This is just a train wreck of misinformation.<p>First of all, not a lot of people actually use academic economic theories to &quot;play the markets&quot;. Ask a trader how often does (s)he use the General Theory or monetarism in their daily decision making. There are macro-strategies, used mostly by fund managers, but it&#x27;s not such a big portion of the market.<p>Secondly, anyone found to use astrology in their market activities would be fired in nanoseconds. Whichever institution. You can do it privately though.<p>The fact that one can get good results speculating while using astrology as a decision generator (or in fact any other random mechanism, like a monkey throwing darts) is actually known and used in the financial theory. It is called &quot;the random walk hypothesis&quot; and is the foundation of a lot of assumptions. A good introduction to it would be &quot;A Random Walk Down Wall Street&quot; by Burton Malkiel.<p>So I urge you to actually build an informed opinion before succumbing to an Alex Jones brand of reasoning.