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The Market Week in Review :

You want to see what Uranus square Pluto looks like ? Her name last week was Sandy. And she unleashed devastating natural catastrophe, economic loss, and threat to human life in a manner reminiscent of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. For the first time since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York City, the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for consecutive days. In the study of Mundane Astrology, Uranus rules high winds, electrical black outs, and earthquakes. Pluto rules threat to life, crops, and economic loss. The square is an aspect that pertains to great challenges and difficulties of the dynamics signified by the planets that are involved in the square.

The financial markets of the world also got a huge dose of what Uranus square Pluto looks like – especially equities, precious metals, and currencies. All rallied nicely right after the NYSE opened on Wednesday, October 31. But the very next day – November 1 – began the Venus translation to the Uranus-Pluto square. In fact, Venus began its 3-day T-square formation to Uranus and Pluto that day. Now from previous columns, you know that Uranus rules surprises and abrupt reversals and/or the breakthrough of important support-resistance levels. On Thursday and Friday, we witnessed each. The USA stock market (signified by the Dow Jones Industrial Average), for instance, rallied smartly on Thursday. The DJIA was up 126 points. The rally continued following the very favorable payroll reports on Friday morning. Early on it was up over 60 points. Then, in typical Uranus fashion, it abruptly reversed and wiped out all the gains of the week, closing down nearly 140 points.

But that was nothing compared to the damage to precious metals. After testing 1700 again early in the week, Gold rallied to a high of 1726.60 on October 31. After the favorable jobs report Friday morning, Gold sold off. By the close it was testing 1675, its lowest level since August 31. Silver fell to 3081, its lowest level also since late August. This is all related to the transit of Venus through its ruling sign of Libra as outlined in the Forecast 2012 Book for this period.

Venus is in its ruling sign, and it is in a T-square to Uranus this weekend (November 1-3). Venus, along with Uranus and Pluto, are thus very strong right now. In the study of Financial Astrology, Venus and Pluto co-rule currencies. Thus it is not surprising that many currencies fell sharply on Friday against the U.S. Dollar. The Euro currency, for example, was down over a full point against the U.S. Dollar on Friday. What is causing this ? Well, the favorable jobs report suggests the economy is growing. Therefore the belief is that the Federal Reserve Board may not need to prop up the economy with further monetary easing. Their policies are apparently kicking in as more people head back to work. But wait a minute : didn't I say once before that Election week would find both Mercury and Neptune changing directions ? And didn't I suggest that Mercury and Neptune highlighted would signify a period where the accuracy of numbers could be seriously challenged and even misleading ? How many of these new workers are really working in full time positions at wages they used to make ? Maybe after this week's election we will find out. However, maybe it will take more than a week to get an accurate count of anything where numbers really matter now.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The weekly report for T-Notes stated, " Position traders are long with a stop-loss on a close under 131/02. Let's exit 1/3 now and the rest at 133 or higher and stand aside. Aggressive traders are also long with a stop-loss below 131/22. Let's follow the same route as position traders and then stand aside until the election". The high of the week was 133/02, so we made an excellent profit on that multi-week trade.

It's too early to tell if this will end up a good trade, but the weekly report for Silver stated, "Aggressive (and position) traders are flat and may look to buy at 3090…" The low of the week was on Friday at 3081.50.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

Right now, transiting Venus is in the same degrees as Uranus and Pluto, creating what astrologers refer to as a T-square formation. It adds an extra punch to the nature of the larger planets involved : Uranus and Pluto. Here is how this period was described in the Forecast 2012 Book : "October 25-November 3 – Freak snow falls possible, high winds, power shortages, and earthquakes". And there are three more of these periods coming up before the year ends as forecasted in the same book : November 22-27, December 13-16, and December 25-31.

But it is more than just Venus playing havoc with the collective right now. This week will find the trickster Mercury going retrograde (November 6-27). That is a time when all communications need to be repeated and verified for accuracy. When you tell your broker to sell, make sure you mean "sell" and not "buy". When you receive an email from a friend where the subject line says she is stranded in Madrid and lost her wallet, verify that is her email address before you open the attachment. When your favorite newscaster announces that Mitt Romney or Barack Obama has won the election, check the other stations for verification. When anyone tells you anything this week, check it out before acting on that information. And it is not just Mercury that is changing directions, but also Neptune, who is the greatest carrier of misinformation of the planetary lords. He may be inspiring in a spiritual or artistic or musical sense. He can carry you to other levels of awareness. But he is not so adept to the ways of practical thinking or accurate accounting of details. Everybody loves Neptune, but not everybody can trust Neptune's message if facts are involved.

It promises to be a peculiar week, and one that is headed right to the solar eclipse in Scorpio (sign of taxes and debts) on November 13. And do not forget that Mars is still in Sagittarius through November 17, the sign where financial markets can be subject to larger than usual price swings. If markets go up, we have irrational exuberance. If they go down, we flirt with panic and hysteria. Mars in Sagittarius can be very loud and unruly. Expect to see some of that this week.

Longer Term Thoughts :

"He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power." - Josef Stalin.

It is Election week in the U.S.A. We will revisit "Longer-Term Thoughts" when we know who will be the next president. Of course, with Mercury retrograde and Neptune turning direct this week, we may not know the outcome that quickly. Nothing will surprise us, and yet we know that something unexpected and surprising is likely to happen as a correlation to the planetary patterns now present.

Yet as peculiar as the cosmos looks this week, a Mundane Astrologer would have to be intrigued by the unusual patterns that are lining up for next summer, 2013. As I sit at my desk down here in the Florida Keys this month, writing the Forecast 2013 Book, I can personally state that I have never seen anything quite like the Grand Trine, Kite, and T-square formations that will be unfolding in the summer of 2013, involving all five of the furthest out planets on our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). The Jupiter and Pluto opposition at the time seems to be the key, as they are in two of the three patterns. Pluto by itself is the only planet involved in all three patterns. It is really quite something for an astrologer to see such a complex and rare combination of patterns happening in one season. I don't know that this has ever happened before. Besides the idea that very fascinating souls will likely be incarnated during this period, it also holds the promise that very constructive solutions to the world-wide economic crisis could be proposed and adopted, paving the way for the reconstruction of the global financial system. I am not saying it will miraculously change overnight. But I think agreements could forged between opposing ideologies that lead to new policies that in turn could start the process towards a sustained recovery that will be evident by the end of this decade – if we stick to the plan that is adopted then. I know that sounds like a long time, but the world is in a deep abyss and will take a time to climb out of it. And we have to start somewhere and at some time with agreements and policies that will start this rebuilding process. I think we have a chance to do that in 2013, based on the potential manifestation of these planetary formations. It could be a new day, a new morning, for the world.

To be continued… (next week)

Announcements :

Forecast 2013 Book : Please note that November 5, - next Monday, will be the last day to take advantage of MMA's special pre-publication 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 november 5 ! 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.
By the way, 2013 should be very interesting as there will be a super-rare configuration in effect by the summer. We are doing our research on the frequency of this pattern now, along with its historical corresponding themes.

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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