Geomagnetic Storms

While not related to the Moon, you may want to keep an eye on solar activity and geomagnetic storms.
In combination with the Lunar cycles it can help us to pinpoint potential declines in stock prices more accurately.

In a study for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Anna Krivelyova and Cesare Robotti found a connection between geomagnetic storms and stock market performance. Stocks tend to be negatively affected in the 6 days after a geomagnetic storm.
There are about 35 such geomagnetic storms per year.
You can read their paper here:
http://www.frbatlanta.org/filelegacydocs/wp0305b.pdf

You can monitor current and recent solar wind activity (which causes geomagnetic storms) on the following graphs.

Boyle Index (solar wind)

Expected geomagnetic activity

(Kp = 0 means very quiet, Kp = 9 indicates very severe activity. Kp of 5 or higher indicates a geomagnetic storm)

Latest Observations from the ACE spacecraft

(Green= quiet, Yellow = weak disturbances, Red = strong disturbances)

Solar Wind:

AVG_DENS

Interplanetary Magnetic Field:

AVG_BTOT

Hit your browser "Refresh" button whenever you want to update to most recent data.

(all charts courtesy of Rice University)

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