Friday, July 1, 2022

The Daily & the Weekly Market Maker Cycles | ICT Intraday Trading Templates


All financial markets are dominated by investment banks, so called institutional traders or smart money. To be more precise: All financial markets are dominated by JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Citi, XTX Markets, UBS, State Street Corporation, HCTech, HSBC, BoC Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. Their positions represent up to 80% of the total volume of the Forex market, the bonds market, the stock market and the commodity market. And yes, they also do take their own speculative positions. But the vast majority of their volume is simply called 'market making activity' because they are buying and selling for their clients. Their main clients are hedge funds, pension funds, commercial banks, corporations, other financial institutions and central banks. In fact central banks are their dearest clients. They practically own the markets. The sheer volume of their orders could never be bought or sold in single lots in any market. Hence the 'market making' and hence the 'liquidity provision'. Big banks do this for commission and they risk their client's money for market manipulation and extra profit.  

This is critical information for the small retail trader as it tells one very important clue: If the big banks are primarily market makers and liquidity providers then they will by default drive the market at will to and from areas of liquidity. Intention, logic, strategy, measures. Price is not random and price levels are predictable. Michael J. Huddleston, the Inner Circle Trader (ICT) and author of most of the smart money trading concepts, comments: 

"There is always a puppeteer. There is always someone pulling the strings. It's never being left to randomness of buying and selling. There is no support and resistance in the marketplace. These are all notions that promote the idea of free trade. When it comes to the truth of the markets: It's complete and utter control and manipulation. It's a very simple approach. It's about price: It's the open, the high, the low, and the close of the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly bars. It's not support nor resistance what is moving the price order flow. It's all about where the money is. The retail textbooks will never teach you this: Price moves to where the money is. And the money is at the levels where most retail traders have their entry and stop loss orders - just to get harvested by the smart money during false moves and false breakouts.

The good news is that the market makers continuously leave footprints in their accumulation-manipulation-expansion-distribution framework: order blocks, imbalances, fair value gaps and liquidity voids, liquidity pools, stop runs, and equilibrium (HERE - HERE - HERE)

Big banks do not use a lot of indicators and they employ more software engineers and programmers than technical analysts. Both for one good reason: Market making and order processing is completely automated by algorithms that guarantee maximum return. They use daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly charts, and completely ignore popular retail indicators, forecast methods, and trading systems. Their market making strategy is exclusively focused on how to break down huge orders into tiny chunks, how to buy and sell these continuously and most efficiently and on how to fool the retail trader crowd most profitably. Smart money drives the markets in daily and weekly cycles around the clock and accumulation, manipulation, expansion and distribution is the business model. The typical weekly market maker cycle looks like this: 

(1.) The week starts with a trap move on Sunday night or early Monday morning. 

(2.) Then follows an 'accumulation phase' and the setting up of an initial high and an initial low in the Asian session, during which price is usually held in a narrow range. 

(3.) The accumulation phase is followed by what Wyckoff coined the 'spring', an engineered false breakout against the real intention of the market maker to 'support or resistance levels' to harvest the retail traders' entry and stop loss orders there. The market maker considers these levels as 'liquidity pools'.

(4.) Next the market maker initiates the actual planned market move. This results in the formation of a trend that can be slow and steady, or it could be swift and furious. In the cash market a trend can be just a few hours, in the futures market up to 8 or 10 hours. On the chart the trend will be seen as a series of drives or pushes in the market maker's intended direction.

(5.) Towards the end of the day or the end of the session, there will be a corrective distribution phase and pattern of some type (wedge, pennant, head and shoulders, M or W formation), when price pulls back from the high or the low of the day because the market maker liquidates positions (see also HERE).

There are very high odds for the weekly low or high to form before the opening of the New York session on Wednesday. The odds further increase between Tuesday and Wednesday, focusing on Tuesday's London session to Wednesday's opening of the New York session. Even the market maker doesn't have infinite amounts of capital. Therefore he has to orchestrate retracements to book some profit before to continue. This is why sudden aggressive pullbacks seemingly occur out of nowhere.  


