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YOUR WEEKLY ASTRO-TRADING PLAN
IN THIS ISSUE:
Comment
Terror or Opportunity?
Dead Wrong
Out of Class and Into the Air
FAA Gathering
Thoughts from Aldous
Astro-Education
The Week Ahead in Earnings
The Economic Calendar
Astrological Dynamics
Spiritual Focus for the Week
Global Equities Markets
U.S. Equity Trends
Financial Cycles Model Portfolio
Market Sector Strength and Weakness
Astro-Trading Gann Plan Calendar
Stocks to Watch
COMMENT: Stocks got off to a disappointing
start in the year's first
week of trading. Essentially the price action was just the opposite of
what I had anticipated, with prices rising during the week's initial
trading and then falling off sharply on Friday. The week's action did
however illustrate the power of the Void-of-Course Moon in producing
market fake-outs and false trend indicators. Wednesday was an extremely
unusual day in the markets, and one that should be examined closely by
astro-traders who want to understand more fully the implications of the
Void-of-Course Moon.
MARS AND PLUTO PROMISE A HOT TIME
On January 13 we will get a Mars/Pluto conjunction, and it's already
creating some consternation among astrologers and astro-traders alike.
Conjunctions of Mars and Pluto are associated with troublesome events,
including armed conflict, natural disasters, and interpersonal strife.
This celestial event typically comes only once in every two-year period,
although occasionally the retrograde motion of Mars will create as
series of three Mars/Pluto conjunctions in fairly rapid sequence.
It would be a mistake to say that every Mars/Pluto conjunction brings
catastrophe, but there are some precedents worth pondering. On June 15,
1923, a Mars/Pluto conjunction was accompanied by a devastating
earthquake in Persia and by the assassination of Bulgarian Premier
Stambulisky. With the conjunction on September 9, 1932, the excursion
liner Observation sank in New York's East River, killing 37 people.
The June 3, 1944 conjunction was just three days before the Barnum and
Bailey Circus tent caught fire in Hartford, Connecticut, killing 168 and
injuring 250. The Mars/Pluto conjunction on October 30, 1968 came in the
midst of massive protests in Czechoslovakia, with tens of thousands of
people streaming into the streets of Prague to oppose the Soviet
occupation. With the conjunction of October 17, 1970, Canadian Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked emergency war powers to quell a
rebellion by the Front for the Liberation of Quebec.
Just two days after the conjunction on October 4, 1972, a train wreck in
Mexico killed 147 people and injured 700. With the conjunction on
September 9, 1976, a collision between two planes in Yugoslavia killed
176 people. The Mars/Pluto conjunction of September 14, 1999 brought
Hurricane Floyd, which ripped through the Bahamas, hit North Carolina,
and traveled up the eastern seaboard of the U.S., killing 57 people. And
on February 15, 2003, there were massive demonstrations to protest the
impending war on Iraq in about 600 cities around the world, with one
million people in London, three million people in Rome, and half a
million people in the streets of Berlin.
But not all Mars/Pluto conjunctions bring significant violence. There
have been some other significant events as well. The October 2, 1930
conjunction came on the eve of "Dad" Joiner's historic oil strike,
opening up the East Texas Field. On August 22, 1934, Al Capone was
locked up in Alcatraz. The United Nations flag was raised over its new
headquarters building in New York for the first time with the
conjunction on October 5, 1949.
The Mars/Pluto conjunction of July 24, 1959 coincided with the famous
"kitchen debate" between Vice-President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition in
Moscow. With the conjunction of August 27, 1978, Pope John Paul I was
elevated to the papacy to begin a reign that was cut short by his
mysterious death a month later. One day before the Mars/Pluto
conjunction of December 11, 1987, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed an historic agreement to cut back on
nuclear weapons. On November 27, 1989, the first live-donor liver
transplant was performed in Chicago. And at the Mars/Pluto conjunction
on November 1, 1993, the European Union came into being with the
implementation of the Maastricht treaty.
