Can the planets help you make a profit?

Surely not. Yet astrological charting is, it seems, not only a relatively popular investment tool, but also one favoured by some of the world’s best investors.

Investors can often be divided into two camps. There are those who like charting identifying and following trends and others who swear by fundamental analysis careful screening to identify mispriced securities. Then there are a few (MoneyWeek's own James Ferguson, editor of Model Investor, for example) who think that a clever combination of the two is the way to go. However, there is also a small group of people convinced there is another route to riches via the stars. Yes, it turns out that some of the world's best investors turn to astrology to help them figure out what's going on in the markets.

Astrological charting: the investors who look to the skies

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Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994.

He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007.