ACI First-Trade Chart with 11/30/07 Transits

192% Annualized Return with Successful Arch Coal (ACI) Astro-Trade

Tim Bost

Here's how the Financial Cycles Model Portfolio traded 400 shares of Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) stock to generate $2,400 in profits in just 21 trading days.

Arch Coal Inc. (ACI)

NYSE; optionable

First Trade Date: 08/11/1988; 09:30 a.m.

Arch Coal, Inc. was featured in the "Stocks to Watch" section of the FinancialCyclesWeekly newsletter for December 2, 2007.

Here's the advance astro-trading information that the Financial Cycles Weekly Gold and Platinum Members got in that issue of the newsletter:

"With mines in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, Arch Coal owns or controls about 2.9 billion tons of coal reserves. Right now transiting Pluto has just completed a conjunction with the ACI First-Trade Uranus and is about to hit the First-Trade IC, while transiting Jupiter is conjoining First-Trade Saturn on its way to a conjunction with First-Trade Uranus, the First-Trade IC, and transiting Pluto. That's a powerfully positive line-up, so we are ready to add a long position in ACI to the Model Portfolio immediately. We will set our initial stop at 34.45."

ACI - Daily Bars through 11/30/07 with Jupiter and Pluto Planetary Price Lines

Here's the price action for ACI at the time it was mentioned in the "Stocks to Watch" feature. Jupiter and Pluto were obviously both important in the price trends for this stock. Note how the Jupiter line had provided support in July and August, with the late October top precisely hitting the Pluto line to define resistance. We bought 400 shares of Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) at 37.25 on 12/03/07 for a total investment of $14,900.00 plus commissions, with an initial stop set at 34.45.

 

ACI - Astro-Trade Stop Adjustment on 12/07/07

On 12/07/07 ACI closed at 40.16 and we raised our stop to 39.00.

ACI - Raise Stop to 39.50 on 12/14/07

After hitting resistance on a harmonic of the 12/11/07 Jupiter/Pluto conjunction, ACI closed at 40.01 on 12/14/07 and we raised our stop to 39.50.

ACI Breakout through Jupiter and Pluto Lines with Stop Reset on 12/21/07

On 12/21/07 ACI closed at 43.62 after breaking through the Jupiter/Pluto resistance zone decisively, and we raised our stop to 41.25.

ACI Encounters Resistance at Higher Increment of Pluto Line

ACI continued its upward move in light holiday trading, closing at 44.72 on 12/28/07 as it began to encounter fresh resistance on the next increment of the Pluto price line. We raised our stop to 43.25.

ACI - Successful Astro-Trade Stopped Out at 43.25 with 16% Profit

ACI managed to push tentatively through the Pluto line, but the next highest Jupiter line turned this stock around and the price dropped sharply. We were stopped out at 43.25 and closed the trade on 01/03/08 for $17,300.00, taking a profit of $2,400.00 (a 16.11% gain in 21 trading days). On an annualized basis, this is a return of approximately 192%.

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