Astrology × Gold

A pre-registered pattern search: do the sun, moon and planets — their positions, aspects and retrogrades — predict the daily gold move? XAU/USD daily · 1975 → now · trading days
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Gold price with moving averages

SMA20 (green), SMA50 (blue), SMA200 (red). Drag the range slider.

Price action around the lunar cycle

Mean daily return per moon phase octile (0 = new moon, 0.5 = full). Error bars = ±1 SE. The strongest cell overall sits in the trend-conditioned family.

Mean daily return per sun octile (seasonal)

Sun longitude octiles — i.e. time-of-year buckets (0 = spring equinox).

Volatility per moon octile

Mean |return| — moon effects often show up in vol, not direction.

Per-planet test — add one planet at a time

Each planet gets its OWN family: its aspects to the sun, moon and all other planets (5 aspects × 9 targets, own 10k block-permutation null on max |cell mean|) — the incremental path: add Mercury, look at Mercury, then Venus … The right column is the planet's best aspect-proximity pair (continuous version, 8 octiles from exact-aspect to between-aspects; pairs with <30 episodes are flagged slow and untestable on daily data).

Aspect proximity — all 45 pairs

Permutation p per pair (block null, 10k). Red = flagged slow (<30 episodes — few long aspect runs, not testable at daily granularity). Dashed line = 0.05. Expect ~2.25 pairs below the line by chance alone.

All pre-registered families

Null per family: permutation of the max |cell mean| (10k shuffles) — the multiple-comparison problem is priced in per family. half-corr = correlation of cell means between 1975–2013 and 2013–now (cells with ≥50 days in both halves).

Volume & RSI (GC=F era, 2000 → now)

Event windows (directional pre-registered tests)

Method — written before results were seen

Rules
Data
EphemerisSkyfield DE440, tropical geocentric-apparent, 00:00 UTC per trading day; outer planets via barycenters (<0.01° error, below all orbs)