RULE NO. 1
SPEED OF MERCURY IN GEOCENTRIC LONGITUDE

WE TAKE Raphael's geocentric Ephimeris for this purpose, looking up page 26-29. the value we have to use is given in the second last column on these pages. This speed changes from day to day. Periodically the speed comes to a stand-still. At such times the planet moves from a direct motion into a retrograde motion or from a retrograde to a direct motion, see Illustration No. 2 below.

The extreme speed of Mercury is 2degrees 12', however at times this extreme speed is reached at 2 degrees4'. It is advisable to plot this Mercury speed on K&E paper through an entire year and note the effect of such changes. We obtain tops or bottoms.

**********Illustration No. 2 HERE*****

The Direct and Retrograde Movement of a Planet (Geocentric)
Examples: July 26th 1039 low was reached when Mercury was at 0.
September 15, 1939 peak was at the extreme speed of 1degree54'.
On May 21-22 1940 we have an extreme Mercury speed of 2degrees12', heralding a change of trend.
Rule: It is advisable to follow the market in the direction the day Mercury changes its speed. Usually the trend begun at such time
is good for from 4 days to a week.

Using 1940 as a check, we have the following dates as change of speed:
February 9-10. It was a top and we went down until February 14th. The movement was a minor reaction of two cents.
March 5th, 1940: Mercury at 0. Sharp up move for three days, extending nearly 4 cents.
March 15th, 1940: Mercury 57' speed changing to downward again. It was a low from which an upmove of 6c came forth.
March 28th, 1940: Mercury at 0. this case did not give a clear cut movement, in fact considering we had declined two days previous already, we would be inclined to expect an up move on that change. But we sold off slightly. Would call it a failure.
May 21st, 1940: mercury at 2:12. Moving downward from the 20th also the 21st, called
for a reversal upward for several days we did get. It extended about 4c.
The next date is coming between July 7th and 8th.

There were five commitments made according to this rule up to date lasting 3 to 5 days. Profits were in four, in one a loss of about 2c. Let us figure we did not get exact tops or bottoms I would judge that at least a net profit of 8-10c should have been produced. This in 6 months of operation.
It is not a law that gets one rich quick, but one in which several contracts can be taken and held a few days. When the previous movement is down, wheat must be bought on weakness of the day; if the market moves upward prior to change of Mercury's peed, short positions must be taken on strength during the day mercury changes its speed.

RULE NO. 2
MARS-MERCURY SPEED DIFFERENTIAL OF 59 MINUTES

We use the geocentric longitudinal speed of Mars and Mercury given on page 26 to 28 of Raphael's ephemeredes. Each time mars reaches a point that is 59 minutes apart from the Mercury speed we are due for a down trend of about three days duration. It does not matter whether we have been going upward in the trend before. We might have been going downward and upon reaching this differential, we are heading for further down.

Examples:

January 25, 1940, Mars has a speed of 41 minutes, while Mercury has a speed in geocentric longitude of 1.40. They are then 59 minutes apart in their speeds.
Wheat had declined before 3-1/2 points.
From this date (January 25, 1940) we declined the same amount once more until February 1, 1940, or 3-1/2 points. On April 30, 1940, mar's speed is 39 minutes, that of Mercury 1.38 minutes. The difference is 59 minutes. The market had declined from April 22 four points. From April 30, 1940 on, we dropped another four points.
June 10, 1940: the speed differential between Mars and Mercury geocentric was 59 minutes. On that day, we opened low and ran up wildly 4-1/2c. After further slight strength for two days, which brought the price up an extra cent above the extreme high of June 10, we dropped according to this rule and made new lows.

In a six months' period, we have therefore three cases where the Mercury-Mars differential speed of 59 minutes occurred. Each time a decline was noted. Each time the amount of the decline was about 4c. If you check previous years, you will note that there is only once a case, on June 3, 1938, when the rule failed, and even then we reacted two points during the next three days.