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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!
> > ___________________________________________________________
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