Saw something cool today. All of this is straight out of Market Esoterica, so you all are probably sick of it by now, but that stuff still keeps on impressing me, even now, 20-odd years later. I guess those tools have been out-of-sample long enough to know that they weren't curve fit.

So, to start with, let's check the ephemeris, which is always a good way to know what to key into on a given day.
I haven't marked up the eph, but if you study it for a bit, all of what I'm about to say will become clear. Someone asked me the other day if I had finally figured out what planet is the most important for daytrading. The answer is "yes", and that we all knew about this decades ago. It's the Moon. If you want to cut your analysis time down, just watch that one planet, and really focus on times when it does something *interesting*. There's an aspect list on the eph that tells you what all the relationships are, and sorts it by exactitude. Bold aspects are applying, and regular ones are separating. So you scan that list, and look for Moon aspects near the top that are ideally bolded. Today, that was Moon opposed to Neptune, the third item on the list. That's the one that's going to be guaranteed to be hot for daytrading.
Moving to the eph, I've placed that square in there, linked to the moon. Notice that Mercury takes up a corner of the square, making it more powerful. Also notice that Mars is there splitting the difference between the squares, and that made me consider that we might be running on the 8th harmonic as well, which is basically the same thing. Why did I set the eph to 9:25 am? Because that's when New York takes up a position on the square. The ASC lines up with the Moon toward the left, and the MC lines up with Mercury at the top. The Moon sets up the pattern, and the fast movers trigger the time in the day when it will happen. 9:25am (pacific time) was the only time during RTH that we'd be interested in when looking at this pattern.
Ok, that's time. How about price? Notice that the Moon/ASC corner of the square points to 419.25. What was the low of the day today? 419.32 at 9:31am.

Let's see that on a chart:
I marked the area we're interested in with an arrow. You can't miss it. Those lines are flux lines, from the astro menu. 24 points per 360 degrees is pretty much what you want with the SPY/ES/SP complex. Since we're running on the 4th harmonic, that's why I set "points to next" to 6. (That's the 4th harmonic of our 24 points. Or, 24/4 = 6.) That cluster of 3 lines there at the bottom is Moon/Mercury/Neptune. Visually, it's pretty obvious that's the place to focus on compared to trying to solve for it on the eph, although you get the same answer. You can also see Mars on there. It has an effect too, but those three on the T-square are really the ones to watch.
As long as we're on a Market Esoterica theme, what else is going on down there? Well, there's this:
I never see anyone using the Square of Nine properly. It's probably because it's kind of a pain unless you have a computerized version that can use the planets and the right geometry. Intraday SQ9 is pretty much always Moon and Sun. I've put markers on both of them, and note that the ASC is the same color as the Moon, and is right on top of it. Check out how the low near 419 solves out using the built-in relationships of the SQ9. Once you know which numbered squares go with which markets, and have the ability to put the right things on there, you have a chance to see how highs and lows get solved for. The nice thing about markets is they tell you in lots of ways, so you don't need a numbered square to know something was up at the low, but at the same time it's a pretty awesome confirmation.
This post is getting long, so I'll only do one non-astro tool. Here's the Flower of Life tool. Right-click and open in a new browser window if it's hard to read.
I ran one Flower from the big swing that set up yesterday, and another from a minor upswing this morning. It's the same pattern for both, and they line up in the 419.12 - 419.28 area. The larger one solved for time too, which is what you want to see. I had some Andrews stuff on here too, but flowers are messy so I deleted it to try and keep the chart cleaner. But if you work through this on your own, check that stuff out too. I haven't tried any vortexes, but I'd bet money one of them is involved.

All for now.
Earik