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

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

Chinese Dutch Deutsch Japanese Russian Spanish Italiano

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.

Go to the sheet for Downloading the video for the Ultimate book on stock market timing.

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 :

Now we know what the manifestation of Mars and Saturn turning retrograde was all about, within the midst of three major Jupiter geocosmic signatures. Russia moves military forces into Crimea and starts the process of annexing this part of Ukraine without Ukraine's consent. Stock prices fall hard, while crude oil and precious metals rise sharply on that news as the week begins. However, by Tuesday, the markets return to normal. Stocks rise, precious metals and crude oil pull back, but the Russians defy all international pressures to pull out of Crimea. Mars and Saturn retrograde become entrenched in the threat of war, and stock markets rise, consistent with the principles of Jupiter signatures in the early phase of a new primary cycle (bullish phase).

This behavior of markets was an almost perfect textbook expression of these geocosmic signatures within this phase of market cycle, as covered by a special alert sent out to subscribers on Sunday night, March 2, which stated as follows :
"The Mars and Saturn turning retrograde this weekend is striking. Gold and Silver are soaring and the equity markets are falling (Sunday night). However, remember : this is a three-star critical reversal zone (Feb 28 and March 3, +/- 3 trading days... (and) Mars and Saturn are also turning retrograde (and Mercury and Jupiter are turning direct), so it is more likely to be "fake out", I think, especially given where each market is, in terms of its cycle labeling.

"Astrologically you need to be aware that right now, Moon is in Aries (war-like, aggressive) and Mars is turning retrograde (war-like, aggressive). It is not unusual for metals to suddenly rally - just like they are. But can they continue past this week, or even past Wednesday ? If Gold makes a new cycle high (above 1346.90) and Silver does not (2212), then we will have a case of bearish intermarket divergence, and probably oscillator divergence too, in a critical reversal period. Aggressive traders can sell short in that case, until both metals make new cycle highs.

"With stocks, it is just the opposite. This is the early part of a new primary cycle, a time that is more bullish than bearish... this is probably a buying opportunity as stocks fall hard in the wake of the Russian military threat to Ukraine. All traders are encouraged to look for buying opportunities here.

For now, metals traders can look to sell short if Silver does not take out its high last week while Gold does, especially before Wednesday".

The next day, equity markets opened down hard and Gold was at its highest level in 4 months. By Tuesday, all that reversed. Mark that as another example how Financial Astrology serves a very valuable function to traders of financial markets.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The only new trade initiated last week on the weekly program was in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which advised, "Aggressive traders may cover all (longs) and go short in weekly resistance (16,446-16,470) with a stop-loss on a close above 16,588". So we have a very nice profits on those longs and are now short entering this week.

The best trade of the week in the daily report was in May Silver for Monday, which stated, "Aggressive traders are also long with a stop-loss on a close below 1975 covering 2/3 of these longs for healthy profits last week. Let's still cover the final third at 2150 or better and go short with a stop-loss on a close above 2207". The high, after the Russian aggression in Crimea, was 2174. It closed the week at 2088.

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 cosmic drama may be over now for a couple of weeks. But next on the horizon is the biggest celestial grouping of the year : the Mars-Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto grand cardinal cross, which enters its most potent period of influence March 29-April 25. Everything until then is either just a prelude to the main event, or else the main event has already started and just keeps increasing its intensity until it reaches a climax around that time.

Of interest to traders will be the ingress of heliocentric Mercury into Sagittarius, March 13-25. This period typically witnesses several financial markets making large price swings. These swings can actually begin up to a week before. There will be a mutable full moon on March 16 as well, which is near the start of the heliocentric Mercury in Sagittarius time. That will likely magnify the amplitude of price swings, especially in precious metals and currencies.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

"How we will fight depends on the decisions of our leadership. If necessary, we will go with force. If you want peace, you must prepare for war."