So what will the conjunction bring this time around? We will have to
wait and see. It wouldn't, of course, be unusual to see extensive
violence, not just because of the Mars/Pluto track record, but also
because of the violent trend of the times, which unfortunately doesn't
seem to be abating very much. But this planetary configuration could
also bring a significant change for the better, as long as there are
individuals with enough courage to embrace some bold new directions.
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
The United States Army has said it is going to apologize to the families
of officers killed or wounded in action who recently got letters urging
them to return to active duty.
The December mailing was sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as
recently having left the military, but that included about 75 officers
killed in action and about 200 wounded in action. "Army personnel
officials are contacting those officers' families now to personally
apologize for erroneously sending the letters," an Army spokesman said.
HIGH-FLYING HOOKEY
Getting back to work after a holiday is always tough, so it's easy to
understand why three teenagers from Brookline, Massachusetts decided to
skip school one day last week. But they took truancy to new
heights--roughly 30,000 feet.
When the eighth graders, a 14-year-old girl and two 13-year-old boys,
failed to show up for school, the principal tipped off the police and
notified their parents. Brookline police notified the Massachusetts
State Police at the airport to check airline rosters for the boys, and
found them already in the air--aboard a U.S. Airways flight to Charlotte
Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. The girl was on the
same flight, booked under her stepmother's name. According to
authorities, she had used her stepmother's credit card to purchase the
three tickets. North Carolina State Police met the trio at the airport
and returned them back to Boston's Logan Airport on the next flight.
ASTROLOGICAL GATHERING IN SYDNEY
Ray Merriman, Robert Hand, David Cochrane, Christian Borup, Erin
Sullivan, and Jeff Jawer will be among the noted astrologers speaking
later this month at the 17th FAA International Conference sponsored by
the Federation of Australian Astrologers and the Astrology Association
of NSW. The event will be held January 24-28 at the Women's College,
University of Sydney, and will feature lectures on Cycles, Trends, and
Forecasting; Planning; Psychological and Mythological Astrology; and
Mundane and Financial Astrology. For more details including conference
costs and registration, see the conference website at
http://www.faainc.org.au/Conferences/2008/2008_Conference_index.htm.
DEFICIT SPENDING
I was looking through some old notes this week and ran across this
quotation from Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). What's interesting is not just
the sentiment it expresses, but the fact that Huxley wrote it in 1956:
"We may not appreciate the fact; but a fact nevertheless it remains: we
are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human
history--not only of past history, but of future history. For, as Sir
Charles Darwin and many others before him have pointed out, we are
living like drunken sailors, like the irresponsible heirs of a
millionaire uncle. At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering
the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth's
crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending
spree go on? Estimates vary. But all are agreed that within a few
centuries or at most a few millennia, Man will have run through his
capital and will be compelled to live, for the remaining nine thousand
nine hundred and seventy or eighty centuries of his career as Homo
sapiens, strictly on income. Sir Charles is of the opinion that Man will
successfully make the transition from rich ores to poor ores and even
sea water, from coal, oil, uranium and thorium to solar energy and
alcohol derived from plants. About as much energy as is now available
can be derived from the new sources--but with a far greater expense in
man hours, a much larger capital investment in machinery. And the same
holds true of the raw materials on which industrial civilization
depends. By doing a great deal more work than they are doing now, men
will contrive to extract the diluted dregs of the planet's metallic
wealth or will fabricate non-metallic substitutes for the elements they
have completely used up. In such an event, some human beings will still
live fairly well, but not in the style to which we, the squanderers of
planetary capital, are accustomed."
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*****
THE WEEK AHEAD IN EARNINGS
This week we will be getting earnings reports from Bank of Granite
(GRAN), ALCOA Inc. (AA), Helen of Troy Ltd. (HELE), Ruby Tuesday (RI),
Supervalu Inc. (SVU), WD-40 Company (WDFC), California Pizza Kitchen
(CPKI), Genentech, Inc. (DNA), Infosys Technologies (INFY), M+T Bank
Corporation (MTB), MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG), Stride Rite Corporation
(SRR).
THE ECONOMIC CALENDAR
The economic reports this week will include Consumer Credit,
International Trade, MBA Purchase Applications, ICSC-UBS Store Sales,
Wholesale Trade, Jobless Claims, the EIA Petroleum Status Report, the
EIA Natural Gas Report, Treasury Budget, Import and Export Prices, the
RBC Cash Index, Retail Sales, Business Inventories, and the Money Supply.