 

To get a more detailed picture of how the smart money's manipulation actually works on a day-to-day basis, Michael Huddleston elaborated six ICT Intraday Trading Templates. They provide an idea of when to expect what, clues related to the daily and weekly bias and range, and a perspective on the internal structure of the daily and weekly market maker cycles: 

1. The Classic Buy or Sell Day Template: This is the best template to make money since it is a wide range trending day that unfolds mostly on Monday, Tuesday and latest on Wednesday during the London session. The New York session will eventually give a retracement to continue with the trend that was set during the London session. The daily range will last for 7 to 8 hours once the profile is established. 

Mostly it will give a rally or drop from the daily opening price to the low or high of the day during the London session. The trend usually lasts into 11:00 EST.



2. The London Swing to Z Day Template: This template is found in the middle of a larger price swing when the trend is exhausted after a large explosive move. It is a narrow range day and ideally occurs on Thursday. 

Price will initially drop below the opening price, then run above the opening price and go back to the range into consolidation. It first appears to unfold as the Classic Buy or Sell Template. But if it continues consolidating, do not look for continuation into the New York session. Take profits.

3. The London Swing to New York Open / London Close Reversal Template: The bullish version of this template always begins like a Classic Buy or Sell template with a decline below the opening price before price starts rallying. Once price drops, a buy entry forms, price rallies to a higher time frame Point of Interest (POI), e.g. a bearish order block (OB), into a Fair Value Gap (FVG), etc. If this happens during the New York session, it indicates a classic market reversal. 

The template is used to either reach for a bearish order block on a higher time frame, for a turtle soup raid or to close a range. On a bullish day it will first create an initial low of the day during the London session, run up and create the high of the day during the New York session around the London Close, then run back down and clear the initial low that was created during the London session. Ideally it can pan out after the market is in exhaustion based on the higher time frame's dominant trend.

4. The Range to New York Open / London Close Rally Template: Generally this template is to be expected on days with high or medium impact news events like interest rate announcements, etc.


Ahead of these events price will remain in consolidation during the Asian and London sessions. Lows will be cleared initially and after the news price explodes into a directional move.

5. The Consolidation Raid on News Release Template: Unfolding during the New York session on days with high impact news, mostly FOMC press releases. During and shortly after the news old highs and lows of prior consolidation levels will be taken out. Ideally buy when a low is taken out and sell when a prior high was breached.

 
6. The London Swing to Seek & Destroy Template: This is the kind of day that won’t make you money. The Market Makers clear intention is to take out both buyers and sellers. Initially it would give you a London Open opportunity and setup, but very likely that won’t come to fruition. The narrow range zig-zag template lasts throughout the New York session and will oftentimes create an inside day. The template is usually applied in the middle or at the end of a larger price swing. 

 
References:

Monday, May 30, 2022

Daily Range = Accumulation + Manipulation + Expansion + Distribution (AMD)

Accumulation (A) of positions generally occurs during the Asian session. The accumulation is characterized by being a consolidation.

Manipulation (M) usually occurs at the opening of the London session (sometimes at the NY open). It consists of taking the price to the opposite side of the true directional Expansion of the rest of the day.

Distribution (D) occurs when Market Makers liquidate (exit) their positions.

This AMD-Principle is represented in every bar of every time-frame (monthly, weekly, daily, 4 Hour, etc.) with a price value at which it starts trading (opening price), the highest price value (high), the lowest (low), and  a value of the time it ends trading (close). The AMD-Principle can be observed in all financial markets - Forex, stocks, indices, commodities, bonds, etc.


Michael J. Huddleston a.k.a. The Inner Circle Trader:
“The origin behind this idea was inspired by my mentor Larry Williams.
He made a point in one of his lectures that he wished he knew
how traders could be buying below the open on an up day or sell above the open on a down day.
And I took that as a personal challenge, and spent the first quarter of my 25 years
of my career as a trader mastering just that concept.
I felt that it was enough for me to work towards cracking that code.
And I think I've done it.”
 
