Quote from John Merchant:
Funny you should mention that. I was so stupid thirty years ago that I actually did a lot of Fourier Transform work to find those planetary influences. Didn't find anything, but learnt tons about how to twist transforms to get something from nothing. Shudda writ a Pesavento-type book. Or become a Wiles Welder.
"When the Moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will rule the stars."
From what i have obseved it's more along the lines of simple 'Merchant' observational rules when looking at Planetary Tidal Forces... to see how they integrate with market movements...
for example...
take lunations.. (New Moons and Full Moons) - everyone can see the physical effect they have on the ocean's tides and many people have put them on charts and saw that many times the sp goes up into full moons and drops into new moons but its still messy and sometimes fails bady so what's new... but what i have observed is that price points seem to match a lot during a lot of lunations...
for example - The March 24th Full Moon had a top in the sp of 1184.25... ok... then the April 8th New Moon had a Bottom at 1183.25 and then the May 8 New moon carved its way to a post market nite high of 1182.25... all within a few points... hmmm... (fooled by randomness?) but is see this over and over... we have a full moon on May 23 be interesting to see if it drops the market to 1182-1184 area or another full - new moon point...
then you might say but what of the April full moon which had that day's high of around 1166 - well that matched January 24th's full moon of 1166 too...
seen this with alot of other Planetary stuff too but still working it out...
like Moon ApoGee and PeriGee - April 15 low at 1143 at Moon at ApoGee and then an April 28 Moon at Perigee low at 1142... both before big moves up... none of this is mystical just mechnical tidal forces working on the emotional element within us all... i am still in the observational mode on this... but this seems to be accurate whereas the ususal astro stuff is NOT...
we have a market moving STRONGLY up into the May 19 - 20 time period... how odd that Neptune is retrograde on the 19th and the last two times it was either retrograde or direct in astronomical motion the market CORRECTED to that day a fibonacci retracement of #62%...
anyway hope it was entertaining if anyting...
cj
