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Due to travel obligations and this weekend's workshop on Financial Markets in Boulder, Colorado, this week's column will be brief. Normal column will resume next week.

The Market Week in Review :

Financial markets continued to trade within rather narrow ranges last week, perhaps reflective of the uncertainty about future economic trends coincident with Mars changing directions. Still, we had some excitement early last week in stock indices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for example, had a sudden burst up of nearly 200 points on Tuesday, and it looked like it was ready to soar to new yearly highs. The Treasury markets in the USA reached new cycle highs on Monday, April 16, too. But then, typical of Uranus-Pluto principles, news of more debt problems in Spain and the uncertainty of the French elections led investors to become immediately cautious. There was no follow through in either stocks or Treasuries for the rest of the week. The Sun is also moving into the slow moving sign of Taurus, so it may be "wait and see" for now.

The Euro currency fell to 1.3000 last Monday, below the neckline support of a head and shoulders chart formation, and it looked like it was ready to tumble. But then just as suddenly - and consistent with Mars changing directions - the Euro reversed and proved to be one of the stronger market performers last week. You would think that would help Gold and Silver, but it didn't. Gold fell back to 1631 on Thursday, not far from its recent low of 1613 on April 4, which was an important critical reversal date. But it still struggled afterwards and failed to close back above 1650.

In all, it is possible that several markets may have made a significant trough or crest last week from which prices have started to reverse. But the reaction so far to those lows and highs has not been impressive enough to state with certainty that a reversal has indeed begun. Maybe the new moon in Taurus on Saturday, April 21, will set the new trends in a more obvious light. After all, Taurus rules money and assets, and a new moon represents a new lunar cycle. The idea is that new activities commence under the new moon and continue into the full moon two weeks later. This is known as the "waxing phase" of the moon. Sometimes this works as a short-term trend in financial markets too, especially in the absence of other geocosmic factors.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

And speaking of an absence of other geocosmic factors... that is the case now. There are no outstanding geocosmic signatures in effect for the next 4 weeks. Well, there is a trine between the Sun and Mars on April 23, and another trine between the Sun and Pluto on April 29, but our studies reported in Volume 3 of the Stock Market Timing series do not classify these as Level 1 (strongest) types. They are Level 2 types, which may correlate to short-term swings in various markets. But for the next four weeks, we will rely more upon solar-lunar combinations, as traders, for market entry and exit opportunities. You can see these solar-lunar values listed every day on the top of our web site for stock indices and Silver. Anything with a weighted value over 120 has a higher than expected probability of correlating with an isolated high or low from which these markets reverse at least 2.5%.

Now this doesn't mean that markets will just go sideways in the bigger picture. If a new trend did indeed commence within a few days of Mars turning direct on April 14 (and its possible, according to Mars just turning direct), then those trends may proceed without too much interruption into the next big geocosmic event, which will be Venus tuning retrograde on May 15. Think of it like this : The most powerful geocosmic signatures are like magnets. Financial markets either rally or fall into these magnet zones. Then they exhaust their energy and reverse in the opposite direction. May 15 is the next high energy geocosmic period, or magnet zone. Financial markets may be pulled in one direction or the other from now until then.

Longer Term Thoughts :

I had a reader last week request that I share the efforts that I undertook to cure my double vision problem, which started in late November 2011. I did a lot of things, but basically the optical specialist I went to called it right. She said the double vision would clear up in about 90 days all on its own. There was nothing I needed to do, and especially not surgery. It started clearing up in 95 days.

Nevertheless, there were several things I did that I think helped strengthen my vision along the way. I think Ruta Graveolens, a homeopathic cell salt recommended by an MMA subscriber, helped ease the eye strain from computer work. I think eye exercises and using pinhole glasses recommended by another subscriber helped strengthen the eye muscles. Another eye doctor advised me to look up from the computer screen every three minutes, to avoid eye strain, and then not to work more than an hour at a time without a break. Lutein and Zeaxanthin were probably helpful nutrients that I took. It is interesting that as my double vision malady started to leave and my eyes returned more to normal, the eye doctor also determined that my eye sight had actually improved for the first time in many years. I am getting close to 20-20 vision again, even though I still see double late at night when driving.

Perhaps more interesting for those who are students of astrology is that my progressed Mercury (my ruling planet) had just turned retrograde in Pisces in the 6 th house of health, the week that the eye distortion began. Mercury turns retrograde about every 4 months (usually slightly shorter). It stays retrograde about 19-24 days. The time between turning direct and the next retrograde period is about 88-101 days. In the astrological technique known as secondary progressions, every day after birth is equivalent to one year of life. Therefore, most people will go through a 19-24 year period once in their lifetime when progressed Mercury is retrograde. This is my time. It will last 22 years.