On Monday Federal Reserve Governor Donald Kohn will be speaking to the
Atlanta, Georgia Rotary Club about the economic outlook for the U.S.
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Michael Moskow will be in
Coralville, Iowa on Wednesday to talk about the same subject. It's
really Thursday, however, that holds the biggest potential for economic
news. Not only will the day bring its share of economic reports, but it
will feature interest rate announcements from both the Bank of England
and the European Central Bank, plus New York Federal Reserve Bank
President Timothy Geithner talking about the global economy in New York
at roundtable sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.
ASTROLOGICAL DYNAMICS
Thanks primarily to the Mars/Pluto conjunction coming up next weekend,
we can look forward to a positive trend in stocks this week. Although
this planetary configuration carries a symbolic implication of war,
strife, violence, and conflict, its impact on stock prices has been
varied in the past--sometimes there's a drop after the aspect, and
sometimes prices go up. Much more consistently, however, prices have
risen in the trading days just prior to the aspect, which is what leads
me to believe that we'll see an attempt at a rally this week, especially
among the broader-based issues.
This notion of an upward trend for stocks this week gets some
reinforcement from Monday's waxing Mars/Saturn trine, which brings a
slightly positive bias to the market action. It's working against the
Zeus retrograde station on Tuesday morning, however. Stock prices
typically go up during the time frame leading into this particular
planetary station, but then start to flatten out in the trading sessions
afterwards. While the configurations of the hypothetical Transneptunian
planets definitely have some impact on market action, they are often a
good bit weaker than other planetary dynamics, so while the Zeus station
may have a mitigating influence, I don't think it will be sufficient to
put the brakes on completely.
The big event of the week astrologically is the conjunction of Venus and
Chiron on Wednesday. This particular planetary aspect has a solid track
record of bringing prices up after it occurs, with a positive trend
lasting eight or ten trading days. It will get a little extra help from
Thursday's Mercury/Vulcanus opposition, which is another setup that can
create a strong upward trend.
There's one period in which a Void-of-Course Moon will impact trading
action this week--it opens the trading day on Tuesday, and lasts until
just after 1:00 p.m. As usual, I plan to step aside from active trading
during the lunar void.
Throughout this week I will be tracking geocentric fourth-harmonic
planetary lines (G,90,N,-2) for Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto, Chiron,
Hades, Apollon, Vulcanus, and Poseidon, using the Fibonacci/Galactic
Trader software from P.A.S. to follow the active planetary support and
resistance in real time.
Have a great week!
*****
SPIRITUAL FOCUS FOR THE WEEK
Many of history's most successful traders have clearly understood that
emotional equilibrium is the key to effective trading. Through Practical
Spiritual Astrology we have an opportunity to restore inner harmony,
enhance emotional balance, and make wiser choices in the markets.
Now is the time to take action, to move decisively toward the fullest
possible expression of truth and goodness in our lives. As we bring our
bodies and minds into alignment with higher purposes, we can more
clearly receive the kind of soul-stirring inspiration that has the
potential to change our personal experience and alter the world around
us as well.
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of
making excuses." --George Washington Carver
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*****
GLOBAL EQUITIES MARKETS
With the exception of Singapore and the techs and transports in the
U.S., stock markets around the world greeted the New Year with a groan.
The weakness in European equities was even stronger than the softening
action in the Pacific Rim bourses.
Dow Jones Industrial Average -- down 0.52%
Dow Jones Transportation Average -- up 1.14%
Dow Jones Utilities Average -- down 2.00%
S+P 500 -- down 0.61%
NASDAQ Composite Index -- up 0.78%
Russell 2000 -- down 1.50%
London FTSE-100 -- down 1.44%
Paris CAC-40 -- down 1.79%
Frankfurt DAX -- down 1.32%
Sydney All Ordinaries -- down 1.70%
Tokyo Nikkei Index -- down 0.78%
Hong Kong Hang Seng Index -- down 0.49%
Singapore Straits Times Index -- up 1.45%
*****
U.S. EQUITY TRENDS
Even though all of the U.S. equity markets showed some indications of
significant weakness last week, the damage was not serious enough to
change our overall trend assumptions. Our trend indicators stayed on the
positive side, leaving our market bias bullish for all time frames.
