Research Background and Principles

The I Ching Six Lines divination method has been applied to human affairs prediction for over a thousand years. Due to historical context, it was primarily used for state governance, personal political fortune (official luck), business and wealth-seeking, marriage, imperial examinations, travel, illness, childbirth, weather, and lost item recovery. However, financial derivatives such as stocks, futures, and forex emerged only in modern times. There is a lack of mature research findings and methodologies regarding I Ching Six Lines prediction of financial product price trends, requiring modern researchers to re-establish this field of study and develop it further.

The most fundamental and critical step in I Ching Six Lines divination is selecting the Positive Line. Currently, the most controversial aspect of I Ching Six Lines stock and futures prediction is also the selection of the Positive Line. Most researchers conventionally select "Wife and Wealth" (Qi Cai) as the Positive Line. However, through extensive experimental statistical analysis, we have found that selecting Wife and Wealth as the Positive Line may not align with reality. Therefore, our research also begins with the selection of the Positive Line.

Research on Positive Line for Stocks and Futures

First, let us explain the research methodology, which primarily involves experimental data statistical comparison. This entails comparing existing I Ching Six Lines divination cases for stocks and futures, categorized by different Six Kinships (Liu Qin) as the Positive Line, different primary hexagram names (64 hexagrams), moving lines and changed lines, and special hexagram patterns (such as Monthly Break, Void, Moving and Transforming to Extinction, etc.).

In the statistics, we try to group only hand-shaken hexagrams, single moving lines, and special hexagram patterns to reduce complexity and minimize interference with the research.

Through statistical research, we have found that selecting any of the Six Kinships as the Positive Line fails to achieve universal applicability in matching similar hexagram patterns with similar price trends.

Through statistical research, we have found that in I Ching Six Lines divination for securities and futures, there is a higher probability

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Based on the statistics, we have preliminarily formed a Positive Line reference table for different hexagram names (see attached documents).

The above preliminary findings on Positive Line selection are mainly based on grouped statistics by primary hexagram name, single moving line, and special hexagram patterns. These findings can be experimentally verified by finding similar trends among similar hexagram patterns in thousands of test cases (though due to insufficient data, currently only 2–5 cases are typically available).

The hypothesis that the Positive Line for stocks and futures is

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The statistics primarily use the Tianji I Ching Six Lines Charting Case Library for searching. https://iching.tjsay.com/

Current Limitations and Defects

  • Some data cannot fully confirm the Positive Line; we only have a preliminary, incomplete Positive Line reference table for hexagram names.
  • We can only statistically analyze and judge cases with simple hexagram patterns, such as single moving lines, some cases with two moving lines, or one-sided multiple moving lines, and some special hexagram patterns.
  • We are unable to analyze most static hexagrams (except for some with hidden moving lines).
  • There are still many contradictory hexagram patterns, difficult hexagram patterns, and unverifiable hexagram patterns.

Some Techniques to Address the Limitations

  • Reference historical data with the same hexagram name as much as possible.
  • Reference historical data with the same or similar daily stem-branch dates as much as possible.
  • In cases where the Positive Line cannot be confirmed or has not been extensively verified, the early observation method can be used to judge subsequent trends. For example, if there are only two possible trends (A or B)—where Trend A rises for one day then falls for several days, or Trend B falls for one day then rises for several days—you can observe for about one day. Based on the first day's performance, you can then confirm that the subsequent days should follow either Trend A or Trend B.

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