The very first person from whom I tried to learn trading in June2004 told me, I look at the Kundali and they try to synchronise my trades with favorable periods.This was almost like spotting the major favorable "trend"(This person had Metastock and Advanced get running on two different computers one below the other; no tipster) In my younger days, I would have scoffed at it but I have met so many educated and qualified people in my working life of last 20 years believing in it that I said with circumspection, That is a half science and not a documented science. I neither believe totally nor ignore toatally
The gentleman sitting next to him immediately said, No, no, it is a reliable and complete science but there are very few genuine practitioners of the science. Only one in a trillion would be a thoroughbred astrologer
A couple of years ago I read an interesting book called Karma, Destiny and Career by Jannette Hucknall. She stated giving examples that success is achieved only when Individual Karma, Planet Karma and country Karma combine. Talent and hardwork are not sufficient because there are other factors at play. Her examples were American but if I were to cite Indian examples, Cricketer Kapil Dev would not have been even in the cricket team had he been born in the West Indies because of four full pace fast bowlers and Ravi Shastri would probably cooling his heels if he had joined the Indian cricket team a few years before he did because of the presence of the spin quartet. Besides how can one reconcile a brilliant actor like Naseerudeen Shah not doing commercially as well as Govinda.. Only goes to show market profile is in the hands of god. One can also cite the irrationality in the stock market rates of different stokes with more or less same fundamentals at times.
Amitabh Bachchan has said in several interviews that his success was because of being at the right place at the right time. In one episode of Kaun Bangega Karodpati he said, Bhagya me likha to milega to sahi par karm karna padega. Reminds you of Samay se pahle, bhagya ze zyaada kisiko nahin milta.
Recently, medium pace bowler Irfan pathan said, There are several times where I have bowled very well and not got any wicket and vice-versa. Kapil dev mentions the same in his autobiography.
One can go on and on but there are forces beyond ones control difficult to fathom. If only our karmic charts were available and we could plan trades and insert better stop losses. Just imagine the backtesting- past several lives would tax Metastock and tradestation combined.