• Taras Yurkiv, 35, from the eastern city of Lviv, Ukraine, CNBC, March 7, 2014 ( http://www.cnbc.com/id/101474750

"If Putin returns Crimea to Russia without blood, he will go down in history as great, and there is nothing you can do about that". ... According to new data released Thursday, Mr. Putin's approval rating climbed to two-year highs over the weekend... the apparently broad support or Mr. Putin's moves reflect, in part, the impact of state media, which dominate the airwaves in Russia...

• "Crimea Push Gives Putin a Bump in Popularity", Paul Sonne, Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2014. The quote within is from Kseniya Sobchak, a Russian television anchor.

When did this sudden escalation of tensions between Russia and the rest of world begin ? How and when will it end ? And how does it relate to Mundane Astrology ?.

The announcement of the Russian occupation of Crimea (which is denied by the Russian leadership) appears to have taken place within hours of Mars turning retrograde on March 1. Mars is the planetary principle of war, or the threat of war, and Aries is the sign associated with the same. Uranus, planet of disrupting the status quo (among many other things) is serving its normal 7-8 year journey through each sign of the zodiac, currently in Aries (2010-2018). Uranus in Aries is typically a time of aggressive, combative tendencies in the world. It happens that Uranus transits through Aries every 84 years.

Together, Uranus and Aries can highlight militaristic, brutal, defiant, and ruthless behavior, such as taking over a territory without the consent of its people. That can be even more exaggerated with Pluto in square to Uranus these days (2012-2015). In a positive expression, it can be a time of brilliant new thought, discoveries in scientific advancement, and individual records in sports. It can be a dualistic expression of very primitive, primal, and egocentric urges where "might is right", or it can be very modern and progressive thought where such Neanderthal behaviors as violence and force are castigated by the world. With Pluto in Capricorn at the same time, it is the classic conflict between the old and the new. It is also the clash of "power grabs" by repressive governments, versus the cry for freedom by the masses who oppose the oppression of their expression by their leaders.

In other words, we live in a very volatile time where such outbreaks of revolutionary and oppressive urges are magnified. War is always a possibility under such cosmic conditions.

When a planet turns retrograde, its principles are highlighted, especially at the time the retrograde begins. Mars is retrograde from March 1-May 20, or approximately 80 days. In the study of astrology, there is a technique known as "secondary progressions", where each day of life equals one year of life. Thus, when Mars turns retrograde by progression, the Mars principle begins a retreat for about 80 years. In the United States chart, Mars went retrograde by progression in 2008. Its retreat from military superiority in the world began then. From a military superpower, the leadership of America has steadily moved more in the direction of becoming a diplomatic superpower, searching for ways to induce world peace. And that movement is likely to continue for at least the next 20 years as the USA progressed Sun is also in Pisces, another sign ruling the urge for peace. The greatest tests to this Martian reversal are likely to take place in the first one-sixth of this progressed Mars retrograde period (through 2022).

One other thing to note about transiting Mars retrograde is that whoever initiates war and military action at the time, is usually the loser. It does not behoove the USA too start any wars now. It does not behoove Russia to start a military conflict now, but apparently they just did, which implies they stand to lose this fight in the end. The Ukrainian conflict does not bode well for the future of Russia, based on starting a conflict as Mars turned retrograde. I realize this is contrary to the analysis of political experts, who tote the line that nothing can stop Russia from doing what it wants in the Ukraine. My understanding of Mundane Astrology says just the opposite. This is not likely to turn out well for Russia on many levels.

Vladimir Putin is a Libra. Mars is turning retrograde in Libra, his Sun sign. Mars is in its detriment in Libra, which means it does not have an easy road to success when it exhibits its negative qualities (aggression, arguments, ruthlessness, and disinterest in cooperation). As a Libra, the natural course of action leading to success for Putin is as a peacemaker and diplomat. One succeeds when he follows the path indicated by the Sun. The path towards increasing aggression is the opposite for a Libran : as an aggressor, he runs into many more complications and obstacles towards success than he ever imagined.

