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YOUR WEEKLY ASTRO-TRADING PLAN
IN THIS ISSUE:
Comment
Behind The Scenes
The Big Announcement
Trigger Times Ahead
Surprising Weather
The Economic Calendar
Astrological Dynamics
Spiritual Focus for the Week
Global Equities Markets
U.S. Equity Trends
Metal Markets
Financial Cycles Model Portfolio
Market Sector Strength and Weakness
Astro-Trading Gann Plan Calendar
Stocks to Watch
COMMENT:
Last week was a good one for stocks, especially if you were in
the bullish camp. Thanks to conflicting indicators, however, I've often
felt in recent weeks like a man with one foot on the dock and one foot
in the boat, with the market volatility threatening to flip me into the
drink at any moment. While the week's gains were not entirely out of
line with my astrological expectations, I would have actually felt a
little more comfortable if the lingering Uranian energy had pulled stock
price sharply lower, so that we would be setting up more clearly for a
shift into a renewed rally at this point.
SO WHAT'S GOING ON?
But such is trading. Ultimately we are always faced with the necessity
of responding to what the markets are actually doing, rather than to
what we think or wish they should be doing.
Even so, the current market environment continues to present a generous
portion of challenges to anyone who's trying to figure out what's going
on. That was evident in an email I got recently from a loyal reader in
New Jersey, who wrote to say that "I am very perplexed by what is
happening in the markets and can't seem to make sense of it. Virtually
ALL of the news recently has been bad, yet the stock market has rallied.
The markets seem to be marching to a different drum that I am not tuned
into. The Fed lowering rates is a symptom of an uncertain economic
future, much like a fever due to an infection, yet it is somehow viewed
as a green light to pay anything for everything."
Fundamentally, of course, his comments were quite correct, with negative
news and uncertain economic prospects very much in sway, in spite of a
few bright spots on the horizon. We should remember, though, that both
the news and the markets react to the underlying social mood, and one of
the biggest factors in creating that underlying social mood is the
action in the heavens, as revealed through astrology and through the
study of cycles and waves.
There are, however, other factors that impact social mood, and almost
all of them tend to operate behind the scenes. For example, the public
relations, propaganda, and political mechanisms are always working
overtime, pushing prevailing moods of fear, apprehension, greed,
suspicion, bravado (take your pick), and trying to fine-tune them into
potentially profitable actions and expressions. While we may think we
are wise and/or sophisticated enough to see through the smoke and
mirrors, the fact is that mass opinion gets yanked around rather fluidly
most of the time, and like it or not, most of the time we wind up
responding just like the rest of the mass.
There are also, of course, big money interests who favor certain
attitudes and assumptions that are in alignment with their own ends--you
can see this at work almost every trading day. For example, it's quite
remarkable how a solid down day in stock trading will often end in
strong buying just before the closing bell, with large blocks of money
moving in to make things seem much more benign than they actually are as
the closing numbers get reported.
If you enjoy feeling victimized you can view all this as a vast
conspiracy of some sort. But whether or not that's true, I think it's
wise to acknowledge the presence of these manipulative forces at work.
The game here is basically one of bag-holding; hard-core speculators are
always thinking, "When we can run prices up enough and get enough
participation from naive investors, we can then take our profits at an
opportune time and leave somebody else holding the bag." It's not a very
edifying situation, but it's the way the markets work.
All of which leads us to a couple of observations. First of all, we
don't want to be naïve investors or bag-holders. Knowledge and
experience, and lots of them, are essential to survival in the markets.
Secondly, it's important to take care of our own awareness, to cultivate
our own consciousness. The markets are often an unfairly manipulated,
grossly unbalanced, and stressfully disconcerting game to play. Like
Arjuna on the battlefield in the Bhagavad Gita, our role is establish
and maintain ourselves in pure consciousness, and in that state to
participate fully in the tasks at hand. With the right focus and the
right dedication, active trading itself can become a spiritual
discipline, a path to personal fulfillment as well as to material
well-being.
