Saturday, September 23, 2006
Trading & Lunar Cycles
Trading & Lunar CylesAs with any trading methodology, like with pudding, the proof is in the eating, or, does it pay out. You'll enjoy
this thread at elitetrader.com by "yoohoo", who actively uses lunar cycles in his intraday trading. I have a sneaking suspicion I have seen yoohoo's trading first hand over the past two years and, aside from any justifications of "why" lunar cycles work, his real time 'call' on the lunar trade is pudding proof: yoohoo simply applies the ideas in a way that pays. [
final charts, read the thread for commentary]
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Fiction and Lunar CylesTom Drake has, as he so often does, dished up something a bit off the beaten track: comments on a new "financial thriller" book.
Here is the full article (page down a bit for the book part). Here is a snippet:
The novel isn't as well written as Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell or even Martin Cruz Smith. But it is about the financial markets and the fortuitous rediscovery of an ancient method of market timing, previously only known to "them"."
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more from Tom].
More about Paradigm, a financial thriller by Robert Taylor, at
taylortrends.com I know zipola about Taylor or his methods, but I am always intrigued with what people are doing on the lunar front.
[ed: 23 Sep 06 edit of post originally published 09 Sep 06]Labels: chart-analysis, cycles
At last, over the rim
of the waiting earth
the moon lifted with
slow majesty
till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off,
free of moorings
- Kenneth Grahame,
The Wind in the Willows
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