Millionaires Don't Use Astrology. Billionaires Do.

J.P. Morgan had an astrologer.

Not a rumor. Not a tabloid story. Her name was Evangeline Adams, she worked out of Carnegie Hall in New York, and she was perfectly happy to tell anyone who'd listen that the most powerful banker in America was one of her clients.

What did Morgan want from her? Not stock tips. By her account he wanted to know about timing. Timing of markets. Timing of politics. Timing of the men he did business with.

Now think about who we're talking about. This is the man who bailed out the US Treasury in 1895. The man who personally stopped the Panic of 1907. If anybody on earth could afford the best advice money could buy, it was Morgan.

And he wanted an astrologer on the list.

The line credited to him is the reason this website exists: "Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do."

So let me tell you about the others.

The trader who watched the clock, not the price

W.D. Gann was born on a Texas cotton farm in 1878 and became one of the most studied traders who ever lived. Traders still pay good money today for his courses and his charts.

Gann's big idea was this: markets move in cycles of time. When the cycle runs out, the trend turns. Doesn't matter what the price is doing. And a lot of the cycles he tracked were planetary.

He even hid his methods inside a novel, The Tunnel Thru the Air, in 1927. Traders still read it looking for the code.

Price tells you where the market is. Time tells you when it turns.

The market forecast made of planets, still printed every year

In the 1940s an astrologer named Donald Bradley did something nobody had done before. He took the angles between the planets, scored them, added them up day by day, and drew one single line. He called it the Siderograph. In 1948 he published it in a book called Stock Market Prediction.

Here's the part that gets me. Nearly eighty years later, traders who would never in a million years call themselves astrologers still plot the new Bradley turn dates every January. Then they watch what the market does around them.

The astrologer who ran the President's diary

Now the big one.

After John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan in 1981, Nancy Reagan picked up the phone to a San Francisco astrologer she'd met years before, Joan Quigley. Quigley told her the danger had been there in the chart. And for the next several years, Quigley quietly helped decide when the President of the United States would fly, speak and appear in public.

Nobody knew. Not the press. Not most of the staff.

Then in 1988 the former chief of staff, Donald Regan, wrote a memoir called For the Record and blew the whole thing open. Quigley later said she had picked the moment for the signing of the nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union, on December 8, 1987.

Believe what you want about the stars. The most powerful office on earth kept a calendar that took them into account.

What they all knew

Here's what ties these people together.

None of them asked an astrologer what to do. Morgan decided which banks to save. Gann picked his own trades. Reagan made his own policy.

They asked when.

And that's what I do. I will never tell you which stock to buy. Anybody who says they can read that in the stars is selling you something. What I'll tell you is which weeks favor a launch, which favor a signature, which favor asking for the money, and which weeks you should sit on your hands and let the noise go by.

A millionaire makes good decisions.

A billionaire makes good decisions at the right time, again and again, and lets the compounding run.

Want to know where you stand? It starts with your birth date.