What does it mean when progressed Mercury goes retrograde in your chart ? One of the things it could mean is that you go back over the issues of the last 19-24 years that you need to work out or revisit that involve Mercury, planet of communication and learning. In my case, it means I will probably be rewriting and updating all the books I have written in the past 22 years (good lord, do I really have to do that ?). But beyond that, I think it means I am about to enter a new phase of life where I teach - mentor - others in the methods of market timing and market analysis that I originated over the past 22 years. In fact, I have recently decided to do this - since progressed Mercury has turned retrograde - and nothing has excited me this much in many years as this new life work I will soon take on. The idea is that in early 2013, I will start a 2-year apprenticeship program for perhaps 10 students. It is my hope that I can train them in this unique methodology of market timing and market analysis that I devoted my life to researching and developing.

After all, what is the purpose of life for a Capricorn if he can't create something like a body of work that will continue on after he evolves to the next level of consciousness ? .

To be continued... (next week)

Announcements :

!!! We have now added the Gold (GLD) and Silver (SLV) exchange traded funds (ETFs) to the markets we now analyze in our daily, weekly, and monthly subscription reports. We do this because so many subscribers now use our reports to trade ETF's rather than future contacts. The initial feedback has been very positive, so we will now make this part of the each report.

The Special Offer Now in Effect : We will now offer a free copy of the Forecast 2012 Book (printed copy) to any purchasers of the following subscription reports : 1 year of any MMA Cycles Report or any length subscription to an MMA Weekly or Daily report. The book is free to those who place such an order, but normal postage rates will apply to send the book. This special offer is not advertised on our website at this time, so if ordering do the following : order the subscription report of your choice, and then during the payment process, write in (under comments), "Please include free copy of Forecast 2012 Book". Or, call Amber at 1-248-626-3034 or email her.

We are down to the last couple of DVD's of the "Forecast 2012" webcast, which went extremely well. Perhaps it was our best webcast ever, according to feedback received. The cost for one of the remaining copies is $59.95 plus postage. To order go to our home page and scroll down to the announcement. For those ordering CD's, a PDF file of the charts will be emailed along with the order. "I just wanted to say that Ray's presentation was EXCELLENT! Great presentation and the WEBINAR was outstanding. Once again...THANK YOU !" Matt M., trader, Boulder, CO. on making reservations.

NEW! Now available Mini-Congress 'Outlook for 2012' on CD !!! Recordings of the congress "Outlook for 2012", held January 21, 2012 in Amsterdam, are now available on CD, with audio and PDFs of PowerPoint slides. All lectures are spoken in English.
The following presentations are included on this CD :

1) 2012 End Time of Dawning by Irma Schogt (20 minutes) ;

2) Happy New Year by Drs. Karen Hamaker-Zondag (20 minutes , regarding ECB and Federal Reserve Board) ;

3) 2012 = The Center of the Storm by Antonia Langsdorf (20 minutes, regarding Mayan calendar and astrology);

4) Forecast for 2012 by Raymond Merriman (1 hour).

Total length 2 hours, with PowerPoint slides sent online in a PDF document. Cost is $55.00 plus postage. Please go there, or www.mmacycles.com for ordering info.

Our new 2013 MMA Catalogue of products and services is now out!!! You can download it in PDF. The ordering page is the last page of the catalogue. This is especially useful for those outside of the USA, since we do not mail these out by mail unless requested.

If you are an active short-term trader, or even if you are an investor who likes to keep up with our current thoughts on financial markets, you may be interested in our Weekly or even Daily Market reports with short-term trading recommendations, (see a sample there, of the weekly). It is the only way I keep in touch with traders on a daily or even weekly basis, as I no longer offer personal consultations. These reports give in-depth analysis of the DJIA, S&P and NASDAQ futures, Euro currency (cash and futures), Swiss Franc, Dollar/Yen cash and Yen futures, Euro-Yen cash, T-Notes, Soybeans, Crude Oil, Gold and Silver. The daily reports cover all stock indices listed above, as well as futures in Euro, T-Notes, Soybeans, Gold and Silver. Both reports provide trading strategies and recommendations for position traders as well as for shorter-term aggressive traders. Subscription to the daily report also includes the weekly report.
If you want more information call our offices at 1-248-626-3034.
These reports are extremely valuable to those who trade ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds). In the words of one of our subscribers :"I am really pleased with your recommendations through the Daily and Weekly Trade Recommendations. I have used them to trade gold and silver stocks in my IRA. In the last eight years I increased my account from $60,000 to $712,000. Thanks for your excellent publications". - Bryden C., Small Business Owner, Illinois.