The Russell 2000 is on a November 14 buy signal. A daily close below 746
will reverse our short-term indicator, while a close below 668 will flip
our intermediate-term buy signal and a close below 614 will move our
long-term indicator for the Russell to the sell side.
In the S+P 500 we have August 18 buy signals in place for the short term
and the intermediate term, conforming to our long-term trend
assumptions. A close for the S+P below 1168 will signal a long-term
bearish trend, with a close below 1219 turning our intermediate-term
indicator bearish, and a close below 1375 generating a sell signal for
the short term.
The NASDAQ managed to squeeze a gain out of last week's trading, and our
indicators for the NASDAQ all remain on the plus side. The NASDAQ
Composite is now on a September 1 short-term buy signal, an October 13
intermediate-term buy signal, and an October 13 long-term buy signal. A
daily close below 2313 will flip our short-term indicator back to the
sell side, with a daily close below 2048 needed to bring the
intermediate indicator back to the sell side and a daily close below
2027 required for a reversal of the long-term buy signal.
S+P 500 -- Long-Term Bullish; Intermediate-Term Bullish; Short-Term Bullish
NASDAQ -- Long-Term Bullish; Intermediate-Term Bullish; Short-Term Bullish
RUSSELL 2000 -- Long-Term Bullish; Intermediate-Term Bullish; Short-Term
Bullish
*****
FINANCIAL CYCLES MODEL PORTFOLIO
POSITIONS CLOSED DURING THE PREVIOUS WEEK:
CMCSA, FDS, CGNX, MEL, TSO.
We closed five positions during the previous week, with one winner and
four losers bringing us a net loss of $527.00.
We sold 300 shares of Comcast Corporation Class A (CMCSA) at 42.20 on
01/03/07, taking a loss of $249.00 (a 1.93% loss in 9 trading days)
We sold 300 shares of Factset Research Systems (FDS) at 56.36 on
01/03/07, taking a profit of $567.00 (a 3.47% gain in 9 trading days)
We bought to cover 400 shares of Cognex Corporation (CGNX) at 24.42 on
01/04/07, taking a loss of $324.00 (a 3.43% loss in 5 trading days).
We sold 300 shares of Mellon Financial Corporation (MEL) at 42.05 on
01/04/07, taking a loss of $129.00 (a 1.01% loss in 10 trading days).
We sold 200 shares of Tesoro Corporation (TSO) at 64.99 on 01/04/07,
taking a loss of $392.00 (a 2.93% loss in 10 trading days).
*****
POSITIONS ADDED TO THE PORTFOLIO DURING THE PREVIOUS
WEEK:
NAV, OCR, TSM.
We added two long positions and one short position to the Model
Portfolio last week.
We bought 300 shares of Navistar International Corporation (NAV) at
35.30 on 01/05/07, with an initial stop set at 30.75
We sold short 300 shares of Omnicare Inc. (OCR) at 39.12 on 01/05/07,
with an initial stop set at 41.50.
We bought 900 shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM)
at 10.65 on 01/05/07, with an initial stop set at 10.15.
****
REVIEW OF PREVIOUS MODEL PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY
During 2006 we had a total of 177 completed trades, with 74 winners and
103 losers bringing us a total net profit of $9,881.00. The largest
profit for a single trade was $2,595.00, with our winners averaging
$473.04; the largest single-trade loss was $949.00, with our losers
averaging $247.31. The overall average profit per trade was $55.82. The
mean duration of our trades was 9.0 trading days.
During 2005 we had a total of 200 completed trades, with 79 winners and
121 losers bringing us a total net profit of $14,993.00. The largest
profit for a single trade was $4,884.00, with our winners averaging
$630.55; the largest single-trade loss was $956.00, with our losers
averaging $304.42. The overall average profit per trade was $74.97. The
mean duration of our trades was 10.4 trading days.
