Having owned and published the Crawford Perspectives market newsletter since 1977, this Vietnam veteran has form. However, the Moon by itself as a “singleton” in half of the sky may interject a high degree of anxiety for awhile. The possibility of a Market Crash does not reappear until November 24th, and serious deterioration takes place early in 2020. This suggests another round of favorable markets and positive economies especially with Mars trine (best aspect) to the Pluto. Venus, Jupiter and Pluto are at the 23rd degree of consecutive signs, with Pluto at the midpoint of the other two. This event is worldwide, and even the FOMC decisions may affect much of the world. Today represents a zodiacal new quarter and a new year so the events of today will have long-lasting effects. This could affect the trading day today or tomorrow, but the implications may play out over a much longer period. TODAY we have the Vernal Equinox 5:58pm EDT AND a Supermoon Full Moon 9:44pm EDT, and, just to kick off the zodiacal New Year, it also happens that we have an FOMC announcement at 2pm EDT. THIS is a Very Big Day!! – The famous stock and commodity trader, W D Gann warned us (in his books) to watch especially for the dates of the Equinoxes and Solstices, and the middle date between them. Killing time until a management presentation yesterday afternoon, I was trawling through social media – and ignoring Prime Minister’s Question Time – when I came across the following, and took the liberty of copying and pasting the article. Phrases like ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ and ‘are we there yet’ and ‘new beginnings’ sprang to mind. They use the solar calendar, instead of China’s lunar one, its exact time calculated through astronomical observations. It was also Nowruz, Persian New Year, meaning ‘new day’, celebrating the first day of Spring. The Vernal Equinox at 21:58 GMT yesterday coincided to the hour with the referendum result of June 23 rd 2016, exactly 1000 days ago. Some of us also use elements of numerology (like 666 and 1.618), astrology and astronomy. Both men believed that there were ‘natural laws’ which have great influence on markets. Many of us struggle with the latter, and even more so with WD Gann.

As technical analysts, we are used to working with Fibonacci retracements and projections, moving averages and Elliott Wave counts – ‘magic’ numbers, if you will.

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