Moon's soft aspect to Pluto took the US market up, but there were more hard aspects, and it ran out of steam. In fact what is quite clever about the US Astrotraders is that they have managed to keep the US market artificially up. That is because the volume of the US market is low, even though the market is high. To me that is cunning. Obviously we all know the background hard aspects have made it difficult for the markets to go up. What little moments of soft aspects there are, are used well, and then the market is bid up by the market makers artificially.
Well that is all very well. So when does it fail? It tends to fail when you get a set of hard aspects focused, and no amount of manipulation works. So when you have hard planetary aspects that happen to form exactly within an hour or so, and then some lunar ones, you end up having a massive sandwich, which pack a real one-two, and knocks the market for six (cricket term). If the market has been trading for a while and there are no impending news, it tends to work quite well.
Well today in the last hour of US trading we get a nice sandwich. But we also have an impending news, that has many sitting on their hands. Intel is reporting. So I not expect open-mindedness as it were, as most of the US traders are staying away until that news is out of the way. That is what I mean by it being artificial. But even now it should work.
Anyway if you have your Aspectarian all set up like me, then you should be able to see the four hard aspects in the last hour of the US market. That's not now, but in an hour's time. Let's see if it can knock it down. Or will the volume just die instead.
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And there was a drop.
And if you look at the volume in the above chart, you will see how they only went up when the market was going down after the open and closes. So the facts do fit the theory, that if there are hard aspects, and the market does not go down, then the volume does. And of course it applies to soft aspects. And I will show you one day when the markets are decidedly bearish, that the volume will drop with the soft aspects.