References
 
See also:

Who Owns Bitcoin

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Geocentric and Heliocentric Bradley Indices │ Turning Points 2022

 

 
 2021 Dec 10 (Fri) = Low (geo) + High (helio)
2021 Dec 20 (Mon) = Low (helio)
2021 Dec 24 (Fri) = High (geo)
2021 Dec 31 (Fri) = Major High (helio)
2022 Jan 06 (Thu) = Low (helio)
2022 Jan 10 (Mon) = High (helio)
2022 Jan 16 (Sun) = Major Low (geo) +  Low (helio)
2022 Jan 19 (Wed) = High (helio)
2022 Jan 30 (Sun) = Major Low (helio)
2022 Feb 07 (Mon) = High (helio)
2022 Feb 11 (Fri) = Low (helio)
2022 Feb 12 (Sat) = High (geo)

2022 Feb 20 (Sun) = High (helio)
2022 Feb 26 (Sat) = Low (geo)
2022 Mar 04 (Fri) = Low (helio)
2022 Mar 06 (Sun) = High (geo)

2022 Mar 10 (Thu) = Low (geo)+ High (helio)
2022 Mar 18 (Fri) = Low (helio)
2022 Mar 20 (Sun) = Major High (geo)

2022 Mar 28 (Mon) = Major High (helio)
2022 Mar 29 (Tue) = Major Low (geo)

2022 Apr 04 (Mon) = Low (helio)
2022 Apr 08 (Fri) = High (helio)
2022 Apr 13 (Wed) = Low (helio)
2022 Apr 17 (Sun) = High (helio)
2022 Apr 20 (Wed) = Low (helio)
2022 Apr 27 (Wed) = High (helio)
2022 Apr 28 (Thu) = High (geo)

2022 May 10 (Tue) = Low (geo)
2022 May 14 (Sat) = Major Low (helio)
2022 May 20 (Fri) = Major High (geo) +  High (helio)
2022 May 28 (Sat) = Low (helio)

2022 Jun 02 (Thu) = Low (geo)
2022 Jun 07 (Tue) = High (helio)
2022 Jun 16 (Thu) = High (geo) + Low (helio)
2022 Jun 24 (Fri) = High (helio)
2022 Jun 28 (Tue) = Low (helio)
2022 Jul 05 (Tue) = High (helio)
2022 Jul 06 (Wed) = Low (geo)

2022 Jul 10 (Sun) = Low (helio)
2022 Jul 13 (Wed) = High (geo)
2022 Jul 15 (Fri) = Major High (helio)
2022 Jul 27 (Wed) = Major Low (geo)
2022 Jul 28 (Thu) = Low (helio)

2022 Aug 01 (Mon) = High (helio)
2022 Aug 04 (Thu) = High (geo)
2022 Aug 09 (Tue) = Low (geo)
2022 Aug 11 (Thu) = Major Low (helio)
2022 Aug 18 (Thu) = Major High (geo)
2022 Aug 22 (Mon) = High (helio)
2022 Aug 27 (Sat) = Low (helio)
2022 Aug 28 (Sun) = Low (geo)

2022 Sep 01 (Thu) = High (helio)
2022 Sep 11 (Sun) = Low (helio)
2022 Sep 12 (Mon) = High (geo)

2022 Sep 18 (Sun) = Low (geo)
2022 Sep 21 (Wed) = Major High (helio)
2022 Sep 22 (Thu) = High (geo)
2022 Sep 28 (Wed) = Low (helio)
2022 Oct 01 (Sat) = Low (geo)
2022 Oct 03 (Mon) = High (helio)

2022 Oct 08 (Sat) = Major Low (helio)
2022 Oct 12 (Wed) = High (geo)
2022 Oct 13 (Thu) = High (helio)
2022 Oct 16 (Sun) = Low (helio)
2022 Oct 17 (Mon) = Low (geo)

