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The Market Week in Review :

Well, they did it. The goal was to get unemployment back down below 8.0%, and almost exactly one month before the election, unemployment dropped to 7.8%. Yet the nonfarm payrolls increased by a still-too-small 113,000 jobs last month, when it needs to get back over 200,000 on a regular basis to be considered a "healthy" growth economy.

At first, stock markets welcomed the unemployment report as the Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up to a new multi-year high at 13,661, eclipsing its prior high of 13,653 on September 14. However the nearby S&P futures did not make a new high. It rose to 1466, slightly below its multi-year high of 1468 also recorded on September 14. Thus we now have a case of intermarket bearish divergence, in a geocosmic critical reversal zone, in the United States. And of course such divergences are still present in many regions of the world as discussed in prior columns over the past several weeks.

Gold and silver also soared to new 7-month highs last week, with silver hitting 3544 on Monday, October 1, and gold to 1798 on Friday, October 5. But then both pulled back following the payroll reports early Friday morning. This too is a concern as Mars leaves Scorpio this weekend (see Short-Term Geocosmics).

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The weekly report on gold stated the following : "OK, we made another great profit on the long side and went short in the high of the week. Let's cover that short for a modest profit now, and return to the long side if prices fall to 1767 or lower, with a stop-loss on a close below 1738". That worked out well again as the low of the week was 1765.70 and by early Friday, gold was making a new 7-month high, testing 1800.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

There is a lot of geocosmic activity occurring in these first two weeks of October. Last week discussed all of the planetary ingresses taking place, involving new sign positions for Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn, all between October 3 and October 6. This alone suggests a change of focus by the market community, and also by those in the political realm. It was thus no surprise, based on these signatures, that Mitt Romney performance in last week's presidential debates has changed the dynamics of the election. According to most analysts, there is a real race in place, whereas before, most had written off Romney's chances of being elected. My own view on this was that the dynamics of the election would change somewhere between September 19 (Uranus square Pluto) and October 8, and I wanted to wait until then to make a forecast, which I will do in the Longer-Term Thoughts part of this column.

But back to the short-term geocosmics in effect this week....On October 4, Jupiter turned retrograde. On October 9, the Sun will form a trine aspect to Jupiter. And on October 15, there will be a new moon in Libra. All of these signatures are favorable in classical astrological thought. Thus one might expect the stock market to continue to rally. However it doesn't always work out that way. The "good news" may have been the economic reports regarding unemployment declining below 8%.

Within all these normally "positive" : and optimistic Jupiter signatures, we also find Mars moving into Sagittarius (October 6-November 16). Sagittarius is the "home" of Jupiter, so Mars (planet of action and energy) is also typically bullish for equities. In fact it can be wildly bullish. But here is the catch : when so much Jupiter isn't manifesting so optimistic and positive with the collective, it instead behaves with hysteria and leads to panic. So our bias is bullish, but we must be alert in the event that markets start heading south and hysteria I stead of optimism and hope start to manifest. One of the possible causes for that is already in place : the "Fiscal Cliff", which we have been citing in every column for the past several weeks, is still ahead on January 1 unless all of scheduled tax hikes are repealed before then. And with Uranus square Pluto solidly in place right now, and with both the White House and Congress more focused on winning the election that on performing their duty of "service to the country", and time running out, these signatures still suggest to me that an agreement will not come about easily or on time. It may not come about at all. By the time Mars reaches its opposition to Jupiter (ruler of Sagittarius) on October 28, the culmination of "irrational exuberance" or "hysterical panic" may be in full force. If not then, there is yet another powerful shift (and possible "cliff") approaching November 22-27 when Mars translates the powerful Uranus-Pluto square (it squares Uranus and conjuncts Pluto). This is a potentially very dangerous set up for the world - politically, militarily, or financially.

Longer Term Thoughts :

"Next to language, money is the most important medium through which modern societies communicate". - Bernd Widdig, "Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany".

