Hi Bogdan,

really appreciate the reply and the link! is the link your site? Nice site! I didn't come across it in my financial astrology travels on Google unfortunately.

Your explanation of mercury changing speed also helped to clarify things for me and has set me on a graphical ephemeris path now.... A very profitable trader I crossed paths with last year very kindly sent on the odd chart and I asked him what all the weird lines were on his chart, he explained they were planet elipses and the odd looking sigils were conjunctions. I pretty much ignored that bit and took his technical knowledge and book recommendations to heart. A Pesavento recommendation came later in relation to Fib relationships and pattern recognition, but his other books were all financial astrology based - my interest was piqued again.... the graphical ephemeris with the S&P on it reminded me of his chart.

In the books you've read you didn't mention reading Pesavento or Mikula (Bryce Gilmore is another), I'm sure your opinion would be swayed after reading these authors.

The Pesavento graph is excellent! Coming from a trading point of view and using a basic slow stochastic and the conjunctions, a very healthy profit would have been made in 1983-84, just by using the conjunctions - no doubt the results would be better than a moving average cross.
Does your software have the capability to produce the 83-84 Pesavento chart?

As an aside, if financial astro signals are giving a 70% hit rate then you can make good money and some I've backtested are around the 70%+ mark (for a turn or extra trend direction thrust). Would an astrologer doing his/her normal daily work be pleased with a 70% prediction hit rate? In the end it's a pretty subjective subject but there is statistical significance if your knowledge, discipline and approach are correct, just like trading is....
I'm beginning to use the relevant astro signals as more of a 'heads up'. I'll only ever trade off my technical signals, but an astro signal in or around the time of a technical signal adds more weight to the overall probability of a trade, plus the more I delve into the subject of astrology the more interesting I'm finding it!

For instance it's the 9th of March today and the venus uranus conjunction is occuring next week - 'the ides of March....', plus I now know due to your link that mercury is changing speed then too... Fundamentally there's a lot going on with the Yen at the moment, technically the JPY pairs are making turns or strong pattern set ups that spell a big move soon. March is going to be a big month for the Yen and the Japanese economy.

Thanks again Bogdan!