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On Friday, October 3, The U.S. Labor Department reported that 248,000 new jobs were added to the economy and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 percent in September. Just like that, the U.S. stock market ended a week of sharp declines and reversed sharply upwards.

This type of whipsaw behavior, however, is not a surprise to students of Financial Astrology. As stated last week and the week prior, ".... our attention will now shift to the lunar eclipse of October 8. That eclipse will make a T-square with the Uranus-Pluto waxing square, so nothing is settled. The markets are still prone to large price swings and sudden whipsaws, even this week, as the time band for its influence begins shortly... 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". The all-time high in the U.S. stock market (Dow Jones Industrial Average) remains at 17,350 on September 19, while the Japanese Nikkei continues with its multi-year high on September 25, the exact date of the Jupiter-Uranus trine.

Let's review what has happened to other world stock markets since Mars entered Sagittarius on September 12, where it will transit through October 26. Note the sharp rallies and sharp declines that have already transpired, and it is only halfway through the transit.

In Europe, all indices made multi-year or secondary highs on September 19, just four trading days before the Jupiter-Uranus trine. They all plunged into October 2-3. The most serious decline was in the German DAX, which posted a secondary high of 9891 on September 19, below its all-time high of 10,050 on June 20. On October 2, the last day of its trading last week, the DAX closed at 9195, a loss of over 7% in less than two weeks.

In the Far East, the situation was similar, but with some twists. The Japanese Nikkei soared to 16,374 on September 25, the day of the Jupiter-Uranus trine, its highest level since November 2007. By Friday, October 3, it was down to 15,559. But this was a modest decline in comparison to the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong, which fell from a high of 25,356 on September 5 to a low of 22,565 on October 2, a loss of 11%. In contrast, the Chinese Shanghai Index rallied to 2365 on Tuesday, September 30 (its last day of trading last week), its highest level since March 2013.

Who do you think investors are betting on regarding the outcome of social unrest in Hong Kong ? The protestors demanding democracy in Hong Kong, or the central government of China ?.

In the USA, the S&P, DJIA, and NASDAQ Composite each made their all-time or multi-year high on September 19. All three then fell sharply (about 3.8-5.4%) into lows on October 2, before recovering on Friday's favorable jobs report. The DJIA ended up over 200 points on Friday. On Wednesday, it was down over 200 points. However, all declines pale to what happened in Argentina, where the Merval stock index fell from an all-time high of 12,847 on Tuesday, September 30, to 10,541 on October 2, a decline of nearly 18% in just two days, after failing to make a settlement with creditors, leading to its second default in 12 years.

Could Argentina be a sign of things to come in other debt-burden countries ? Well, we are still under the Uranus-Pluto square, which will boost into overdrive November 2014 through March 2015 when Mars transits from the Pluto to the Uranus position. Pluto rules the three D''s: debt, default, and downgrade. Uranus pertains to sudden and abrupt changes. Stock markets could set new records, for both new highs and/or daily, weekly, monthly declines.

As volatile as the stock indices of the world were last week, precious metals were an even bigger story to traders. Silver fell to its lowest level since February 2010, breaking below 17.00/ounce, and well below the 18.17 low of June 2013. Gold broke below 1200 (it touched 1190), but continues to maintain above its 1179.40 low of June 2013, for a possible case of intermarket bullish divergence as we head into the powerful lunar eclipse this week October 7-8. A large part of the reason why metals (and most commodities) are falling is due to the strength in the U.S. Dollar. For instance, the Euro currency dipped below 1.2500 last week for the first time since September 2012.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The best new trades of the week in the weekly reports were in T-Notes and the Nikkei. The T-Notes section advised, "Aggressive traders are long (from 123/16) with a stop-loss on a close below 123/16. Cover all at 125/14-125/18 and stand aside until payroll reports are over". The high before the reports was 125/23, so that was a healthy profit. The weekly Nikkei Report advised, " Position traders are flat and may look to sell short at 16,230 or higher with a stop-loss on a close above 16,500. Aggressive traders are flat and may also sell short at 16,230 or higher with a stop-loss on a close above 16,420". The weekly high was 16,344 and it fell to 15,559 on Friday, with a weekly close at 15,708.

