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June 1, 2003
Eclipses move markets. That's one of the first rules of financial astrology, and we certainly saw it at work last week, with the market action moving into the solar eclipse that finished out the week's trading . . . keep reading
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December 29, 2002
Santa Claus avoided Wall Street like the plague last week, denying traders their expected goodies but leaving a little gold and silver in the stockings of those who found holiday cheer in global panic and who decided to favor the precious metals. . . . keep reading
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December 22, 2002
In last week's newsletter we noted that the astrological dynamics at work would bring "a tremendous concentration of energy to a head toward the end of the week. This could bring a sudden breaking point in international affairs, a sudden shift in policies or personnel, or a sudden turn in market direction." As the week's events unfolded, we got all of those changes. . . . keep reading
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December 15, 2002
Careful readers and active traders will have noticed that all five of the stocks detailed in our Watch List last week behaved exactly as we predicted, providing ideal trading situations in a down market and allowing us to lock in profits in all five new positions before the week was through. . . . keep reading
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December 8, 2002
It was a fitting fulfillment of our forecast that "With Mercury harmonizing with Jupiter and picking up some extra energy from Pluto over the Thanksgiving weekend, the year's hottest time for retail sales should be a smashing success." Even so, retailers found much to complain about during the ensuing week. . . . keep reading
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December 1, 2002
Although Wall Street's rally turned into more of a whimper than a bang last week, the markets did manage to keep the good thing going through the light holiday trading to extend the positive run to nine consecutive weeks. . . . keep reading
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November 24, 2002
Just before Venus shifted back into direct motion last week, equities markets around the world wasted no time in extending and strengthening their rallies, actually making things look a bit bullish in the process. . . . keep reading
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November 17, 2002
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the week up 0.49%, with the Dow Transports slipping 0.58% and the Dow Utilities up a solid 2.28%. The NASDAQ Composite put on an even stronger showing with a 3.82% gain for the week, mirrored by a 1.83% gain for the Russell 2000 and a 1.69% gain for the S&P 500. . . . keep reading
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November 10, 2002
"Are you ready for surprises?" That's the question we asked our readers last week. The surprises came, of course, from the resignation of SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, from the Fed taking interest rates to a 41-year low, and from the mid-term elections in the U.S., which were a surprise mainly because of their total lack of any effective opposition to domestic regime change. . . . keep reading
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November 3, 2002
Blue chip stocks barely managed to pull off another positive week last week, but the market did extend its rally to finish with the best October since 1987. . . . keep reading
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October 27, 2002
With three winning weeks in a row from Wall Street, it's getting strangely easy to feel like you're missing out on something if you're not rushing out to throw all of your money into the stock market immediately. . . . keep reading
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October 20, 2002
Wall Street just put in a second straight week of surprisingly solid gains, with the Dow Industrials up 6.01%, the S&P 500 up 5.87%, the NASDAQ Composite up 6.39%, the Russell 2000 up 5.35%, and even the Dow Transports up 5.77%. . . . keep reading
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October 13, 2002
We witnessed a truly amazing phenomenon in the stock market last week. Blue chip stocks managed to put in two solid gaining days in a row, and, faster than you could say "Saturn station," there was dancing in the streets as the pundits proclaimed that the long-awaited bottom was in and the shadow of a bull could most definitely be seen on the horizon. . . . keep reading
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October 6, 2002
The bulls tried to scare the bears away on Wall Street last week, but to no avail. A mid-week attempt at getting a rally going simply fizzled. . . . keep reading
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September 29, 2002
It was another tough week for the equities markets around the globe, with many wearied investors asking the same question: "When will it all end? Haven't we reached the bottom of this bear market yet?" . . . keep reading
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September 22, 2002
What if they gave an auction and nobody came? A strange notion, especially in the financial markets, but that's exactly what happened in Japan on Friday. . . . keep reading
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September 15, 2002
The last week brought weakening action in most of the world's markets, with the Jupiter/Neptune dynamic making its influence felt around the globe, but especially in geopolitical affairs. . . . keep reading
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September 8, 2002
Last week brought some very interesting trading action to the stock market. The brief rally we anticipated after Tuesday's Venus/Uranus action lasted hours instead of days, but it was still enough to ameliorate the downtrend that had gotten underway just prior to the Labor Day break. . . . keep reading
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September 1, 2002
The summer rally mysteriously vanished last week, with markets around the world heading south in unison, following the previous week's Full Moon with the added energy of the Pluto station to put on the brakes and reverse direction. . . . keep reading
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August 25, 2002
