“Basically, the first-trade horoscope chart is like a person’s birth chart sensitive to where the planets were in that snapshot when the market was born and how the planets triggered those natal planets as they keep moving around in the sky.
“This was the hardest part in getting this book together - finding accurate data,” she says. This proved to be harder with commodity markets. “The financial astrologers working on the stock side would make sure they always had a good first-trade horoscope chart-the day and time the stock began trading-which is pretty easy to do,” Gidel says. Markets, like people, have a birthday and a horoscope that goes along with it. “Astrology helps us understand how things happen and why, how the moving planets in the sky are affecting all of us on a regular basis how we behave and how it could influence how we might make a trading decision.” “That is when you really learn stuff, when you have to teach it to someone else,” she says. It is how you get big volatility, it is how you get big blow-off or bottoms,” she says.Īfter formally studying astrology and markets she was asked by the school to teach a course. I just think that markets move because people make decisions on whether to buy and sell and the emotions that go into that are a big part of it. I like the mystery of Gann and I like Elliott Wave’s ability to tap into market psychology. “I always have been a fan of Gann and Elliott Wave. Underlying both passions was a fascination with what makes prices move. “A couple of years later I decided to start formally studying astrology with the intent of applying it to the market and to see if it worked on the markets that I knew about, which were commodities.” “There were financial astrologers out there who were paying attention to the stock market and using astrology to see what the stock market was going to do,” she says. Gidel began a more intense study of astrology and the markets in 2005 and discovered that there was a great deal of material on applying astrology to stocks, but very little on futures and commodity markets.
I got more interested in astrology over the years and finally started going to conferences.” At the same time, there was an astrological revival as well,” she says.
“When I was at Futures, it was during the Gann revival in the late 1970s early 1980s. Her fascination with both goes back to her time as a senior editor for Commodities and Futures magazine in the 1980s. The recently released, “Trading In Sync With Commodities- Introducing Astrology to Your Financial Toolbox” combines Gidel’s twin passions of commodity trading and astrology. When it was time for her to focus on the use of astrology in commodities markets, she started looking for reading material to assign to her class, but discovered there was none to be found. Many people check their horoscopes in the morning, but do you check your market’s horoscope? One woman does and has written a book about it.Ī few years ago, Susan Gidel was teaching a class on astrology in the markets.
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