The return of sunspots is of interest to a few non-astronomers and has a few fringe, but successful, investors thinking that the stock market has bottomed -or will bottom out before Spring 2009- and that a huge bull market will follow, as the economy recovers.
... very optimistic thinking.... since U.S. stock futures dropped today = and it appears the market may retreat below 7000, before things improve. If you have cash, however, the very best thing to do is buy into weakness, because once the Bulls get their confidence up, you will be paying too much. Only about 3-6 months in ever 11 year cycle (if you believe in the pattern) can you have the opportunity to buy into weakness. IOW you want to buy when almost everyone else thinks the worst is yet to come, and you want to sell when everyone thinks things are hunky dory. The analyst below does not like the Charles Nenner's "natural pattern recognition" which is the most scientific of the pundits behind the correlation linking sunspots to stocks. Others think there is a decent fit in the data. Nenner's analysis is art more than science, so you can be your own judge... http://www.cxoadvisory.com/blog/internal/blog1-29-08/ Jones
