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The Market Week in Review :

We are now in the season of Gemini (May 21-June 20), and on Monday, June 11, Jupiter will begin its one-year trek through Gemini as well. And last week, stock and precious metals markets behaved in typical Gemini fashion. Equities in many world markets were down sharply early in the week under the lunar eclipse of Monday, June 4, with renewed threats of an exit of Greece from the Euro Union, on top of the prior Friday's weak jobs report in the USA. Stocks then rallied sharply into Thursday and Friday. The Gold and Silver markets continued their rallies from the prior week, topping out on Wednesday, June 6 as the Venus occultation of the Sun took place. The next day they began a sharp sell-off into Friday. Gold fell from a high of 1642.40 on June 6 to a low of 1556.40 on June 8. Silver topped out at 2986 on Wednesday. Two days later it was down to 2791. European currencies rallied most of the week, but the Japanese Yen fell against the U.S. Dollar after making a secondary top just one week ago, June 1. In the meantime, Crude Oil continues its approach to 80.00/barrel after a three-day rally last week that also topped out on Thursday, June 7, at slightly above 87.00/barrel.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

Over the past few weekly columns, I have been inserting trading recommendations we have made to our subscribers. Readers seem to like this type of information as to just how accurate these reports, based on our unique timing methods, have been in many cases.

Daily subscription report for last Monday, June 4, on the June E-Mini S&P : " Aggressive traders are flat and may buy daily support (1257-1262.50) and/or sell daily resistance, with a stop-loss on a close beyond either". The low that day was 1262 and it closed at 1273. The daily report for June 7 then advised, "... let's look to exit all (long) positions now with excellent profits at 1319.50 or higher if offered". It was. The high that day was 1329.50 and it closed at 1316.75, so this was a gain of about 57 points in just three days for aggressive traders.

Thursday's daily report for subscribers was also long Silver from the Venus retrograde of May 15-16, and advised, "Let's cover all now, sell short with a stop-loss on a close above 3020, and wait for a 10% decline to buy back". The open that day was 2946. SLV traders (the ETF on Silver) were long from 26.08 on May 16 (the low was 25.99). The report of Thursday, June 7, stated , "Cover all now and sell short with a stop-loss on a close above 2910 or 3000, depending on your risk allowance". The open that day was 28.74. The high was 28.76 and it closed at 27.79 that day, and was down to 27.32 by Friday, the next day.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

"Meanwhile, the cliff that could break the economy's neck is the scheduled tax hikes. These include a tripling of the tax on dividends, a near 60% in the capital gains rate, a 20% increase in personal income tax that will hit small businesses". - Wall Street Journal, "Bernanke's Cliffhanger". June 8, 2012.

Last week was quite a week astrologically, beginning with Monday's lunar eclipse and retrograde change of direction of Neptune. Most stock indices bottomed out that day or early the next day, June 5.

As we look at the movement of planets currently in effect, there are several factors to take into account. First, Venus remains retrograde through June 27. As indicated before, there would be changes of policies with some central banks during this period, and sure enough, China made the surprise announcement to lower their interest rates by a slight amount. In Japan, treasury officials announced that the renewed strength of the Yen was unacceptable, and all last week the value of the yen declined from these extremely high levels. Both the Federal Reserve and ECB (European Central Bank) pleaded with politicians to start doing their share of supporting a growth-oriented economy with sensible fiscal policies and not to rely so heavily upon them to continue with monetary stimulus policies. Their ammunition is running low to keep their economies - the world economy - from collapsing under the heap of out-of-control spending and the prospect of more taxes coming up. They call it a "fiscal cliff". and in the United States, that cliff looms heavy as of January 1 It is time for governments to start to asserting reforms in taxes and spending policies, or essentially to start behaving with some level of fiscal maturity and control to avoid the possibility of outright panic that would be consistent with the 33-month transit of Uranus in waxing square to Pluto, which officially starts June 24.