JUPITER, PLUTO AND THE
FED
The Federal Reserve will be making its interest rate announcement this
Tuesday, just as Jupiter and Pluto get together in the sky for the first
time in 13 years. Ben Shalom Bernanke has already tipped his hand, so a
rate cut is virtually a foregone conclusion at this point. The question
is, will it be a big one or a small one? Will Wall Street like it, or
will timidity from the Fed trigger a sell-off in the market?
Those were some of the questions I discussed with Michael Yorba on the
Commodity Classics program last week. You can view a video of the
interview on my web site http://www.timbost.com/publications/videogallery.html
and clicking on the image for December 4.
The Jupiter/Pluto conjunction has a strong correlation with a shift in
market trend. Whether the market is currently in an uptrend or a
downtrend right now depends on the time frame you are looking at, and on
the particular bias you bring to your analysis. But whatever you think
is going on in the markets right now, be prepared to change your mind!
ECLIPSE TRIGGERS COMING UP
Did you know there are six separate triggers of the September 11, 2007
Solar Eclipse that are coming up in December, and six more of them in
January? Even though the Solar Eclipse of last September is now history,
its effects are still being felt in the markets. You can find full
details, along with specific dates of all the eclipse triggers and
specific trading ideas to take advantage of the eclipse energy, in my
monograph on The Solar Eclipse of September, 2007: Its Impact on the
Markets, which is available as a downloadable pdf file on my website at
http://www.timbost.com/publications/books.html
.
Best of all, there has now been a 90 percent reduction in the price of
this exciting 38-page report! Copies were available prior to the eclipse
at $99 each; you can get your copy right away for just $9.87 when you
place your order for the report at
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.
URANUS ON THE WEATHER
MAP
While the impact of Uranus on the markets seems to have calmed down a
bit, it is still making its chaotic presence felt in the atmosphere.
Uranus is also associated with storms and weather disturbances in
general. Now, just after the Uranus station and the Sun/Uranus square, a
huge ice storm has hit the U.S. from the Great Lakes to the Southern
Plains with massive power outages, flight cancellations, and hazardous
roads. And on top of that, the National Hurricane Center is now saying
that a weather system currently off Puerto Rico has the potential for
becoming a full-fledged tropical storm, 10 days after the Atlantic
hurricane season officially ended.
NEWS AND UPDATES THROUGHOUT
THE WEEK
Check my website for the latest news and special offers; it's updated
several times each week. Go to www.TimBost.com and click on "Latest
News." While you're there, be sure to see the streaming videos of my
interviews at http://www.timbost.com/publications/videogallery.html
and
check out the "Top Listed Site Astrology" button for links to other
astrological resources.
*****
THE ECONOMIC CALENDAR
This week the economic reports we will be watching include the Pending
Home Sales Index, Wholesale Trade, ICSC-UBS Store Sales, MBA Purchase
Applications, International Trade, Import and Export Prices, Treasury
Budget, Quarterly Services Survey, the EIA Petroleum Status Report, the
EIA Natural Gas Report, the Producer Price Index, Retail Sales,
Industrial Production, the Consumer Price Index, Jobless Claims, and the
Money Supply.
The big event of the week, however, will be the Tuesday's meeting of the
Federal Reserve Open Market Committee and the central bank's interest
rate announcement that afternoon. If the size of the rate cut is
disappointing or if the Fed's language is unenthusiastic about the
possibility of more rate cuts in the immediate future, we could see a
sharp reaction on Wall Street. Even so, with the Fed announcement coming
literally minutes away from the exact time of the Jupiter/Pluto
conjunction, it's extremely unlikely that any negative feelings will
last very long.
