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Review and Preview :

The Special Alert issued on Gold July 16 may be struggling, but the first special report of the year issued in stocks last Monday was an immediate hit. This report covered the long-, intermediate-, and short-term outlook for stocks, following our observation that the all-time high for the DJIA occurred on July 17 at 17,151, right on our last three-star critical reversal date. The all-time high for S&P futures was one week later, on July 24, under the Sun-Jupiter conjunction, which put our weekly S&P traders short at 1985.50. The all-time high was 1985.75. This case of intermarket bearish divergence, involving a MMA three-star critical reversal date late in the primary cycle, was the perfect set up for the type of cycle declines covered at length in that report. In the words of editor and trader Rick Burris of New Mexico, "I think that makes the Special Report on Stocks in Cycles this month an instant classic". So far, so good.

The U.S. stock markets (DJIA) started the week with rallies well above 17,000. By Tuesday, it started to come down, testing 16,900. On Thursday, it was down a whopping 317 points, erasing all the gains made on the year to date. It closed the week below 16,500 for the first time since May 20, with a Friday low of 16,437 (see "Best Trades of the Week",below).

The decline in U.S. stocks mirrored similar declines in other equity markets around the world, except in China and Hong Kong, which were sharply higher, another sign that the focus of the next big opportunities in the world are once again pivoting to that region. One region that world investments are not headed for, is Argentina, which - for the second time in 13 years - defaulted on its debt obligation to its lenders. This time was particularly odious because Argentina could afford it now (they couldn't in the prior case). This time, their government leaders just don't want to pay back what they borrowed and promised to pay back, in spite of a court ruling that they must pay it back. Government debts, default, downgrades. these are all the hallmarks of Pluto (the three D's) still bottom-feeding through the sign of Capricorn (government), especially now that it is in square aspect to Uranus in Aries (defiance).

As mentioned, Gold and Silver struggled last week, with each falling to its lowest level since June 19. Gold recovered during the day on Friday, as it was up over $12/ounce, closing around 1295 after notching a new monthly low at 1281. It is still in our time and price range for a low as outlined in that special report, and the monthly MMA Cycles Report, issued last week.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The best trade of the week in the weekly subscription report was in stocks, which for the Dow Jones Industrial Averages advised , "Position traders are short with a stop-loss on a close above 17,151. Cover and go long at 16,450, +/- 30, with a stop-loss on a close below 15,850 or 16,200, depending on your risk allowance. Aggressive traders are flat and may sell short at 17,025 +/- 30, with a stop-loss on a close above 17,151, or buy at 16,450, +/- 30, with a stop-loss on a close below 16,200 or 16,290, depending on your risk allowance". It doesn't get much better than that. The high of the week in the DJIA was 17,061, so aggressive traders got short along with position traders who were already short. And then on Friday, the DJIA had collapsed all the way to 16,437, and our "cover short and go long (buy) was at 16,450 +/- 30. So we got nearly all 700 points of that down move, and went long at the low of the week that ended in the money.

The best trade of the week in the daily reports may have been the short-term traders covering shorts positions last week, but the best new position initiated may have been in Silver, where Friday's report advised, "Position traders are long with a stop-loss on a close below 1928 after covering 2/3 for nice profits last week. Buy them back at 2020 +/- 10 if offered". Perfect. The low of the week was 2024.50 on Friday.

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 :

Our column of last week stated, "The week will start off with Venus transiting in a T-square formation to the ongoing Uranus-Pluto waxing square. This T-square will be in force July 28-31. Venus rules things of value, like stocks and currencies. Its first aspect is an opposition to Pluto in Capricorn on Monday, July 28. This pertains to debt and taxes".And that is pretty much how the week went, and the issues that caused the selloffs in equity markets. On Thursday, Argentina failed (intentionally) to repay its debt (bonds) that came due. The panic was on, which is within the parlance of Uranus (panic, sudden jolt, hysteria, crash of market support), escalated by the brazen blame-game of their political leaders. Oh, blame-games aren't - and weren't - limited to Argentina last week. Russia, Europe and the United States' leaders were also in fine form blaming one other too, as well as those in the opposition parties. The volume was especially loud and threatening by Friday when Mars (hostility, attack) was in square aspect to Jupiter (exaggeration and bluster). Something big was promised (or alleged), and some leaders of the world delivered with words that were so far removed from reality (Mars/Jupiter) that you just have to wonder : what world do these people live in ? It's like: "I am guilty, but you are the blame and you are going to take the hit".

There are a couple of interesting geocosmic aspects taking place this week. On Thursday, Mars will form a harmonious trine to Neptune, followed by another harmonious trine of Sun and Uranus on Friday, August 8. All that sounds good and constructive, probably because the U.S. Congress and the President will be on vacation. However, the week ends with the Sun square Saturn on August 9. There are new worries about the economy, the IRS, and government spying.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

"We could do so much more if Congress would come on and help out a little bit. Stop being mad all the time. Stop just hating all the time. C'mon . I know they're not happy that I'm president but that's okay". Barack Obama at speech in Kansas City, MO, July 30, from www.thecuutingedgenews.com.

