Financial Astrology

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1988

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Financial Astrology Represents the culmination of 30 years of research by the acknowledged dean of astro-economists. Commander Williams shares the techniques he used to score an 80 percent accuracy rating in predicting the ups and downs of the US economy in his magazine column. An absolutely indispensible reference for anyone interested in economics, business cycles and investing.

Author’s Introduction:

Many times during my long business career I have been asked: “How did a hard-boiled purchasing agent like you ever get interested in such an occult subject as Astrology?” Well, it’s a long and fascinating story that began more than half a century ago in January 1927, when I transferred from the Engineering Department to the Purchasing Department of the New York Edison Company toow known as Con-Edison).

A purchasing agent’s job is to “buy the right product, at the right time and at the right price.” To help him do this successfully the purchasing agent refers to historic price records of the particular commodity in which be is interested. A glance at commodity price charts would tell even a tyro that prices are seldom stable-that they rise and fall throughout the day, week, month or year. But what makes prices rise and fall? That led me to an exhaustive study of the dismal science of Economics. Early in my studies I found two important clues in Volume I of Financial Forecasting by Dr. Warren F. Hickernell, Director, Bureau of Business Conditions, Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York.

Thus began a long and wide-ranging rewarch project over the next thirty years, which culminated in two books published simultaneously in April 1959, viz Business Cycle Forecasting, published by The Journal of Cycle Research, and Altro-Economics, published by Llewellyn PublicaDom, Ltd. The fll’St clue was a reference to the theory advanced in December 1867 in a paper read before the Manchester (England) Statistical Society by John Mills, an English businessman, who believed that business cycles were essentially credit cycles determined by the rate of interest and
business confidence, and that the mental mood of businessmen tends to run in cycles.

The mental mood theory of Mills received strong support in 1938 from Dr. Frederick R. Macaulay, an eminent American economist, who wrote in, The Movements of Interest Rates, Bank Yields and Stock Prices in the United States since 1856, as follows: ‘The very essence of economics is that it is a study of human behavior, of the life of man, and basically of the mental life of man. It takes cognizance of facts in the external world, not for their own sakes1 but only because of their relations to the mind of man. It is a study of some of the causes and effects of those conscious or unconscious decision~ that men inevitably. make in their rational or instinctive struggle ‘to earn a living’ and to satisfy at least some of their desires by adjusting the external world to theIDBelves and-perhaps-thereby securing happiness and well-being.”

Ninety years after the English businessman John Mills propounded his mental mood theory, an American businessman – Charles G. Mortimer, President, General Foods Corporation, was quoted in the June 12, 1958 NewYork World-Telegram and Sun as follows: ”I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that recessions begin and end iii the minds of men. Nervousness in the front office about business prospects can be quickly translated inyto lower carloadings “.

Contents:

– PART I. BUSINESS CYCLE FORECASTING

  • CONVENTIONAL BUSINESS CYCLES
  • THE SUNSPOT THEORY OF BUSINESS CYCLES
  • THE PLANETARY CAUSE OF SUNSPOTS
  • TERRESTRIAL EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY
  • PLANETARY THEORIES OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE
  • THE THEORY OF UNKNOWN CAUSES

– PART II. STOCK MARKET FORECASTING

  • THE ART OF PREDICTION
  • THE RATIONALE OF PREDICTION
  • RHYTHMIC STOCK MARKET CYCLES
  • PLANETARY CYCLES lN THE STOCK MARKET
  • STOCK MARKET FORECASTING SYSTEMS
  • PERSONAL INVESTING
  • EPlLOG’UE
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  1. Kaleb Diaz (verified owner)

    I am still wading through this book. It is a slow process because it contains so much information. Unfortunately, some of the statistics (copies of past trends) require a large magnifying glass because the publisher / author has tried to condense the charts into too small a space. However, it does give an overall impression of the trends and if you are really interested in those statistics, then it is easy enough to Google the information. The author has gone to great pains to prove every one of his statements in great detail and as such the book is highly credible. As an astrologer I am using the book as a first point of call to gauge what planetary influences are at work for what earthly trends, and then I want to update the information. Remember, this book was written before computers became mainstream (if they existed at all), and certainly the research was conducted without the aid of computers. I am particularly heartened by those in the financial industry who have studied this book and gave it a positive rating. We astrologers are often taken with a large dose of salt (not just a grain) especially by those who have not taken the trouble to investigate the topic for themselves. So I am grateful for those reviews. Thank you and keep it going! When reading this book, expect it to be in depth and chewy but very worth while. When you get into it and apply the information, it will certainly help your financial situation. As we all know, economics is the science of fear and greed, those wonderful human emotions. Just following the moon cycles alone, will aid in determining whether stocks go up or down in concert with those feelings of concern and optimism.

  2. James Hurst (verified owner)

    I read it in the 80’s and thus I am recalling from memory. It is most unlikely the book has been updated since the author has passed on. Perhaps it is somewhat on the superficial side, but in a way that can’t be helped. I say that because as a market trader, I have used planetary cycles in my endeavor. Every market is different in that each responds in a different fashion to various cycles. For instance the beans respond to Mercury, the cattle to Neptune, and the stock market to other planetary configurations (called aspects). I can state in the most vociferous terms that markets do indeed respond to the planets and their relations to each other. Nevertheless, this book will give the novice some insightful means to do market research.

  3. Ila Montoya (verified owner)

    While the content was VERY interesting, it was perhaps the least proofread text I have EVER read. Typos galore. I sincerely would expect more from someone who took the time to compile the information needed to put this book together. The information re: sun spots is particularly interesting.

  4. Chase Lucero (verified owner)

    The title “Financial Astrology” of this book is reductive: this is not another book about horoscopes or sun signs. The subtitle of the book is much more appropriate “How to forecast business and the stock market”: when it comes to forecasting the Business cycle traditional economic and econometric models simply do no work, in this book the author focused (the first edition of the book is almost 30 years old) on non conventional explanations of the Business cycle such planetary and astronomical cycles. “Astro-economics” is conventionally reputed a pseudo-science, well I started my career as an economist and to be honest I find natural and astronomical cycles a subject much more worth of study than Econometrics if you are interested in forecasting the Business cycle, and this is still a good book to start with.

  5. Ford Fernandez (verified owner)

    A++++

  6. Adalee Lawrence (verified owner)

    Great respect to David Williams, but if you are a student in the 21st century, there are more recent works you may find more useful.

  7. Elena Wallace (verified owner)

    A valuable publication on this subject. As many of the successful traders of the early 20th century were astrologers or interested in astrology as part of their trading activities, David Williams has obviously spent a long time researching the subject and provides a practical understanding and approach to what is considered an esoteric subject. A must for anyone interested in incorporating astrological considerations into their trading and/or investing.

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