ASTROLOGICAL DYNAMICS
As the trading week gets underway the astrological configurations
suggest some fairly lackluster energy in the markets. The Mercury/Cupido
conjunction just before Monday's opening bell and the waning
heliocentric Venus/Pluto trine about an hour later both tend to flatten
out the trading environment, bringing some congestion to the charts
before supporting rising prices a few days later. The Mercury/Jupiter
parallel and the ingress of heliocentric Jupiter into Capricorn both
contribute to a positive bias for stock prices that day, but there's a
void-of-course Moon that starts about an hour after the opening bell and
lasts until mid-afternoon, so until late in the day Monday's won't be a
favorable time for putting on new positions.
Tuesday is Fed announcement day, with a spectacular Jupiter/Pluto
conjunction only about 20 minutes after the word on interest rates is
expected to be released. This is a major astrological event, and it has
a high level of correlation with significant trend changes for stock
prices, bringing bottoms to declining markets and tops to rising
markets. The last time this alignment occurred, in December, 1994, the
financial markets reacted sharply to the news that Orange County,
California was defaulting on its municipal bonds. In this case, even
though the planetary aspect coincides so closely with the Fed
announcement, we may not fully understand all the implications of this
meeting of Jupiter and Pluto right away. Nevertheless, with the added
strength of Tuesday's waning heliocentric Venus/Jupiter trine (a very
positive market indicator), I'm anticipating a bullish response to the
news from the Fed.
The positive astrological energy continues into Wednesday in the form of
a heliocentric Mars/Hades conjunction and a heliocentric Venus/Saturn
conjunction. However, there's a void-of-course Moon on Wednesday--not
just during the trading day, but throughout the entire 24-hour period.
This strongly suggests that market indicators are not to be fully
trusted during that time frame; it's a good day to watch the market
action from the sidelines while avoiding new positions.
The cosmic energies settle down substantially on Thursday and Friday,
and we are likely to see some price consolidation then, especially if we
have gotten a strong run-up earlier in the week. Thursday's heliocentric
Mercury /Cupido conjunction tends to promote higher stock prices, but it
typically creates a delayed reaction in the markets, so I'm not
expecting much of an impact from it this week. Delayed-reaction
bullishness is also suggested by Friday's lunar occultation of Neptune.
Friday night, however, the Sun/Jupiter parallel could introduce several
days of severely declining stock prices. We may see that downdraft blow
off over the weekend, but it could add a somber tone to the start of the
following trading week as well.
Throughout this trading week I will be tracking heliocentric
third-harmonic planetary lines (H,120,N,-2) for the Earth, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, Cupido, Hades, and
Apollon, 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.
Whether we are dealing with families, governments,
or other social
structures, we are often all too ready to curry favor and seek refuge at
the feet of power, trusting that an unchanging status quo will somehow
give us the protection we seek from the shifting tides of circumstance
and the uncertainties of the material world. But nothing could be
further from the truth. It is only the enduring spiritual realities and
the wisdom of the Still Small Voice Within that can ultimately give us
the comfort and security we crave.
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts
on the unthinking." --John Maynard Keynes
For more astrologically-based spiritual insights
and a free subscription
to our monthly e-zine, be sure to visit
www.PracticalSpiritualAstrology.com.
*****
GLOBAL EQUITIES MARKETS
With Latin American issues leading the way, stock markets around the
world turned in another positive week last week. Asian equities were not
far behind, while the advances were more modest in Europe and the U.S.
Dow Jones Industrial Average -- up 1.90%
Dow Jones Transportation Average -- up 4.61%
Dow Jones Utilities Average -- up 3.46%
S+P 500 -- up 1.59%
NASDAQ Composite Index -- up 1.70%
Russell 2000 -- up 2.39%
London FTSE-100 -- up 1.90%
Amsterdam Index -- up 1.18%
Paris CAC-40 -- up 0.85%
Frankfurt DAX -- up 1.57%
Mexico Index -- up 4.64%
Sao Paulo BOVESPA -- up 4.18%
Sydney All Ordinaries -- up 1.83%
Bombay SENSEX -- up 3.11%
Tokyo Nikkei Index -- up 1.97%
Shanghai Composite Index -- up 4.52%
Hong Kong Hang Seng Index -- up 0.69%
Singapore Straits Times Index -- up 1.04%
*****
U.S. EQUITY TRENDS
U.S. stocks continue to show some improvement and the S+P has moved back
into short-term bullish territory, but there is still some persistent
underlying weakness to be resolved, especially in smaller-cap issues,
before we can view the current situation as anything but a bear market
rally.
