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The printed version of Forecast 2014 will be translated into several different languages again this year as follows :

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Each of these will also offer the English version of Forecast 2014, as will our Chinese distributor : Your work is essential to anyone who is serious in this field. I can't thank you enough for it.

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Please note : The Forecast 2014 Book is out. The archive of the Forecast 2014 speech is available for viewing on line until January 14. A DVD and/or CD of the same speech will be available in the first week of January. It will also be available via download of a streaming video (no postage). The speech went extremely well. For more information on ordering these products.

The Market Week in Review :

Our last column of two weeks ago stated, "This holiday season is not lacking for some rather exciting celestial fireworks. It's an appropriate way to end the Sun's transit through the expansive and optimistic sign of Sagittarius, and now prepare for its journey through the winter solstice and into a month of Capricorn". And so here we are, starting a new year. In the past two weeks, we saw many world stock indices soar to new all-time highs, such as in the USA and Germany. At the same time, we saw Gold futures fall back to their lowest levels in over two years on December 31, before embarking upon a very healthy rally to end the week's trading.

It was a rather bizarre two weeks in financial markets. As Gold and Silver fell, non-dollar currencies rose against the U.S. Dollar. That's not supposed to happen. Not only that, but as Gold then reversed and rallied sharply, those same currencies (like the Euro and Swiss Franc) fell sharply. What gives ? To a financial astrologer, this is a function of Venus retrograde (December 21-January 31), probably highlighted even more by the new moon conjunct Pluto, forming a cardinal T-square with the Mars-Uranus opposition. Whenever Uranus is involved, very few things go according to expectations. When Venus is retrograde, central bank and/or government financial policies change, directly impacting currency values. In fact, many financial markets make important primary trend reversals within two weeks of Venus turning retrograde. We are in that time band now, and we are seeing this in precious metals, currencies, treasuries, and crude oil, so far. As a result, we issued another special report on Gold this past week to subscribers of all MMA reports. If you are a subscriber to any of our reports and didn't get this special update, call us at once. If you are not a subscriber and would like to be (and get this special report), you may also contact us and we will send it right out.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The best of the weekly trades was in the March S&P, which advised aggressive traders, " You may now cover half of these longs (from 1750-1754) and ... cover remaining longs and sell short at 1850 +/- 5, with a stop-loss on a close above 1870". The high of the week was 1846.50, which represents huge profits on the longs and a new short at the high of the week. The close was 1825.50. Aggressive traders in March NASDAQ were advised, "Let's cover half of these (long) positions now (from 3416-3426), and the other half in weekly resistance (3579-3593), and go short there with a stop-loss on a close above 3675". The high was 3595, so that was another great profit on longs and short near the high of the move. The close on Friday was 3531.50. But the very best weekly trade may have been in Gold, which advised, "Aggressive traders are short (from 1290 area) with a stop-loss on a close above 1275, after covering half the prior week. Let's cover if it falls below 1182 and Silver remains above 1820, with a stop-loss on a close below xxx". The low was 1181.40, which means clients made over $100/contract ($10,000/contract in real terms) on shorts and got long at the low of the week, which then closed at 1237.40, up over $55 from the buy point. Similar longs were taken in Silver and SLV last week.

The best of the daily trades were in precious metals, which in our last report of December 23, advised the following : In Feb Gold, " Aggressive traders are flat. You may buy daily support (1191.50-1193.20) if offered, with a stop-loss based on Silver falling below 1889". The low in Gold was 1181.40 and Silver never closed below 1889. In GLD, all traders were advised, "Traders are short with a stop-loss on a close above 117.30 Cover 1/3 of these shorts for profits now, another third on a gap up over 116.47, and all of them - and go long - on a drop to 114.50 +/- .08, with a stop-loss on a close below 113". The low was 114.46, so we exited all shorts for great profits and got long at the low of the move. GLD closed at 119.29. In March Silver, "Aggressive traders are short with a stop-loss on a close above 2030 after covering half of these for nice profits at the low last week. You may cover all at 1920 +/- 5 and go long with a stop-loss on a close below 1889". The low was 1872 but it never closed below 1943. Friday's weekly close was 2013. In SLV, all traders were advised, "Traders are still short with a stop-loss on a close at 18.95. Let's cover 1/3 now, and the remainder in daily support. You may go long at 18.35 +/- 5 with a stop-loss on a close below 17.75". The low was 18.26, so once again, subscribers did extremely well on the shorts and got long just off the low of the entire move down. The weekly close was 19.42. All in all, it was very profitable holiday season for traders.

For more information on the daily or weekly market reports, please follow this link, or call our offices at 1-248-626-3034.

