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Review and Preview :

It was a rough week for world equity markets, at least until Friday afternoon when traders decided to discount all the tensions building up in the world and instead pursue a belief - a hope -that peace in all the trouble spots is a possibility. After all, President Obama had just announced that the USA would (and did) launch air strikes in Iraq against the ISIS terrorist group that had been overtaking large areas of Syria and Iraq. What ? ? ? Let's see if we got this right. On Thursday night, President Obama announced that the USA may launch air strikes in Iraq. "America is coming to help", he finally stated. Prices of equities around the world continue dropping to their lowest points in months.

Then on Friday, a report from Russia's Interfax reported that Russia has now ". ended 'military exercises' near the Ukrainian border", and will now pull those forces back, according to Reuters. At around the same time, the USA began launching airstrikes against ISIS. The USA stock market suddenly surged to triple digit gains and held them into the close. Plus, Hamas and Israel are in the midst of a cease-fire after weeks of killing hundreds, of one another's people. Everyone is happy to find a reason to buy stocks. For Financial Astrologers, it is simply a case of running the table of hard aspects and entering a round of soft, harmonious ones that began with the trines of Mars and Neptune, followed by Sun and Uranus, August 7 and 8.

Until turnaround Friday arrived, it was not a pretty picture for stocks. In the Far East and Pacific Rim, prices fell across the board, especially in Japan where the Nikkei dropped over 1000 points (over 6%) from its 6-month high of July 31 to its 2-month low one week later on August 8. It just proves the old axiom: stocks go up in steps and come down in elevators.

In Europe, the equity sell-off was even more pronounced. In Germany, the DAX fell to 8903 early Friday, its lowest level since October 24, 2013. Just a few weeks ago, June 20, the DAX was posting its all-time high at 10,050. The storyline was similar in the other European bourses. The Netherlands AEX fell to 388 on Friday morning, its lowest mark since March 24. On July 4, 2014 (one month ago), it was testing 420, its highest level since July 2008. The Zurich SMI fell to 8183 on Friday morning, August 8, its lowest level since March 24 as well. On June 11, it was up as high as 8763, a mark that had not been seen since 2007. The London FTSE plunged to 6528 on the same Friday morning of August 8, a level last seen April 14. As recently as May 15, 2014, the FTSE was making new all-time highs at 6899.

The declines in the USA markets were much more benign. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for instance, made its all-time high at 17,151 on July 17. The low of this recent decline ended on August 7 at 16,333, a loss of less than 5%. The low in the cash S&P was 1904.78, which represented an even less percentage decline from its all-time high of 1991.39 on July 24.

The thing is, the world has a reason now to be more hopeful. The United States leadership has finally become engaged in the world once again. But for a cycles' analyst, it is even more than that. It is the beginning of a new cycle, and new beginnings are always bullish. The question now is : how long will it last ? And, will we see new all-time or multi-year highs again ? Or has a bear market finally begun, and thus any rally will only be a corrective retracement before the next leg down begins ?.

With all the turmoil in the world last week (Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, Iraq-ISIS), Gold preformed rather well. After registering a half-primary cycle low of 1281 on July 31, the yellow metal surged to a high of 1324 intraday on Friday, August 8. It settled back to close around 1312. So far, the Mars-in-Scorpio trade is still on. The move up was to a new high since Mars entered Scorpio on July 25. But it needs to continue rising even higher to match prior historical cases of this bullish combination. Last week was a good start.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The best trade of the week in the weekly subscription report was in stocks again, which for the S&P futures advised , "Position traders are short right from the all-time high area of 1985.75 (our reports had you go short at 1985.50). You may cover 1/3 for great profits now.. You may cover a second position on a drop to weekly support (1884-1892.75). In the event that prices fall into or below weekly support and then close back above it, cover all shorts and go long. Aggressive traders are short and may follow the same instructions" The open was 1919.50, the low was right into support at 1890.25, and the close was 1923.75, which made for very exceptional profits on the shorts.

The best trade of the week in the daily reports was in the September Euro Currency. Wednesday's report advised, "Aggressive traders are flat and may buy at 1.3340-1.3355 with a stop-loss on a close below 1.3300". The low that day was 1.3335. It closed the week at 1.3413.

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 :

"A good deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep". - Saul Bellow (www.thinkexist.com).

Will the good news that started late last week continue ? Will peace, instead of war and conflict, start breaking out all over as the United States becomes re-engaged in world affairs in ways other than rhetoric (empathy) designed to please both sides of the conflicts, but which in actual practice has pleased no one ?.

It's possible - at least for a week - as Venus approaches a conjunction to Jupiter in Leo on August 18. Mr. Obama, being a Leo himself, stands to benefit from the union of the two benefics in his sun sign. The key for him, and really all of us, is to stay this new course that will generate support from one's allies. The danger is to lay back now, under the false assumption that "I did what I had to do, and that's all I need to do because people now know that I can do it". But they don't, and you can be sure that you will be tested again, perhaps even more critically than before.

Looming behind the Venus-Jupiter "love bliss" building up into August 18 is the Mars-Saturn "criticism fest" of August 25-29. Mars and Saturn join hands (and they don't even like to touch) August 25, followed by Venus in square to both on August 26-27. Venus represents the principle of attraction and agreements, but in square to both Mars and Saturn, agreements are in short supply and attraction can quickly give way to repulsion. If not careful, it is more about disagreements, disappointments, and disillusionments provoked by someone not keeping their word. They violated their promise, and maybe worse - they changed the words of what they said, so that now it sounds like something completely different. Hence the disillusionment and break of trust as that week ends with the Sun in opposition to Neptune on August 29. For anyone who has planets in 5-7 degrees of Gemini or Sagittarius, this can be a time of a tremendous feeling of betrayal involving others - either them towards you or you towards them. Mr. Obama's Moon is at 6 degrees of Gemini, in square aspect to his natal Pluto in early Virgo.

If I were advising the President (and I am not), I would say this is a very important time to be careful of what you say, especially if you are trying to walk back on something that others believe you have promised. At the same time, I would not advise getting your hopes up that someone else will come through on something they promised. And most of all, I would stay clear of any attempt to "leak information" about others without their permission, or without credible facts to back up any claims you may make - about yourself or them. This is a very dangerous time (+/- one week) where your reputation and trustworthiness are potentially at risk - again - and you can't afford another scandal, which this signature implies is possible if not careful.

In terms of financial markets, they will react accordingly to these same themes (hope followed by disillusionment and possible betrayal). The minor cycle is building up into the Venus-Jupiter conjunction of August 18. The larger cycle is building up into the August 25-29 conjunction of Mars-Saturn, squared by Venus, followed by the Sun-Neptune opposition. The first is peace and agreements; the second is more akin to conflict and war, unless there is a foundations of trust that is honored by all sides.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

will return in September, after the completion of the MMTA Academy courses.

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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