"Since money is the agent of such mutual trust, debasing the money implies debasing the trust upon which social cohesion rests... do our money printing central banks and their cheerleaders understand the full consequences of the money debasement they continue to engineer ? " - Dylan Grice, "Popular Delusions : Memo to Central Banks : You are Debasing More Than Our Currency ", Societe Generale Bank.

OK. The election. First off, let me say that the USA election and its impact upon the world economy will be secondary to what is happening with regards to the policies and activities of the central banks of the world, like the Federal Reserve Board.

Secondly, the USA election is still a toss-up. Romney scored very well with his debate performance on Wednesday, October 3, in comparison to Obama's lackluster and rambling performance. But if you remember, the same thing happened in the first debate in the 2004 election. John Kerry ran all over George W. Bush and made the president look like a bumbling in competent, and not at all presidential. Yet on Election Day, the Moon was in Cancer, with Saturn, and thus my forecast (then) was that there would be no change. After all, Bush was a Cancer and so was the USA. There would be no change despite the fact that Kerry was far and above the better debater. At the time, there were very few - if any - astrologers predicting a Bush victory at least a month before that election. This election reminds me a lot of 2004, and once again the heavy majority of astrologers are predicting a Democratic victory. In reality, my astrological colleagues are mainly liberal in their political beliefs, so by and large they almost always - as a collective - predict a Democratic victory ... and it doesn't matter and I still love them). The only difference is that this time is that my own analysis mostly agrees with theirs.

In other words, nothing has really changed my forecast about this election as made in the Forecast 2012 Book, despite the change of dynamics between September 19 and October 8 that seem to favor Romney as a result of his excellent debate performance. Still, the major astrological factor that I see in his favor is the fact the Uranus squares Pluto, and Uranus means "change". But a change of what ? Could it be the makeup of the Senate, or the House of Representatives ? Yes, it could be that. And yes, it could be that Romney is victorious and that represents the change. I am not 100% certain because of the presence of Uranus, which rules surprises, upsets, and changes.

But my view remains that the majority of geocosmic signatures for this election still favors Obama. Astrologically, the moon is in Leo on Election Day, and Obama is a Leo (like Bush was a Cancer and in 2004 the Moon on Election Day was in Cancer). He is therefore favored with the voting taking place that day. But just as importantly, he has the community organizational skills to round up an incredibly large number of voters to cast absentee ballots before Election Day, as he proved in 2008 when he took 58% of the absentee voting. A record number of citizens voted ahead of Election Day in 2008, and they came out strongly on the side of Obama. We can already see this same trend repeating now as reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, in which it was reported : "In Iowa, 119,318 Democratic voters have requested absentee ballots, compared with 24,909 Republicans". On top of that, the debate has not touched on social issues yet, and there Obama continues a commanding lead with women, according to recent polls (not updated since the debate, however). As reported in the Forecast 2012 book, I believe the "women vote" in 2012 will be critical to the final result. If Romney hopes to win, he has to

1) match Obama's community organizational skills and get absentee voters out to vote now (he can't depend on the results of Election Day to carry him through - those days are gone following Obama's game-changing ploy of Election 2008), and

2) he has to start appealing more to issues of concern to voting women.

Can Romney do it ? Yes, it is possible, for Uranus is big in the cosmic picture right now, suggesting a change in leadership. But at this point, I don't see it happening to the level it needs to happen to unseat the current occupant of the White House. But as a note of disclosure : I have been wrong before. And personally, I am highly uncomfortable in the role of making predictions on any election or a sporting event (super bowl), especially one like this that is so dependent now upon the voting that is allowed to take place before Election Day. There is no solid chart or time for this event to work with anymore. And thus there is very little for professional astrologers to gain by trying to do this, for in the end, this is not what we do that is of real value to society. It is instead the kind of entertainment foray that people most remember about you and about astrology, which is unfortunate because the event doesn't have a valid time anymore. And that is what astrologers need to work with : time. So please : if you are going to judge me on any forecasting or astrological skills, do so more on the results of studies conducted on market behavior, and not on the results of predicting an election or super bowl. And may God help America following this election.

