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Here's what happened in the ES today:
From a forecasting perspective, obviously there's one really important place today, which was the high that happened in the 9:25-9:50am period at 3480.00. I've put a big red arrow there.
Here's a square of nine chart:
As we know, the Moon is the most important planet for intraday signals, so that's where we look first. You can plot the planets right on top of the square of 9 (which is sort of the point of that whole tool), and those show up as little colored dots. I've marked them. Look at what the Sun/Moon/Mercury/Saturn were doing today. They made a cross, drawn in red. (W59 draws this for you, it's right out of the Handbook of Market Estoerica.)
At 9:30, the Chicago Ascendant and Midheaven both crossed the line from the Moon to the Sun. Those are the two triangles down at the bottom, by the Sun dot. It really happened in the 9:25-9:35 window, since they didn't hit exactly at the same time, but 9:30 splits the difference between them, and that's what I've got shown.
Before we move to the ephemeris, notice where "82" is on the SQ9. That's an important number for today. In numbered squares terms, 82 can mean 182, or 1082, or, for example, 3482, which is important for us.
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Ok, let's check out the eph:
First, look in the upper right, at the two aspects I've put a red rectangle around. These are the tightest aspects for today. Notice that they're printed in bold. That means they're applying, in other words getting closer and closer. Those are the strong ones. We've got Mercury square Saturn, then Jupiter conjunct Pluto. Normally, this wouldn't be too important intraday, but we've got the Moon 120 degrees from Mercury, which makes Mercury "hot". It also makes everything connected to Mercury hot too. See the square and the triangle in there, with Mercury at the head? That's Gann's logo for his publishing business, in case you didn't notice.
So there's the setup on the eph. What's the trigger? The ASC/MC and price. At 9:50-10:00, the Ascendant in Chicago transits past the huge Jupiter/Pluto/Sun point of the triangle. That's how you know when the energy set up by the triangle/square is going to show up. How do we know it's going to show up in the ES, as compared to the 100's of other markets? Because we have our pattern drawn, and price takes up a corner of the square, opposite Mercury, at 3481.75. Remember 82 on the SQ9? ===> HIGH OF DAY
If you've never seen this stuff before, it may be a bit of a "holy crap!" moment, but this is old hat to the old timers here. The same signatures happen in an almost infinite combination of ways, but once you know what to look for, it's the same thing over and over.
Happy Trading,
Earik