Although it has yet to break back above its 200-day exponential moving
average, the Russell 2000 has shown some signs of strength in recent
trading sessions. The Russell is now on a November 26 long-term sell
signal, with a daily close above 856 needed to move our long-term
indicator for the Russell back to the buy side. This index is also on a
November 9 short-term sell signal, with a daily close above 795 needed
to reactivate short-term bullishness. Our August 3 intermediate-term
sell signal for the Russell 2000 remains in place at this point, with a
daily close above 824 currently required to flip this intermediate-term
indicator back to the buy side.
On December 6 our short-term buy signal for the S+P 500 was activated,
with a daily close below 1460 required for a reversal back to a sell
indicator. The S+P 500 remains on a November 26 intermediate-term sell
signal, with a daily close above 1556 needed to reverse it back to the
buy side. This index also remains on an August 18, 2006 long-term buy
signal, with a daily close for the S+P below 1364 indicating a long-term
bearish trend.
The NASDAQ Composite is currently struggling to break through the
resistance zone established by its July high and October low. This index
remains on a November 8 short-term sell signal, with a daily close above
2861 needed to reverse our technical trend assumptions back to the buy
side. We also currently remain on an October 13, 2006 intermediate-term
buy signal and an October 13, 2006 long-term buy signal for the NASDAQ.
A daily close below 2451 will flip our intermediate-term indicator back
to the sell side, with a daily close below 2331 required for a reversal
of the long-term buy signal.
S+P 500 -- Long-Term Bullish; Intermediate-Term Bearish; Short-Term Bullish
NASDAQ -- Long-Term Bullish; Intermediate-Term Bullish; Short-Term Bearish
RUSSELL 2000 -- Long-Term Bearish; Intermediate-Term Bearish; Short-Term
Bearish
*****
METAL MARKETS
GOLD -- The trading in Gold tightened up considerably during the past
week, with prices below $800 offering a brief buying opportunity for
latecomers in this market. I believe that we are now on the verge of
another strong move to the upside for Gold, which has been strengthened
considerably since heliocentric Mercury moved into Sagittarius on
December 8.
SILVER -- Just as I anticipated, we saw a respectable gain for Silver at
the lunar apogee on December 6. Overall, however, there are signs of
continuing congestion in the trading for this metal, and it looks like
we will see Silver decline somewhat until the Moon hits 0 degrees
declination on December 17. After that I'm expecting another move
upward, at least into the end of the year.
*****
FINANCIAL CYCLES MODEL PORTFOLIO
TRADES CLOSED DURING THE
PREVIOUS WEEK: ABAX, OSK.
We closed two trades during the previous week, with two losers bringing
us a net loss of $370.00.
We bought to cover 400 shares of Abaxis, Inc. (ABAX) at 33.95 on
12/03/07, taking a loss of $80.00 (a 0.59% loss in 2 trading days).
We sold 1 January 2008 Oshkosh Truck Corporation (OSK) $65 call at 0.05
on 12/03/07, taking a loss of $290.00 (a 98.31% loss in 35 trading days).
*****
POSITIONS ADDED TO THE
PORTFOLIO DURING THE PREVIOUS WEEK: ACI, WAT, SGP.
We added one long position and two short positions to the Model
Portfolio last week.
We bought 400 shares of Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) at 37.25 on 12/03/07, with
an initial stop set at 34.45.
