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Analysis of James Mars Langham's book, "Planetary Effects on Stock Market Prices"

William G. Foster (September 18, 2003)

Executive Summary: This article examines the James Mars Langham classic, "Planetary Effects on Stock Market Prices" published ci rca 1932. I wa s give n a copy by Mr.

Huston of Ont ario, Canada a fter he a ttended on e of by seminars in Denver, Colorado.

I used a daily DOW p rice file fro m 1914 to 9 -16-2003 or 89 years of p rices. I used AIR Software's Market Trader Platinum (MTP) software to complete the

study: www.alphee.com

This, in m y opinion, is the gre atest astro f inancial analysis software on the market today and any serious stock, commodity, stock index or futures traderhas to have this s oftwar e to trade succ essfully in today's m arkets.

Mr. Lang ham used DOW pr ices f rom 1897 through 1932 (35 years). During th at time the DOW s tocks in cluded m ostly railroad and industrial stocks, but

still rep resen ted the prem ier index for expressing investor sentiment. Therefore, even though the DOW co mponent stocks ha ve changed over the years; I

feel that this study represents a fair com parison of Langham's study.

I shall pre se nt ma ny graphics to clearly sho w th e affects of Geo ce ntric aspe cts to the DOW I ndex, like only Market Trader Software can do. A t the end of

this article, I will show tables that reflect the differences between Langha m's researc h and mine. Of course, Langham did not hav e state -of-the-artso ftwa re such as Market Trader Platinum; s o what must have taken him years, took me only a few hours. Such is the state of our c urrent technology in the

fie ld of Astro Financi al Analysis.

Introduction:Mr. Lang ham's summary tables only show the Geocentric hard versus soft aspects between Jupiter out to Uranus, in te rms of the number of up and dow n

ca se s usin g a two pe rcent orb of influence before and after the exact aspect. For "hard" aspects Langham used th e 180, 90, 45 & 135 degree aspe cts;while for "soft" aspects he used the 120, 60, 30 & 150 degree aspects. He also claims that soft aspects a re b ullish and ha rd a spects are bearish.

Particularly b earish where h ard aspects between Saturn and Uranus, while soft aspects between Saturn and Uranus and Jupiter and Uranus w herebullish. S ince this book was written circa 1932, he often ca lled the planet Uranus, Hershe l. Lastly, he stated that a Uranus ing ress into Geocentric Gemini

created w ar, panic and apprehension.

He also used the USA Gemini rising cha rt a nd considered the ingress of Ju piter, Saturn an d Uranus into Gem in i to be ve ry importan t for the U.S. as a

whole and fo r the U.S. economy an d stock market.

For mo nthly move ments o f stocks, he suggested using the Solar Ingress into Cardinal Sig ns (Aries, Cancer, Libra & C apricorn) and Monthly L unation's.

Discussion:Let's take these s tatements one at a time and see what current astro financial analysis shows. First, let's look at Saturn in Geo centric signs:

Langham m aintained that Saturn in Geocentric Gemini was bearish for the DOW and U.S. stocks. As you can see from the above gr aphic (using theComposite Expert in MTP) Saturn in Gemini doe s have a depressive affect on the DOW but there are other p eriods when the DO W drops a t a much

strong er rate.

Langham a lso stated that Jupiter in Geocentric Gem ini was bu llish for the DOW a nd U.S. stocks. Let's look at that graphic:


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Here it ap pears that Lang ham was wrong, as Jupiter in Gemini had a negative affect on DOW prices. This graph ic sho ws all of the affects of Jupiter in all

Geocentric signs and the DOW .

Now let's look a t Saturn and Uranus an d hard aspects. I used the fo llowing orb ta ble developed from the average s peed of each plane t:

See my Study Article on "Advanced Williams M odels" at www.alphee.comfor details.

Langham claimed that Saturn hard Uranus aspects, had a bearish affect on the DOW:

Not true when tested from Feb 1885 to Nov 201


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This chart is from the Supersearch M odule in MTP and clearly shows the affects of Saturn and hard aspects to Uranus 6 0 days before and after th e exact

aspect. I had 5 3 occurrences of these aspects and, as you can see , on the ap plying side the affect is up and down with a bearish bias; then from exact to

60 days after exact there were 33 up (62.4% up) periods, 20 down w ith an a ve rag e price rise of 0.88%. It looks like Langham was wrong on th is o ne.

Now, to sh ow you the power of MTP, let's take th e prio r chart a nd click on the "$ Profit Info." button and the Events Information screen appears. Here I've

clicked on the "Optimi ze Risk" button with the "Bullish" box open:

The pr ogram fo und the best pro bability of a bullish rise in the DOW , with 41 up (77.4%) and only 12 down ; for seven d ays before exact and 26 days after

exact with an average pr ice increase o f +1.24% ( not sho wn in the "Summary" window). In th e "recom mended Strategy" window I've shown only onestrategy. The program lists strategies out as far into the fu ture as you wish; in fact I had it set to 2016 and go t all the times when this situation was in

affect. I did not show them becau se you have to take other th in gs in to consideration whe n investing, e .g., other aspects, other perspectives (Right

Ascen sion Lon gitude a nd Decl ination, Heliocentr ic, p lanet spee d, re trograde a nd d irect, Arab ian Part s, and m any ot hers).

