Nifty Astro Technicals October 27 to 31

Here are the updated Neo wave counts...

Time price square outs suggest that if may be difficult to go below 7724, but then we are in a time band of heightened volatility.

Nifty`s break out from 7724 has happened at an 81 degree upward slope. In two leaps, it had taken out both the 45 degree down lines from previous peaks. Unless something very dramatic happens, it is hard to visualise Nifty going below 7724 immediately.7900 and 7850 look likely downside targets.C wave mentioned above should terminate here, if Nifty obliges.
Being in the market, we should of course be prepared for any eventuality and have adequate protection of our positions.
Astrological Picture for the forth coming week...

For the past several weeks, I had been highlighting the destabilising effect of Rahu, when first Mercury was conjunct with her, then Sun , then Venus and then Mercury again when he was retrograde. Now for the last time Mercury will again conjunct with Rahu this week. This can have a negative impact on the market. Mercury is the significator for communication and he is conjunct with Rahu on Oct 29/30. This happens to be the day of FOMC meeting.
Coming to Mercury again, we had observed that when Mercury went retrograde on October 04, no change in trend happened. Nifty continued to drift down when the markets opened after Puja holidays. We have seen that if a trend change does not happen when Mercury goes retrograde, then it will happen during the mid period. Accordingly we saw a bottom at 7724 on October 17.
Another factor was the powerful Sun Pluto followed by Venus Pluto squares which were indicating bottoms. Look at the reversals everywhere. They are quite powerful is it not?
Coming back to Mercury, when he becomes direct, the trend will change again. So a top formation is round the corner. Now add Rahu`s destabilising effect, and we could have a quick down move.
Redeeming factors from a bull`s point of view is that Jupiter is sextile to Rahu and Mercury and trine to Ketu. So the damage will be contained. Also both Ketu and Jupiter are in Mercury stars. Now that Mercury becomes direct, energy flows might improve.
I had also pointed out in a different post, the effect of Solar Eclipse. That also points to a bottom formation after the eclipse. So all told the coming week will be very volatile and the bias is negative.
Mars is going into extreme declination. That is another negative.Mercury also is moving slowly. It has to pick up speed if things have to improve.Sun is in debilitation, in Libra.
Time cycle wise. November 3 to 5 seems to be a bottom formation time..
There are several interesting trends in the coming weeks...
Jupiter is going to square Venus, Sun and Mercury.Mars and Pluto are going to conjunct and then Mars will square Uranus.
All three fast moving planets will have to meet Saturn in Scorpio.
But those can be examined in a separate post.
Stay well and prosperous!

October 23, 2014 Cycle Update

I have updated all hourly bars till today..
Interesting to see the hourly rising from the October 17 bottom.The elliptical path is illusory and has no relevance.Now the bars are near to the blue cycle top. So momentum should decrease and reversal may happen. 7930 is the first support followed by 7860.
On Monday, if we see a bar reversal, that is if the hourly bar closes lower than the previous  bar low, then we can safely short till the levels mentioned above.
If Nifty strengthens on 27th also or is  flat, then the next bottom should be expected around 7860 levels.If 7860 does not hold then it is back to 7720  levels.Expected date of this bottom is around November 03, 2014.
Since Nifty has gapped out of the downward blue trend line, it is highly unlikely that 7720 will be broken.
Si if we see a bottom in hourly the next cycle is about to begin and we can confidently buy.

Nifty Astro- Saturn`s movement into Scorpio

On November 02, 2104,Sunday,at 02:05:45 am, Saturn moves from Libra into Scorpio.He remains in Scorpio, till October 25,2017, Wednesday,03:37:53 pm.That is for a full 3 years.
Now, our interest is how could this period be for the markets?
Iam sure we are interested to know, at least how it will be for the coming quarter, right?
I just went back to see how our market performed during the last sojourn of Saturn in Scorpio. Our Nifty was not even born then and so I had looked up at Sensex.
Since Saturn takes 30 years to complete the zodiac of 12 signs, the last time he was in Scorpio, was in 1984 December, till 1987 December.
Have a look at this chart...