During 2004 we had a total of 213 completed trades, with 104 winners and
109 losers bringing us a total net profit of $48,913.50. The largest
profit for a single trade was $5,645.00; the largest single-trade loss
was $750.00; the average profit per trade was $229.64. The mean duration
of our trades was 10.3 trading days.
During 2003 we had a total of 176 completed trades, with 99 winners and
77 losers bringing us a total net profit of $51,717.00. The largest
profit for a single trade was $9,240.00; the largest single-trade loss
was $1,170.00; the average profit per trade was $293.85. The mean
duration of our trades was 10.1 trading days.
During 2002 we had a total of 195 completed trades, with 119 winners, 74
losers, and 2 break-even trades bringing us a total net profit of
$50,956.00. The largest profit for a single trade was $5,100.00; the
largest single-trade loss was $1,055.00; the average profit per trade
was $261.31. The mean duration of our trades was 12.7 trading days
*****
CURRENT POSITIONS IN THE MODEL PORTFOLIO
Central Parking Corporation (CPC) -- bought 400 shares at 18.80 on
12/26/06; currently 17.95. Raise stop to 17.85.
FedEx Corporation (FDX) -- sold short 100 shares at 107.18 on 12/26/06;
currently 107.53. Lower buy stop to 108.95.
Navistar International Corporation (NAV) -- bought 300 shares at 35.30
on 01/05/07; currently 35.28. Raise stop to 34.47.
Omnicare Inc. (OCR) -- sold short 300 shares at 39.12 on 01/05/07;
currently 39.14. Lower buy stop to 39.96.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) -- bought 900 shares at
10.65 on 01/05/07; currently 10.69. Raise stop to 10.42.
*****
MARKET SECTOR STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS
STRONGEST MARKET SECTORS LAST WEEK:
Internet Information Providers; Major Airlines; Trucking; Personal
Computers; Networking and Communications Devices.
WEAKEST MARKET SECTORS LAST WEEK:
Oil and Gas Equipment and Services; Manufactured Housing; Industrial
Metals and Minerals; Heavy Construction; Silver.
*****
ASTRO-TRADING GANN PLAN:
ASTROLOGICAL EVENTS DURING THE COMING WEEK
"I know in each moment I am free to decide."
Whether you are day-trading or just looking for optimum entry and exit
points during the course of a particular trading day, an awareness of
the intraday astrological aspects at work can alert you to significant
opportunities and potential pitfalls. The events on our weekly calendar
are calculated for New York time, but are listed around the clock and
throughout the week so you can apply them to Forex, to global markets or
to events outside of your trading day as well.
January 7
Heliocentric Earth opposition Heliocentric Mercury 00:44 EST
Sun conjunct Mercury 01:03 EST
Void-of-Course Moon ends 01:18 EST
Mars semisquare Poseidon 01:19 EST
Mars quintile Zeus 03:06 EST
Venus square 04/24/05 Lunar Eclipse point 07:19 EST
Mercury square 03/03/07 Lunar Eclipse antiscion 07:32 EST
Mars quincunx Admetos 08:39 EST
Sun square 03/03/07 Lunar Eclipse antiscion 11:23 EST
Mars semisquare Chiron 11:31 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisquare Heliocentric Jupiter 13:58 EST
Sun contraparallel Hades 17:26 EST
Mercury sextile True Lunar Node 20:33 EST
Heliocentric Venus in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Uranus 22:11 EST
Mercury crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 22:31 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisextile Heliocentric Neptune 23:15 EST
Heliocentric Mercury quintile Heliocentric Poseidon 23:32 EST
Mercury biquintile Saturn 23:51 EST
January 8
Mercury semisextile Neptune 03:43 EST
Sun sextile True Lunar Node 08:02 EST
Heliocentric Mercury quincunx Heliocentric Saturn 08:17 EST
Heliocentric Earth in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Kronos 09:10 EST
Mars crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 11:07 EST