This ne xt gra phic is th e same aspect pair, only this time I'm clicking on the "Optimize Profit" with the Bullish option set:

Now the program shows the greatest bullish profit % of +3.98% (no t shown) by investing 33 days before and a fter the exac t aspect and still h as a strong

69.2% winning trades. All of the trades are shown in the drop d own boxes under the "Winning Trades" and Los ing Trade s" titles and they may be sorte d by

% profit or b y date of occurrence.

Now let's look a t the sa me Saturn hard Uranus screen, only this time we'll invoke the Be arish set . Here is the "Optimized R isk" screen :


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As yo u can s ee from the abo ve, the system foun d the optimized bear ish trade at 66.0% down market, s tarti ng a t 45 d ays after exac t to 49 d ays after exac t

with an aver age price drop of -0.39% (not shown in the Summary bo x on this scre en).

Here's t he same s ituation only with th e "Optimize d Profit" butto n and bea rish"

The s ystem op tim ized the p rofit on the bea rish side an d found that 53 days before exact to 33 days before exact produced a -1.19% drop in profits but the

pro bability h as fallen off to 53 .8%

I'm not goin g to do this type of an alysis for any of the other aspects, but I just wanted to show yo u the power of MTP an d just one tab of the Supe rsearch

Module (th ere are 29 in all just in this on e Module with every possible astro event yo u can imagine).

Now let's look a t Jupiter soft Uranus:


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Next, let's look at Jup iter h ard Neptune:

As yo u can s ee , there w as a p ret ty good rise i nto t he exa ct aspect bu t only a +0.38 % av erage r ise from exac t to 24 d ays after wi th a ver y wea k prob abil ity

of only 49 .4%.

How about Jupiter soft Neptune:

A stron g erra tic drop occurred b efore exa ct, but f rom exac t to 24 da ys a fter the avera ge pr ice drop was -0.23% on a weak 46 % pro babil ity.


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Now Jupiter soft Pluto, which Langham n ever covered:

Big rise and drop before exact, then a weak +0.20% rise from exact to 24 days a fter with a 60.8% p rob ability (59 d ivided by 97 = 60 .8%).

Jupiter soft Saturn:

A stron g rise a fter ex act w ith a 63 .5% pr obab ility, exact to 24 d ays after, an d an a vera ge pr ice inc rease of + 1.16 %.

Jupiter hard Saturn:


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Strongly bullish after exact, espec ially about 5 to 20 days after. From exact to 24 days afte r th e probability was 56.8% and the aver age price increase wa s

+1.21%.

Jupiter hard Pluto:

Some real volatility here, with lot's of up and down ac tio n. From exact to 24 days after the probab ility was 62.4% and average price increase was a w eak

+0.18%.

Saturn ha rd Neptune:


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Forms a nice "V" a bout five d ays before exact. From exact to 60 days after prices were up an a ve rag e +0 .54%, wit h a 58.1% probability.

Saturn ha rd Pluto:

Rises in to this aspect set but then falls o ff strongly about 32 days after exact. From exact to 60 days after prices dropped an average -1.19%, with a

probability of 50.0%.

Saturn s oft Uranus:


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Strongly rising prices about 15 days before to 20 day s a fter exact. Fr om exact to 60 days after prices were up a weak +0.23% on a 50% probability. This

points out that you must use the Events Information screen to find th e most bullish and be arish times. You can no t count on a strict two degree orb . Whenyo u res earch aspects, like we are doing, then you know exactly what the affect is on any price file ; you do n't have to guess ba sed upon key words or some

body else's stu dy. Also, I c ould mark off any day s before or after exact; I chose e xact to t he end of the orb for consistancy.

Saturn soft Neptune:

Good ri sing periods before and a fter exact. From exact to 60 days afte r prices were u p +1.35% on a rather weak 53.8% pr obability. This probability could

have been greatly improved if we had used the Events In formation window opt im ization feature.

Saturn soft P lu to:


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Strongly rising before and after to about 20 days after. From exact to 60 d ays after prices rose +0.72% on a 6 4.3% probability.

Uranus soft Neptune:

Very strongly rising prices after e xa ct. From exact to 168 days after prices increased a strong +8.84% with a 80.8% p rob ability.

Uranus soft Pluto:


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Strongly rising prices during the entire orb . From exact to 168 days afte r DOW prices were up a ver y strong +1 2.49% with a 7 6.2% probability.

Uranus hard Pluto:

Pretty erratic before exact, but looks bullish after. From exact to 168 days after prices were u p +7.75% on aver age, with a pro bability of 66.7%.

Uranus hard Neptune:


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Very e rratic, but mostly bullish after exact. From exact to 168 days after exact prices were up +1.96% with a 63.2% probability.

