A reader mailed me, criticizing my recent post Questioning Financial Astrology , in which I pointed out the problems with using longer term cycles. He is convinced that Jupiter cycle does work in the market and pointed to a post by Raymond Merriman, in which the Jupiter cycle gets mentioned. Quoting the relevant part: Historically,… Continue reading Testing the Jupiter cycle in stocks
Category: Financial Astrology
Air pockets
Stock markets have gone mostly sideways as we indicated last week. The Dow Jones Industrials managed to set new highs, but the Nasdaq failed to do so. On Thursday there was a sudden drop in the market, followed by a remarkable comeback on Friday. This could be the first of a series of air pockets… Continue reading Air pockets
Investor sentiment
Stocks continue to hover near their highs, but the market starts to looks a bit tired. We will be entering a new lunar red period this week. The most recent red periods have brought significant gains in most stock markets, but that’s rather unusual. It tends to happen a few times a year and then… Continue reading Investor sentiment
LT wave chart for November
Here is our LT wave chart for next month (click for larger image): Last month the LT wave didn’t work. The S&P 500 actually bottomed on October 9th and then rose to new record highs, exactly the opposite of what the chart projected. For November we see a slightly positive bias until the 14th followed… Continue reading LT wave chart for November
Questioning financial astrology – part 2
To understand this article, please read Part 1, where it was explained how longer term astronomical cycles are very hard to test because we have only about 200 years of stock market history. Not only that, there are so many astronomical or astrological cycles to chose from that it is almost inevitable that there will… Continue reading Questioning financial astrology – part 2
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