Observing and studying the cycles of Mercury is not only a very interesting subject for astronomers but it has a great importance for traders and investors as well. I have described and discussed the important synodic cycle of Mercury in my book "Wall Street Watchman" here I want to show some examples of a very interesting phenomenon that makes the Mercury Synodic cycle a very important forecasting tool for the US stock market (and for many other markets as well). If you chart the Mercury synodic cycle as degrees of angle separation from the Sun as a function of time and you plot such graph on a standard stock chart you will easily notice how sometimes the curves of the Mercury Synodic cycle graph follow closely the direction of the stock swing movents: since we know in advance the future direction of the Mercury synodic cycle we can use it to make simple yet powerful forecasts.
I am going to show here some examples: times when this kind of forecast works very well and times when it does not work, yet you will notice how the forecast can still be useful to predict potential turn dates even when it does not work for predicting the direction of the next swing moves.
Summer 2008 Crash of the US stock Market: following the Mercury Synodic cycle you could have predicted the timing of the the top of the following crash and of the final double bottom with an accuracy of few days and most of all way in advance since we know ex ante the direction of the Mercury synodic cycle
SPX index and Mercury Synodic cycle: From May 2011 to September 2007: 5months of US stock market swings closely (amazingly) tracking the direction of our graph with the synodic Cycle of Mercury
Spring 2011: the Mercury cycle is out of phase with the behavior of the US stock market and the graph of the synodic cycle of Mercury provide the observer with little or no indication of the stock market trend
SPX index and Mercury Synodic cycle: Year 2001: US stock market swings not tracking the direction of our graph with the synodic Cycle of Mercury but yet the Mercury conjunctions and oppositions provide the observer with very interesting turning points in the stock chart like the one at the beginning of the summer slide and the one at the bottom of the end of the month of September 2001
SPX index and Mercury Synodic cycle: From May 2011 to November 2011: 6 months of US stock market swings closely (and amazingly) tracking the direction of our graph with the synodic Cycle of
I hope that by now the reader has well understood the importance of this cycle not only for astronomers, star gazers but also for those concerned with more earthly things. Personally I track the Mercury cycles (all of them) on a daily basis and I use some of them as an important forecasting tool in my arsenal of astro trading indicators (on my blog you can find and example of use of the Mercury synodic cycle as forecasting tool and many other examples): there is plenty of research still to be made, for example it is not clear what makes this cycle to go completely out of phase form time to time and what all of the sudden makes it work perfectly again. I have not all of the answers and I keep studying to find them, but that is not surprising, Mercury has always puzzled astrophysicists with issues of celestial mechanics, some of them needed the general relativity theoiry to eventually solved, so I am not surprised that the mechanism behind the forecasting power of Mercury is still so obscure. I know that Gann tracked the cycles of Mercury as well (you can infer this point form the writings he left) but I do not know exactly how, I also know that George Bayer was an acute observer of these cycles.
What if you want to study these cycles as well and eventually use them to make your own forecast: my advice is to start reading about the Mercury orbit (there is plenty of free stuff on the internet and you can find a lot of stuff on my website and blog as well with many examples), second you need to start tracking yourself the movements of Mercury (you can use free ephemeris that can be easily found on the web or you can also download the free Excel ephemeris that I posted on this website).
If you want to learn what I have to say on this subject (and many others) I would advice starting by reading my book "Wall Street Watchman" and to use the this software that I have tested: it works very well to track short term astro cycles and the Mercury Cycle in particular.
Good luck with your research! And remember that studying and learning is always imperative for improving your timing and forecasting skills: nobody has all the answers, do not trust market gurus and analysts, study and learn yourself, you will be always better off than following other people.
You can also track Mercury cycles with Wave 59
