Financial Astrology Features of Sirius 1.0
Overview:
Sirius is an extraordinarily large and comprehensive software package
with advanced features in nearly every area of astrology. The features
for financial astrology are very powerful, elegant, and innovative.
Software, information, newsletters, books and other information for
financial analysis, including astrological financial analysis, tend
to be rather expensive, and Sirius is relatively very inexpensive.
The relatively low price of Sirius can unfortunately cause some people
to be unaware of the rich set of powerful tools for financial astrological
analysis provided in Sirius. The primary tools for financial astrology
provided in Sirius are:
1. A database of company incorporation and first trade charts.
2. Stock price data
3. Ability to extract data and create charts for
days when prices are high, low, rise dramatically, or fall dramatically
4.
Research tools for discovering astrological factors that occur in
a group of charts.
5. AstroSignature Forecast with the correlation
value of the predicted and actual prices
6. Other research features
7. Other features that are helpful for
astrological research.
Items 3, 4, and 5 are the heart of the financial astrology features
in Sirius. I will discuss all 7 items below, but most attention
will be given to items 3, 4, and 5, which were work together to
enable you to develop astrologically based financial forecasts
that correlate with actual financial data.
Note that most of the concepts could also be applied to other
performance data, such as athletic performance, for example. In
the discussion below, however, we will focus on financial forecasting.
Financial forecasting has an advantage over many other kinds of
performance analysis in that historical performance data (daily
prices) can be readily obtained from companies that provide this
data.
Also note that Sirius does NOT provide non-astrological financial
analytical tools, such as financial technical analysis which is
based on non-astrological factors.
Owners
of Sirius can also purchase the Gold Forecast Report option.
For information about the Gold Forecast
Option click here.
BELOW
IS THE DESCRIPTION OF EACH OF THE 7 ITEMS LISTED ABOVE
1. Database of Company Incorporation and First Trade Charts:
Sirius includes birth data of charts of a few thousand company
incorporation and first trade charts. Astrologers frequently analyze
an incorporation or first trade chart in a similar way to how the
birth chart of a person would be interpreted in order to better
understand the nature of the company. Sirius includes a total of
over 46,000 charts and you can also filter the chart data in the
data entry screen to see only the company data by selecting the
company data category of charts.
Shown below is the Sirius
data entry screen. In the upper right corner of the data entry
screen, the “File to Read” field
was clicked, and then the category of All Businesses was selected,
and then the “Get Group of Charts” button was selected.
This allows us to see all the business chart data and to select
the charts desired by checking them. The list is alphabetical,
with company names beginning with numerals followed by the alphabetical
list from A to Z. On this screen we can scroll the first thousand
charts or select the “View next 1,000 charts” button
to view and select from the next thousands charts. Note that this
feature is used simply for viewing the charts of individual companies.
The most powerful and useful features in Sirius for financial analysis
are descrbied in sections 3, 4, and 5 below. Although the selection
of incorporation and first trade charts is not the most powerful
and useful feature in Sirius for most users, it is a helpful feature.
Note that selecting a category of charts and then selecting the “Get
a Group” button is a useful feature for selecting a group
of charts or finding charts within any category group, not just
the company incorporation and initial public offering charts.
2. Stock price data
The most powerful feature of Sirius for doing financial analysis
is the ability of Sirius to graph price data and the forecasted
price data and instantly see the correlation between the forecasted
and actual data, combined with excellent tools for discovering
a valid AstroSignature upon which to base the forecast. In order
to do this financial analysis, you must have price data.
The
price data can be the stock prices for a specific company, an
overall
indicator of economic activity, such as the values of the Gross
National Product for a country, or the Dow Jones Industrial Average,
or other market index.
The
price data could also be the price of a commodity, such as the
price of copper. Nearly any performance
data could be used, including non-financial performance data
such
as the batting average of a baseball player at every game played.
For the best results, a few hundred or more performance values
can be helpful, and especially helpful is if the performance
occurs regularly for the time period analyzed. Financial price
data typically
is provided every day except Saturday, Sunday, and holidays
once a day. Although a daily price including weekends and holidays
would be even better for analytical purposes, the price data
is sufficiently
regular to be excellent for use with the research tools provided
in Sirius. Sirius comes with stock price data for hundreds of companies so
you do not need to obtain data from other sources to begin working
with the financial features in Sirius. Sirius also has the ability
to import price data from companies that sell price data. To import
the data into Sirius, you export the data provided the company
to a text (ASCII) format. Sirius can import most text formats which
data is exported to. In the very unlikely case that you encounter
a format not supported by Sirius, you can e-mail us a few lines
of the data from the file, and we can look into adding this format.
Sirius also automatically associates the appropriate stock price
data with the appropriate chart. For example, in the data entry
screen I can read in the chart of Yahoo! Inc., and then select
the Forecast icon, and then select either the Electional Forecast
and AstroSignature Forecast, and then select one of the kinds of
forecasts; Financial Forecast would make sense in this case. Shown
below is a screen capture of this selection being made:
In
the screen display shown above “AstroSignature Forecast
Graph” is selected after clicking on the Forecast icon. The “AstroSignature
Forecast Graph” and the “Electional Astrology Graph” are
essentially the same thing. The only difference between the two
is that the AstroSignature Forecast defaults to a selection of
Transit-to-Natal influences and the Electional Astrology Graph
defaults to a selection of Transit-to-Transit influences, as shown
below. The screen display shown below is the window displayed after
making these selections.