This goes for all Librans now. It also goes for all Libran countries, like China. Libra is symbolized by the scales of balance, which are also the scales of justice. When Librans fall out of balance with the sense of justice and acceptance within the world around them, it exposes the darker side of their nature. It takes a long time to recover the glamor and acceptance they once knew. They often turn bitter and nastier in the process. There is a lot at stake right now for Putin, for Russia, and of course, for all of us, as Mars starts its retrograde journey through Libra, which is normally a sign of peace and harmony. Mars, however, is an urge opposite that of peace and harmony. Libra is the principle of "we" or "us". Mars is the principle of "me, myself". With Mars retrograde in Libra, be careful of those who will couch their actions in terms of "we" or "us", when really it is all about "me" and "myself".

Sometimes it is as simple as "If you want peace, you must prepare for war".

To be continued (next week).

Personnal :

Last month we announced that MMA had received the Market Timing Digest award for "Best Market Timer of 2013" based on correctly calling the times of the eight largest moves of 2013 in the U.S. stock market. Now they have announced other awards (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) based on an expanded list of the 15 largest price moves. Here are their results announced this week, in Amsterdam, Netherlands :

These are the best Market Timers of 2013

Our Golden Medal is for : Raymond Merriman of the Merriman Market Analyst Inc in Farmington Hills, MI. Ray won convincingly by mentioning all 15 reversal dates that MTD published in in 2013.

The Silver Medal goes to : Robin Handler of Handler & Associates Inc - Robin mentioned 12 out of 15 reversal dates.

Bronze medals go to : Ted Phillips of Astro Advisory Services Inc in Malibu, CA and Norm Winski of Astro Trend in Naples, FL and to Daniel Ciuntuc of Dharmik Market Timing in Iasi, Romania.

Announcements :

MMA's weekly and daily reports have been extremely accurate and profitable over the past several weeks, especially in equity indices, crude oil, and precious metals. 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 Daily Market reports. It is the only way I keep in touch with traders on a daily or weekly basis. These weekly reports give in-depth analysis of the DJIA, S&P and NASDAQ futures, Euro currency (cash and futures), Dollar/Yen cash and Yen futures, Euro-Yen cash, T-Notes, Crude Oil, Soybeans, Gold and Silver. The daily reports cover all stock indices listed above, as well as futures in Euro, T-Notes, Gold and Silver, plus GLD and SLV (the Gold and Silver ETF's). 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. For more information, or call our offices at 1-248-626-3034. These reports are extremely valuable to those who trade ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds). And since early December, these reports have been extremely profitable. As subscriber and trader R.B. of Albuquerque, NM writes, "You have been on an incredible run for a while ; I have never seen anything like it". Well, when everything lines up just right…

Are you ready to begin Year 2 of the Merriman market Timing Academy? We are! The second year of MMTA courses will begin March 24-27, 2014, in Troy, Michigan. This course will focus on several things. First will be the development of a weekly and daily trading plan, based on cycles, geocosmic signatures, and solar-lunar combinations. Real-time strategies will take place every morning. Then we will address longer-term market cycles, longer-term planetary cycles, and calculations of price objective targets for long-term cycle tops and bottoms, along with their patterns and sub-cycles. From there, we will move into intermediate- and shorter-term calculations. For more information, please visit www.merrimanmta.com. There you can also view research papers on market timing findings conducted by apprentices, which are posted as they are reviewed. Some are quite valuable.

The first year of MMTA (the Merriman Market Timing Academy) is now completed! The courses (all 4 together, or separately) are available via our LMS website-uploadable venue (no postage), or in DVD, to those who wish to become students of MMA's methodology. Each course comes with a full workbook (90-130 pages each). For a complete description of these courses - and those yet to come - please visit www.merrimanmta.com , or call 1-248-626-3034.

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.
Two-issue trial subscriptions are available for this service for $50.00, which includes the current issue and the next month's as well.
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 :

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.

April 10, 2014 : Ann Arbor, MI. "Financial Astrology Workshop - Gold, Silver, and the Stock Market", with Raymond Merriman, 1:00 - 6:00 PM. This is a pre-seminar to the GLAC - Great Lakes Astrology Conference, which takes place April 11-13 and features several well-known professional astrologers. For more information, or call 1-734-434-0804.

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.

Top of the page