Aug 14 Astro + Volume
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:07 pm
Hi All,
Yesterday's post by Quark about astro trading got me interested in looking at some of this stuff again, and I thought I'd post some of what happened over the last two days. One of the problems with doing intraday astro (or astro in general) is that there are just way too many things going on, and it can be easy to get overwhelmed with all the potential signals. There are a few ways to approach this, but the most basic is just to focus on the "best" aspects in the moment. So what I did was simply use the tighest planetary aspect at the time, and when that aspect changed, I'd switch from one aspect to another. So yesterday, that means we start out with the Mercury-Neptune aspect, and then flip over to the Sun-Venus conjunction when that aspect's orb got tigher than the Merucry-Neptune aspect. If you just watch the aspects list in W59's ephemeris, this means just using whatever the aspect is at the very top.
Here's a chart:
The vertical lines on the chart are when the MC or ASC lines up to trigger the smallest-orb aspect in the moment. The shapes I'm using are an octogon or hexagon, depending on whether we're running on the 6th or 8th harmonic, which is pretty much all the ES every does. Remember that the vertical lines are all known ahead of time, so you can do this before the open, then go draw them out on your chart.
The new (and really interesting part) of all of this, is the addition of the bid/ask momentum indicator that the new IQCollector data feed provides. This is the technical filter, and all I really was looking for is for this indicator to issue a signal close to one of the astro times. An issue with astro when used in this way is that it doesn't tell you anything about direction, only that there's a turning point there. Volume is all about direction, and it gives you plenty of warning. I've drawn in arrows when those two things lined up, which happened 5 times (with all of them being great trades).
For now, I'll just watch and see how it all goes moving forward, but I could easily see how a method could be developed around this approach. Interesting stuff..!
All for now,
Earik
Yesterday's post by Quark about astro trading got me interested in looking at some of this stuff again, and I thought I'd post some of what happened over the last two days. One of the problems with doing intraday astro (or astro in general) is that there are just way too many things going on, and it can be easy to get overwhelmed with all the potential signals. There are a few ways to approach this, but the most basic is just to focus on the "best" aspects in the moment. So what I did was simply use the tighest planetary aspect at the time, and when that aspect changed, I'd switch from one aspect to another. So yesterday, that means we start out with the Mercury-Neptune aspect, and then flip over to the Sun-Venus conjunction when that aspect's orb got tigher than the Merucry-Neptune aspect. If you just watch the aspects list in W59's ephemeris, this means just using whatever the aspect is at the very top.
Here's a chart:
The vertical lines on the chart are when the MC or ASC lines up to trigger the smallest-orb aspect in the moment. The shapes I'm using are an octogon or hexagon, depending on whether we're running on the 6th or 8th harmonic, which is pretty much all the ES every does. Remember that the vertical lines are all known ahead of time, so you can do this before the open, then go draw them out on your chart.
The new (and really interesting part) of all of this, is the addition of the bid/ask momentum indicator that the new IQCollector data feed provides. This is the technical filter, and all I really was looking for is for this indicator to issue a signal close to one of the astro times. An issue with astro when used in this way is that it doesn't tell you anything about direction, only that there's a turning point there. Volume is all about direction, and it gives you plenty of warning. I've drawn in arrows when those two things lined up, which happened 5 times (with all of them being great trades).
For now, I'll just watch and see how it all goes moving forward, but I could easily see how a method could be developed around this approach. Interesting stuff..!
All for now,
Earik