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There must be an important Uranus signature unfolding. How do we know ? Multi-year and all-time highs are unfolding in many markets, while others are undergoing multi-year lows. This is entirely consistent with our understanding of how geocosmic signatures correlate with financial market cycles, as discussed in last week's column.

So what are those signatures ? The most important in this writer's opinion are the waxing trine of Jupiter and Uranus in fire signs, combined with Mars entering Sagittarius. As stated last week",On a qualitative level, Mars in Sagittarius combines two fiery and dynamic principles. When positive, it is very speculative and bullish for equities. You get the high volume of market trades with Mars in fire, and you get large price activity with the influence of Sagittarius. Given that Uranus is also in a fire sign (Aries), records in financial markets and sporting events may be witnessed.... In fact, a major fire trine aspect between Jupiter (in Leo) and Uranus (in Aries) takes place on September 25, and Mars will make it grand trine lasting into the first ten days of October.... All that fire energy, involving all these macho planets, could result in something quite spectacular.... If markets rise, it could be spectacular. If markets fall, it can be equally spectacular. And if they rise sharply at first, they could then reverse and fall just as sharply, perhaps after or during the next eclipse set, which takes place October 8 (lunar) and October 23 (solar)". Couldn't have said it better myself. That is exactly what is happening.

Equity markets mostly rallied to new all-time or multi-year highs. However, there are some concerns arising here. Everything was fine in the USA, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P both made new all-time highs and the NASDAQ kept inching up towards its all-time high of slightly over 5000. It got above 4600 intraday on Friday. The DJIA soared to a record high of 17,350 on Friday, well above our 17,151 and 17,161 highs during our last two 3-star geocosmic critical reversal zones of July 17 and August 29. The Merval stock index of Argentina also made a new all-time high. However, this was not the case with Brazil's Bovespa, which is flirting with monthly lows.

Europe noted similar divergences. The AEX and Zurich SMI indices soared to their highest levels since June 2008 and December 2007 respectively. However, the London FTSE and German DAX failed to take out their recent highs of this year and Moscow's MICEX remains sluggish.

In Asia and the Pacific Rim, Japan and China continued their torrid rallies to new yearly highs. India was not far behind as the Sensex fell slightly short of a new all-time high. Australia's All Ordinaries and Hong Kong's Hang Seng indices, however, were weak.

In commodities, we also note important divergences. Silver, for instance, broke to a new multi-year low on Friday, falling to 17.78, well below its 18.17 low of June 28, 2013. Gold, however, remains above its 1180 double bottom lows of June and December 2013. Will it hold or will it break ? Well, that will be the foremost topic of discussion in this month's MMA Cycles report, to be issued Monday night. The recent breakdown in precious metals can now be traced to the movement of currencies, where the U.S. Dollar is again king. In terms of financial astrology, this seems to be the case when Saturn is in Scorpio (every 28-30 years). Yes, it happened in 1985 too, when the "Super Dollar was on the cover of Time magazine. Thank you to subscriber Francesco Sturino of South Africa for that observation.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

After a couple of weeks of relatively quiet trading activity, this week had an abundance of trades that were filled on both the weekly and daily programs. Picking the best trades will not be easy, since many would qualify.

The best new trades of the week in the weekly report were in the NASDAQ and T-Notes. In T-Notes, traders were advised", Let's buy weekly support (123/09-123/16) with a stop-loss on a close below 122/30". The low was 123/16 and the close was 124. In the Dec NASDAQ e-mini, the weekly report advised",Position traders are flat and may go long at 3980 +/- 25, with a stop-loss on a close below 3820. Aggressive traders are short and may cover all and go long in weekly support (4033.75-4037.75) with a stop-loss on a close below 3990". The low was 4004 and the close was 4093".

The best new trades in the daily report were in the stock indices and precious metals. Tuesday's report, for instance, advised S&P traders", Aggressive traders are short with a stop-loss on a close above 2007 after covering 1/3 the other day. Cover the remainder now and go long at 1970, +/- .50, with a stop-loss on a close below 1960". The low that day was right there, at 1970.25, and the close of the week was 2003.75. The same day, Gold traders were advised", Position traders are flat and may sell short at 1245 +/- 5, with a stop-loss on a close above 1260. Aggressive traders (may) sell short at 1240 +/- 3 with a stop-loss on a close above 1255". The high that day was right there again, at 1243.20. The close on Friday was under 1217. Silver ETF traders that same day were advised ",Aggressive short-term traders are long with a stop-loss on a close below 17.79. Look to cover on a rally back to 18.10 or better and sell short there with a stop-loss on a close above 18.20". The high that day was 18.12. By Friday, it was down to 17.08. We had several other trades in precious metals, stock indices and other markets (crude oil, Euro currency) too last week that were very profitable, but the list is too long to include here.