The markets turned in a surprisingly strong performance across the globe last week, but hit the proverbial brick wall right on the schedule with the Full Moon on Thursday evening. . . . keep reading
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August 18, 2002
While the market averages mostly managed to put in a positive showing last week, the good news is far from overwhelming. . . . keep reading
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August 11, 2002
We commented last week "that we're ready for little bit more of a trading rally," and the markets obliged nicely. Some traders actually seemed somewhat puzzled, since it had been so long since they had seen three or more back-to-back trading sessions to the upside. . . . keep reading
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August 4, 2002
In our last issue we said that "we wouldn't be surprised to see the Dow finish the week with another modest gain," and that proved to be the case, with enthusiastic buying followed by equally enthusiastic selling and the week coming to a close with the Industrial Average just slightly above break-even. . . . keep reading
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July 28, 2002
Last week we noted that "the hot spot for the week is Wednesday, with a Full Moon and a Venus/Pluto square dominating the picture. This combination should bring the stock markets up fairly sharply for at least a couple of trading sessions." Once again, financial astrology provided exact timing-right on schedule, the stock market reversed direction and started to move upward Wednesday morning. . . . keep reading
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July 21, 2002
The general public clearly is more interested than ever in the stock market, despite the stunning sell-off of the past few weeks. The general tone seems to be one of bemused shock at the plunging prices, underscored by a persistent belief that the economic outlook is still basically sound and that stocks will somehow manage to rebound magically. In other words, this is not the kind of absolutely total, "don't-even-talk-to-me-about-stocks" capitulation that we will need to see before we can begin to talk seriously about a bottom being in. . . . keep reading
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July 14, 2002
President Bush decided to bolster the stock market last week by doing his best to restore investor confidence, but his remarks had exactly the opposite effect, turning a sell-off into a landslide. . . . keep reading
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July 7, 2002
What a great time last week was to be a financial astrologer! In last week's letter we predicted that Wednesday's Mars/Jupiter conjunction would "mark a significant short-term market cycle bottom, and the beginning of a relief rally in stocks." That's exactly what happened, of course, but with far more drama than expected. . . . keep reading
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June 30, 2002
In spite of the Fed's Void-of-Course proclamation last week that everything looks pretty good, the news of Worldcom's impending collapse managed to put such a damper on things that traders basically spent the week treading water. . . . keep reading
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June 23, 2002
Stock prices have continued to take a beating, with the markets posting their fifth straight week of losses last week. . . . keep reading
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June 16, 2002
The strong sell-off in the markets last week signaled the end of support at key levels, setting the stage for much bigger declines in equities prices. . . . keep reading
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June 9, 2002
Last week's grim astrological portents played out across the entire market spectrum, making it hard to find to find any sector or index that performed well. . . . keep reading
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June 2, 2002
With the Saturn/Pluto showdown still underway as Uranus slowed down to become stationary and then reverse direction, an explosive atmosphere throughout the world kept the markets on their toes last week, and the results were generally negative. . . . keep reading
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May 26, 2002
The pre-holiday action in stocks was characterized by the markets treading water in typical Mercury retrograde fashion as traders stayed away in droves. Precious metals posted the biggest gains, semiconductors suffered the most, and the NASDAQ Composite ended the week down 2.36%. The Dow Industrials were off 1.22%, the S&P 500 lost 0.74%, and the Amex Composite gained 0.79%. . . . keep reading
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May 19 , 2002
Last week we noted that "we anticipate another short-term rally getting underway" in the stock market, and that's exactly what has happened. The Dow finished the week well above the 10,000 mark after hanging on to a gain of more than 400 points. The NASDAQ had its best showing in over a year and the S&P 500 was up almost 5 percent for the week. . . . keep reading
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May 12, 2002
What a week in the markets! After a 305-point rally in the Dow on Wednesday that had the bulls pawing the ground and snorting in anticipation of an early summer rally, the Blue Chip average plunged during the week's final sessions, ending up nearly 70 points lower than where it started out the week . . . keep reading
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May 5, 2002
While the Dow tends to trend upward starting about 15 days after Mars/Pluto oppositions, the Venus/Pluto opposition and Venus/Mars conjunction both typically mark short-term market tops. When we drop in the intensity of the Saturn/Pluto opposition, the situation looks decidedly bearish. . . . keep reading
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April 28, 2002
Stocks ran into some rough going last week. The S&P 500 slid to a two-month low, the NASDAQ hit a six-month low, and the Dow closed out the week below the psychologically important 10,000 level. . . . keep reading
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April 21, 2002
For the first time in five weeks, the Dow managed to squeeze out a gain last week, adding 0.5%. The S&P 500 wound up just slightly into positive territory and the NASDAQ just slightly into negative territory for the week. . . . keep reading
