Learn

Learn how gold and silver move.

Plain-English guides to the sessions, the ratio, the drivers and the cycles — each with the data behind it and a link to the live reading. New guide every week.

Start here · The pillar guide

Financial astrology: what it is, and what can be tested

Financial astrology is the study of planetary cycles alongside financial markets. Its practitioners look for links between the positions of the Sun, Moon and planets and turning points in prices. Mainstream finance does not accept it, and most of its claims have never been tested in public.

This guide explains the field, what the evidence says, and shows how we test it on gold: as a non-causal framework, something to test, not something to believe.

All guides

01 Does financial astrology work? What ten years of gold data says We tested seven schools of financial astrology against ten years of gold data with walk-forward tests. What survived, what we dropped, and what that does and does not mean.
02 The gold/silver ratio: what it is and how to read it What the gold/silver ratio measures, where it has been, why silver moves differently from gold, and how to read the ratio next to the Momentum Index.
03 Gold's four trading sessions: Asia, London and New York How gold trades around the clock across Asia, London, New York morning and New York afternoon, and why a reading can differ by session.
04 What moves gold prices The forces behind gold prices in plain English: real yields, the US dollar, central-bank buying, inflation and crises, and how the Momentum Index weighs them.
05 How to read the Momentum Index Bands, session biases, confidence, crisis mode and a worked example. Coming soon
06 Precious metals trading: how gold, silver, platinum and palladium differ What drives each metal, the ways they trade, and why gold behaves like money and the others like industry. Coming soon
07 Commodities and cycles: what cycle analysts track How commodities differ from shares, seasonal and long cycles, and where planetary cycle work fits. Coming soon
08 Sidereal vs. tropical zodiac Why positions differ by about 24°, and how our AstroPlanetary engine handles it. Coming soon
09 Retrograde periods and gold What retrograde is, and what our own data shows for gold. Coming soon
10 Glossary Plain definitions, from natal chart and heliocentric to COMEX, spot and futures. Coming soon
11 Weekly Outlook archive Each Weekly Outlook, republished seven days after sending.

One reading a week, explained.

Every issue ends with one short explainer like these, and what our own tests found.