To be continued... (next week)

Announcements :

Forecast 2013 Book : Only one more month to take advantage of the special pre-publications offer for the Forecast 2013 Book. As in the past, MMA offers a special pre-publication discount rate for those who pre-order the next year's book before October 15, 2012. We are pleased to announce that the cost of this year's book will remain the same as last year at $55.00. We are also pleased to announce that the special pre-publication rate of $45.00 (plus postage) will available to those who order prior to October 30! Additionally we will offer Forecast 2013 in an e-book format at these same prices, although the e-book may not contain the planetary calendar and ephemeris in the back, as will be the case in the printed hard copy editions. But there will be no postage costs with the e-book. As always, a limited number are printed, so order now, save even more big bucks, and make sure you reserve your 2013 book before they sell out (or you forget)!!!.
To order, you may call MMA offices at 1-248-626-3034, or contact Amber. Or go to our website link. We have also posted a "Scorecard" of this year's forecasts.

We are pleased to announce the completion of "The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 2 : Geocosmic Correlations to Investment Cycles". We expect this book to be in print sometime in September - hopefully in time for the September 15-16 workshop. This means that the special $75.00 pre-order rate will end August 15. At that point, the normal rate of $125 (plus postage) will go into effect. To take advantage of the special pre-order discount price, please go to.

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 October 15, 2012.

Speaking of our weekly subscription reports, we now offer a new one titled : MMA Weekly Treasuries, Soybeans, and Crude Oil Report. This will be a 3-5 page report offering comments, analysis, forecasts, and trading strategy for next week's market activity in the U.S. 10-Year T-Notes (Treasuries), Soybeans, and Crude Oil futures only. List of support/resistance areas, trend indicator points, geocosmic and lunar reversal points for the week, cycles phasing, and recommended buy and sell strategies. The cost is $750/yr or $250/3 months. We will offer a one-month trial subscription for $50.00, available only until August 15, as part of our introduction to this new service. Subscriptions are delivered by downloadable postings on the MMA Website, which is entered via your personal password. It is also delivered via an email attachment to all subscribers over the weekend before the market opens.

The DVD of the Denver Workshop on Financial Market Timing is still 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, and

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 to 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 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.

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 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 :

January 11-12, 2012 : Zurich Switzerland. "Forecast 2013 Symposia" sponsored by AstroData.
January 11 lecture on Forecasts 2013. January 12 will be a special 5-hour workshop on "The Gold Market : Forecasting the Future Price of Gold and Silver". 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM. 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, follow this link or contact ASTRODATA AG, Tel. 41 (0) 43 343 33 66, or email info@mma-europe.ch. 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!.

January 17, 2013 : Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Forecast 2013", Sponsored by Schogt Market Timing. Call 31-(0) 294-415-917 for further more information, Or there.

April 6-8, 2013 : MMTA Course 1 : "Cycles and Chart Patterns in Financial Markets" with Raymond Merriman. Location: MEC Technical Center of Michigan State University, Troy, Michigan. This will be the first of eight courses given by The Merriman Market Timing Academy (MMTA). It is available to those who attend onsite, or via a live webcast that will take place from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Saturday and Sunday, as well as Monday from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, followed by a two-hour exam for those wishing to receive a certificate upon the completion of the MMTA entire 8 course program. The raw footage will be available for review for attendees for the 30 days following this course.

June 15-17, 2013 : MMTA Course 2 : "Geocosmic Correlations to Long-Term Cycles in Financial Markets" with Raymond Merriman. Location: MEC Technical Center of Michigan State University, Troy, Michigan.

August 10-12, 2013 : MMTA Course 3 : "Geocosmic Correlations to Primary and Trading Cycles in Financial Markets" with Raymond Merriman. Location : MEC Technical Center of Michigan State University, Troy, Michigan.

October 12-14, 2013 : MMTA Course 4 : "Solar-Lunar Correlations to Short-Term Reversals in Financial Markets" with Raymond Merriman. Location: MEC Technical Center of Michigan State University, Troy, Michigan.

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.

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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