2022 Oct 18 (Tue) = High (geo)
2022 Oct 22 (Sat) = High (helio)
2022 Oct 27 (Thu) = Low (helio)
2022 Oct 30 (Sun) = High (helio)
2022 Nov 04 (Fri) = Major Low (geo)
2022 Nov 05 (Sat) = Low (helio)

2022 Nov 15 (Tue) = Major High (geo)
2022 Nov 16 (Wed) = Major High (helio)
2022 Nov 26 (Sat) = Low (helio)
2022 Nov 29 (Tue) = High (helio)
2022 Dec 03 (Sat) = Low (helio)
2022 Dec 04 (Sun) = Major Low (geo)

2022 Dec 07 (Wed) = High (helio)
2022 Dec 10 (Sat) = Low (helio)
2022 Dec 19 (Mon) = High (helio)
2022 Dec 30 (Fri) = Major Low (helio)
2023 Jan 05 (Thu) = Major High (geo)
2023 Jan 17 (Tue) = Major Low (geo)


[calculated for New York City: EST / EDT │ Geo-Helio-Clusters]

Some background on the Bradley Indices
and previous turning points HERE

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Geocentric and Heliocentric Bradley Indices │ Turning Points 2021

 
2020 Nov 30 (Mon) = Low (helio)
2020 Dec 06 (Sun) = High (helio)
2020 Dec 17 (Thu) = Low (helio)
2021 Jan 01 (Fri) = High (helio)
2021 Jan 09 (Sat) = Low (geo + helio)
2021 Jan 13 (Wed) = High (helio)
2021 Jan 20 (Wed) = Low (helio)
2021 Jan 26 (Tue) = High (helio)
2021 Jan 28 (Thu) = Low (helio)
2021 Feb 01 (Mon) = High (helio)
2021 Feb 04 (Thu) = Low (helio)
2021 Feb 08 (Mon) = High (helio)
2021 Feb 14 (Sun) = Low (helio)
2021 Feb 19 (Fri) = High (helio)
2021 Feb 27 (Sat) = Low (helio)
2021 Mar 04 (Thu) = High (helio)
2021 Mar 15-16 (Mon-Tue) = Low (helio + geo)
2021 Mar 20-21 (Sat-Sun) = Low + High (geo + helio)
2021 Mar 28 (Sun) = Low (helio)
2021 Apr 01 (Thu) = High (geo + helio)
2021 Apr 07 (Wed) = Low (helio)
2021 Apr 09 (Fri) = Low (geo)
2021 Apr 11 (Sun) = High (helio)
2021 Apr 18 (Sun) = High (geo + helio)
2021 Apr 23 (Fri) = High (helio)
2021 Apr 25 (Sun) = Low (geo)
2021 Apr 27 (Tue) = Low (helio)
2021 Apr 29-30 (Thu-Fri) = High (geo + helio)
2021 May 04 (Tue) = Low (geo + helio)
2021 May 14 (Fri) = High (geo)
2021 May 18 (Tue) = High (helio)
2021 May 26-27 (Wed-Thu) = Low (geo + helio)
2021 Jun 02-04 (Wed-Fri) = High (helio + geo)
2021 Jun 14 (Mon) = Low (helio)
2021 Jun 19 (Sat) = High (helio)
2021 Jun 24 (Thu) = Low (helio)
2021 Jul 06 (Tue) = Low-High (geo + helio)
2021 Jul 14-15 (Wed-Thu) = Low-High (helio + geo)
2021 Jul 18 (Sun) = High (helio)
2021 Jul 25-27 (Sun-Tue) = Low-High (helio + geo)
2021 Jul 31 - Aug 02 (Sat-Mon) = Low (helio + geo)
2021 Aug 07 (Sat) = High (geo)
2021 Aug 11 (Wed) = Low (geo)
2021 Aug 14 (Sat) = High (helio)
2021 Aug 20-22 (Fri-Sun) = High-Low (geo + helio)
2021 Aug 25 (Wed-Fri) = Low-High (geo + helio)
2021 Aug 31 (Tue) = High (geo)
2021 Sep 04 (Sat) = Low (helio)
2021 Sep 16-18 (Thu-Sat) = High-Low (helio + geo)
2021 Sep 29 (Wed) = High (geo)
2021 Oct 01-03 (Fri-Sun) = Low-High (helio)
2021 Oct 09 (Sat) = Low (geo)
2021 Oct 12 (Tue) = High (geo)
2021 Oct 13-14 (Wed-Thu) = Low-High (helio)
2021 Oct 16 (Sat) = Low (helio)
2021 Oct 22 (Fri) = High (helio)
2021 Oct 27 (Wed) = Low (helio)
2021 Oct 30 (Sat) = High (helio)
2021 Nov 06-07 (Sat-Sun) = Low (helio + geo)
2021 Nov 10 (Wed) = High (helio)
2021 Nov 19 (Fri) = Low (helio)
2021 Nov 23 (Tue) = High (helio)
2021 Nov 27-28 (Sat-Sun) = Low-High (helio + geo)
2021 Dec 10 (Fri) = Low-High (geo + helio)
2021 Dec 20 (Mon) = Low (helio)
2021 Dec 24 (Fri) = High (geo)
2021 Dec 31 (Fri) = High (helio)
2022 Jan 06 (Thu) = Low (helio)
2022 Jan 10 (Mon) = High (helio)
2022 Jan 16 (Sun) = Low (geo + helio)
2022 Jan 19 (Wed) = High (helio)
2022 Jan 30 (Sun) = Low (helio)

