Independent Rating Agency Says Meridian’s Cycles Research Newsletter Once Again Outperforms Nation’s Leading Stock Market Timing Models
September 9, 2010 — Investment analyst Bill Meridian spent nine years studying to be a psychotherapist but most of his adult life trying to figure out why the financial markets behave the wacky way they do.
The latest six-month report from Timer Digest, an independent Greenwich, Conn., rating agency that monitors more than 100 of the nation’s leading market timing models, provides further proof that years of focused research effort have paid off handsomely for the globally astute market timer.
Timer Digest ranks the top stock, bond and gold models according to how well their recommendations perform. For the latest report period, Meridian’s Cycles Research newsletter was once again atop the leader board for stock investors.
In recent years, he has been the top rated gold and second ranked bond market trader as well.
Meridian says his approach to investments is “do whatever is working in the market.” But it’s a bit more complicated than that.
He uses both fundamental and technical analytical tools, building on cyclical methods developed by Ed Dewey, George Lindsay and W.D. Gann. And he has written books and developed sophisticated computer software programs aimed at showing others how to use planetary cycles to better time moves in the financial markets.
Meridian became interested in the stock market as a teenager and seriously interested in researching the impact of planetary cycles on market activity after earning an MBA degree in 1972. His book titles include Planetary Economic Forecasting and Planetary Stock Trading, now in its third edition.
The career investment analyst has been on both the buy and sell side of Wall Street, spent more than 14 years as a fund manager and strategist in the Middle East, and currently divides his time between Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, London and his home office in Vienna.
“Critics sometimes question the sanity of working with astrological planetary cycles, but grudgingly admit the approach appears to enjoy some success,” he noted.
Meridian says the planetary cycles used in his work are as short as the 29-day lunar cycle and long as the slow moving planets that are elliptically circling the sun beyond the orbit of Saturn. Sometimes investment decisions are 100 percent based on astrological indications and other times not at all.
Typically, trends become apparent in the planetary combinations before technical sell signals show up, he points out.
In a research activity initiated by Cycles Research, DJIA stock prices were shown to cyclically rise and dip during key phases of the moon. Stock prices tend to rise during the new moon when the sun and moon are lined up in the same zodiacal sign and dip at an accelerated pace following the full moon, when the sun and moon are opposed in the heavens roughly 180 degrees apart.
The 29-day lunar cycle is relatively weak and can be overcome by more powerful cyclical influences. But the cycles’ existence was later confirmed by a study at Michigan State University that looked at market averages the world over, he noted.
Meridian thinks the outlook for stocks remains bearish through October and November, but a strong year-end rally will push prices higher in the first quarter of 2011.
More information is available at www.billmeridian.com.
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