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

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This week's column will be brief due to preparation for Course 5 of the Merriman Market Timing Academy (MMTA), March 24-27. There will be no weekly column next week due to the class as well.

The Market Week in Review :

Last week was not a positive one for equity markets around the world, but it was a very good week for Gold. The reason ? Mars and Saturn retrograde, and the continuing tension surrounding Russia, the Ukraine, and the rest of the world's response to this development that began within hours of these two planets turning retrograde on March 1-2.

It is interesting to note that many of the world's stock markets ended their rallies on March 7 or March 10, just after the last of three Jupiter signatures that were also present February 26-March 6. When Jupiter left, there was no more cosmic support for this price appreciation. The balloon lost its air in stocks. Now there is damage to the chart formation of many of these equity indices, especially in the Euro Zone, where the German DAX and Netherlands AEX are falling to new lows for this year. China and the Hang Seng also fell hard, but for a different reason : China's economy is reported to be far weaker than thought. Stock prices fell hard in Japan and South America too, but not quite so hard in the USA.

The problem is that many of these indices have broken below important support zones and critical moving averages. That shouldn't happen this early in the new cycles (following the lows of early February as Venus went direct), unless something big is turning. And of course, something big is overdue to turn as everyone knows. March is the 60 th month since the bull market began March 6-9, 2009. There has never been a 4-year cycle in USA stocks that advanced longer than 60 months. The one in 1982-1987 lasted 60 months, the longest in our records, and it was followed by a 40% decline in the following two months. The second longest bull market within the 4-year cycle lasted from July 1932 through March 1937 (56 months), and was followed by a 50% decline over the next 12 months.

Could it happen again ? Could a 40-50% decline happen within the next year ? Sure. Uranus is square to Pluto where huge moves are possible in a very brief time. As a matter of fact, under these signatures, it is possible to see most of that move down completed by late April, when Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto all form the powerful cardinal grand square in 13-14 degrees of cardinal signs - right on the Sun of Mr. Putin (13 Libra) and the USA (13 Cancer). It's a classic celestial battle in the heavens, translating to a classical clash right here, on Earth. As above, so below. And Mars, the planet of war, is retrograde. The initiator of the conflict stands to lose the most. The question seems to be : who initiated the aggression as Mars turned retrograde on March 1 ? In Russia, they believe it is the USA. In the USA and Europe, they believe it is Russia.

But back to the markets - which don't seem to like wars and threats of military action. Except Gold. Gold does well when tensions rise like this.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

Our best trade of the week was in the Tuesday daily report for Gold and Silver, sent to daily traders, which advised, "Aggressive traders are short with a stop-loss on a close above 1355 or daily resistance, depending on your risk allowance. You may cover all of the shorts at 1344-1346 and go long with a stop-loss on a close back below 1330". Gold went down to 1337.80 that day and closed the week above 1380, its highest level in several months. Daily subscribers also got long Silver, GLD, and SLV that day.

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 :

As stated last week, "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". That combination is still in force through this coming week. Both Gold and European Currencies made new multi-week highs last week.

Everything is escalating to the March 29-April 25 period, which may be the most intense planetary pattern of a lifetime. It doesn't mean a specific event happens then, but it could. It could also be a very profound decision made by one of several government or banking leaders, the consequences of which may not be known right away. The last time anything remotely this powerful occurred was in late July-early August 2010. At that time, the Federal Reserve Board made the decision to not end its quantitative easing program, but instead expand it into QE2. It changed the entire financial world. Investors were forced into becoming traders unless they were quite happy with returns of less than 3% over 10 years. Savers vanished from the economy as interest rates (yields on savings accounts) dropped to 0 -.25% and to this day have not recovered. Imagine: if you had $100,000 in your saving account in mid-2007 and it earned 5% per annum as it did back then, your account today would be worth close to $150,000, an increase of 50% - an extra $50,000 in your account. But the rates did not stay at 5%. They fell to 0% and instead of having a $50,000 extra increase, you have nothing, due to the decision made at that time. That's a lot of spending power to take away from the economy. The thing is, this forthcoming cosmic pattern is just as powerful as that one in 2010, and the consequences could be just as important to the world at large.

Personally, I think the major players leading up this grand cardinal square are political leaders, like Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, and maybe Angela Merkel, and not banking leaders. The grand square is hitting all three of them, or the countries they preside over.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

Will resume in two weeks, after the MMTA Course 5 is completed. There will be no column next week. However, we will continue to update weekly and daily subscribers.

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.

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