Bunk!
Bunk!
I never like to be part of the herd & when it comes to investing a feel most confident when everyone thinks Iam totaly Krazzy.
I really appriciate the kind words if they are true that some of you think the method is or kinda bogus. Thank you for making my day & I hope none of you are lying just to make happy
I do know that Iam not a good enough scientist to use astrology to its full potential but I kinda think it gives me an edge.
After leaving my chiropractor, I was walking my bigfoot through crop circles when an alien told me astrology was total fantasy. Before that I used it all the time to make my large financial decisions.
Seriously is this to say you dont believe in Chiropractic's?Originally Posted by clovis8
Chiropractic is another pseudoscience.
If you could predict weather patterns that might be an advantage but astrology doesn't do this. Astrology doesn't do anything, because it's bunkum. (Weather prediction is meteorology and climatology, which aren't that accurate either yet, but at least they're scientific.)
Astrology no, astronomy perhaps. With regard to astronomy, there have for example been many claims of correlations between sunspots and stock market cycles. Here's one published study: http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/sunspots.pdf and an article http://blogs.reuters.com/globalinves...market-cycles/.
Personally I wouldn't put any faith in these correlations, at least I wouldn't put any money on them. But given the impact of sunspots and solar activity on weather and climate, it's (barely) conceivable that changes in sunspot activity could affect weather patterns that in turn affect the behaviour of investors. Who knows?
There is a very strong relationship between the salaries of Presbyterian ministers in the U.S. and the price of rum in Havana...but I wouldn't make any investing bets based on this.
Actually, though: I welcome all of these hypothesis and I hope that many, many investors are following these correlations and making big investment bets on them.
You have to be kidding me. Chiropractic's is amazing. How realigning your spine is psedu I can not even imagine. And to put it in with the other things listed here is nuts. I love Osteopaths and Chiropractors. Make an incredible amount of difference in my life.
Just because something has no scientific basis doesn't mean it can't be effective. It just means we don't understand how it works, nor do we fully understand the potential dangers. I was in a bicycle accident once and happened to be riding with a friend who's a chiropractor; she took me back to her office and adjusted my neck after the fall (I hit my head hard on the pavement, destroying my helmet) and I felt much better afterward.
I had another friend in the US who had such great success with homeopathy that she cancelled her health insurance. Sounded crazy to me, but it worked for her and she still swears by it 20 years later. My take is that homeopathy "works" through the placebo effect, which is not to downplay it because placebos can be very powerful. I saw this in action myself: I used to take echinacea to ward off colds when I felt one coming on, and it seemed pretty effective. But then I read a study providing convincing evidence that echinacea has no effect at all, and after that it stopped working for me -- because I no longer believed it would. Placebos can be very effective that way.
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