The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 5 : Price Objectives and Technical Analysis is out !. The comments and reviews are starting to come in, and we will post them here over the next few weeks".I am a long time Merriman Market Analysis Newsletter reader. It has never ceased to amaze me how accurate those levels are given in the newsletter. I often wonder how Ray calculates those levels. By setting up my trades using those levels together with his timing methodology, I have profited greatly. I sincerely feel that Volume 5 of the series finally gives the whole investment community the full story about Ray's lifetime work and the complete description of his financial astrology methodology. It will be a great treasure to all serious market participants". Kenneth Laio, Trader and Chief Technology Officer, Sequoia Media Inc., Beijing, China.
It took two years to write this one, which is par for each of the five books of this series that started in 1997. That was around the time I decided I wanted to"tap into the soul of the stock market", like there is such a thing. Turns out there is, in my opinion. But it depends on how you interpret"soul". If you accept that it is a connection between the observable and the intuitive, that patterns do exist and like oracles, they oftentimes do reveal the future, then it exists. This is a book describing the tools that serious traders that I know use. I use them. Many of my subscribers use them, although not that many know how I calculate price targets to go along with market timing. This book identifies the formulas I personally use to calculate price targets, and the trading plans I find that work using these market timing and technical indicators. This book is packed with powerful tools (signals), and if you take the time to learn these tools properly, your chances of being a successful trader will increase tremendously, IMHO. The book is 300 pages, printed in perfect bind format, gloss cover, 8-1/2" x 11" size. The retail price of this new book is $144.00. The publication of Volume 5 will complete the project that started in 1996, and covered approximately 1600 pages of studies and strategies for all types of traders and investors, using our market timing methods. In all, this is a complete and unified approach to analyzing (and trading) financial markets, and especially stock markets. If you are interested in this unique and integrated methodology for analyzing and forecasting stock indices, you can save big bucks by ordering all five volumes, or choice of any four now, or just go to www.mmacycles.com and scroll down to the announcement. If ordering all five volumes, you will save $99.00 !.
For more information on this book, go to YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=PnplAS5m2AI, describing this new book. It is"the missing link". You may want to check this video out, as it contains some interesting long-term tips. You can also download that video there and read more comments.

The monthly MMA Cycles report and its companion MMA Japanese Cycles and MMA European Cycles reports went out last week. If you are subscriber to any these monthly reports and did not receive it, let us know at once via our email.

- This report covers our long term analysis of the stock market (DJIA and S&P futures), Gold, Silver, T-Notes, Euro and Swiss Franc currencies, grains and crude oil. It also provides the list of geocosmic and solar-lunar reversal zones for the 1-2 months. This report comes out Monday night to subscribers.
- The MMA Japanese Markets Cycles report covers the Nikkei, JGB Bonds, and the Dollar-Yen.
- The new MMA Europe Cycles report covers the German DAX, Swiss SMI, and Netherlands AEX stock indices, each in english only and will be available on Wednesday.
For subscription information, please go to our web site, or call us at 1-248-626-3034. If you are not a subscriber, you can check this service out on a 2-month trial basis for only $50.00.

Upcoming Events :

April 27 : Scottsdale, AZ. Evening presentation on "Political, Economic and Financial Markets Outlook for 2012". The Uranus-Pluto Waxing Square". For details, contact programs@azastrologers.org, attention Arlene Houghland.

May 24-29, 2012 : UAC !!! The world's largest astrological conference. Taking place at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel. Go to www.uacastrology.com. There will be an awesome Financial Track, featuring some of the top Financial Astrologers and researchers in the world.

June 23 : Amsterdam : A special 5-hour workshop on "The Gold Market : Forecasting the Price of Gold and Silver" 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Hotel Park Plaza Victoria. Amsterdam, Damrak 1-5, Amsterdam 1012 LG, Netherlands. Sponsored by Schogt Market Timing. This is a special workshop on precious metals you will not want to miss!!! Cost is €345 ex VAT. Subscribers of any MMA reports (trials excluded) receive a 15% discount. For further information, please go to, or call 31 (02) 294 415 917, or by fax at 31 (02) 294-415-918 to register for an exciting event in one of the world's most exciting cities at the most exciting time of the year: the first Uranus-Pluto square will be taking place then, right near the summer solstice! This will be special, and a great opportunity to meet some very impressive market timers who will be present. Register now as seating is limited ! .