But don't expect any solutions this month. But also expect an overabundance of suggested solutions starting this month and lasting for all of next year. Why ? Because the Sun is in Gemini now (along with retrograde Venus), and on Monday, June 11, Jupiter will start its one-year transit through Gemini. Gemini is the sign of ideas - bright, smart, exciting ideas. But Jupiter is the sign of abundance or excess, so in effect, we have so many ideas - too many ideas - and the result could be a lot of talk but no agreement on action to take. Everyone is excited, but no one is taking responsibility or control for implementation. Everyone has a solution, but its all in the idea state. No one has any practical plan on how to get from here to the glory land that they all say is so right before us. Or if they do, they can't seem to get the other side to agree, and in one form of a classical Gemini characteristic, they project. That is, the debate descends to blaming others for not seeing the light that is obviously blinding anyone who has the courage to look at it seriously.

So how do markets react when Jupiter is in Gemini, the sign considered to be Jupiter's detriment ? Prices go up sharply, then down sharply, then back up again very sharply - or vice versa - in short bursts of hope, despair, more hope, and if lucky, resolution. If not lucky, then frustration and wariness from running around circles so much.

The next two weeks will be a preview of the whole next year, for the Sun will be in Gemini then, and Jupiter will be in Gemini for the next year. There will be a lot of motion, a lot of re-doing of things searching for an agreeable conclusion. And many markets will likely make long-term cycle highs and lows and then reverse their trend during this time. And on top of all that, Uranus begins its seven-passage square to Pluto June 24, 2012, and it will last until March 17, 2015. In astrology, this defines unusual brilliance and out-of-the-box thinking, which is sorely needed. It also defines craziness and a knack for losing sight of commons sense.

Once again, it is time to fasten your seatbelts for a roller-coaster ride of great thrills and loud (but perhaps hilarious) sound bites of wisdom and zaniness. Sort of like the fight that broke out on a live television show in Athens, Greece, last week where a male member of Parliament slapped up a female member. How symbolic of the geocosmic signatures unfolding in June 2012, and which may carry in through June 2013. The price of maturity and common sense and self-control is being heavily discounted.

Longer Term Thoughts :

Well, here is one positive manifestation of these transits, I hope. It's personal. It's about the new market timing academy I am starting up with Jupiter (education) in Gemini (learning and knowledge). And in typical Gemini expression, we are also making some important changes before we get it off the ground. Here is the latest update, consistent with Jupiter now in my ninth house of education, and the Venus occultation hitting my natal Moon's North Node in Gemini (and my natal Uranus), which is the finger of God in my natal Yod formation (to Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Scorpio, and Moon in Capricorn). This implies a new purpose and direction in life.

Recently I announced the formation of an academy dedicated to the training of those who share my passion for market analysis and market timing. The name of the training institute was to be the Online Market Timing Academy (OLMTA).

There has been a phenomenal response to the training which is very gratifying to me. To accommodate the new Academy into our office structure has bought about many exciting changes as my goal is to serve all the new academy clients in the same professional manner that our existing clients have enjoyed over the years.

Some of the changes include moving to a much larger office space, obtaining faster internet service, upgrading our phone system, and hiring a project coordinator for the Academy.

And there is one more important change. As many of you already know, I obtained the domain name Online Market Timing Academy (OLMTA) in 1993. At that time I thought that was good descriptive name for the anticipated academy. However, today that name does not encompass all the planned activities that the academy will pursue in the future. The new name has now been changed to "Merriman Market Timing Academy (MMTA)".

To avoid any confusion that the name change might create please understand that all communications, applications and website postings using the old name are all valid and unchanged. Only the name has changed.

We will keep everyone updated via this weekly report as well as on our new websites at www.merrimanmta.com and merrimanmarkettiming academy.com, which will be up and running very shortly, well in time for registering for our introductory course on "Basic Principles of Financial Astrology for Financial Market Timing". to take place September 15-16 in Troy, Michigan (juts outside of Detroit). It will be available as a live Webinar too. See announcements below.

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 DVD of the Denver Workshop on Financial Market Timing is now available. This financial markets workshop offers a completely unique and original perspective, integrating :
1) Market Timing studies
2) Price Objective calculations
3) Technical Analysis
4) Pattern Recognition studies
5) Trend Analysis.

