Weekly Market Forecast: Jun 22-26, 2026 - Jupiter Holds, Mercury Slows
Jupiter's wealth yoga keeps equity floors intact. Mercury's retrograde station makes Thursday a double-edged day - best for stocks, worst for Bitcoin.
This week starts with a jolt and ends with a fade. That is the honest summary.
Monday morning opens under a very inauspicious yoga. That combination historically produces erratic gap fills and stop hunts in the first hour of Indian markets. By Thursday, we are in the best equity session of the week. Then Friday softens as the Moon enters debilitation and Mercury officially stations retrograde. Same week, very different energy depending on which day you are trading.
The bigger backdrop is actually quite strong. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer and sitting in Pushya nakshatra. That combination is called Guru Pushya Yoga and it is the most significant wealth yoga of 2026. It has been quietly running since June 18 and it does not go away this week. That is why equities globally are holding up even as individual sessions get choppy. The floor keeps getting bought.
Mercury is the complicating factor. It stations retrograde around June 25 to 26 in early Cancer. That creates noise in tech-heavy indices, confusion in financial sector stocks, and is the primary reason Bitcoin is in crash-alert mode from Thursday onward.
Here is what each market looks like this week.
What’s Inside:
Nifty 50 and BankNifty day-by-day
S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones, FTSE, DAX, ASX 200
Gold: a key signal change happened this morning
Silver: monthly bear still running
Bitcoin: highest risk window of the week is Thursday
Key dates: Monday open warning, Thursday best day, Friday fade