We sold short 100 shares of Waters Corp. (WAT) at 79.75 on 12/04/07,
with an initial buy stop set at 81.25.
We sold short 400 shares of Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP) at 31.25 on
12/06/07, with an initial buy stop set at 32.50.
****
REVIEW OF PREVIOUS MODEL
PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY
So far this year we have had a total of 148 completed trades, with 66
winners and 82 losers bringing us a total net profit of $10,969.00. The
largest profit for a single trade has been $5,264.00, with our winners
averaging $537.74; the largest single-trade loss has been $1,224.00,
with our losers averaging $302.44. The overall average profit per trade
has been $74.11, and the mean duration of our trades has been 11.6
trading days.
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 2002-2004 inclusive we had a total of 584 completed trades, with
322 winners, 260 losers, and 2 break-even trades bringing us an average
annual net profit of $50,528.83. 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 $259.57. The mean duration of our trades during
those three years was 11.0 trading days.
*****
CURRENT POSITIONS IN THE
MODEL PORTFOLIO
Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) -- bought 400 shares at 37.25 on 12/03/07;
currently 40.16. Raise stop to 39.00.
Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS) -- bought 200 shares at 66.00 on
11/21/07; currently 78.35. Raise stop to 76.00.
Monarch Casino and Resort (MCRI) -- sold short 400 shares at 28.25 on
11/13/07; currently 25.77. Lower buy stop to 26.35.
Oshkosh Truck Corporation (OSK) -- bought 1 January 2008 $65 calls at
2.95 on 10/12/07; currently 0.15. Hold.
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (TROW) -- bought 300 shares at 56.50 on
11/26/07; currently 62.83. Raise stop to 61.00.
Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP) -- sold short 400 shares at 31.25 on
12/06/07; currently 30.15. Lower buy stop to 31.50.
Vimpel-Communications (VIP) -- bought 400 shares at 32.55 on 11/29/07;
currently 38.91. Raise stop to 35.00.
Waters Corp. (WAT) -- sold short 100 shares at 79.75 on 12/04/07;
currently 79.22. Lower buy stop to 80.25.
*****
MARKET SECTOR STRENGTH
AND WEAKNESS
STRONGEST MARKET SECTORS LAST WEEK:
Residential Construction; Auto Parts Stores; Trucking; Heavy
Construction; Copper.
WEAKEST MARKET SECTORS LAST WEEK:
Business Equipment; Book Publishing; Credit Services; CATV Systems;
Clothing and Apparel.
*****
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 for longer-term trades 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
this 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. Note
that in order to save space this calendar excludes most lunar aspects,
which can also be important in moving markets as well.
December 9
Sun parallel Mercury 01:27 EST
Heliocentric Mercury square Heliocentric Saturn 02:56 EST
Heliocentric Venus sextile Heliocentric Hades 03:42 EST
Heliocentric Mercury quintile Heliocentric Chiron 07:26 EST
Heliocentric Mercury quincunx Heliocentric Kronos 12:39 EST
New Moon 12:40 EST
Mercury in 24th harmonic to Jupiter 13:22 EST
Mercury square 03/03/07 Lunar Eclipse point 14:42 EST
Venus parallel Chiron 15:17 EST
Mars trine Poseidon 17:09 EST
Mercury in 24th harmonic to Pluto 19:30 EST
Heliocentric Earth square Heliocentric Uranus 22:39 EST
December 10
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 01:33 EST
Heliocentric Jupiter semisquare Heliocentric Chiron 01:48 EST
Heliocentric Mars trine Heliocentric Apollon 03:56 EST
Venus conjunct 08/16/08 Lunar Eclipse antiscion 04:05 EST
Jupiter square 03/18/07 Solar Eclipse point 07:23 EST
Venus parallel True Lunar Node 07:59 EST
Mercury conjunct Cupido 09:22 EST
