Superstitious Stock Traders: Beware of an Eclipse Crash

Tech Meets the Solar Eclipse

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Bored traders with too much computer power have found the key to the next stock market crash: the solar eclipse.

Fed up with political dramas that can be tough to trade on, some have turned their attention to an obscure theory that says market reversals tend to begin around the time of a lunar eclipse and end around the time of a solar eclipse.