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 :

Geocosmic activity is intense this week again - and very mixed in its inclinations. If the heavens are mixed in their inclination, chances are financial markets and political and banking leaders will give out mixed messages too.

The week begins with the cosmic fog of Mars square Neptune on Sunday, September 21. Mars is always in a hurry, and Neptune is not sure where it wants to go. At least Mars is in Sagittarius, so it knows it wants to go somewhere, and fast. It just needs a plan to go with its wishes. Financial markets may do some zig-zag motion this week. It may fake as if it is going down (or up), and then whiplash itself back to where it originally wanted to go. As traders, we have to be careful of these kinds of fake outs.

The next day the Sun enters Libra. Autumn starts its new season here in the northern hemisphere. In astrology, we call that the autumnal equinox, which provides an important chart for understanding the next three months. These next three months promise to be very intense - and dangerous. Pluto turns direct on the same day, so this season will be Plutonian, which is to say, intense and dangerous. We have already seen signs of Pluto, god of the underworld, rearing its ugly head by decapitating noted journalists via the ISIS group. Pluto, with Uranus square, remains a dangerous terrorist-activity period. In fact, it will last through March 2015, with highlights around November 11 and March 11 when Mars conjuncts first Pluto, and then Uranus. This is not a time to take risks in dangerous places.

But Pluto also rules debt, deficits, and defaults... and taxes. The Fed meetings last week seemed to suggest that the economy is growing in strength, but yet the Fed doesn't want to let interest rates return to "normal", as if they or anyone really understands what is or will be "normal" ever again following this 2008-2105 Cardinal Climax. Nevertheless, they did use that word "normal" in their projections - with no time line attached to it. There was vague mention that "normal" could return in 2017. I would say it returns after 2020-2022, but the peak of this abnormal period will pass after March 2015. It's what happens between November and March that has me concerned, because that's the last two (of seven) passages of Uranus square Pluto. With Pluto and Uranus changing directions in September and December, they don't go far apart from that exact mathematical square to one another.

I am sure everyone is numb by now after the last seven years of tribulation of this Cardinal Climax. The lighter fare, however, may be present this week in the form of Jupiter trine Uranus, from Leo to Sagittarius on September 25. This is truly a welcome aspect. Trines usually are welcome, because they often bring rewards. The stock market and U.S. Dollar are certainly examples of this as of late. This may be even more pronounced, however, because Mars is in Jupiter's home sign of Sagittarius through October 26, which gives the impetus for equities (and personal net worth) to continue their climb to new records.

Yet this is the week Jupiter will trine Uranus, which has principles of irrational exuberance to it, as well as reversal potentials. Will Uranus act like a reversal now, or will it just explode beyond all levels of resistance (or support). Uranus doesn't like either support or resistance zones. It likes to violate all boundaries and enter levels never seen before. Mars in Sagittarius can propel that. But if it does reverse, Mars in Sagittarius could support that too, as prices can reverse with a force also not expected. As stated before, this is a time to make huge profits, or suffer huge losses. For us, it is starting out quite good. Enjoy the ride while it lasts.

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the ISAR conference next week in Phoenix (www.isarastrology.com).

Longer-Term Thoughts :

will return later.

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

What's Next ??? Now that the 2008-2015 Cardinal Climax will wind down in early 2015, what is the next great challenge awaiting humanity ?.

It's that time of the year again! As in the past, MMA offers a special pre-publication discount rate for those who pre-order the next year's book before October 31, 2014. The price of the Forecast 2015 Book will remain at $55.00 plus postage. However, if pre-ordered before October 31, the cost is $45.00 plus postage. This year's 2015 Forecast Book will be available in both paper and electronic editions. There is no postage for the electronic book format.

Additionally, all pro-order purchases qualify for a 10% discount on any 1-year MMA financial markets subscription service! This includes the MMA Cycles Report, the MMA Weekly, and/or the MMA Daily reports, which provide specific analysis and recommendations to several financial markets, including the DJIA, S&P, NASDAQ, Gold, Silver, Treasuries, Currencies, Crude Oil, and Soybeans.

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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 took place August 25-28, 2014, at the Michigan State University's Management Educational Center (MEC) in Troy, Michigan. The title of this course was "Putting It All Together: Developing Trading Plans and Optimizing Market Entry and Exit for Position and Aggressive Short-Term Traders". This course developed each part of the various investment and trading plans, using the market timing, technical, price objective, and trend indicator tools of the MMTA methodology. Special attention was given to the various buy and sell strategies for both position and aggressive traders, once the market entered the time band for a cycle, geocosmic critical reversal zone and/or solar-lunar reversal date. The markets used for examples of long-term and short-term trading plans were the DJIA, Gold, and Silver. The cost of this course is $3600, and it will be available online in about 4 weeks.
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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.
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Upcoming Events :

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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