"Central Intelligence Agency officers snooped on computers used by the Senate committee investigating the CIA's interrogation program - a critical finding in a bitter standoff between two government agencies".Siobahn Gorman, Wall Street Journal, "CIA Says Officers Spied On Senate Computers",August 1, 2014.

"Such comprehensive spying on American citizens would seem to flagrantly violate the constitutional prohibition of 'unreasonable search and seizure.' After all, the government is spying on its law-abiding citizens who are not suspected of any crime... one such purpose is to keep tabs on citizens for the purpose of taking their money. Obviously if you are going to steal from someone it helps to know what he has and where he keeps it. Second, the information collected through government spying can also be used to achieve social compliance. It can be used to identify citizens who are uncooperative and dissenters, and then audit their tax returns or accuse them of crimes". Dinesh D'Souza, "America : Imagine a World Without Her",Regnery Publishing, 2014, Washington D.C.

President Barack Obama's birthday is this week, August 4, so maybe he will lighten up a bit from his over-sensitive reactions last week, when he said that Congress needs to just ".. stop the hating all the time" (of him, in his mind) and ".. We could do so much more if Congress would come on and help out a little bit", Ummm, did anyone tell the president that the House passed over 300 bills that had bipartisan support and that the Senate refuses to let them come up for a vote ? Did anyone tell him that it's not him they hate, but simply their disappointment over his unilateral policies, decisions, and actions without their (Congress) consent - consent which Congress has been hired to provide by the people who voted them as their representatives ?.

Anyway, it is President Obama's birthday - his 53 rd solar return - Monday. The Moon (and Mars and Saturn) will be in Scorpio, with the latter two squaring his Sun in Leo. Mercury and Jupiter are also in Leo with the Sun, usually a combination of social popularity and confidence, but also over-confidence to the point of making errors in judgment.

Pundits who think the President is going to mellow out, be conciliatory and unifying, are likely also living in another world- especially if his party loses control of the Senate. These planets are all in fixed signs, and once again, as at birth, his rising sign will be Aquarius, another fixed sign. He is "fixed" on things, his way. He is not likely to change the way he thinks or does anything. To the contrary, these signatures suggest he is locking down his positions and his goals even tighter, and woe be to the person (people) he perceives as his opposition. All that Scorpio, square the Sun and Mercury (information) in Leo. it will be interesting to see what "confidential information" regarding the opposition gets leaked. You can't hide anything from an entity with a lot of Scorpio who has access to everything, and especially one who is on record (NY Times, Oct 25, 2010) as saying, "We're going to punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us". It just sound so. Pluto and Scorpio connected to a Leo sun sign chart, so Uranus square Pluto with Saturn going through Scorpio, all making hard aspects to the USA's Sun square Saturn. I know that's a lot of astrological jargon, but you get what I mean. If not, ask an astrologer, especially a Financial or Mundane Astrologer. It is all about power and control - or healing. I would love to see the healing. I think everyone wants to see the healing , which is the higher expression of these planetary and constellational dynamics. But it is also about the choices one makes with those powers.

With Uranus (which rules Aquarius, Obama's natal and solar return rising sign) racing to its final rendezvous in square to Pluto (which rules Scorpio) December 2014 through March 2015, it is going to be a very important year for the President, and the people of the USA, sort of like a major turning point for each.

Changes were promised (and so was hope), and changes are coming.

To be continued (next week).

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...

The seventh and final Course in the 2-year the MMTA (Merriman Market Timing Academy) training program will take place August 25-28, 2014, at the Michigan State University's Management Educational Center (MEC) in Troy, Michigan. The title of this course is "Strategies : Putting It All Together". This course will go over each part of the various investment and trading plans using the market timing, technical, price objective, and trend indicator tools studied in these courses. Special attention will be given to the various buy and sell strategies for both position and aggressive traders, once the market enters the time band for a geocosmic critical reversal zone or solar-lunar reversal date. The cost of this course is $3600, and it is available on line or via live attendance. For further information, please visit www.mmacycles.com, www.merrimanmta.com, call 1-248-626-3034, or email ordersmma@msn.com. The course will be open to all subscribers to join.

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 :

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.

January 16, 2015 : Zurich, Switzerland "Trends for 2015". This will part of a congress on Forecasts for 2015, including Claude Weiss, Monica Kissling. Alexandra Klingenhammer, Verena Bachmann, and Christoph-Schubert-Weller.

January 17, 2015 : Zurich, Switzerland. A special 5-hour workshop on "The Current Cyclical State of Financial Markets : Where Do We Go from Here ?"10:30 AM - 4:30 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 !.

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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