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April 14, 2002
Last week certainly brought its share of surprises, with the uncertainty in the Middle East matched only by the uncertainty in Venezuela and in the prospects for IBM. All of them had a significant impact on the trading action. . . . keep reading
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April 7, 2002
As Israel continued its military escalation last week and Middle East hostilities reached their highest levels in 35 years, the markets responded to the nerve-wracking uncertainty with sagging prices. . . . keep reading
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March 31, 2002
The Saturn/Neptune trine late Monday evening could skew the trading action on Tuesday, so be particularly cautious if the market movement starts going to extremes-a sudden intraday reversal could provide a whipsaw effect, making trading difficult. . . . keep reading
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March 24, 2002
Part of the reason for the extreme situation that we are now confronting is the ongoing opposition of Saturn and Pluto. From a geocentric perspective, the two powerful planets aligned late last summer (setting the stage for the events of September 11) and will repeat their alignment again in May. From the heliocentric point of view, that alignment only takes place once-on March 30. . . . keep reading
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March 17, 2002
The market rally that had been in play for the past month came to a screeching halt last week, with the Dow Industrials and the S&P 500 virtually unchanged for the week as they barely managed to stay in positive territory and with the NASDAQ dropping by more than 3% for the week. . . . keep reading
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March 10, 2002
A direct station by the transneptunian hypothetical planet Hades on the evening of March 12, followed by a New Moon which comes less than one hour after the monthly lunar apogee on March 13, make Wednesday the pivotal day for trading activity this week. . . . keep reading
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March 3, 2002
Last week we pointed to a simultaneous Jupiter station and a Mars ingress into Taurus on Friday morning as the astrological hot spot of the week, suggesting that it "is likely to trigger significant market action." Apparently the bulls were listening. . . . keep reading
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February 24, 2002
We use the term "trend" loosely here-even though the Dow Industrials kissed the 10,000 mark briefly during the holiday-shortened trading week and ended up on Friday about 133 points above the previous Friday's close, that 10,000 mark is still providing active resistance and the bearish trend that has been in place since the first of the year has hardly been broken. . . . keep reading
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February 17, 2002
We will get an earnings report from WalMart and the Conference Board will report on leading economic indicators, but aside from that the market will have to look for its non-astrological stimulus from accounting scandals and geopolitical news. When trading resumes after the holiday, we will most likely see the blue chips move upward (the Dow has turned in a positive performance on the day after Presidents Day in six of the last eight years), but with the heliocentric Mars/Uranus square on Tuesday night, we wouldn't be surprised to see a short-term reversal to the downside starting as early as Wednesday. . . . keep reading
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February 10, 2002
Just as we had anticipated, the planetary stations by Saturn and Mercury last Thursday and Friday signaled sudden shifts in market direction, with the Mercury station on Friday afternoon marking a dramatic reversal in prices on the major exchanges. . . . keep reading
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February 3, 2002
Jitters about possible accounting irregularities should continue to feed market insecurity in the week ahead, especially with earnings season in full swing. Over 700 companies are expected to report their quarterly earnings during the week, with Cisco Systems leading the field in it ability to impact overall market direction. . . . keep reading
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January 27, 2002
Bankruptcy news and the soap opera connected with the Enron hearings in Congress overshadowed Alan Greenspan's cautiously optimistic comments last week, but the Dow still managed to post a gain. Hopes for an economic recovery were buoyed by the news that existing home sales finished 2001 at an all-time record high. Meanwhile, disappointing earnings and sales projections from Qualcomm, Verisign, Peoplesoft and JDS Uniphase put a damper on the tech stocks. . . . keep reading
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January 20, 2002
With Mercury having begun its retrograde motion just before the market's close late last Friday afternoon, we are now entering a three-week period in which we may have to re-think some of our assumptions and expectations about where the market is taking us, with sudden changes in sentiment being the rule of the day. . . . keep reading
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January 13, 2002
Alan Greenspan and a Void-of-Course Moon helped to pull the markets back down to earth on Friday, generating a little uncertainty along the way and capping off a week of losses, with the Dow down 2.7% and the NASDAQ down 1.8%. Earnings reports from the likes of Tyco, Intel, eBay, General Motors, AMD, Citigroup, Ford, GE, IBM, and Microsoft this week could tell much of the market story. Astrologically, the big focus comes on Friday, with Mars activating key eclipse dynamics as it moves into its own sign. It should be a very interesting week! . . . keep reading
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January 6, 2002
In spite of some nagging Mercury/Neptune factors bringing some confusion to the residue of the recent Lunar Eclipse, a heliocentric Mars/Pluto play on January 7 could add extra energy to the market action. We're looking for a nice move to the upside this week, but will trade with particular caution on Friday, waiting to get past the Void-of-Course Moon in the afternoon before committing to any new positions. . . . keep reading
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