A financial analyst typically starts the day scouring earnings reports and macro trends. Jay Patel does that too, but he also studies planetary charts and moon cycle trackers.
The 43-year-old commodities and currency trader consults the cosmos as seriously as he dissects balance sheets. Mercury governs when to trade, Jupiter signals expansion and Saturn warns of slowdowns, he says. One of his most memorable trades was a call option timed precisely to an astrological window that generated more than a 90 times return.
“The market has its moods — astrology helps read those moods better than some technical indicators,” ...
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