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Pastimes : Astrological Influences: Financial and Global Trends -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (224)	8/12/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: maouse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 538

...Let's look at the data. The "big" lows in the market happened essentially on or about the 27th to 28th of Aug/Sept. This is an instance of 6 happenings over presumably nearly 200 years, at no timed interval. While I find this interesting, it surely shows no pattern, other than 6 lows happening within a two day period. And perhaps all of which saw an eclipse before them. So what? This in no way indicates that ALL of the eclipses have caused the effects mentioned. In fact that eclipses have happened and NOT had the same consequences indicates just the opposite. Interesting reading, though. 200-6=194, 194/200*100=97%. 97% of the time we are fine and don't have to worry about "big" bad happenings. I'll go with that statistic. It seems happier. Even if this year it drops to 96.5% the world surely won't "end". PS. How many eclipses have there been since 1800? This would be an interesting figure when compaired with how often "big" falls happened in Aug/Sept. I'm guessing more eclipses have happened in other months and had no "big" effect on life on earth. But then you'd just attribute that to being the "good" eclipses, now wouldn't you? PPS. Is the market HIGH's as subjected to stellar activity as the lows? I'm just wondering when my best 3% time to trade is... LOL "The sudden, international cessation of distress selling that is a hallmark of 20th century panics also occurred in the crisis of 1857, at a time when no timely communication existed." -true, but the China crisis didn't affect me much in 1997... so why is it necessarily bad for an entire planet which is what the data was attempting to show... PPPS. I'll keep reading/read other chapters that are on the site. Thanks, and have a good day.