entered and exited.

Using astrology, day traders always consider the movement and aspects of the moon as the most important timing indicator.


Short Term trading is a trading/investment style used by those traders who desire to participate in the stock market in a dynamic and aggressive way, but do not have the time for day trading. They can take various positions in the market - Long or Short - but usually hold their positions for a time span of a week or less. Although some will hold positions for slightly longer periods of time. Swing Traders are looking for short term fluctuations in the market. Market sectors and industries are considered and then selected using a trading system of technical indicators, and not fundamental analysis, since the majority of their decisions are based on price trends and patterns.

When short term trading and using astrology, all the planets - in addition to the moon - must be considered. Recommended articles for day traders and short term traders to read are:Using Planetary Aspects in the Market; An Astrological Viewpoint of The World At Large; The Dow Theory, Using Technical Analysis to Find a Profitable Buy Point.

Long Term Trading (Buy and Hold) is basically what is called Investing. It is a style in which one should interpret long term trends and consider fundamental data as well as looking at technical indicators in order to make the best decisions for a position meant to be held for a greater length of time. Long term investing works well for those who desire to have a "hands off" approach compared to the other traders and trading styles. It is also the way most individuals approach investing for their retirement portfolios. Positions can be held as long as a year or even longer.

When using astrology for investing long term, the most important planets to consider are the outer planets. The most important planets are Jupiter and Saturn, but also Uranus, Neptune and Pluto can influence a stock or an index. Recommended articles to read on this subject are: Jupiter and Saturn: These Planets Mean Business, Jupiter's transit of Capricorn, Neptune's Red Flag Alert.

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You will find when doing your research that it is the 4th harmonic aspects (often referred to as the "hard" aspects in astrology) that move a stock price, and not the "easy" aspects, trines and sextiles. What a Financial Astrologer is looking for in the stock market is what will generate price movement, reversals, and timing the trend changes, etc. Dynamic energy is needed to move the market and most often this energy comes from what has been thought of traditionally as difficult, or bad aspects.

Rule #1 for a Financial Astrologer: do not think in terms of "Good = Trines and Sextiles" and that "Bad = Squares and Oppositions". You may find yourself being surprised at what can move a stock price. The benefic planets still seem to line up as "good" planets in financial astrology, but it is the dynamic energy from 4th harmonic aspects that create price change and market movement. Sun trine Venus just maybe might pop the price of a stock for a day but it won't give it a substantial pop in price nor will it be sustainable.

Although there is no cosmic guarantee that a particular aspect will predict either a rising or falling market or stock price, there are a number of geocosmic contacts that often do produce a predictable rise or drop in price!

nice writeup Zapmx.

busy absrobing here

It's good to see this thread have life other than the lame obligatory "Uranus" jokes.

Some techniques I've had good success with:
- try using the start of a price swing as a natal point.
- use aspect cycles as measurements and then apply directly to highs/lows
- build gann grids off of natural cycle dates such as lunar quarters
- vedic daily celestial body rulers converted to price levels similar to pivot levels

Nice post Zapmx

I like with short term trading.
So far I know, I try using inner planets: Mer, Ven plus moon as cycle indicator.

Next event I, I note that there will be Double T-Square of Moon.
They are Moon-Mars-Mercury & Moon-Mars-Venus; both will be started on 7 April at 18-19:00 GMT to 8 April morning.

I guess, this will be change swing on currency price.
More likely to drop..(I don't know).
This should be confirmed with compare aspect Natal of currency with this transit.

FunPip

strange night, its still low volume to see clear direction and trust it. I am shorting a bit before to go bed. how are you doing guys?
i guess people is still on holiday

cool!
eh nice color! and symmetrical peaks but ...
I think there is a small error, typo day name or wrong glyphs?
its exchanged glyph for Jupiter, its thursday and Mars day is tuesday.

i like it! thanks my friend

waiting your views eh!

yeah these jokes lol, its true but it is ciclyc too, some jokes over here, over there and later... peace. working and again begin the cycle.
your tips are very interesting. What aspects often are you following?

hope you could share your views in the thread.

thanks

its nice tip i guess
i cant get it with the moon yet, i mean the timing.
so far i have a little success just with moon phases, new moon or full moon but i am not using aspects.

