Learn / Explorer / Panchang (Almanac)
What happened historically?
Group trading days by the almanac
What does the almanac add?
Probably the most familiar thing on this site. The panchang describes a date the way a traditional calendar does — which lunar day it is, whether the Moon is waxing or waning, which lunar month it falls in — rather than the way the Gregorian calendar does.
This tab groups trading days by those descriptions and measures how each grouping behaved. Structurally it is the Daily tab with a different vocabulary, so the bars, the columns and the drill-down are all ones you already know.
When is this the right tab?
When the claim you want to settle is phrased in almanac terms. A great deal of traditional market lore is — a particular tithi, or the waning half of the month — and none of it is expressed as a planetary position, so no other tab can touch it.
These claims are worth checking precisely because they are so testable and so rarely tested. The answer is usually that a grouping behaves like every other grouping, and that is a real result rather than a failed search.
How do you group days by the almanac?
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Choose the almanac axis. Tithi (one of the 30 lunar days), paksha (the waxing or waning half of the month), yoga (a 27-fold division from the Sun and Moon together), or the lunar month itself.
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Pick the market. The same catalogue every other tab uses.
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Choose the session — there is no default, on purpose. The almanac is read at either the market’s open or its close, and the two readings genuinely disagree on a substantial minority of dates. Since there is no one right answer for a trading day, the screen makes you choose rather than quietly picking for you.
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Add conditions from either family. This is the only tab offering both. Almanac condition narrows by another property of the day itself — paksha is Shukla Paksha, say — while Planet condition narrows by where a planet was. They can be combined in one query, and all of them have to hold.
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Read one row per grouping. Identical in shape to the Daily tab: a proportion bar, then bias, day count, gaps and average return.
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Compare against the other groupings, not against zero. Thirty tithis divide the same days thirty ways, so the interesting question is whether a grouping differs from the others — not whether its average happens to be positive.
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Open a grouping for the detail. Advanced stats, then List and Chart on request — the same drill-down as every other tab.
Where could the almanac mislead you?
This is market-session panchang, and one axis is missing
The almanac is read at the trading session you choose, not at sunrise. That means a label here can differ from the one in a printed calendar for the same date, and the open and close readings disagree with each other on a substantial minority of dates. Neither is an error; both are answers to “what was true at this moment of the trading day”. Keep the session fixed when you compare groupings.
Karana is deliberately absent. The stored values for it have a broken cycle, and the defect is in the data we receive rather than in this screen — so rather than offer an axis that would produce confidently wrong groupings, it is left out until the source is fixed.
The likeliest way to misread this
Reading a grouping in isolation. Thirty tithis split the same history thirty ways, so roughly half will show a positive average whatever is going on — a positive average is not a finding, a difference from the other groupings might be.
And this is where the tabs stop being interchangeable. There is no handoff to Backtest from here, because a trade has to be anchored to a moment and a grouping of days does not give you one. If a tithi looks interesting and you want to trade the idea, you need an event that lands inside it — which means going back through Planetary events.
That is the end of the counting. Whatever you have found across these tabs — a group that leans, a cell that stands out, a tithi that behaves oddly — is still only a description. Backtest is step 3, and it is where a description finally has to earn something.
The standing caveat
Celestial Market Lens measures what markets did around historical planetary events. That is a description of the past. It is not a prediction, not a recommendation, and not investment, financial, legal or tax advice. Past results do not tell you what will happen next, and you are responsible for anything you do with money.