Sun crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 11:19 EST
Heliocentric Venus enters Pisces 12:06 EST
Sun biquintile Saturn 12:45 EST
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 13:01 EST
True Lunar Node direct station 13:03 EST
Mars trine Saturn 13:05 EST
Heliocentric Venus biquintile Heliocentric Vulcanus 14:05 EST
Mercury square 04/08/05 Solar Eclipse point 14:41 EST
Heliocentric Earth sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Jupiter 17:10 EST
Mars quincunx Vulcanus 18:04 EST
Sun semisextile Neptune 20:13 EST
Mars square 03/14/06 Lunar Eclipse point 22:05 EST
January 9
Mercury quintile Poseidon 03:40 EST
Heliocentric Earth biquintile Heliocentric Cupido 07:46 EST
Void-of-Course Moon 07:50 -- 13:15 EST
Zeus retrograde station 08:17 EST
Heliocentric Mercury trine Heliocentric Admetos 11:02 EST
Heliocentric Mars sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Vulcanus 11:08 EST
Sun square 04/08/05 Solar Eclipse point 13:14 EST
Heliocentric Mercury opposition Heliocentric Vulcanus 13:30 EST
Saturn crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 13:48 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisquare Heliocentric Mars 14:00 EST
Heliocentric Mercury in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Chiron 18:18 EST
Heliocentric Earth quincunx Heliocentric Neptune 18:33 EST
Heliocentric Mercury square Heliocentric Apollon 19:36 EST
Mars in 24th Harmonic to Jupiter 20:32 EST
Mercury parallel Mars 20:55 EST
January 10
Heliocentric Mercury quincunx Heliocentric Hades 00:38 EST
Mars opposition Hades 03:41 EST
Heliocentric Venus trine Heliocentric Kronos 07:13 EST
Venus square Poseidon 07:42 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisextile Heliocentric Pluto 08:20 EST
Sun quintile Poseidon 10:15 EST
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 13:38 EST
Heliocentric Mars sextile Heliocentric Chiron 14:18 EST
Heliocentric Venus square Heliocentric Jupiter 14:36 EST
Jupiter contraparallel Vulcanus 16:14 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisquare Heliocentric Cupido 17:31 EST
Venus conjunct Chiron 18:07 EST
Mars sextile Apollon 19:27 EST
Venus biquintile Kronos 20:24 EST
Heliocentric Mars semisquare Heliocentric Apollon 21:12 EST
Heliocentric Earth semisextile Heliocentric Saturn 23:00 EST
January 11
Heliocentric Venus biquintile Heliocentric Zeus 02:04 EST
Mercury trine Admetos 02:09 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisquare Heliocentric Uranus 04:02 EST
Mercury contraparallel Kronos 05:00 EST
Heliocentric Venus in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Neptune 05:46 EST
Heliocentric Mars sextile Heliocentric Zeus 06:01 EST
True Lunar Node retrograde station 06:33 EST
Mercury in 24th Harmonic to Chiron 08:03 EST
Heliocentric Mercury enters Aquarius 10:48 EST
Mercury quincunx Saturn 12:27 EST
Mercury square 10/17/05 Lunar Eclipse point 15:50 EST
Mercury opposition Vulcanus 16:42 EST
Void-of-Course Moon begins 20:55 EST
Heliocentric Mercury biquintile Heliocentric Hades 23:32 EST
January 12
Chiron biquintile Kronos 01:51 EST
Venus sesquiquadrate Hades 02:07 EST
Void-of-Course Moon ends 02:08 EST
Mercury quincunx Hades 07:30 EST
Venus sextile Jupiter 07:44 EST
Mercury square 08/28/07 Lunar Eclipse antiscion 07:58 EST
Heliocentric Mercury quincunx Heliocentric Kronos 08:43 EST
Mercury semisquare Jupiter 12:19 EST
Heliocentric Mercury sextile Heliocentric Jupiter 13:26 EST
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 14:09 EST
Mercury square Apollon 14:59 EST
Venus trine Zeus 17:56 EST
Heliocentric Mercury in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Neptune 19:17 EST
Sun parallel Cupido 20:59 EST
Mercury in 24th Harmonic to Venus 23:57 EST
January 13
Heliocentric Venus trine Heliocentric Poseidon 03:32 EST
Mars conjunct Pluto 05:02 EST
Mercury semisquare Uranus 09:41 EST