[calculated for New York City]

Some background on the Bradley Indices
and previous turning points HERE

S&P 500 Index vs Jupiter – Saturn Cycle | December 2020

SoLunar Map | December 2020 - January 2021

Recent and upcoming SoLunar Turn-Days: Nov 30 (Mon), Dec 03 (Thu), Dec 07 (Mon), Dec 11 (Fri),
Dec 15 (Tue), Dec 18 (Fri), Dec 22 (Tue), Dec 26 (Sat), Dec 30 (Wed), Jan 02 (Sat), Jan 06 (Wed),
Jan 09 (Sat), Jan 13 (Wed), Jan 17 (Sun), Jan 21 (Thu), Jan 24 (Sun), Jan 28 (Thu), Feb 01 (Mon),
Feb 04 (Thu). Previous SoLunar Maps HERE

Cosmic Cluster Days | December 2020 - January 2021

Recent and upcoming Cosmic Cluster Days: Nov 16 (Mon), Nov 18 (Wed), Dec 05 (Sat), Dec 31 (Thu),
Jan 14 (Thu), Jan 22 (Fri), Feb 01 (Mon), Feb 08 (Mon). Previous CCDs are HERE

Saturday, October 31, 2020

SoLunar Map | Review and Preview for November 2020

SoLunar Map | Review and Preview for November 2020
Upcoming solunar turn-days: Oct 31 (Sat) = Full Moon, Nov 01 (Sun), Nov 04 (Wed),
Nov 08 (Sun), Nov 11 (Wed), Nov 15 (Sun), Nov 19 (Thu), Nov 22 (Sun), Nov 26 (Thu),
Nov 30 (Mon) = Full Moon, Dec 03 (Thu), Dec 07 (Mon). Previous SoLunar Maps HERE

S&P 500 Index vs Jupiter – Saturn Cycle | November 2020

Upcoming turn-days: Nov 02 (Mon), Nov 07 (Sat), Nov 11 (Wed), Nov 15 (Sun),
Nov 19 (Thu), Nov 24 (Tue), Nov 28 (Sat), Dec 04 (Fri), Dec 07 (Mon), Dec 11 (Fri).
Previous turn-days HERE

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Cosmic Cluster Days | October - November 2020

