Wednesday, March 4th is the next tide turn date. Thursday February 26th was the last one. Based on what I saw leading up to and on the 26th, I expected stocks to go down, and for crude oil to go down, but for yen, bonds, and gold to go up. Crude oil is unequivocally lower having made high on the very day, February 26th. Bonds and yen are marginally higher now than on the 26th. Gold is $6 under the low of February 26 at this time. I withhold judgment until the forecasted day, and even so it's sometimes not clear until the following day.
Perhaps I'll spend a bit more time on this method which I find useful both for trading and for longer term position entries or exits. The idea is the basis of Robert Taylor's "Paradigm: A Novel", 2006. The method is basically outlined in the novel and then somewhat further in several addenda after the conclusion of the novel. Taylor himself developed a variation on the simple tide tables which uses market data combined with tidal data in a complex mathematical manner.
At the time the book came out, one was given a year's subscription to Taylor's weekly service for stocks. The service email often had the turn dates one to two days away from the actual tidal extremes. I didn't find his subscription dates to be as helpful as the simple tidal dates, and I did not renew. I mention this only to explain that I am not divulging anything that was not in the book, including the program he suggested for doing the tide tables. There are quite a few free tide programs you can find using a search engine. The one Taylor recommended has a data base search function that I find useful: Tides & Currents Pro, Version 3.3, by Nobeltec Corporation. Nobeltec, controlled by Jeppeson Marine, sells equipment and software for the fishing and general boating population.
I produce the tables for each month of the year. Taylor also found that there were intermediate term trends each year and long term trends of some years, but I have not found them to be helpful so far. Christopher Carolan, who is on my "Blogs I like" list, has combined the short term tidal cyckle with his own "Solunar Model". The latter is a seasonal chart for years that have similar solar and lunar characteristics which you can read about at his site. His combined indicator looks very promising.
The following are my tide charts for March 2009. The six columns are six different ways of measuring the high and low tides of each day and the swings between successive high and low tides. I tally them for each day as to whether each one will or won't have an extreme, so there can be zero to six extremes.
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