While working at Merrill Lynch in the early 1960s, Arch Crawford turned from usi

ng the past behavior of companies to predict their future financial success to u

sing astrology. Apparently, an article in The Wall Street Journal on astrologica
l cycles reshaped his thinking.
Crawford has rebranded himself as a financial astrologer through his Crawford Pe
rspectives newsletter, which compares the planetary movements with the major sto
ck and commodity indexes, bonds, some individual commodities, and the US dollar.