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Note 2 : Due to Course 6 of the Merriman Market Timing Academy taking place June 2-6, there will be no column next week. The next column will be issued for the week starting June 16.

The Market Week in Review :

Most world stock indices were higher last week, with some (like the S&P) making new all-time highs, but others (like the DJIA) still off their intraday all-time highs.

In Europe, the German DAX soared to a new all-time high and is now testing the 10,000 mark. The Zurich SMI index also rallied to its highest level since December 2007. However, both the Netherlands's AEX and London FTSE were slightly below their highs of a couple of weeks ago. Russia's MICEX continued to recover from its recent lows, but still well of its highs of last October.

In Asia and the Pacific Rim, there were no new highs. The India Sensex, however, came close, before failing. The Japanese Nikkei had a "gap up" week (the low of the week was higher than the previous week's high), which suggests higher price ahead.

In the America's, the S&P index raced to a new all-time high, but the Dow Jones Industrial failed to do the same, which might become a case of intermarket bearish divergence is next week is down. In South America, Argentina's Merval Index exploded to a new all-time high, but Brazil's Bovespa market was lagging far behind. All these divergences and potential divergences reflect the uncertainty still operative within the Uranus-Pluto waxing square. That uncertainty is likely to increase in about two weeks when both Mercury and Neptune turn retrograde (June 7 and 9 respectively).

While stock indices were generally higher last week, the precious metals were stunningly lower. Gold and Silver sold off, even though interest rates came down sharply during the week to their lowest levels in many months. Previously this behavior was thought to be a catalyst for higher Gold and Silver prices. Instead, both fell to their lowest levels in many months. We think this is all part of the Mars direct correlation as discussed in our Special MMA Silver report of two weeks ago, which is still available to new subscribers for another two weeks.

In other markets, Crude Oil turned back from its attempt to exceed 105. It halted at 104.50 and then closed the week at 102.71. That should be back in the news when Neptune turns retrograde on June 9. The European currencies all fell to new cycle lows last week too, before finding a potential bottom mid-week.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

Our best trades of the week in the weekly subscription report were in all the currencies (Euro, Euro-Yen, Dollar-Yen, and Swiss Franc), where we exited all shorts for excellent profits and went long. T-Notes also qualified as "best trades of the week". Here is an example in the Euro currency, which advised, "Aggressive traders are also short with a stop-loss on a close above 1.3750 after covering 2/3 for a nice profit recently. Cover the remainder in weekly support (1.3573-1.3587), and then go long on the first daily close back above daily support, with a stop-loss on a close below 1.3450". That trade worked out extremely well from the short side, and now we are long from near the low of the week (1.3584), which was right in weekly support. The weekly T-Notes advised, "Aggressive traders may look to sell short in September at 126/00-126/06 if offered, with a stop-loss on a close above 127/00". The high was exactly 126/00.

It is too early to see if any of our trades on the daily report will turn out to be "best trades". In the Friday report for June S&P, for example, the report stated, " Sell short on open tonight with a stop-loss on a close above xxx. If you don't trade overnight, then wait five minutes and see if the intermarket bearish set up remains in effect Friday morning, then sell short if it does, with a stop-loss on a close above xxx".

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 :

Mars retrograde ended May 21, but the influences of it in financial market and geopolitical arenas still continue - and may continue until Mars can pass the Uranus-Pluto square in its direct motion, June 14-25. That should be a very interesting time, when many of the anxieties of the Grand Cardinal Climax of late April come back into play as well.

But first, investors and traders will have to deal with Mercury and Neptune both turning retrograde, June 7-9. Mercury rules information and communications. Neptune rules the non-tangible, the unseen, as perhaps in "hidden agendas" that attempt to distort or hide what is really happening. It may indicate a time of political deception, untruths delivered for the purpose of harming the reputation of ones opponents or simply to gain an unfair advantage over others, especially in financial markets. Yes, it is favorable for poetry, music, dancing, and the theatre. But we deal with financial and political arenas, and Neptune can have a much different expression there. Be alert to rumors that are not facts, to communications that may be intentionally inaccurate or misleading, or even a lack of important information and disclosure that would make your decision entirely different had you only known.

On June 12 and 14, within the orb of influence of Mercury and Neptune turning retrograde, we find Venus in opposition to Saturn, and Mars square to Pluto. Venus rules partnerships and alliances, but in opposition to Saturn, there tends to be disappointments or unreasonable demands. But the greater concern is Mars square Pluto, which at the same time starts its translation to the whole Uranus-Pluto square, lasting through the end of June. This is a dynamic where a misdirection may be a cover up to an act of military aggression. Once again, it stirs up the natal charts of the USA and Russia. If too brazen and startling, it may also stir up the stock markets and precious metals markets of the world.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

"But an important part of the story is also that markets have likely been seduced by monetary policy and are unwilling to challenge it. How long this seduction lasts is hard to say, but the liaison has an air of ephemeral lust rather than eternal love to it". - Morgan Stanley Research, May 28, 2014

Seduction. Ephemeral. What perfect words for Neptune. And also liaison and love, which are qualities astrologers assign to Venus. It is most interesting that these planetary dynamics are in play in June. And how realistic is it that maybe - just maybe -investors have become too complacent, too accepting of the so-called "new normal" that is already an "old normal" ; with regards to interest rates staying low forever? Well, I like the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney research, and I find it most fascinating when their research (or any of the large firms) dovetails with our understanding of cosmic dynamics currently in vogue.

Let's see how this symbolism actually unfolds over the next two weeks. At least now you are prepared. And while you wait for a situation to manifest, why not go out to a movie, the theatre, boating, or just go out and have fun dancing or listening to music (like a concert). Neptune is good for enjoyment and romance. But be careful what you say to your date or dancing partner, especially if you are in an alternative reality (that's Neptune too!). If you don't tell the truth, the whole truth, you may be called out, and that could prove embarrassing. Especially if you are living in an alternate reality.

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

On June 12, we will do our semiannual interview with Radio Nikkei of Tokyo, Japan. They always ask timely and important questions about financial markets and geopolitics. We will make the transcript of this interview available to subscribers of MMA subscription reports right after the interview is concluded. If you would like a copy of this transcript, and are not a subscriber, please go to www.mmacycles.com, and consider taking out a trial subscription. The markets they will ask about include: DJIA, Nikkei, NASDAQ, Gold, Euro, Yen, Grains, and Crude Oil. .

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 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 :

June 2-5, 2014 : MMTA Course 6 : "Advanced Support-Resistance Calculations for Trading, Integrating with Geocosmic critical Reversal Dates and Solar-Lunar Reversal Dates".

August 25-28, 2014 : MMTA Course 7 : "Combining Technical Studies, Cycles, and Critical Reversal Dates for Traders". The final course of the 2-year academy.

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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