August 2-6, 2012 : Midwest Astrology Conference, in Ann Arbor, MI, Holiday Inn. Pre-seminar workshop on Financial Astrology, Thursday, August 2, with Raymond Merriman. More details soon.

September 14-15 : San Diego, CA. Lecture on world economy and national election, and then a . More details shortly.

The MMA Catalogue of products and services for 2013 is now out!!! You can download it in PDF. The ordering page is the last page of the catalogue. This is especially useful for those outside of the USA, since we do not mail these out by mail unless requested.

We are pleased to announce that the Spanish publication of"Basic Principles of Geocosmic Studies for Financial Market Timing" has just been completed. For more information and ordering, please contact www.lecochonsideral.info/semana.html.

We also have our new CD available :"The Cardinal Climax 2008-2015 : Investment Opportunities and Dangers". This 75-minute CD outlines the most powerful geocosmic configuration of our lifetime : The Cardinal Climax of 2008-2015. This presentation examines the historical, long-term geocosmic signatures that are present 2008-2015, how they correlated to economic crises in the past, and how they will likely impact various financial markets and investment opportunities this time. In fact, many of the themes are already underway. Approximately 75 minutes, with PDF file of charts used: $25.00 plus postage.

I am oftentimes asked for recommendations of a money manager who uses my methods, since I won't manage other people's money. The thing is, almost all money managers I know use their own systems. But many subscribe to my services and share my thoughts about the future of the economy, various financial markets, and how to position one's portfolio along these lines. One money manager who subscribes to our services that I would suggest for those looking to structure a longer-term portfolio, such as a retirement account, is Duke O'Neill of Boulder, Colorado. He can be reached at dukeoneil1@gmail.com, or 1-(303) 545-5837. For those looking for a professional trader of commodity and futures contract might consider Ted Lee Fisher at ted.fisher@comcast.net. Ted is a legend in financial futures and has a seat on the CME. Both are very knowledgeable of the tools I use, of the way I am looking at markets, and yet each makes their own decisions as to exactly when to enter and exit any market. They will be more than happy to assist you.

To the above list, I would also like to recommend long-term MMA subscriber Erwin Brunner of Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Brunner is the founder of BrunnerInvest AG. One of his five funds was awarded the"Best in-house fund of funds" in the world recently. Mr. Brunner is a former director of the Swiss Banking Corporation (today it is known as UBS), and a general director of Rothschild Bank in Zurich. As an independent wealth manager for high net worth individuals and institutional clients only, he places his clients into the funds of the best performing fund managers in the world, via his own research and experience. For high net worth readers interested in Mr. Brunner's funds, please contact him through www.brunnerinvest.ch.

The newly revised The Sun, The Moon, and Silver Book : Secrets of a Silver Trader, is now out. This is a book that you will use as a reference guide for...many, many years. It identifies all the key Sun-Moon combinations that have a higher (and lower) than expected probability of correlating with 4% or greater reversals in COMEX Silver. It also identifies"Big Range Days" - those days in which the range of Silver is most likely to be 3.5% or more of the price of Silver, which is a great tool for day traders. This book fulfills the dream of all traders: high probability winning trade possibilities, with minimal market exposure. It is that"extra edge". And Silver is a great market to trade now. The cost is $125.00. For ordering on line.

Disclaimer and statement of purpose : The purpose of this column is not to predict the future movement of various financial markets. However, that is the purpose of the MMA (Merriman Market Analyst) subscription services. This column is not a subscription service. It is a free service, except in those cases where a fee may be assessed to cover the cost of translating this column from English into a non-English language. This weekly report is written with the intent to educate the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they are happening. In this regard, this report will oftentimes report what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week, and discuss that movement in light of the geocosmic signatures that were in effect. It will then identify the geocosmic factors that will be in effect in the next week, or even month, or even years, and the author’s understanding of how these signatures will likely affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from a perspective of a cycle’s analyst looking at the military, political, economic, and even financial markets of the world. It is possible that some forecasts will be made based on these factors. However, the primary goal is to both educate and alert the reader as to the psychological climate we are in, from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand these psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and hence financial markets of the day.

No guarantee as to the accuracy of this report is being made here. Any decisions in financial markets are solely the responsibility of the reader, and neither the author nor the publishers assume any responsibility at all for those individual decisions. Reader should understand that futures and options trading are considered high risk.

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