Saturn in Scorpio, was very positive!
He took the market from 250 odd levels,( 250, my goodness! Sensex which is at 26,787, was such a small baby then!) to 650+ and brought it down to 400+, by the time he left Scorpio.
Of course Saturn alone was not responsible for this, but he is an important member of the larger council of planets who very definitely have a say in the way the world is influenced. So we may expect Saturnian influence to prevail.
So what observations can we make?
1. Saturn in Scorpio is definitely positive for equity markets especially in the initial stages.
2. His initial retro period is not a problem.
3. But when other major planets also get involved in creating an energy vortex by their positions and by their aspects to one another, then things could get ugly.
4. When Saturn becomes stationary direct, then the trend resumes once again.
5. If the longer retrograde period of Saturn coincides with other long term planetary aspects, then major trend changes happen in the markets.

Let us look at the skies in November 2014:
Apart from a Mars Pluto conjunction, a Pluto Uranus square triggered by a Venus Uranus square,there is not enough powder keg to ignite the markets downwards.Mars Pluto conjunction is no joke, but it may not provoke a prolonged decline yet.
On December 08, 2014, Jupiter turns retrograde.First sign of trouble.
Throughout the month, Venus, Mercury and Sun trigger the Pluto Uranus axis and cause issues regarding debt, deflation and transformation to be brought to the fore front.
On January 15, 2015, we see bigger planets getting into the act.
1.Pluto Uranus axis is triggered by Ketu and Rahu,which is Uranus conjunct Ketu  opposing Rahu and square Pluto.
2. On 16th Jan Mars will square Saturn.
With Jupiter also retrograde, the scenario is fast deteriorating.

To conclude, Saturn in Scorpio ought to be positive, at least in the initial stages.
When major planets get involved in January 2015, uptrend could die rapidly.
So it appears that the markets could go up till January 2015 by which time, large planets get into action and a trend change could happen.
By August 03, 2015, Saturn becomes stationary direct once again and that could start a final upleg, which could take the markets into 2016.
1992-2000-2008-  2016--this sequence could get activated then!
This is just an empirical understanding. Let us use this information along with other technical tools to get better conviction.
This is what I had been writing in this space since the last two months.
Please give your valuable comments.

Nifty and the Eclipses- An Analysis

We had a total Lunar Eclipse on October 08, 2014 and now we have a partial Solar Eclipse on the night of October 23, 2014, ( morning of 24th in fact) between 1.08 am and 5.22 am.
Now eclipses have been coming and going and every time one comes up there is a lot of speculation as to what effect it could have on us and especially on the Financial Markets.
A Solar Eclipse occurs only when a New Moon occurs. In fact a solar eclipse is nothing but a specialized type of New Moon or Amavasya as we call it in India.
As traders our interest is in knowing what was the effect of these eclipses on Nifty in the past years.
I have simply plotted the Eclipse dates on to Nifty daily and here is what we see...

The chart is a daily from May 2012 to the present date.
Red lines indicate Solar Eclipses and Black lines indicate Lunar Eclipses.
There are some interesting observations to be made:

1. Only in May 2012, we had a solar eclipse followed by a Lunar Eclipse.
2. Between April 25 and May 25, 2013,we had two lunar eclipses with a Solar Eclipse in between.
3. Rest of the cases are of lunar eclipse first followed by solar eclipse.
4. When the Solar Eclipse comes first of the duo, market reversal happens within the time zone of the eclipses and mostly the trend continues.
5. A triple combination as seen between April 25 and May 25 2013, definitely destabilises the market and causes an intermediate trend reversal.
6. In cases of lunar first and solar next, during these phases, the market goes straight past the New Moon till the date of Eclipse and reverses direction only after the Solar Eclipse.
7. In all cases where it is Lunar first followed by Solar, the trend continues in the original direction. So the eclipses act as sort of a speed breaker to the trend.This is only to be expected because Eclipses reduce the energies of the luminaries, Sun and the Moon, at least temporarily.

This eclipse is happening when Rahu is in Virgo. So I thought it would be a good idea to go back 18 years and see what happened when Rahu was in Virgo last time......

The trend in 1996 was an intermediate  (or long term?) down trend and we had a lunar followed by a solar in September and October 1996.Market continued past the Full  Moon and reversed close to the Solar Eclipse and then after forming a top after the eclipse it continued with the original downtrend.

In October 2014, also the market continued past the Full Moon of October 08 and formed a seeming reversal on October 17, 2014.It has been rising since then.

So there is every possibility that we form a top after the Solar Eclipse and decline to a bottom.