Upcoming Cosmic Cluster Days: Oct 01-02 (Thu-Fri), Oct 12 (Mon), Oct 16 (Fri), Oct 21 (Wed),
Oct 23 (Fri), Oct 26 (Mon), Oct 28 (Wed), Oct 30 (Fri), Nov 03 (Tue), Nov 12 (Thu),
Nov 15-16 (Sun-Mon), Nov 18 (Wed).
Previous CCDs HERE

SoLunar Map | October - November 2020

Upcoming SoLunar Turn-Days:
Sep 24 (Thu), Sep 28 (Mon), Oct 01 (Thu), Oct 05 (Mon), Oct 09 (Fri), Oct 13 (Tue),
Oct 17 (Sat), Oct 20 (Tue), Oct 24 (Sat), Oct 28 (Wed), Nov 01 (Sun), Nov 04 (Wed),
Nov 08 (Sun), Nov 11 (Wed), Nov 15 (Sun), Nov 19 (Thu), Nov 22 (Sun), Nov 26 (Thu),
Nov 30 (Mon), Dec 03 (Thu). Previous SoLunar Maps HERE

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Cosmic Cluster Days | August - September 2020

SoLunar Map | August - September 2020


The peaks and troughs in the above SoLunar Map hint to future short-term changes in trend in
financial markets during the next two months. Humans and markets are influenced by a multi-
tude of planetary forces. However, the continuous 3-5 day rhythm (a.k.a. the 4 Day Cycle) is
governed by solunar forces (= 4 highs and 4 lows per lunar month). Please note, the highs and
lows in the SoLunar Map may also align with the start or termination of congestion patterns.
The original Solunar Theory was laid out in 1926 by John Alden Knight in order to predict wild
game behaviour. The SoLunar Map depicts a proprietory composite of solar, lunar and tidal forces.
Previous SoLunar Maps HERE

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The Swamp of Corporate Socialism | Something for Nothing

Antony Sutton (1975) - Old John D. Rockefeller and his 19th century fellow-capitalists were convinced of one absolute truth: that no great monetary wealth could be accumulated under the impartial rules of a competitive laissez faire society. The only sure road to the acquisition of massive wealth was monopoly: drive out your competitors, reduce competition, eliminate laissez-faire, and above all get state protection for your industry through compliant politicians and government regulation. This last avenue yields a legal monopoly, and a legal monopoly always leads to wealth.

This robber baron schema is also, under different labels, the socialist plan. The difference between a corporate state monopoly and a socialist state monopoly is essentially only the identity of the group controlling the power structure. The essence of socialism is monopoly control by the state using hired planners and academic sponges. On the other hand, Rockefeller, Morgan, and their corporate friends aimed to acquire and control their monopoly and to maximize its profits through influence in the state political apparatus; this, while it still needs hired planners and academic sponges, is a discreet and far more subtle process than outright state ownership under socialism. Success for the Rockefeller gambit has depended particularly upon focusing public attention upon largely irrelevant and superficial historical creations, such as the myth of a struggle between capitalists and communists, and careful cultivation of political forces by big business. We call this phenomenon of corporate legal monopoly — market control acquired by using political influence — by the name of corporate socialism.The most lucid and frank description of corporate socialism and its mores and objectives is to be found in a 1906 booklet by Frederic Clemson Howe, Confessions of a Monopolist [...]:

"This is the story of something for nothing — of making the other fellow pay. This making the other fellow pay, of getting something for nothing, explains the lust for franchises, mining rights, tariff privileges, railway control, tax evasions. All these things mean monopoly, and all monopoly is bottomed on legislation. And monopoly laws are born in corruption. The commercialism of the press, or education, even of sweet charity, is part of the price we pay for the special privileges created by law. The desire of something for nothing, of making the other fellow pay, of monopoly in some form or other, is the cause of corruption. Monopoly and corruption are cause and effect. Together, they work in Congress, in our Commonwealths, in our municipalities. It is always so. It always has been so. Privilege gives birth to corruption, just as the poisonous sewer breeds disease. Equal chance, a fair field and no favors, the "square deal" are never corrupt. They do not appear in legislative halls nor in Council Chambers. For these things mean labor for labor, value for value, something for something. This is why the little business man, the retail and wholesale dealer, the jobber, and the manufacturer are not the business men whose business corrupts politics."