The primary focus of this workshop is on Market Timing Studies, particularly Cycles Analysis and Geocosmic Studies, as leading indicators that identify when to anticipate a reversal in all financial markets. Gold and the U.S. stock market are studied in great detail, especially regarding their current status. There is a wealth of timely and valuable information in this DVD, especially pertaining the forthcoming Venus retrograde period (May 15-June 27), the forthcoming Uranus-Pluto square of June 24, 2012, lasting through March 2015, and the important Jupiter correlation to stock market cycles coming up August-November 2012 and March-May 2013.
The cost for this 4-hour DVD workshop is $180.00 plus postage. To order, or call Amber at 1-248-626-3034. If you are a trader or investor who appreciates the value of market timing - especially in the next few months - this is a presentation you will not want to miss! .

Recently I announced that I will be starting a new direction in life over the next two years, involving a mentor-apprenticeship program on Financial Market Timing and Analysis, according to the unique methodology I have developed over the past 30+ years. I didn't expect any response yet, as we are still developing the format. But... there has been a huge response! We know we are behind the curve on getting out information on this rapidly developing project, but we are working out the details and more announcements will be made shortly. So far we have determined that the training will take place over eight weekends stretching from 2013-2014. The dates for 2013 have now been selected. They are : April 6-8, June 15-17, Aug 10-12, and Oct 12-14. The 2014 schedule will be determined in 2013 . These 8 sessions will be the only time that Raymond Merriman will give this entire training in person. A pplications for the "On Line Market Timing Academy" (OLMTA) are being accepted now. There will be an introductory training session, September 15-16 in Troy, Michigan (see below). For more information, or an application form, please contact Amber Lundsten, call 1-248-626-3034, or go to or scroll down the opening page (next page) of www.mmacycles.com. Raymond Merriman's "Market Timing Academy" (MMTA) will offer a pre-training course on "Beginning Principles of Financial Astrology for Financial Market Timing", September 15-16, in Troy, Michigan, at the Management Education Center of Michigan State University. This 10-12 hour course may be attended live, in person, or via webcast televised to your computer. An archive of this workshop will be available for 30 days afterwards to those who sign up. This workshop will basically train non-astrologers in the use of reading an ephemeris, the table of planetary positions for any given day. This is essential to anyone who wishes to understand how to find a geocosmic critical reversal date for financial markets. This course (or audit of it) is a pre-requisite for anyone entering the MMTA market training course, as developed and instructed by Raymond Merriman. The MMTA two-year training course will begin in April 2013, and will involve 8 weekends of study - 4 weekends each in 2013 and 2014. For more information and registration, please go to www.mmacycles.com (front page, near bottom). We will make announcements as this training program unfolds. The cost for the September 15-16 pre-training workshop is $395.00 ($300 for MMA subscribers). This cost will be deducted from the fee of the two-year training course to those who apply and are accepted into MMTA by late October 2012.

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.

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 :

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 ! .As of this writing, there are about 20 people registered for this special event. Come join us and learn where Gold prices are headed in the next six months and next six years!

August 2-6, 2012 : Midwest Astrology Conference, in Ann Arbor, MI, Holiday Inn. Pre-seminar workshop on Financial Astrology and Financial Market Timing with Raymond Merriman on Thursday, August 2. Featuring over 20 astrologers, including Michael Lutin, Chris McRae, Bob Thibodeau, Dennis Fairchild, Monica Dimino, Richard Smoot, Grace Morris and others. For more information, call 303-828-5445, 303-604-2777, or email macasrtrology@yahoo.com, or go to http://macastrology.tripod.com.

September 15-16 : Troy Michigan. OLMTA - the On-Line Market Timing Academy - will conduct it pre-curriculum introductory workshop on "Basic Principles of Geocosmic Studies for Financial Market Timing". This will be an introductory course on how to read an ephemeris and how to calculate a critical reversal date. It is open to anyone, but understanding this material is mandatory for anyone entering the MMA mentor-apprenticeship program that will officially start in March 2013. This introductory workshop will be available as a live webinar too. The cost is $300 to subscribers of any MMA subscription report, or $395 to others. For further information, please contact or ordersmmma@msn.com.

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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