1. And if this bottom, post the eclipse is higher than 7724, then the original bull trend continues till the year end.
2. If the bottom post the eclipse breaks 7724, then we are going down till the year end. 

Of course, we want one answer.

Which of these has a better possibility?

For that we examine the day charts of solar eclipse day in 1996 and in 2014...

First set of charts pertain to 2014 October and below that we have the 1996 charts.

During the eclipse, Sun, Moon and Venus are literally one on top of each other in Libra.All of them are in Mars star.Mercury is afflicted by Rahu, but direction wise Rahu and Mercury are in alignment.Rahu is also in Mars star. Mars is in the star of Ketu. Malefic power is more and so a decline is round the corner.

But, but, but, both Sun and Venus had formed squares in Pluto and both of them indicated a powerful bottom. I had been writing about this for quite some time now.

This happened from  October 04 to 06 and by October 17 we were just 6 trading  days after the square. And so the powerful bottom of October 17 came to be. If so the decline indicated by the eclipses could only be able to form a higher bottom, post the eclipse.

So out of choices 1 and 2 I prefer 1.

There are some interesting correlations between 1996 and 2014. See the writing in black...

 

This also indicates that we may have an astro inversion coming up. That means post the eclipse, after a bottom, market should go up for some time to come !

This is just an empirical analysis. Please base your trades only on the basis of competent technical advice, after observing due stop losses.
Please write to me your observations.
 

Nifty Weekly Time and Price Squaring

This is interesting. Nifty has been hugging the 45 degree  upwards timeline, all this while from August 2013. Whenever there was a breach, it was a small affair, lasting some weeks, and then it was back again over the 45 line.
Same is the case now also. Nifty has strengthened above the 45 degree line

Weekly momentum has reached the oversold territory but is yet to turn up. Once it does, then Nifty will be showing strength above the 45 line.
That would mean that the uptrend continues.
Downside risk will increase if Nifty breaks 7800.

Nifty Neo Wave update October 21, 2014

If Nifty continues to move higher, then the current c leg would possibly be the ending point of an x wave.Then there may be 3 more abc legs moving upward, end of which may also end  F leg of the large diametric formation  which began in Jan 2008 .

Nifty Hourly Cycle update October 21, 2014

Here is the hourly cycles update for Nifty for October 21, 2014...

The portions shaded in Aqua Blue are the past two days hourly bars of Nifty.
As expected we can see Nifty moving up from the blue cycle low.
We also see Nifty gapping up exactly in the fastest momentum period of the blue cycle.
This cycle is approximately 20 bars old. Since the entire blue cycle is about 80 bars, half way mark is 40 bars, which means we have another 20 bars of price rise.
However the larger 147 hour cycle ( thicker red) and the sub cycle  ( grey) of our 80 bar cycle  are about to bottom out by October 23rd or 27th.
So, from a trading point of view, any spike from here should be ignored and we should wait to buy the dips which may happen when Nifty obeys the larger hourly cycle.
Another important observation...
We go to the beginning of the red cycle and observe.
Nifty had spiked up very early in the cycle to 8031, and continuously moved down. So the red cycle was a left translated cycle.
And so we were bearish.
We can see all the sub cycles had left translation and Nifty finally came down to 7724.
Nifty had formed a bar reversal on the daily at the 7724 levels. This bar reversal happened near a cycle low. So we expect that this new cycle will not be a left translated one.For that 7858 should not be taken down on an day closing basis.
If 7858 is taken out decisively, then we conclude that Nifty is going lower and at the next rise we short. In other words, the new cycle also would turn out as a left translated one.
But nothing of that sort has happened yet.
We conclude that chances of a buying dip happening is good and that dip, if we buy, we can benefit when Nifty moves higher.
So what is our positional trade?
If long already, continue to be long but move the stops higher.
If no position, then wait for the next immediate dip to buy.
Cycles as notice are quite talkative. They do have lot more to say!

Nifty Hourly Updated view Oct 20, 2014

I have updated the hourly chart with today`s movements as well. The coloured portion is of two day movement now. We see that after the cycle bottomed out at 7724, Nifty has moved up sharply as part of the initial thrust out of a cycle. The question is "is the new cycle right translated or left?"If Nifty weakens in the first four hours in tomorrow`s trade, below 7850, then the new cycle is a right cycle and Nifty will weaken further. It could come back close to 7724 levels.On the other hand if Nifty strengthens beyond 7900, then we are on a left translated cycle and we may buy.In such a case, Nifty could go to 7960 initially.

