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Could Proxima Centauri be driving the 7-year stock market cycle?
In 2016, astronomers discovered a clear ~7-year stellar cycle in Proxima Centauri — the closest star to our Sun (4.24 light-years away).
Key point: its stellar spots are much denser and far stronger than sunspots on our Sun.
Activity lows: 2002 → 2009 → 2016 (next: 2023, 2030,...)
Activity highs: 2006 → 2013 (next: 2020, 2027,...)
These line up strikingly with several major stock-market cycle troughs.
The data sample is still limited, and any physical mechanism at that distance is hard to imagine... yet the timing is hard to ignore.
Coincidence?
16-Week Cycle in Markets
The ~16-week cycle (≈112 calendar days / ~80 trading days) shows up clearly in many instruments, including SPX.
What’s driving it?
Many cycle analysts look to the solar system for stable periodicities.
Mercury’s synodic period is 115.9 days — strikingly close.
Is there a real link?
And if so, what’s the mechanism — direct, or indirect via subtle modulation of solar plasma/activity?
More questions than answers at this point.