Now
we can select the “Correlation Data” button near
the lower right corner of this window to select price data. The
screen that appears after clicking the “Correlation Data” button
is show below.
Because we are viewing the chart of Yahoo! Inc that we read from
the file (and that we have already selected the price data file
YHOO.FPK to associate with this chart before the Sirius program
was shipped to you), the file YHOO.FPK is automatically selected
and we also see a graph of the Yahoo stock prices.
Now all we have to do
is check “Perform Correlation Analysis” on
this screen, click the OK button to return to the previous screen,
and select a forecast within the range of dates for which we have
data (April 12, 1996 to March 24, 2005 as noted in the screen display
above below the graph and above the scrolling list of price data),
and then a graph of both the actual prices and the forecasted prices
will be produced, as well as the correlation value (from -1 to
+1) between the forecasted and actual forecasts.
However, this raises
the question: “How can I determine
what astrological influences are in effect that cause the prices
to go up so that I can create an accurate forecast?” Sirius
provides the tools to find the astrological influences. The first
step that I use to determine the astrological influences that cause
a change in prices is to analyze charts when prices have reached
a peak or a low. The procedure for extacting and creating these
charts is described below.
3. Extract Data and Create Charts for Days when Prices are High,
Low, Rise Dramatically, or Fall Dramatically:
On the screen display
shown above which shows the price data for Yahoo! Inc., there
is an “Import Data” button in the
lower left corner of the window. Click this button to import new
price data. As mentioned in Section #2 above, “Stock price
data”, you can import additional price data into Sirius.
Clicking this button opens the window to do this.
Our interest now, however,
is to determine days when prices are high, low, or change by
a large amount. To do this, click the “Select
Days” button near the lower right corner of the screen. Note
also that there is a choice of “Raw Scores” and “Percent
Change”. If “Raw Scores” is selected, then a
window is displayed for selecting dates when prices reach a peak
or a trough, and if “Percent Change” is selected, then
dates when prices go up or down by a large percent is displayed.
You have control over the parameters for these values (number of
days in a moving average, etc.) and you can place the data in a
category that you create. The details of making these selections
are given in the Help system provided with Sirius.
4. Research Tools for Discovering Astrological Factors in a Set
of Charts:
Now that we have created a group of charts when, for example,
prices reach a peak, we can analyze these charts to see what astrological
influences occur in these charts more often than on other days.
Some of the research tools for discovering astrological influences
in a group of charts are described very thoroughly in an article
on the Gauquelin data, which you can read by clicking on this link:
http://www.astrosoftware.com/DISCOVERY.HTM If you are serious about
conducting astrological research that is sophisticated and sound,
I strongly recommend that you read this article.
Precisely
the same principles described in this article can be applied
to analyzing
the charts for days when a price reaches a peak (or a low, or
upward or downward change in price). This article on the astrological
influences in the Gauquelin data also describes how to create
an
AstroSignature based on your findings. After discovering the
factors that occur in the charts and making a Forecast AstroSignature
based
on these findings, you are now ready to test the accuracy of
your forecast.
5.
AstroSignature Forecast with the Correlation Value of the Predicted
and Actual Prices:
Using the procedures described above, I developed an AstroSignature
for forecasting gold prices. You can purchase this AstroSignature
and be able to produce your own Gold Forecast using this AstroSignature.
This AstroSignature is provided in the Gold Forecast Report option
to the Sirius program. Show below is a graph produced with the
Gold Forecast Report for a 3-month period:
As you can see from the legend shown below the graph, the dark
green line is the forecasted prices and the light green line is
the actual scores adjusted to fit within the range of predicted
socres so that the graphs can be easily compared.
In Sirius there are additional windows that can be accessed while
viewing this graph: there is a window for viewing the daily scores
and the astrological influences in effect for each day, so that
you can see the specific details that contribute to the resulting
graph. This window of details is very helpful for analyzing and
understanding the astrological influences that are in effect at
any given time. Also displayed is the correlation value between
the predicted and actual scores. For the above graph the correlation
is .08 (positive 8 percent). Although an 8 percent correlation
may not seem very high, visually you can see that there are some
general similarities between the predicted and actual graphs.
6. Other Research Features:
In addition to the research features described in the article
on astrological factors in the Gauquelin data, there are other
research features such as analyzing planets aspecting fixed stars,
degree areas of the zodiac, etc. With the AstroSignature research
feature, rulerships of planets and other astrological influences
can also be included in the research.
7. Other Features that are Helpful for Financial Research:
When developing the Gold Forecast, I sometimes ran transit-to-transit
listings for particular aspects between a pair of planets or a
time line format forecast, and I sometimes viewed a chart of a
particular high peak date of gold prices. There are an enormous
number of features that the person who has a good knowledge of
astrology can use to help in the understanding of the astrological
influences that affect gold prices.
For
the person who is pursuing this research with a background in
economics or finance but has
little knowledge of astrology, the Avalon lessons and also the
AstroEncyclopedia feature of Sirius are extremely helpful. Even
professionals and advanced students find some of the advanced
topis in the lessons and AstroEncyclopedia to be very helpful. |