Heliocentric Venus trine Heliocentric Pluto 10:15 EST
Void-of-Course Moon 10:36-13:51 EST
Venus crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 11:13 EST
Mercury parallel Jupiter 12:40 EST
Heliocentric Jupiter enters Capricorn 13:32 EST
Sun quintile True Lunar Node 16:14 EST
Heliocentric Earth in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Kronos 19:12 EST
Mercury square Uranus 19:25 EST
Mercury square 09/07/06 Lunar Eclipse point 22:21 EST
December 11
Sun square 09/11/07 Solar Eclipse point 00:34 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisextile Heliocentric Poseidon 01:27 EST
Mercury contraparallel Kronos 03:53 EST
Heliocentric Venus enters Virgo 05:47 EST
Heliocentric Venus trine Heliocentric Jupiter 06:38 EST
Sun biquintile Vulcanus 07:16 EST
Jupiter conjunct Pluto 14:35 EST
Heliocentric Mercury quintile Heliocentric Neptune 14:58 EST
Heliocentric Mercury sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Vulcanus 17:26 EST
Venus trine Mars 18:14 EST
Void-of-Course Moon begins 18:57 EST
Sun sextile Neptune 22:47 EST
Chiron crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 23:41 EST
December 12
Heliocentric Mercury semisquare Heliocentric Apollon 00:54 EST
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 01:14 EST
Heliocentric Mercury sextile Heliocentric Zeus 03:51 EST
Venus conjunct Poseidon 08:53 EST
Heliocentric Mars conjunct Heliocentric Hades 10:29 EST
Venus sextile Saturn 14:32 EST
Heliocentric Earth quintile Heliocentric Saturn 18:24 EST
Heliocentric Venus conjunct Heliocentric Saturn 19:32 EST
Mercury quintile True Lunar Node 20:35 EST
Heliocentric Earth quintile Heliocentric Venus 21:23 EST
December 13
Void-of-Course Moon ends 00:01 EST
Heliocentric Mercury in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Pluto 04:53 EST
Mercury square 09/11/07 Solar Eclipse point 06:56 EST
Heliocentric Mercury conjunct Heliocentric Cupido 08:57 EST
Heliocentric Venus sextile Heliocentric Kronos 10:22 EST
Venus square 08/01/08 Solar Eclipse point 10:59 EST
Mercury biquintile Vulcanus 10:59 EST
Heliocentric Earth trine Heliocentric Neptune 13:28 EST
Sun square 03/29/06 Solar Eclipse antiscion 15:06 EST
Heliocentric Mercury sextile Heliocentric Chiron 16:26 EST
Heliocentric Mercury in 24th harmonic to Heliocentric Jupiter 18:35 EST
Mercury sextile Neptune 22:01 EST
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 23:59 EST
December 14
Moon occults Neptune 13:23 EST
Heliocentric Mercury square Heliocentric Uranus 16:14 EST
Venus in 24th harmonic to Apollon 19:55 EST
Heliocentric Jupiter biquintile Heliocentric Admetos 22:47 EST
Sun parallel Jupiter 22:51 EST
Mercury square 03/29/06 Solar Eclipse antiscion 23:25 EST
Heliocentric Earth sesquiquadrate Heliocentric Poseidon 23:26 EST
December 15
Heliocentric Mercury biquintile Heliocentric Vulcanus 00:07 EST
True Lunar Node enters Aquarius 03:31 EST
Venus sesquiquadrate Hades 06:51 EST
Void-of-Course Moon 06:51-08:15 EST
Venus semisextile Zeus 07:33 EST
True Lunar Node direct station 09:22 EST
Mars biquintile Chiron 10:31 EST
Sun semisquare Poseidon 10:36 EST
Jupiter square 09/22/06 Solar Eclipse point 15:28 EST
Venus square Chiron 17:06 EST
Venus conjunct 02/07/08 Solar Eclipse antiscion 18:17 EST
Moon crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 20:40 EST
Sun quintile Zeus 21:31 EST
True Lunar Node enters Pisces 21:40 EST
Mars crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 22:50 EST
Jupiter in 24th harmonic to Cupido 23:05 EST
December 16
Heliocentric Mercury sextile Heliocentric Neptune 00:03 EST
Heliocentric Venus sextile Heliocentric Poseidon 01:03 EST
Sun quincunx Admetos 03:12 EST
Mercury semisquare Poseidon 03:39 EST
