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In a message dated 5/14/99 10:39:03 AM Central Daylight Time, BLL495 writes:

> Subj:	Re: GEN: Astro-Finance, Realtraders Survey Results
>  Date:	5/14/99 10:39:03 AM Central Daylight Time
>  From:	BLL495
>  To:	nwinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  
>  In answer to the attack on Astro-Finance:
>  
>  To add to Norman's comments below, CNBC has had numerous guest discussing 
> Astro-Finance.  The crew at CNBC  had comical sneering remarks at such 
> ideology.  That is until the track records of these individuals caused them 
> to stop and take notice.    One of the best was a guy who was a Technical 
> Analyst at Merrill and then started his own company.  He is out of AZ.
>  
>   When something works and makes you money, you just use it if you have any 
> common sense at all.  If you will look back at some of the comments that 
have 
> been made on this forum in the last few weeks, such as,  May 4-6 time 
frame.  
> Go back and look at the market.  You may say it is coincidence.  If so, so 
be 
> it.  These coincidences kept me out of the market on the following 
turbulent 
> days:
>  
>   November 15, 1991    ( I was in puts!  Traders around me laughed at me 
the 
> day before when I bought them.  They said that I was standing in front of a 
> moving freight train and I would loose.  By the end of the next day, they 
> stopped laughing.)
>  October 5, 1992
>   February 16, 1993
>   November 2nd and 4th, 1993
>   February 4, 1994
>   March 30, 1994
>  March 8, 1996
>   August 15, 1997
>  October 27, 1997   (The day they closed the market)
>  August 31, 1998
>  March 23,  1999
>  April 19, 1999
>  
>  These are among a few that are strong in my memory.  There were many 
others 
> but these are the ones that I remember the most.
>  
>  I know very little about astro-finance.  But I know enough to know that 
all 
> things are relative when it comes to the markets.  Weather patterns affect 
> crops which affects supply and supply and demand affects prices, etc., 
etc., 
> etc.   If the weather man or woman tells you rain is expected, if your are 
> smart, you will take an umbrella along that day, just in case.  If it 
doesn't 
> rain, that is O.K.  You do know dismiss meteorology because of it.   But if 
> it does rain,  you are covered.  Same with trading.  To have an open mind, 
> even when you do not understand it all, is just smart.
>  
>  If one expects to have any level of success in the  markets on a long term 
> basis, they have to be smart enough to realize that nature affects us in 
many 
> ways.  To thumb a nose at something just because you do not understand it 
is  
> short sighted.
>  
>  Norman seems to be a very knowledgeable person in this area.  I don't have 
> any where near his understanding of astrology, but I know that when God 
made 
> this planet, He was very methodical.  Look at pine cones, leaves,  the 
> planets, sea shells, the way nature reproduces, then look at Fib numbers.  
It 
> will amaze you at the geometry in our natural world.
>  
>  I have listened to lectures about when the planets in our universe move 
> along their path and emit energy throughout our environment and what effect 
> that has on us.  Like the phases of the moon and the tides.   I do not know 
> why it has an affect on mass psychology the way it does, but I don't know 
> everything about superconductivity, electromagnetic energy, laser light 
> therapy, DNA, or Biophysics, either.  Nor do I know everything about how my 
> computer functions,   But I use it anyway.
>  
>  If I had been long in the market on the days listed above, I may not have 
> anything left to trade with.  Some of those days would have been severe.  
If 
> it saves me from catastrophe I will use it whether I fully understand it or 
> not.  
>  >  
>  By the way, today is another one of those days.  It worked again!
>  >  ___________________________________________________________
>