The best trades of the week in the daily report were in Silver and SLV (the exchange traded fund for Silver on the AMEX). On Wednesday, October 1, the daily report advised Silver traders as follows: "Aggressive traders.. may sell short now at 1720-1730 if offered with a stop-loss on a close above 1750". The high that day was 1744, and it closed the week at 1682. SLV traders were advised the same day, "You may sell short at 16.60-16.72 with a stop-loss on a close above 17.20". The high was 16.73 and it closed the week at 16.12.

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 :

"Wynn continues to praise the business climate in China compared to the United States : 'The regulatory burden in China is infinitesimal compared to the crap we get in America". CNBC, Oct 1, 2014, interview with Steve Wynn by Jane Weiss, www.cnbc.com. "STEVE WYNN : I'M MORE SCARED ABOUT U.S. THAN CHINA".

Our focus this week is on the lunar eclipse of October 8. This is no ordinary lunar eclipse. The Moon will be conjunct Uranus (and the Sun will be in opposition), virtually assuring that financial markets will continue to be volatile. The eclipse with then find the Sun-Moon forming a T-square with Pluto in Capricorn, which pertains to the three D's again, plus taxes and regulations.

As if that is not enough to confuse investors and traders, Mercury will turn retrograde, October 4-25. Mixed messages are likely from both political and economic leaders of the world. Thus, markets are apt to start out one way and then suddenly reverse 1-4 days later.

And if that is not enough, Venus will also form a T-square with Uranus and Pluto October 8-11. Therefore, we will witness two celestial bodies (Sun and Venus) translating the Uranus-Pluto square this week, both under Mercury retrograde. Be prepared for sharp price swings and sudden, surprising announcements, leading to major reversals in many financial markets. Most noteworthy may be the interest-rate related markets, like Treasuries and currencies. Grain prices could also be affected, as well as copper and sugar, which are ruled by Venus.

It looks like another wild week coming up. Sanity and rationalism may be in short supply. These are signatures conducive for collective hysteria. These are also signatures indicative of earthquakes, violent storms, acts of terrorism, computer hacking, malfunctions, and cyber madness. Use safety features and be cautious when logging onto the internet. They are out there, and they are looking for you. Sometimes it is better to be a moving target rather than a sitting duck, or even a lame duck. This lunar eclipse T-square falls on the natal USA Sun square Saturn. It also falls on Vladimir Putin's Sun-Uranus square. I don't know who is the duck and who is the target, but it would be best if the two leaders would talk to one another before taking any action that might offend the other.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

will return later.

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

The two talks I presented at the ISAR 2014 conference last week will be available for purchase in the CD or MP3 format this week. It includes the slides from the power point show. These are both very timely talks, with information that should be useful for several months. Each topic is $35.00, plus postage, if ordering via the CD format.

The first talk is titled "America at the Crossroads: Will It Survive, Perish, or Transform ?" This presentation examines the charts of the United States, its transits and progressions, the USA president, his transits and progressions, and Congress. It explains the transformation taking place in the USA under the 2008-2015 Cardinal Climax, and where the nation is headed, pending choices taking place right now. "America is in trouble. It is in danger of losing its identity, perhaps many of its treasured liberties, based on over 200 years of being the most exceptional experiment in democracy and capitalism the world has ever known..".

The second talk now available on CD or MP3 is titled " A Cyclical and Geocosmic Analysis of Gold and the USA Stock Market". Both Gold and the USA stock market make historical tops and lows at rhythmic cyclical points now in force. These major turning points also coincide with long-term planetary aspects. This presentation reviews these studies, their historical correlations to one another, and what they say about the future direction of each market. Contact MMA at 1-248-626-3034 or ordersmma@gmail.com for details or sign up.

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.

MMA's annual Forecasts Book , written by Raymond A. Merriman since 1976, is one of the most unique, affordable, and accurate glimpses into the coming year. Utilizing the study of cycles and geocosmic factors, this annual Forecasts book outlines forthcoming trends pertaining to political, economic, and financial markets throughout the world. No other book has informed and prepared readers for the Cardinal Climax period of 2008-2015 as precisely as Raymond Merriman's annual Forecast book. No other book has guided readers through this turbulent period since it began in 2008. In 2015, the saga of the Cardinal Climax reaches the conclusion of its central time band. This is a book, with an impressive background for insightful accuracy into world economic and financial market conditions that you will not want to miss! For further information, go to www.mmacycles.com. ORDER NOW AND SAVE BIG BUCKS.

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.
For further information, please visit www.mmacycles.com, www.merrimanmta.com, call 1-248-626-3034, or email ordersmma@msn.com.

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 :

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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