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The Market Week in Review :

Since our last column of two weeks ago, equity markets around the world have been mostly up, but with a struggle. In fact, the word "struggle" aptly describes the present day psychology of market investors, as well as banking and political leaders. This Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto cardinal T-square seems to be a Herculean challenge for Humankind, a time that might be described as the "Cosmic Sum of All Fears". This is not a time to be "Tiptoeing through the Tulips", even though spring has technically arrived. It has arrived like nails looking for hammers.

In Europe, March 14 marked the end of a sharp three-week decline and the start of a modest rally in the Netherlands AEX, German DAX, and Zurich SMI that continued through last week. The FTSE, however, was much weaker, and in fact didn't end its decline until March 30. All four indices are well off their multi-year highs of the prior two months.

In the Far East and Pacific Rim, the performance of equity markets was very uneven. In India, the Sensex soared to a new all-time high last week. But in China and Hong Kong, the stock markets fell during the week of March 14 and 21 to their lowest levels since last July. They didn't recover very much last week. The Nikkei flirted with the 14,000 mark in the last two weeks. That is critical, and a break below 14,000 would mark the first time in over two years that bearish chart pattern will have formed. We need to watch this area very carefully, for if Japan starts to fall, it could have a domino-like effect across the globe. And of course, what has happened in Russia's MICEX stock index has been close to a panic. From a high of 1518 on February 18, the MICEX dropped to 1182 on March 14 following Russia's swallowing of Crimea, a loss of over 20% as nations around the world began to impose economic sanctions on the Great Bear. In the last two weeks, the MICEX has retraced back to 1324, but it looks more like a corrective bounce than the start of a new bullish trend. It implies more pain to come to the Russian financial markets. To our readers and friends in Russia, you may want to take steps to protect your assets during this modest rally period, for if the harshest winds are still ahead in April, another swoon is readying.

In the Americas, it has also been a strange period for stocks. Since a test of 16,000 on March 14, the DJIA rallied back to 16,466 last week, only to falter again back towards 16,200. The rally was well below its all-time high of 16,588 on December 31. After reaching a new decade-long high on March 7 at 4371, the NASDAQ then tumbled all the way to the 4150 area last Thursday, March 27. Thus, intermarket bearish divergence from those highs is still in effect for the U.S. stock market. In South America, Brazil's Bovespa is springing to life, soaring over 10% from the low of March 14 to test the 50,000 mark once again by late last week. In Argentina, the Merval Index is making new all-time highs as the week ended. So, the past two weeks have been very good for stock indices in some regions of the world (India and South America), and not so good in others (China, Hong Kong, Russia).

For Gold and Silver, the past two weeks have been difficult as well. On March 17, Gold soared to a new high for this New Year, hitting 1392.60. By Friday, March 28, it was testing 1285, a loss of over $100/ounce in less than 2 weeks, and nearly a 50% giveback of all its gains since the December 31 low at 1181.40. We will have a lot more to say about that in this month's MMA Cycles Report, which will be released Monday evening, March 31. Silver has also fallen sharply, to its lowest level since late January, and nearing the 18.80 low that started the current primary cycle on December 31. Crude Oil, on the other hand, appears to be turning up again, as prices advanced back up over $102/barrel during the day on Friday. There is a message here that the Crude Oil market is sending the world about the unrest between Russia, Europe, and the USA.

But it makes you wonder : if the USA and Western Europe really want to put financial pressure on Russia, wouldn't they want Crude Oil prices to fall ? Rising crude prices may indicate geopolitical tensions are increasing, but that is one of Russia's primary sources of revenue.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

Our best trade of the week in the weekly subscription report was in the stock market, which advised, "Aggressive traders are short with a stop-loss on a close above 16,505. Let's cover all of these shorts on Monday. Let's go long at 16,250 +/- 10 if offered with a stop-loss on a close below 16,000. Let's sell short (and cover if long) at 16,500 +/- 50, with a stop-loss on a close above 16,650". On Monday, the DJIA fell to 16,215. It then rallied to a high of 16,466 on Thursday. It then started to sell off again, closing the week at 16,322. Farmers, however, may think our Soybean recommendation was the best trade in the weekly report, as it advised, "Aggressive traders are flat and may buy at 1400 +/- 10 with a stop-loss on a close below 1365". The low of the week was 1393-1/4. It closed the week at 1436-1/2.

Our trades on the daily program were limited to only 4 markets this week due to MMTA Course 5 taking place. Nevertheless, we had a profitable trade on Silver. Monday's daily report stated, "Aggressive traders were short from Friday at 20.55 as the high was 20.58. We will be very short-term here, so let's cover at 20.00+/- .05 if offered and stand aside". That was filled easily.