will you share how are you doing your method or astro approach soon?

hey cruiser, i think i will use that date of yen to look for old swings in the charts hope i could find significant correlations. It will be helpful to know the astro "weather" of yen too.

thanks! i wish you nice rest in your holiday

edit: uhmm i am going to sleep now, see you tomorrow guys. nice dreams

Good afternoon my friend ZAPMX.
You as always are right, it is a ridiculous and silly error for my part. I ask to accept my deepest apologies.
New variant more low.

ah not always heh dont worry. i have a lot of typos too
now its right
thanks, i will use it soon, you will see!

4am over here, time to bed.
have nice day my dear friend

Hi Zapmx,

I am beginner in trading, and eager to learn this planetary.
I am using software like Zet8 & Aspectarian, and ephemeris calendar from you guys .
Very interesting how Jameshong using moon to sell GBPUSD on post #422. I still learn to plot aspect between Natal and transit using moon.

Not much to be share now (sorry).

Funpip

Hmm . . . very creative.


This looks like something I might try. Interesting idea . . .

Good luck!

Hi guys. I’ll show you a couple things I’m doing this week, in case it gives you ideas for your own astro trading. One thing is that I’m moving the aspect info from Aspectarian into an Excel spreadsheet. How do I do this? First I open a new Word document (but I think you can use Notepad if you prefer). Then I run Aspectarian for a one week time period (in this case Apr 5 – Apr 9), one currency at a time. After each individual run I highlight the whole “Aspects found” and “Within 1 deg of exact” section, right click & choose “copy”, then move to the document and “paste” the info there. If I’ve already pasted info from previous currencies, I add it below the others. I put all the currencies I’m interested in for the week into this one new document. Then I save it with a “.txt” file type (which stands for text), and exit out.

Then I open the text file again and make some edits to it. I move (cut & paste) the individual lines in the “Within 1 deg of exact” section up with the other aspects, in chronological order. Then I remove the spaces surrounding the dashes that are found in those lines. Here’s an example:

Before: 04/07/10 – 04/09/10
After: 04/07/10-04/09/10

The above is important because when the text file is imported into Excel it will be “space delimited”, with each space in a line signifying a break between fields. We want these two dates treated as a single date field, so there can’t be spaces between them. You’ll understand this better when you see the final product.

After you’re done moving those, get rid of the headings you’ve copied over (“Aspects found” and “Within 1 deg of exact”). Then get rid of the lines that say something like “speed = 0.2226 ==> 4.49 days”. Then add the correct currency code and a space in front of each line (like “EUR “). To make it easier I copy the first one I enter, then just do a paste in front of each line for that same currency. Then I save the text file again and exit out.

Interestingly, all of the edits I’ve described can be done within the Aspectarian window before copying and pasting, if you prefer doing that way. And it’s really not as complicated or time consuming as it probably sounds. It’s taking me much longer to write this post than it did to create the weekly text file.

Now it’s time to open Excel and import the text file into it. Do this by going through:

Data / Get External Data / Import Text File

Show it the location of the text file and click “Import”. Then choose “Delimited” for the data type and click the “Next” button. Then choose “Space” for the delimiter and click the “Next” button. Then it will show you a small picture of how it’s going to create the vertical fields. Go through the fields left to right, clicking on each one and choosing “Text”. If you use something else (like “General”) it might try to interpret and change the data into something else. We want it to leave everything “as is”, and we do this by telling it to use “Text”. Then click “Finish”. Then choose “Existing worksheet” when it asks where you want to put this data, and click “OK”.

Your spreadsheet should now fill up with data and look something like this (below), minus the “Notes” (which can be added later) and headings. For the headings, highlight the top line, right click on it, and choose “Insert”. Then choose “Shift cells down” and click “OK”. In the blank line it creates, add your column headings. Save the spreadsheet with a logical name so you can find it easily.

I’ll probably make a new one each week. But you might prefer to do this monthly if you’re only following one or two currencies. You can print them out or whatever. Add notes when you see possible trades, or maybe describe what actually happened to price during the aspect. It's also a way of keeping a history.