Using daily aspect calendars to time intraday trades August 2, 2011
Readers have asked me if I day trade - and the answer is !es, sometimes" I prefer swing trading, which I would define as a larger price move over a longer timeframe than intraday" #ometimes, that$s short-term %a few days&, intermediate %a few weeks&, or long-term %months or more&" In truth, all trades are swing trades' it simply depends on whether one is following The Idiot on on a monthly, weekly, daily, or one-hour chart" (oon phase trades are swing trades' trying to capitalise on the statistical tendency of markets to change direction at the )ew (oon, *ull (oon and *irst and +hird uarter dates" ut, the (oon$s effect on .mood/ is not confined simply to those recurring phases every 2 days" (arkets will move according to the (oon$s daily aspects to other planets and, even more importantly, according to the sign it$s currently traversing" +o make full use of these daily aspects, it$s necessary to know at least a little something aout astrological symolism" It doesn$t have to e a lot #ome fairly asic knowledge could e useful in helping to time trades etter, so I$ll try to e3plain some of it here in relatively simple terms" (y friends 4aye #hinker and (arlene 5feifle, at astrologicalinvesting"com, astrologicalinvesting"com, provide a very useful service once a month - calendars showing the e3act time of a spects etween the planets and the daily aspects and sign changes of la 6une, for )ew !ork, 6ondon and #ydney" +hey look like this and can e found at http77astrol http77astrologicalinvesting" ogicalinvesting"logspot"com logspot"com7search7lael7 7search7lael7calendar calendar
+o use the information effectively, you first have to know the direction of the current trend - and that$s something The Idiot defines very well" !ou could also incorporate the information into your Moon Trading" Reading The Eye of Ra each week will also help give you an idea of what$s likely to happen" )ot every week, perhaps" ut, often" And as I try to stress, it$s 8ust as important to know when )9+ to trade, or to at least ad8ust one$s +ime : 5rice e3pectations, as it is to hold one$s nerve and e prepared for the good moves when they come" All of this is detailed in the final chapter - how to 8udge the length of +ime phases and get ready for the fast-
moving 5rice phases" 9f course, these +ime : 5rice phases occur over all timeframes - and they have a great deal to do with +he (oods of +he (oon, even in its daily travels" ;ach month, the (oon will travel through each sign of the emini and #agittarius" ?hen the (oon is in >emini, there are often ig price moves 9+@ ways" ?hen it$s in #agittarius, the ig price moves tend to e in one direction" )ow, usually, #agittarian moves are unduly optimistic" ust occasionally, they will go entirely in the other direction" upiter7#agittarius .e3aggerates/ - which is very nice if you$re 6ong and the mood is optimistic" ut, 8ust occasionally, it is fear that gets e3aggerated" The Moods of The Moon I must stress have only a minor effect if there are significant aspects occurring etween other planets" It$s all aout .level/" )evertheless, there are times the effects can e e3ploited Buite profitaly"
(oon In +he #igns ARI;# - +he effect is aggressive and the (oon travelling in Aries can start a move in a direction likely to last for a couple of days" #ince Uranus is now in Aries, the (oon and Uranus will e in the same section of the sky, a con8unction, and the action is likely to e oth sudden and surprising" +AURU# - +his is the most stale sign of the ;(I)I - 5rice swings, often wildly and often in oth directions, as if the market can$t make up its mind" +hat$s ecause it can$t" =A)=;R - Is one of the action signs, ut it is not openly aggressive in most circumstances" 9ne of the keywords for =ancer is .protective/" +he wild price swings of the >emini period give way, once again, to more consolidation as traders on oth sides move to .protect/ profits already locked in" At the moment, (ars is in =ancer and the
.softness/ of the (oon and the hard edge of (ars are not normally energies which lock together smoothly" 6;9 - Is the sign of speculation and gamling" 9nce again, the .mood/ shifts and some market will move" It won$t necessarily e stocks, ecause 6eo rules gold" CIR>9 - +he most practical sign of the I++ARIU# - Usually unduly optimistic" If there$s going to e a sudden spurt, or strong countertrend, this is when it$s most likely to occur" +his is not a freight train to step in front of, regardless of whether it$s a rocket ride or a plunge" =A5RI=9R) - 5rices tend to stailise again" AUARIU# - Always difficult to predict with accuracy - since the sign symolises the weird, the wacky, the sudden shock or surprise" It is the most *i3ed and stuorn of all the signs and has a complete disregard for hard evidence which conflicts with what it wants to do" 5I#=;# - >ets an undeserved ad rap from many astrologers" In terms of financial astrology, it$s when the lies get told, usually a lot of gilding for the lily D the >E5 figures which are oundlessly optimistic"