Short-Term Geocosmics and longer-term :

"It was the year that the genius of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' became clear in America. Efforts to centralize control in the name of 'fairness' have led to a society that is ever more at the mercy of a federal power - one that decides who does and does not succeed. The winners are favored special interests, political cronies, and wealthy lobbyists. The losers are everyone else... Obamacare was passed in the name of equalizing health care. Yet it was Congress and its staffers who got special dispensation to keep a generous health subsidy - when no other Americans did ". - Kimberley Strassel, "The Year of the Washington Power Grab", Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2014.

The new moon of January 1 at 11 ° Capricorn was powerful. Not only did it form a conjunction with reform-minded Pluto, but it also formed a T-square with the Mars-Uranus opposition, a signature of revolt against the reforms (and new taxes) of Pluto to be initiated in the USA, but also throughout other regions of the world. January 1 was, of course, the official start of Obamacare, sometimes ironically referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is anything but affordable to millions of middle class people who will pay higher fees and taxes for the privilege of less coverage and higher deductibles, while incredibly affordable to millions more who will indeed pay much less and/or almost nothing for the same policy, based largely on income differentials. This is part of the ideology that we will hear a lot more about in the next couple of weeks in the USA : "income inequality".

However, based on the chart alone of midnight, January 1, 2014, the road ahead for Obamacare is not likely to be a smooth transformation. Calls for the repeal of this act are very likely in the next six months, and it could very well become the cause of a greater populist revolt, for Uranus implies new technological and implementation problems that result in more unexpected and unplanned consequences. Will they ever get it right ? With Neptune in Pisces, nearly everyone wants the government (or some entity) to get it right. The problem is one of management, governance, and over-complexity (Capricorn). The irony is that the administration is stuck on "message discipline", another convenient and popular Capricorn phrase, but well off the mark of "truthfulness", a higher Capricorn quality. In "message discipline", politicians believe that if you say something over and over again (like a slogan), people will believe it is a truth - until reality strikes and demonstrates it is not (i.e. "... under the ACA, the health insurance rates for most people will be reduced about $2500/year"). It's just not true, and the mass awareness of that reality is what is about to arise, as suggested by the new moon conjunct Pluto and in a T-square with the opposition of Mars and Uranus. Masses of Americans will probably be outraged, much more than anyone fully realizes today.

The effects of this new moon will last for two weeks. However, the T-square between Mars, Pluto, and Uranus will last for the next four months. Also up on the cosmic docket this week will be another T-square between the Sun, Mars, and Jupiter, January 2-8. This is a signature of exaggeration - and more angst. Accuracy is not revered here ; boldness is. The combination can lead to big price moves in financial markets, but also huge errors in judgment by some world leaders who grossly overestimate ... themselves, and/or the situation at hand. It can get testy, as in threats and disputes. This cosmic setup may also correlate to a large impact upon crude oil prices, for Jupiter co-rules this commodity, and Jupiter is - again - exaggeration.

So how would one be advised to deal with this powerful geocosmic line up ? Believe nothing you hear or read that doesn't agree with your own sense of reason. The next four months will likely be a challenge between theory, ideology, and reality. And when reality is recognized, a series of policies will either have to be reversed or modified - again. To force the ideology over the reality of actual experience will make others question your sanity and/or real intentions.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

The Forecast 2014 Book is out! If you ordered it and have not received it by Friday, December 20, please call us at once! The Forecast 2014 Book covers the second Cardinal Climax peak period, which is in effect August 2013 through April 2014. It discusses the world and national outlook for the economy and politics, the collective psychology, "hot" times during the year to watch, as well as our long-term and yearly outlook for U.S. stock indices, Gold, Silver, Treasuries and interest rates, Currencies, Crude Oil, Weather, and Grain markets. It is available as a print edition or e-book. To order Forecast 2014, please go to www.mmacycles.com, or call us at 1-248-626-3034.

On December 14 we conducted a webinar (and live speech) on Forecasts 2014. This two-hour presentation will be available on DVD, CD (audio) or via live streaming download on our website around the first week of January. The cost will be $45.00. It will cover the Cardinal Climax, the Uranus-Pluto square: where we've been, where we are, and where we are going in 2014, as it pertains to global and national politics, economics, and collective psychology. It will also give our outlook for the U.S. stock market, and Gold, plus answers to questions about Silver, Crude Oil, and currencies. The announcement and online ordering info will be posted on MMA's website. In the meantime, you may reserve your copy of this webinar by calling Amber at 1-248-626-3034 or email her. The raw footage viewing of this event is available now through January 11. You may view that too when ordering your CD or DVD or live streaming copy.

