MMA WEEKLY - Financial Astrology commentary, Financial Market Analyst and Market Timer

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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 :

Friday's employment report was unexpectedly weak. Analysts expected 200,000 new jobs in December, but the report fell far short, showing only 74,000. Unemployment dropped sharply from 7.0 to 6.7%, but the majority of that decline was a result of people dropping out of the work force entirely. Although this was a surprise to many, it falls right in line with the Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto T-square, where surprises like this are more the norm. In reaction to these disappointing numbers, stocks and the dollar sold off, while Treasuries, currencies, and precious metals rose. This also creates more uncertainty about the Fed's decision to start tapering. If the USA economy is not as strong as they think it should be, then they will not continue to taper. This too would be an unexpected development for the investment community, but again, consistent with Financial Astrology, which notes no adverse Saturn (tightening) aspects to the chart of the Federal Reserve Board until late 2015, early 2016 .

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The best of the weekly trades was in February Gold, which advised, "Position traders are flat and may now look to buy at 1220 +/- 5 if offered, with a stop-loss on a close below 1179.50". The low of the week was 1212.60 and by Friday, it was approaching 1250. In GLD, traders were advised , "...look to buy this week at 117.80 +/- .20 with a stop-loss on a close below 114.40". The low was 117.11 and by Friday, GLD was well above 120.

The best of the daily trades was in T-Notes, which on Monday, January 6, December 23, advised, " Position traders are flat and may buy at 123/00 with a stop-loss on a close below 122/00". The low was 122/30, and by Friday, T-Notes were well above 124.

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 :

The only major geocosmic signature occurring this week is Venus square Mars, on January 16. The full moon is that day, too, in Asia and Europe. This aspect has a modest correlation to reversals in stocks, and probably a greater association with currencies, sugar, and soybeans. In terms of collective psychology, it tends to be argumentative, especially in financial matters. It can also indicate a strong romantic attraction between people who may not know one another very well. Maybe it can work out if they do not argue on the first meeting about money. There may be rumblings of discord about the next looming debt crisis, which is coming up in early February in the USA. The president doesn't want to negotiate on raising the debt ceiling (again), and the House Republicans want some compromises on future spending plans (less spending) in return for working out a budget agreement in early December.

It is all moving towards a greater showdown when Venus turns direct on January 31, the same day of the second Jupiter-Pluto opposition. These are both very powerful geocosmic signatures that can correlate with longer-term market cycle reversals.

Venus direct will highlight the principles of Venus, which pertain to the need of agreements and support. The areas of life affected are finances and love. Normally, this would be considered a positive signature for progress in these areas.

However, the Jupiter-Pluto opposition happens the same day, and that is not an agreeable aspect regarding money. Jupiter is abundance and the urge to exaggerate, or at least not want any limits placed upon it. Pluto is debt. Together they bring into focus the problems with escalating debt, and the opposite sides of an argument about future debt. One side wants to spend (and tax) more, the other side wants less. Keep in mind that the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 began when these two planets were in conjunction (December 2007). The former all-time high in the DJIA was in October 2007. As the crisis unfolded, the DJIA dropped over 50% of its value into March 2009. Other world equity indexes fell even more. Now these same two planets have reached their halfway point, and once again, many equity markets are making new all-time highs. Will it follow that a sharp decline follows ? Financial Astrology says that is quite possible, for the hard aspect of Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto has a history of coinciding with sharp declines in equities. But as the New Year brings in a probable new record level of retirement monies (based on Jupiter in Cancer, the USA's natal Sun, Venus, and Jupiter sign), fundamentals argue that this money will find its way into the stock market prior to late March.

This week is somewhat important from a Financial Astrology point of view. However, the four weeks following January 31 are more noteworthy, with an even greater historical correspondence to long-term market cycle reversals. Not only that, but they correspond to reversals in political and central banking decision-making. Currency prices could be vulnerable to reversals here.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

"But saying something is true doesn't make it so. When a misleading message ultimately clashes with reality, the result is dissonance and conflict. In a republic, deception is destructive. Without truth, there can be no trust. Without trust, there can be no consent. And without consent, we invite paralysis, if not chaos...". - Senator Tom Coburn (R, OK), WSJ, Dec 31, 2013.