Jupiter semisquare Apollon 11:41 EST
Venus crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 12:35 EST
Sun trine Admetos 12:51 EST
Venus semisextile Uranus 13:02 EST
Mercury semisextile Pluto 16:23 EST
Heliocentric Mercury square Heliocentric Poseidon 17:22 EST
Venus contraparallel Admetos 19:24 EST
Heliocentric Earth sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Venus 20:45 EST
Venus semisquare Pluto 22:02 EST
Sun parallel Jupiter 23:01 EST
Heliocentric Venus quintile Heliocentric Pluto 23:50 EST
January 14
Mercury semisextile Mars 00:48 EST
Mars square 03/19/07 Solar Eclipse point 01:45 EST
Sun quincunx Saturn 02:06 EST
Sun in 24th Harmonic to Chiron 03:57 EST
Heliocentric Earth sextile Heliocentric Admetos 04:25 EST
Heliocentric Mercury biquintile Heliocentric Kronos 04:38 EST
Heliocentric Mars in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Pluto 05:42 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisextile Heliocentric Venus 05:58 EST
Heliocentric Venus sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Vulcanus 06:30 EST
Jupiter square 04/08/05 Solar Eclipse antiscion 10:12 EST
Sun contraparallel Vulcanus 10:25 EST
Void-of-Course Moon 10:49-13:11 EST
Mercury semisquare Cupido 10:54 EST
Heliocentric Mercury conjunct Heliocentric Chiron 11:09 EST
Sun square 10/17/05 Lunar Eclipse point 11:24 EST
Heliocentric Earth conjunct Heliocentric Vulcanus 11:55 EST
Sun opposition Vulcanus 12:03 EST
Heliocentric Mercury trine Heliocentric Zeus 13:06 EST
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 13:10 EST
Heliocentric Venus semisextile Heliocentric Chiron 16:54 EST
Heliocentric Mercury sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Hades 17:21 EST
Heliocentric Venus sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Apollon 18:21 EST
Mercury contraparallel Hades 20:17 EST
Venus semisquare Mars 20:57 EST
Heliocentric Venus quincunx Heliocentric Zeus 21:01 EST
Venus sextile Cupido 22:52 EST
While the weekly Gann Plan Astro-Trading Calendar acknowledges and
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STOCKS TO WATCH: AVT, BSC, SHPGY.
Potential Candidates for Short-Term Trades
Avnet Inc. (AVT)
NYSE; optionable
First Trade Date: 12/30/1960; 10:00 a.m.
Saturn has just backed away from its conjunction with the AVT
First-Trade Descendant, setting stage for Jupiter's transit to the
First-Trade Midheaven. This is a very positive situation for the stock,
and we expect it to get some extra energy when Mars conjoins Pluto in
opposition to the AVT First-Trade Vulcanus. We plan to add a long
position in AVT by mid-week, with an initial stop set at 25.00.
Bear Stearns Companies (BSC)
NYSE; optionable
First Trade Date: 10/29/1985; 09:30 a.m.
There are several interesting things going on with the First-Trade
horoscope for BSC. Slow-moving Zeus is currently conjoining First-Trade
Apollon, creating a very positive picture in the background. More
currently, transiting Chiron is conjoining First-Trade Jupiter, bringing
some positive but somewhat unreliable positive energy to the situation.
Finally, transiting Jupiter is getting ready to cross the BSC
First-Trade Ascendant, which should add an extra boost to the stock. We
plan to add a long position before the end of the week, with an initial
stop set at 159.00.
Shire Pharmaceuticals Group PLC ADR (SHPGY)
NASDAQ; optionable
First Trade Date: 03/25/1998; 09:30 a.m.
With transiting Saturn currently crossing the SHPGY First-Trade IC, the
stage is set for a brief price pull-back to provide a buying
opportunity. We see lots of positive reinforcement here from transiting
Neptune conjoining First-Trade Venus and transiting Uranus conjoining
First-Trade Jupiter, so we will add a long position as soon as we see a
lower daily close in this stock. Our initial stop will be set at 61.50.
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