Summary and Explanation of “The Stock Market Crash around the Corner,” the Last Chapter of My Book Winning Big in Stocks with I Ching
Without the background knowledge contained in the earlier chapters of my yet-to-be-published book, my audience may have difficulties grasping the important concepts presented in the blog, “The Stock Market Crash around the Corner,” I posted on November 26, 2021. Therefore, I hereby hasten to supplement the blog with certain basic information to provide a better understanding of its themes.
I Ching, which means “the book of change,” is a body of knowledge on divination in ancient China. Usually, an extraordinary occurrence such as a strong gust snapping a flagpole or a fish jumping out of its bowl for no apparent reason would arouse the desire to predict future events by employing I Ching. These unusual phenomena are signs of interaction of the forces of nature; they indicate the trajectories of future events. From the practice of I Ching has come a new body of knowledge known as life science, or Bazi. Bazi calculations are used to predict an individual’s life events or fortune based on their date of birth. In this field, human birth is, of course, considered to be an extraordinary occurrence. According to ancient science, the cosmic forces that permeate and influence our world, categorized as the five elements, dominate each other in a cyclical manner. The energy of these five elements, water, wood, fire, earth, and metal, waxes and wanes in cycles of sixty—sixty years, sixty months, sixty days, and sixty hours. Based on an individual’s birth year, birth month, birthday, and birth hour, it is possible to track the individual’s future by integrating these data with the cosmic calendar.
Having studied Bazi for years, I discovered that this method is highly valuable in tracking a corporation’s fortune by tracking the fortune of its CEO, if their birth data are available. I kept my investment portfolio out of harm’s way during the great recession of 2008/2009 and took great advantage of the subsequent economic recovery, achieving a spectacular outcome. My assessment of the current market condition has led me to believe that a severe downturn of the stock market is imminent, with a 90% probability that it will happen between Thanksgiving 2021 and Valentine’s Day 2022, a window of less than three months. I arrived at this conclusion based on the following analyses:
- Historically, the stock market has crashed every eight to fourteen years. The market has been on a bull run for more than twelve years. If history is any guide, the next crash is not far off. More important, multiple negative factors such as unremitting inflation, the persistence of the pandemic, supply chain interruptions, and overspending by the federal government are creating a perfect storm for the market to crash as the bull runs out of steam.
- The luck of the nation’s chief executive, President Biden, is about to take a dramatic turn for the worse. All US presidents elected in the Geng Zi year (7/K) died during their first terms in office: William Henry Harrison (elected in 1840), William McKinley (elected in 1900), and John F. Kennedy (elected in 1960). These seemingly unconnected events actually followed the sixty-year cycle of I Ching. The year of Geng Zi, which recurs every sixty years, represents a sharp inflection point in the cosmic energy field, transitioning from metal dominance to wood dominance. This reverses many people’s luck, including that of presidents. Biden’s Bazi appears to follow a similar pattern. Sixty years ago, the stock market crashed around Christmas 1961, in what is known as the Kennedy Slide. There was no discernible cause for the crash. It just happened. This time around, however, there are plenty of reasons for the market to tank.
- The transition from 2021 to 2022 also means a drastic reversal of fortune for the financial managers of the country, namely, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen. This may very well portend dire trouble ahead for the US economy and severe adversity for the stock market.
- The Bazi analyses of a number of CEOs of major corporations in several key sectors such as finance, technology, and industrial point to a common trend: the worsening luck of these CEOs and, by proxy, their respective companies. The analyses of these individuals’ Bazis may not be 100% accurate because of a lack of information on their birth hours. Therefore, some margin of error is unavoidable. But taken together, the data seem to be pointing to a unified direction of deteriorating fortunes for these CEOs and their companies based on years of observation. This time around, the market downturn is likely to be prolonged and severe.