Howe's opposite to this system of corrupt monopoly is described as "labor for labor, value for value, something for something." But these values are also the essential hall marks of a market system, that is, a purely competitive system, where market clearing prices are established by impartial interaction of supply and demand in the market place. Such an impartial system cannot, of course, be influenced or corrupted by politics. The monopoly economic system based on corruption and privilege described by Howe is a politically run economy. It is at the same time also a system of disguised forced labor, called by Ludwig von Mises the Zwangswirtschaft, a system of compulsion. It is this element of compulsion that is common to all politically run economies: Hitler's New Order, Mussolini's corporate state, Kennedy's New Frontier, Johnson's Great Society, and Nixon's Creative Federalism. Compulsion was also an element in Herbert Hoover's reaction to the depression and much more obviously in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the National Recovery Administration.

[...] In modern America the most significant illustration of society as a whole working for the few is the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. The Federal Reserve System is, in effect, a private banking monopoly, not answerable to Congress or the public, but with legal monopoly control over money supply without let or hindrance or even audit by the General Accounting Office. More HERE

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

S&P 500 Index vs Cosmic Cluster Days | February 2020

The cluster peak on January 20th (Mon) was a more important one and
happened to correlate with a high in US stock indices. Important cluster dates during
February should be Feb 10 (Mon), Feb 15 (Sat), Feb 24 (Mon) and Feb 26 (Wed). Here is the
complete list of CCDs: Feb 02 (Sun), Feb 04 (Tue), Feb 07 (Fri), Feb 10 (Mon), Feb 13 (Thu),
Feb 15-17 (Sat-Mon), Feb 24 (Mon), Feb 26 (Wed), Mar 01 (Sun). Previous CCDs are HERE

S&P 500 Index vs Jupiter – Saturn Cycle | February 2020

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

S&P 500 Index vs Jupiter – Saturn Cycle | January 2020

S&P 500 Index vs Cosmic Cluster Days | January 2020

The index produces way too many signals these days - clusters of clusters:
Dec 31 (Tue), Jan 03 (Fri), Jan 05 (Sun), Jan 09-10 (Thu-Fri), Jan 15-17 (Wed-Fri),
Jan 19-26 (Sun-Sun), Jan 28-29 (Tue-Wed), Feb 02 (Sun), Feb 04 (Tue), Feb 07 (Fri),
Feb 10 (Mon), Feb 13 (Thu), Feb 15-17 (Sat-Mon), Feb 17 (Mon), Feb 24 (Mon),
Feb 26 (Wed), Mar 01 (Sun). This month Monday, January 20th marks a peak in the index.
Anything can happen. We sure live in interesting times. Previous CCDs are HERE

Monday, December 23, 2019

S&P 500 Index vs Division of Solar Year 2020 starting from Earth’s Perihelion


32nd Harmonic of Solar Year 2020 | W.D. Gann's Natural Trading Days:
[ 1 Solar Year = 360 Degrees of the Sun's Geocentric Longitude / 32 = 11.25 Decimal Degrees ]
 
