Saturn energy strengthen the temperance, rectitude, constancy, greed, pessimism and precautionary. Under this influence the crowd will move with caution, slow and with strong and rigorous sense, analysing the environment in detail and deducting all the possible action outcomes based on the past experiences and utilising all the accesible wisdom. This cycle rules the land and real state, the state and institutions, officials, and regulations.
Due to the essential nature of this energy is expected that traders take more caution and reflexion in their investment decisions where Saturn transits through earth element (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) because the persons become more prudent and rigid. In water elements (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces) traders will be reducing exposure to risky assets because the emotions are more unstable and the fear to loss results in risk aversion.
This cycle takes 29 years to complete so we don't have enough observations in the crypto-currencies sector to evaluate the potential effect of Saturn through all the zodiac signs but with the historical data available, there are some interesting patterns: the most bearish zodiac signs was Scorpio (water) and Capricorn (earth) and the most bullish was Sagittarius and Aquarius. This correlates well with other planet cycles where we have observed that air zodiac signs are usually bullish.
This indicator provides longitude since 2010 so will be limited in the zodiac signs that is possible to be analysed, however the periods of retrogradation and stationary speed phases could give interesting trading signals. We encourage you to analyse this cycles in different markets and share with us your observations, leave us a comment with your research outcomes. Happy research!
Note: The Saturn tropical longitude indicator is based on an ephemeris array that covers years 2010 to 2030, prior or after this years the longitude is not available, this daily ephemeris are based on UTC time so in order to align properly with the price bars times you should set UTC as your chart reference timezone.