Nifty Astro View October 20, 2014

Some of the important astro formations are depicted here.

1. We are in the reversal time of Sun square Pluto and Venus square Pluto.

2.Mars is moving out of Scorpio. Just see the damage Mars brought about when he was strong in Scorpio. The day Mars entered Scorpio, the market topped out.

3. From today Mars is in Sagittarius till  November 27.Sagittarius is a sign of exaggeration and Mars likes aggression. Once Mercury becomes direct, Jupiter also will gain strength, since Jupiter is in Mercury star. That should be positive for the markets.

4. Mercury also did not effect any trend reversal when he became retrograde. So  most probably in the mid period he should contribute. His effect had been delayed by his affliction by Rahu.

5. Interestingly when Mercury was direct and went through Rahu affliction, markets tanked. When he is reverse and getting conjunct with Rahu, it should case a positive effect. Then this also means when Mercury becomes direct again and confronts Rahu, another reversal should take place. This is the subject matter for October 26th onwards.

6. Sun and Venus are beginning their long conjunction now. Venus is in her own house and Sun enters his house of debilitation.The conjunction may not have enough strength for a sustained up move.

7. Ketu Jupiter trine also should show strength, but possibly after Mercury regains strength. Both Ketu and Jupiter are in Mercury  stars. 

8. The party spoiler could be the eclipse and Mercury getting caught in between.

So we could have an upmove, but it may not be very sustainable. Trend strength is better after Diwali. 

In short, volatility continues. Be cautious till this eclipse goes away.

Nifty Astro Technicals October 18 2014

In this post we will look at the Neo waves of Nifty and astro correlations if any..
We begin as usual with the monthly charts...

I have gone back to the diametric count of ABCDEF followed by a final G down leg.
Why?
1. If after E, we count the impulses as 1,2 and 3 ending at 8180, the third wave looks too well channelled. In an impulse way, the waves do not channel.I was hoping that the third wave would break the channel, by crossing 8250 but it did not.
2.If we assume that wave 3 has topped out then the next wave 4 should form a complex correction for about 7 months, that is upto April 2015.This is possible, but somehow does not look probable.
So we will park the Ascending triangle followed by impulse wave for the time being and go back to the diametric correction.
If so, then the daily chart should look as follows...

I have shown the expanded chart of the current F wave, which is a complex correction involving two diametrics, connected by an x wave.
The most important questions right now, are

1.Has the second diametric ended at 8180, at the second g?
2. Has the larger degree F wave ended?
3.Has the larger G wave down started? What would decide this?

Let us expand the last two daily waves and see further....

Option A.Wave g as a zigzag has consumed 19 trading days and moved the price from 7540 to 8180.
As per Neowave, if a previous trend has to reverse,then the last leg of the previous trend must be retraced in faster time.
Now the move from 8180 down has so far consumed 25 trading days and the price has not gone below 7540.
So according to this analysis, larger F wave is not yet complete. And possibly there could be another x wave followed by upward correction possibly as a flat or more likely as a triangle which could end larger F wave.
Option B: Now if g had concluded not as a zigzag, but as an Extracting Triangle,at 8160, then the development post 8160 has still time left, to retrace wave g in faster time.Another 14 trading days, to be precise. So within the next 14 trading days, if Nifty breaks 7540 and it reaches the channel bottom ( see the daily chart, the 0-x line extended), then we conclude that larger wave F has indeed completed and we are in for a deep correction of G wave for the next 13 months.
Looking at the overall economic environment, some of the results which have come in, political and governance performance of the incumbent Government and the counter steps being taken or proposed to be taken by the Western Governments, my bias lies with option A.
Also the Gann angle calculations which I had shared in this blog some time ago seems to indicate some more upmove.
The only difference in my recent counts is that I tend to consider the current wave environments as corrective.
All this is fine, but how does the present tradeable scenario look like?
Let us look at the hourly charts...

We seem to be in a complex correction to the g wave. Recently we had broken down from a descending triangular formation and achieved 75% projection of the triangle, downwards. At present we seem to be in upward b with overhead resistance at 7848.After that I expect another down leg to complete the c wave. If b wave becomes very strong, then the c will fail later.
So the waves say be bullish on hourly, but be cautious because there may be a c round the corner.
Just compare with what the cycles and the momentum have to say!