The first year of MMTA (the Merriman Market Timing Academy) is now completed!!! Course 4 was the course that short-term traders had been waiting for!!! And in about 3-4 weeks, it will be available on DVD or as an LMS on-line video. If you are a short-term trader, and want to know the best times to trade each month based on Sun-Moon signs and lunar phases, then this is the course you will not want to miss! There is nothing like this course taught anywhere else. The title for this course is "Solar-Lunar Correlations to Short-Term Trading Cycles", and it covered topics like : the General Flow of Moon Through the Signs and its Correspondence to Price Activity in U.S. Stock Market and Precious Metals; Formal Research Studies that Measure the Correlation of Solar-Lunar Combinations to Short-Term Trading Reversals in Financial Markets (Tops and Bottoms) ; Important Sun-Moon Correlations for U.S. Stocks ; Important Sun-Moon Correlations for Silver; Understanding the Trade Set Up for Optimal Use of Solar-Lunar Reversals; Enhancing timing using intraday charts (60-, 30- and 5-minute charts) ; and much more. The cost of this course is $2750.00, plus postage if ordering DVD, or no postage if uploading from our website. The course includes the Course 4 workbook, which is worth the price of the course itself. Short-term trading, as discussed in this course, pertains to positions lasting as short as a few hours (one day) to as long as three weeks.
For information and registration, please go to www.mmacycles.com or www.merrimanmta.com, or call us at 1-248-626-3034.

Course 3 of MMA's Market Timing Academy took place August 10-12, 2013, at the Management Education Center (MEC) in Troy, Michigan. The title of this course is "Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles. " It defined trading cycles - their length and patterns - and show which geocosmic signatures coincide with primary, half-primary, major, and shorter-term trading cycles in several financial markets, i.e. gold, silver, stock indices, currencies, grains. It discussed the historical correlation of Mars in Scorpio and heliocentric Mercury on Sagittarius to sharp swings in gold and silver, and how to trade them. The DVD and LMS of this course will be available around mid-September. This is a course you will not want to miss! The cost is $2750 for each.
For information and registration, please go to here or there, or call us at 1-248-626-3034.

Course 2 of MMTA, titled".Geocosmic Correlations to Investment Cycles in Financial Market". has been completed!!! The raw footage of this course is now available, and the DVD will be available in six weeks. This course examined the correlation of Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and the Moon's North Node to long-term trends and their cycle troughs and crests in many financial markets, including stock indices and precious metals, going back over 200 years. Special attention was be given to the Uranus-Pluto and Saturn-Neptune cycles in various financial and commodity markets, plus the transit of Jupiter through the signs of the zodiac and its correlation to long- and intermediate-term stock market and Silver cycles. The cost of this raw footage or DVD is $2750. For information and/or registration, please go to here or there, or call us at 1-248-626-3034.

If you are interested in a review of Course 1 of MMTA that took place April 6-8, please visit here. Or go to the www.mmacycles.com website and scroll down the first page. Henry Canciglia has an extensive background in the U.S. political and intelligence community. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. Henry is one of the 15 apprentices for the two-year MMTA course.

Next year's second year of MMTA courses will begin in March 2014. Please visit www.merrimanmta.com for more information, and research papers on market timing findings conducted by apprentices, which are posted as they are received. Many of these are extremely well done and valuable.

Our 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.

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.

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.

Upcoming Events :

January 17, 2014 : Zurich, Switzerland. "Lessons from the Uranus/Pluto-Square and Second Peak of the Cardinal Climax April 2014". This will part of a congress on Forecasts 2014.

January 18, 2014 : Zurich, Switzerland : sponsored by AstroData. A special 5-hour workshop on "The Current Cyclical State of Financial Markets : Where Do We Go from Here ? " 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM. Location will be the Congress House in Zurich. Sponsored by AstroData and MMA-Europe.
For further information, please go to there, or contact ASTRODATA AG, Tel. 41 (0) 43 343 33 66, or email. 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 !.

March 24-27, 2014 : Scottsdale, AZ or Troy, MI. MMTA Course 5: "Price Targets and Chart Patterns in Financial Markets". Special Guest contributor will be Noboru Takesaka.

June 2-5, 2014 : MMTA Course 6 : "Advanced Support-Resistance Calculations for Trading".

August 25-28, 2014 : MMTA Course 7 : "Combining Technical Studies, Cycles, and Critical Reversal Dates for Traders".

September 25-28, 2014 : The ISAR International Astrology Conference, Phoenix, AZ. This will be the "big one" next year with dozens of well-known international astrologers present ! Mark your calendars and plan to attend it. Information will soon be available at www.iasastrology.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.

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 theBest 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 identifiesBig 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 thatextra 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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