(oon In Aspect ?e already know the key phases of the (oon$s monthly aspects - those it makes with the #un the )ew (oon %con8unction&, *ull (oon %opposition&, *irst uarter %sBuare& and +hird uarter %sBuare&" #o, it shouldn$t e too hard to come to grips with the terms con8unction, opposition and sBuare - especially for (oon +raders" +hese three are .hard/ aspects' they imply action"
And so, we 8ust have to ad8ust the .level/ of our thinking to include more than 8ust the (oon$s aspects to the #un" +he enefic planets are
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and, often, Neptune. +he .malefic/ planets are
Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto. #o, 6unar aspects of any kind to the first group tend to symolise a .mood/ which encourages higher prices" @ard aspects, the con8unction, opposition, or sBuare, to any of the other planets tend to suggest a ad mood (oon with the potential for prices to fall" +he .soft/ aspects are the se3tile and the trine" 9f the two, the trine is stronger" (any astrologers will tell you a trine is a positive aspect" It ain$t necessarily so" It is usually so" ut, not always" A trine means the energy flows smoothly" )ow, it$s simply a fact that that the atmosphere goes haywire when the #un is in hard aspect with some other planets" It$s when #olar storms reach their peak" lah lah" ?hen the planets are in se3tile or trine, energy patterns do not conflict with each other" In the case of the trine the impact tends to e the rapid removal of ostacles" #o, if a market has een struggling - up or down - the arrival of a trine symolises the timing of when the struggle will stop and direction will e resolved" In fact, the move could already e underway, having started as soon as the previous (oon aspect finished" In effect, it will mark the end of a +ime phase, regardless of the timeframe weFre looking at, and the proale start of a 5rice phase" )ow, I realise this might all seem a it complicated - especially to those without any training in astrological symolism" #o, I$ll try to state the likely impacts very simply"
+he #un or the (oon making a con8unction, se3tile or trine - what I call a kissy-smoochy - to any of the .nice/ planets will tend to increase stock prices" #imilarly, for (ercury and Cenus, who are also fast movers" If any of them makes a hard aspect to a nasty planet, prices will tend to decline down into the time the aspect is e3act" +here are some very important e3ceptions to this If you find that 5rice simply flatlines as the (oon is heading for a nice aspect with upiter, the proaility is that markets are in a downtrend and will continue falling as soon as the a spect is finished" =onversely, if 5rice does )9+ decline, ut flatlines, as the (oon makes a con8unction to #aturn, then the proaility is that, once the pressure is off, 5rices will rise" +his is very, very important to watch for (oon making kissy-smoochy with upiter #@9U6E ring on a 5rice increase" If it does not, then .something else/ is happening and one needs to e very careful" (oon making nasties with #aturn should e E;5R;##I)>" If it$s not, then .something else/ is happening and, if you$re #hort, e aware you may need to scramle to cover the #horts as soon as the aspect is finished" It may e that, during a confirmed Idiot uptrend, the (oon-#aturn aspect provides the ideal trade re-entry" And it may also e that, during a confirmed Idiot downtrend, (oon kissy-smoochy upiter is the ideal point to get out of your 6ongs" *or anyone trading intraday, it would e very worthwhile downloading the monthly aspect calendars from AstrologicalInvesting and watching the timing of daily turns" 9ne more thing" 6ast weekend, I said I elieve most of t he populist astrological lore aout (ercury Retrograde is nonsense" Actually, I said ullshit" ?ell, I have the same view of Coid of =ourse (oons" I emphatically disagree that .nothing happens/ when the (oon is Coid of =ourse %makes no further aspects efore leaving the sign it$s in&" In fact, I have really, really, really strong views aout oth and have a great deal of troule not launching into a tirade aout what I regard as superficial, populist poop" A Coid of =ourse (oon in stock trading does )9+ mean nothing will happen" )ow, it I# true that is sometimes the
case' 5rice will simply reach a level and flatline for a f ew hours" @owever, it is my e3perience that (9R; often, markets ?I66 move, and move sustantially, while the (oon is finalising its passage through a sign - and it depends almost entirely on what sign and what the *IR#+ aspect is the (oon will make when it changes signs" #o, e aware that a Coid of =ourse (oon can A==;6;RA+; or =@A)>; the trend currently in play D and that the acceleration or change will continue until the (oon changes signs" +hose of you who have een told not to trade during (ercury R3, or C9= (oons, need to know that it is one view" ut, there is another view that is C;R! emphatically different" oth (erc R3 and C9= (oons often provide e3cellent trading opportunities" It$s 8ust that they$re very short-term opportunities"