Sun crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 03:39 EST
Mercury quintile Zeus 10:40 EST
Sun square 03/14/06 Lunar Eclipse point 11:31 EST
Heliocentric Earth semisextile Heliocentric Admetos 12:08 EST
Heliocentric Mercury semisquare Heliocentric Poseidon 12:30 EST
Heliocentric Mercury quintile Heliocentric Zeus 12:47 EST
Heliocentric Venus quintile Heliocentric Hades 13:14 EST
Mercury quincunx Admetos 14:12 EST
Mercury crossing Universal Clock 24 Line 14:34 EST
Heliocentric Mars opposition Heliocentric Pluto 16:06 EST
Chiron square 02/07/08 Solar Eclipse antiscion 17:16 EST
Heliocentric Earth semisextile Heliocentric Vulcanus 18:46 EST
Mercury square 03/14/06 Lunar Eclipse point 19:38 EST
Mars square 03/14/06 Lunar Eclipse antiscion 19:52 EST
Venus semisquare Pluto 20:58 EST
While the weekly Gann Plan Astro-Trading Calendar
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portion of the wisdom that Gann brought to the markets during the last
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STOCKS TO WATCH: ACTU, DT, SM.
Actuate Corporation (ACTU)
NASDAQ; optionable
First Trade Date: 07/17/1998; 09:30 a.m.
This provider of software and services for business performance
management and business performance may be a target for acquisition by
other, larger players in its field. Throughout December, as transiting
Saturn makes its retrograde station, it will stay within close orb of a
conjunction to the ACTU First-Trade Ascendant, providing a solid
astrological basis for future price run-ups in this stock. On top of
that, during the next few week we have the transiting True Lunar Node
forming a square to First-Trade Cupido and the First-Trade True Lunar
Node receiving a sextile from transiting Mars and a trine from
transiting Jupiter. These prospects look so positive that we plan to add
a long position in ACTU to the Model Portfolio early in the trading
week. Our initial stop will be set at 6.50.
Deutsche Telekom AG (DT)
NYSE; optionable
First Trade Date: 11/18/1996; 09:30 a.m.
Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, Deutsche Telekom AG provides
telecommunications and information technology services including
broadband fixed network services, mobile communications, and
information/communication technology systems integration. DT stock has
recently broken out of a trading range to challenge the highs it set at
the end of 2004. Right now, with the transiting Jupiter/Pluto
conjunction hitting the DT First-Trade Ascendant, there's the
possibility of a further quick price boost, but the fact that transiting
Saturn is forming a semisquare to the DT First-Trade Midheaven is far
more interesting, since it brings the promise of more sustained growth.
Our plan is to add a long position in DT to the Model Portfolio toward
the end of the trading week, with an initial stop set at 20.75.
Saint Mary Land and Exploration Company (SM)
NYSE; optionable
First Trade Date: 11/20/2002; 09:30 a.m.
There's a lot of action going on with the SM First-Trade chart right
now: transiting Jupiter and Pluto approaching the First-Trade Ascendant
and in opposition to First-Trade Saturn, transiting Saturn square the
First-Trade True Lunar Node, transiting Mars in opposition to
First-Trade Chiron, and transiting Uranus sesquiquadrate to First-Trade
Venus. It's that last aspect that carries a lot of positive potential,
especially against the background of the other factors at work. The
action of Uranus carries even more strength right now because it's still
trying to get going after making its recent direct station, so we plan
to add a long position in SM to the Model Portfolio early in the trading
week. Our initial stop will be set at 39.00.
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