NaturalCycle

User Manual
Installation
Your package should contain two RAR archives: BumaSoft Aspectarian.rar and NaturalCycle.rar. If you do not have a RAR unpacker installed, I suggest downloading WinRar from www.rarsoft.com. Step 1: unpack these two archives into your MT4 installation folder. If you get any warnings about overwriting the folders, choose yes (don't worry, it will not remove anything). Step 2: check if the file swedll32.dll is located inside the experts/libraries folder of your MT4 installation. If it is, then you have extracted the files correctly. If not, your unpacker might have created a separate folder for the files, in which case you should cut the files inside that folder and place them in the MT4 folder, as they should be. Step 3: now you should open up your platform, go to Tools, then Options, then Expert Advisors and make sure Allow DLL imports is checked and Confirm DLL function calls is NOT checked.

You are now ready to use NaturalCycle! NaturalCycle settings explained

The first important input is TimeOffset (not shown in the above screenshot). This allows for non-GMT broker platform adjustments. If your platform time is GMT (check if it is the same as on: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ ), then leave it set to 0. If it is GMT + 3, for example, then you would input -3, so the indicator knows how to obtain the GMT time. If the platform time is GMT -3, then you would input 3. To find out the platform time, just open the Market Watch and see the time displayed:

You should be familiar with the notion of planetary aspects. If not, then you can read the description found at: http://www.horoscopeswithin.com/aspects.php or just Google search about the subject. The aspects or angular relationships between planets, synchronize with market tops/bottoms frequently. Your job is to do your research and see which aspects work best with the market you are trading. Every market has it's own favorite aspects or planets.

In the PlanetaryAspects input, you can tell the indicator what aspects to plot on your chart. For example, if you'd like it to plot the Moon-Saturn aspects, you would write Moon-Saturn there. If you'd like it to plot aspects for more than one planetary pair, you separate them by semi-colons (e.g. Moon-Neptune;Moon-Saturn). If ShowAspectComments is set to true, there will be comments on your chart showing you what aspect a certain line is representing. I usually set that to false, so I don't clutter up the charts. You can see what aspect you have by just hovering your mouse pointer over a line. You will find about three sets of lookback-forward inputs. These just tell the indicator for how many bars in the past to compute (lookback) and for how many bars in the future (forward). These indicators do not repaint! Next you will have options to enable or disable the appearance of a certain aspect and to set graphical options (like line width or color of the line). I will skip that, to save space.

AspectsDegreeError is similar to the notion of orb. Let's say you are looking for a 90 degree aspect. You might allow for a 1 degree orb (i.e. error), so that you are considering the aspect active between 89 and 91 degrees. It is exact at 90 degrees. There is another reason the indicator is using this however. Planetary positions for aspect calculus are done on a bar by bar basis. Which means, if an aspect is exact in the middle of a bar, the indicator would miss it, unless you account for a certain amount of error. The default works fine for an M15 chart. You might want to increase that when you are looking at an H1 chart or Daily chart. AspectAlert and AspectSound will activate or deactivate the alerting system. If AspectAlert is set to true, a popup window will alert you any time an aspect is about to occur between the planets you have chosen in the PlanetaryAspects input. AspectSound does the same thing, but makes a sound instead of showing an alert window. If DrawAspectSR is set to true, the indicator will plot a horizontal support/resistance price line on the price at the time of aspects, instead of plotting a vertical line (i.e. time line). Next, you have the option of selecting what price you want to use: open of the candle, close or middle of the bar.

Changes in the apparent motion of planets can also cause tops/bottoms in markets. We say a planet is moving retrograde when it appears to be moving backwards or direct when it is traveling it's normal way. You can choose which planets to monitor by entering their names into the MotionForPlanets input. You need to separate planet names by semi-colons (e.g. Pluto;Neptune;Uranus). We have explained the lookback inputs previously. Then you have the option of customizing color/width of Direct/Retrograde lines.

MotionAlert and MotionSound are analogous to AspectAlert and AspectSound, alerting you whenever this type of event is taking place. Next, there is the zodiac signs zone. The transit of a planet through a zodiac sign is called planetary ingress. This can also cause turns in the markets. Planets change signs whenever their longitude is a multiple of 30 degrees, since a complete orbit means 360 degrees, so a zodiac sign is a 360/12 = 30.0 degrees section of the orbital ellipse. You specify the planets you want to monitor in the PlotSignsFor input, separated by semicolons. The lookback inputs have been explained. After that, you have SignDegreeError, which is analogous to AspectsDegreeError and graphical settings that allow you to customize line color/width.

The Moon is known to affect not only the markets, but the rise and fall of tidal waves. There are

even studies showing that most earthquakes occur durring a Full moon or a New moon. A Full Moon occurs when the Sun and the Moon are in opposition (180 degree angle) and a New Moon occurs when the two are in conjunction (0 degrees). If PlotFullMoon is set to true, the indicator will plot horizontal lines at the time of a Full Moon. The same goes with PlotNewMoon. You can change colors of the lines and choose what price to use (middle, close, open).

MoonYear allows you to choose the year to plot moon phases for. Default is 0, which means the indicator will plot for the current year. If you would type 2009, it would plot for 2009, past data. StarSize allows you to set font size for the star that is plotted at the point of a Full/New Moon, when the horizontal line begins. It is not important. Then you have settings to change font colors for the information shown at the bottom of the chart:

BumaSoft Aspectarian settings explained

hOffset is analogous to the TimeOffset setting from NaturalCycle. Please read the explanation above. truepos is just a library switch that allows to calculate real planetary positions (true) or apparent positions (false). It is advised to leave that with the default option selected. future_bars tells the indicator for how many bars in the future to plot the aspect. maxlookback tells it for how many bars in the past to plot. The concept of orb was explained when we talked about the AspectsDegreeError parameter of NaturalCycle.

If inverted is true, aspects will be plotted below the zero level. This has nothing to do with the actual aspects, it's just a graphical option, so that when you will add multiple aspects, you can choose to plot some above the zero level and some below the zero level, as to not clutter up the window.

Then you are shown a numeric value for each planet, so that you know how to fill in the next two inputs:

In the image above, planet1 is set to Moon (1) and planet2 is set to Sun (0). Those are the two planets that you are looking to be aspecting each other. aspect_angle is the angle you are looking to plot. You can choose if you want to calculate heliocentric (sun-centered) or geocentric (earthcentered) coordinates. The default (false) is geocentric. BumaSoft Daily Aspectarian settings explained

The Daily Aspectarian just plots the times of the current day when a certain aspect will take place (if there are any aspects today). hOffset is analogous to the same setting of the BumaSoft Aspectarian and the TimeOffset of NaturalCycle. Next, you have font settings and the position of the text, relative to the top right corner of the chart.

For reading material about financial astrology, just contact me on Skype (bumasoft), MSN (marian@buma.ro) or Yahoo Messenger (cri_crisoft) Happy trading and thank you for your purchase! Vic