In the study of astrology, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are considered "higher octave" planets. They are the ones that cannot be seen with the naked eye. They have the longest orbits around the Sun, and are furthest away from Earth. As such, they are considered planets affecting the collective, or masses of people. When they are in aspect to personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury or Venus) at the time of one's birth, then there is a tendency for that individual to be involved with the masses, or understanding the collective. Astrologers, for instance, often have personal planets in aspect to the "higher octave planets". Which introduces us to the question : what is the astrologer's role in the world ? What is his/her responsibility to society - if any ?.

This column is primarily focused upon financial markets, and the role of astrology as a financial market-timing tool. Yet financial markets are often directly impacted by political decisions. Therefore, in our efforts to anticipate changes in financial markets, it is necessary to be both a financial and mundane, or political, astrologer. It is incomplete to be a Financial Astrologer without an understanding of Mundane or Political Astrology. For this reason, I often address the political arena in this column. Beyond that, I believe that the greatest power to change things in today's world is in the political arena. It is not in the private sector or even banking. It is in the public sector, or government. Furthermore, despite our collective wish to have freedom and liberty, that is impossible if the political situation represses those collective wishes.

In today's cosmic climate, we find two of the three outermost planets - Uranus and Pluto - in a generational hard aspect (square), lasting June 2012 through March 2015. The third - Neptune - entered its ruling sign of Pisces in April 2011, where it will remain for 14 years. The masses are going through a fierce period now of conflict between personal needs for freedom and liberty, versus the collective need for national and even global security. Pluto represents the possibility of secretly spying on others. In Capricorn, it is the government doing this to its own citizens. Uranus represents the quest for freedom and independence, which is strong now because Uranus is in the individualistic and independent sign of Aries. They are square (challenging) to one another.

Then comes Neptune, in Pisces, the wish to trust that others sincerely care about your needs. But that wish can be so strong that it is easy to be duped, deceived, simply by promises that sound good but end up not being sincere or accurate. With Uranus and/or Pluto also prominent, this can create a climate of mass hysteria or delusion, where the masses believe one thing (because they want to), but in reality they experience something completely different than they signed up for.

When an astrologer sees something like that occurring, what is his/her responsibility to society ? First, one has to ask : is it possible for astrology to indicate that possibility of mass delusion ? I believe it is possible. However, what if the astrologer's interpretation is incorrect ? Issuing a dire warning could be problematic. The final result is not a matter of astrology alone. The end result depends greatly upon the choices made during a geocosmic signature (like Uranus square Pluto). It is the role of a Mundane Astrologer to make a reasonable assessment of what those choices are, and what those consequences might be as a result of those choices, within the context of the astrological themes involved.

And so we come back to the question : what is the astrologer's responsibility to society if he/she sees something believed to be challenging - and potentially dangerous - to the masses ? Especially if the result of this dynamic depends on political choices being made ? If he/she expresses this concern, even to the point of outlining the differences in choices available, he/she risks offending those of a political bent who 1) refuse to see it that way (Neptune, denial) or 2) who personally benefit from the current movement (Pluto in Capricorn).

We not only live in interesting times, but we live in dangerous and potentially explosive times. How it all works out is still unknown, for these are times of great uncertainty. Nevertheless, I see my role - and the role of other Mundane and Financial Astrologers - to bring to the attention of those who are interested, the choices that lie before us, and the consequences of those choices - especially when those are choices between truth and deception, and the consequences are the difference between freedom and repression, security and uncertainty. I like to think of my own role as someone who is offering useful guidance and understanding, via astrological principles, regarding this period of Uranus square Pluto that we are collectively going through - perhaps the biggest collective challenge of our lifetime, where the consequences are proportionately huge. To me, this is not a time for astrologers to avoid unpleasant social and political issues, and simply believe that everything in life is in perfect order. It is not in perfect order, but it is in an order that perfectly reveals collectively reality. How that reality unfolds, however, depends on political choices made by world leaders during this time. And they, in turn, are influenced by our collective responses to their activities. These are cardinal signs. This is the end of the "Cardinal Climax". And cardinal signs are action signs.

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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