November 11, 2024

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Can I Use Astrology to Play the Stock Market? How day traders are looking to the stars for financial advice.

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Oscar Thaw, a 24-year-old crypto day trader who calls himself “Doctor Racso,” claims to have turned $40,000 into half a million dollars in only ten days through “trading charts” and astrology. Alas, as he told YouTuber Caleb Hammer, he then lost almost all of it on the market. “I made the money because I was a good astrologer, but I lost the money because I was a bad trader,” he said. Thaw used astrology, he tells me, to look for “signals” for when the stock market would shift. “Only then I decided to gamble because I was so excited,” he says. “I felt like if I can predict the market, then I’m basically a god.”

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Can I Use Astrology to Play the Stock Market?

Can I Use Astrology to Play the Stock Market? How day traders are looking to the stars for financial advice.

In Other News ...

Family life is where radical change can take root. Kathryn Jezer-Morton argues that MAGA doesn't own domesticity and we must not let it become a political pawn.

Restaurateur, actress, television host, and best-selling cookbook author Ayesha Curry spoke to us about growing a family, a business, and a community.

In this week’s sex diary, a real-estate agent copes with her election anxiety by having sex with a stranger and going on a date with a couple.

Donald Trump is planning widespread tariffs that many economists say will push up the prices on everything from bikes to fashion. Here's what we know.

Your Daily Horoscope by Madame Clairevoyant: November 11, 2024 Venus in Capricorn provides clarity on what you truly want.

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