Neptune h ard Pluto:

Strongly dow n prices, more before exact tha n after. From exact to 300 days after exact price s were down an extrem ely strong -15.44% on a probability o f

80%.

Neptune sof t Pluto:


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Very strongly bullish during the whole orb. From exact to 300 days after e xact prices w ere up an incredible average +37.13%, with a probability of 64.1%.

Transiting Geo. Pluto soft the U.S. Natal Sun:

A defini te u p trend but erra tic. From exac t to 3 00 d ays after prices were up +6.16% wi th a probab ility of 75 %.

Transiting Geo. Pluto soft the U.S. Natal Moon:


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Mostly down before exact up to about 1 00 da ys b efore (this could be measured exactly in the Event Info rmation Screen or on this screen). From exact to

300 days after exact prices were d own -2.74% with a 46.2% proba bility.

Transiting Geo. Pluto ha rd the U.S. Natal M oon:

Mostly up before exact but variable after exact. From exact to 300 days after exact prices were down -1.48% on a 42.9% probability.

Transiting G eo. Pluto hard the U.S. Natal Su n:


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Mostly up before exact but then variable. From exact to 300 days after exa ct prices were dow n -0.65% with a 66.7% probability.

Geo. M ars D irect:

Strongly up 10 days before exact to 60 days after. From exact to 60 d ays after prices were up an average +5.82% with a 65.9% probability.

Geo. M ars R etrograde:


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Mostly up before, then some wh at erratic. From exact to 60 days after exact price were down - 0.13% on a 51.2% probability.

Summary:

Here is Langham's order of imp ortant table from h is bo ok:

From the research graphics I've presented, I don't agree w ith this table. Of course, I have the advantage of a lot more price file history and state -of-the-art

astro fin ancial analysis software.

Here is a summary of Langham's table of the DOW up a nd down by aspect using a two de gre e orb, bo th ap plying and se parating:

You can readily see why Langham decided that the soft aspects were bullish when you look at the "Percent Up" column as they all have the highest

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Here is my table, refle cting the same summarized data as La ngham only using the graph s for two percent orbs bo th front a nd back (no t shown):

Different than Langham's. I've also added an "Average % Price C hange" column a nd a column reflecting the probability of the price increase times the

avera ge % price change, wh ich to me is a more m eaningful figure (thinking back on my gaming theory cou rses in Business School at the Un iversity).

Here is a tables that sorts by % pri ce change and % price change t im es the probability o f that price change:

You can see in bo th cases that the Soft aspect are towards the top, i.e., have a stronger propen sity for rising prices; similar to Langham's table. Althoug h,

co mpared to Langham's table, the order of the planets is diffe ren t.

Here is Langham's table of Geo. asepcts for th e slo w moving planets out to Uranu s, sorted by the % up p robability:

Again , you can see a ll the soft a spec ts ar e at th e top ; indicating th at the y had t he str onge st pro babil ity of a ri sing market in La ngha m's d ay.

And, fina lly, an d over all table of all the aspe cts from exac t to the e nd o f the two degree o rb; sorte d by av erage price c ha nge:


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Conclusions: Of cour se , the conclusions we reach (illustrated in the tables above) are different than Langha m came to over 70 years ago. The components of the DOW

have change, I have a much larger price file than he did and I h ave state -of-the-art analysis software that allows m e to research astro e ve nts 1,000 times

faster than he do es.

Also, I would separate the a spec t and use on ly one at a time and sep arate the m fu rther into waxing and waning aspec ts, e .g., the 90 degree a nd 27 0

degree square aspects. The re ca n be a signfica nt difference in terms of price impact.

But we must not forget that we stand o n the shoulders of men like Lan gham and others, w ho performed origin al research into the planet to price link.

Without them we would not be wh ere we are today.

And w here are we ? With the abil ity to re search the plan et (and astero id) to price l ink , and usi ng m any oth er astro techni que s, we have a great ad vantageover the ea rly pioneers. W e know, for example, tha t oth er p erspe ctives h ave an impact on prices; e.g., Right Ascension Longitude an d Declination,

Heliocentric Longitude an d Latitu de, and transiting to natal charts in th ese perspectives.

But, there are man y more astro techniques than aspe cts; that affect prices. Planets in signs, planet speeds, retrograde and d irect, planetary pictures(Arabian P arts), Mid -Points in both transiting to transiting and transiting to natal, sp eed differe nces between the planets, p la nets in back and in front of

each other, days of the week an d month, planetary strength by sign and house, and many o thers.

By using all the techniques I've listed abo ve, in conjunction with the awar d winning Artificial Intelligence Modules in Market T rad er Platinum ( MTP); we at

last ca n begin to more fully understand and p rofitably trade any mar ke t in an efficient and effective way. With MT P software, the golden door of opportunity

has at last been opene d. It is up to us to step through that door and reap the profits.

Written by:

William G. Foster

September 18, 2003

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