2019 Dec 02 (Mon) 07:39:34 = 326.25
2019 Dec 13 (Fri) 13:31:43 = 337.5
2019 Dec 24 (Tue) 18:40:56 = 348.75
2020 Jan 05 (Sun) 01:47:00 = 360 = Earth's Perihelion
2020 Jan 16 (Thu) 04:24:47 = 11.25
2020 Jan 27 (Mon) 09:35:44 = 22.5
2020 Feb 07 (Fri) 15:33:59 = 33.75
2020 Feb 18 (Tue) 06:45:01 = 45
2020 Feb 29 (Sat) 14:52:49 = 56.25
2020 Mar 12 (Thu) 00:40:14 = 67.5
2020 Mar 23 (Mon) 12:04:20 = 78.75
2020 Apr 03 (Fri) 09:00:56 = 90
2020 Apr 15 (Wed) 00:03:59 = 101.25
2020 Apr 26 (Sun) 16:47:04 = 112.5
2020 May 08 (Fri) 11:20:33 = 123.75
2020 May 19 (Tue) 14:47:34 = 135
2020 May 31 (Sun) 12:02:01 = 146.25
2020 Jun 12 (Fri) 10:27:23 = 157.5
2020 Jun 24 (Wed) 09:24:58 = 168.75
2020 Jul 05 (Sun) 16:01:47 = 180 = Earth's Aphelion
2020 Jul 17 (Fri) 15:21:55 = 191.25
2020 Jul 29 (Wed) 14:12:04 = 202.5
2020 Aug 10 (Mon) 12:24:10 = 213.75
2020 Aug 21 (Fri) 16:44:08 = 225
2020 Sep 02 (Wed) 12:28:40 = 236.25
2020 Sep 14 (Mon) 06:37:08 = 247.5
2020 Sep 25 (Fri) 22:55:17 = 258.75
2020 Oct 06 (Tue) 21:19:28 = 270
2020 Oct 18 (Sun) 10:04:18 = 281.25
2020 Oct 29 (Thu) 21:05:34 = 292.5
2020 Nov 10 (Tue) 06:30:12 = 303.75
2020 Nov 20 (Fri) 22:28:34 = 315
2020 Dec 02 (Wed) 05:16:15 = 326.25
2020 Dec 13 (Sun) 11:02:37 = 337.5
2020 Dec 24 (Thu) 16:08:14 = 348.75
2021 Jan 02 (Sat) 07:50:00 = 360 = Earth's Perihelion

Previous Year HERE

Saturday, November 30, 2019

S&P 500 vs True Lunar Node Speed | Exuberant Mood and Frenzy

The Lunar Node Wobble:
Node @ 0 = Nov 29 (Fri), max Direct @ High = Dec 02 (Mon), @ 0 = Dec 04 (Wed), Mean @ -0.053 = Dec 07 (Sat),
max Retrograde @ Low = Dec 09 (Mon), @ -0.053 = Dec 10 (Tue), @ 0 = Dec 14 (Sat), @ High = Dec 17 (Tue),
@ 0 = Dec 19 (Thu), @ Low Dec 23 (Mon), Annular Solar Eclipse = Dec 26 (Thu), @ 0 = Dec 27 (Thu),
@ High = Dec 27 (Sun), @ 0 = Dec 31 (Tue), @ Low = Jan 01 (Wed), @ 0 = Jan 03 (Fri), @ High = Jan 07 (Tue),
@ 0 and Penumbral Lunar Eclipse = Jan 10-11 (Fri-Sat), @ Low = Jan 13 (Mon), @ 0 = Jan 18 (Sat), etc.

Before and after Lunar and Solar Eclipses the True Lunar Node starts wobbling (e.g. Dec 26, 2019 (Thu) = Annular Solar Eclipse and Jan 10–11, 2020 (Sat-Sun) = Penumbral Lunar Eclipse), quickly moving back and forth, retrograde, stationary, direct (see Moon Wobbles in a NASA animation HERE). Financial markets correlate with this 4 to 14 Day Cycle of the retrograde-stationary-direct motion of the Lunar True Node. About every 86.655 days a so called Moon Wobble (lunar libration) occurs when the Sun is conjunct, opposite and square (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°) the Lunar Node (4 * 86.655 days = 1 Nodical Year or Eclipse Year = 346.62 days). The Node starts wobbling about two weeks before the exact event and remains unstable until about one week after. If coupled with Solar and Lunar Eclipses, the wobble-effect can be extended. And as the Sun approaches conjunction and opposition towards the Lunar Node, it's motion is almost blocked (speed at or near zero). Notably these periods go along with exuberant mood and frenzy, most of the times correlating with rallies or crashes in financial markets. Previous events and correlations HERE