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 and Longer-Term Geocosmics :

As stated in our last column of two weeks ago, "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".

The first Cardinal Climax of July-August 2010 did more than I implied. Not only did it start the destruction of the savings class, worldwide, but it also started a wave where other nations quickly followed the lead of the USA Central Bank and set into motion the worldwide "Currency Wars". A big decision in that regard lies ahead, April 11-13 (the middle of this big geocosmic cluster), when the G20 nations meet to discuss, among other things, the Currency Wars. Something huge may be decided then that has long-term future repercussions.

However, we are on the brink of another wave of potential copycat behaviors that could alter the stability of the world. As Russia starts reclaiming control over ex-Soviet nations - those countries that buffer against its borders and/or contain a number of Russian speaking comrades - we may anticipate similar moves on the part of other nations over the remainder of this decade. It's the threat of another type of war - military in this case, as suggested by Uranus in Aries. Western Europe and the United States are trying to frame this as a failed return to the past, to the archaic Cold War of the 20 th century. But I think not. This is trend of the future, not a return to the past. We are in the crux of a profound geopolitical change in the world that could last until the middle of this new 21 st century. Let me briefly explain :

When Uranus and Pluto started their new cycle with the conjunction of 1965-1966, it was the birth of progressive thought in western societies, as indicated by the faster moving planet, Uranus. My theory is that the faster moving planet is stronger in conjunctions, and the slower moving planet is stronger in oppositions. At the point of the waxing square between Uranus and Pluto (2012-2015), events and decisions unfold that identify the collective shift to the new dynamic of the slower moving planet and away from the faster one. We are in the midst of that transition now. The shift is from a Uranus - a progressive, liberal - world society, to one that is more Plutonian and central-government-control over the lives of individuals, by either mutual consensus, or whatever coercive means these leaders deem vital to.... their control. That shift will continue to gain dominance until it peaks around the time of the opposition in 2046-2048.

Does it have to be this way ? No. However, the events that are unfolding (August 2013-April 2014), and as the cardinal T-square morphs into a cardinal grand square over the next four weeks, indicates that this is the direction of the events that are unfolding. Nothing is being done to alter this new direction. The rhetoric that such behavior is "old fashioned", and so "20 th century in thought", fails to acknowledge one important point : This is What is Happening, and has nothing to do with What Should be Happening due to the "enlightenment" of Mankind since the mid-1960's. If you want to know the future of the next 30-40 years, study the trends of the past five years, and especially the trends of August 2013 through May 2014. This is the time that the 30-40 year foundation of a world movement is being built. The events that happen now, and the political and banking decisions being made now, will shape our reality for the next 3-4 decades. And then we will start to shift again.

In the meantime, what to make of the next four weeks in terms of financial markets ? Well let's apply the same theory of conjunctions and oppositions. This week finds the new moon conjunct Uranus. Everyone thinks it will be volatile due to Uranus. Maybe. But the fastest moving point in this conjunction is the Moon, which is not so volatile. But then the week after that, it's the opposition of the Sun and Mars, and Mars is the slower of the two in this opposition, so it suddenly switches to Mars energy, and that can be aggressive and wild. But April 20-23 finds two powerful oppositions unfolding : Jupiter in opposition to Pluto and Mars in opposition to Uranus. So that is truly the Uranus-Pluto period. This is when markets could get really wild. Yes, we need to allow an orb, maybe up to two weeks.

It's all building up until then. I know the USA wants to adjust a "reset" button with Putin and Russia. Let's just hope that this is the only button being considered during this period.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

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…

Course 5 of the MMTA (Merriman Market Timing Academy) was a great success ! This course, titled "Trading and Investing Planning: Combining Market Timing Studies and Price Objective Calculations", was held March 24-27, 2014, in Troy, Michigan. This course focused on several topics. The first was the development of a weekly and daily trading plan, based on cycles, geocosmic signatures, and solar-lunar combinations. Real-time strategies took place every morning and at the end of the trading day. Then, 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 were addressed. From there, the lessons moved into intermediate- and shorter-term price calculations. The DVD and LMS (on line version) of the course will be available at the end of April, via www.merrimanmta.com. The cost of this 4-day course is $3600.

MMTA Course 6 will take place June 2-5, 2014, also at the Michigan State University Management Education Center (MEC) in Troy, Michigan. This course will focus on short-term calculations of daily and weekly support/resistance, and trading plans to go with it. These plans will combine our knowledge of market timing tools, including cycles, geocosmic critical reversal dates, and solar-0lunar combinations. For more information, please call 1-248-626-3034, or visit the MMTA website.

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 will come out this week, Monday and Tuesday, via posting on our web site, or attachment via direct emails, for subscribers.

- 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 :

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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