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Last week was wicked for investors in world equity markets. However, it was certainly within the realm of expectation according to the principles of Financial Astrology. As stated in last week's column, "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.... 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... It looks like another wild week coming up. Sanity and rationalism may be in short supply. These are signatures conducive for collective hysteria". By the close of trading on Friday, October 10, I think it is safe to say that "collective hysteria" has indeed come into world equity markets.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a good representation of what happened. On Monday, it was down only 17 points, but that was more than 100 points off its high of 17,099 that same day. On Tuesday, the DJIA fell 272 points. However, Wednesday witnessed a gain of 274 points, and it looked like markets were ending their sharp decline and resuming their bull market. All was well, and then on Thursday it reversed again, down 334 points, suffering its greatest one-day decline of the year. It started to bounce back on Friday, It was up nearly 100 points, but then it suddenly reversed and closed down 115 points, to 16,544, its lowest level close since August 12. It is breaking important support levels along the way, and the biggest one - the one that will mark this as a bear market by our methods - is nearby at 16,333.

The decline in the German DAX and London FTSE was even more dramatic. Both fell to their lowest prices since October 2013. They are already announcing a new bear market via our methodology, as both have taken out the lows that started their current primary cycle. It is beginning to look like the Uranus-Pluto square is finally striking the world equity markets. The bubble has been pricked everywhere, except China, which continues rallying to new yearly highs. However before jumping off the ship, remember that this is occurring under Mercury retrograde (October 4-24), where fake outs are notorious in financial markets.

In precious metals, the story was a little different. Gold fell to 1183.30 on Sunday night overseas trading, above its 1181.40 low of December 31. Silver fell to a low of 17.66 on Sunday night, which was above its multi-year low of 17.64 of the prior week, for a powerful case of intermarket bullish divergence in a geocosmic critical reversal zone. This prompted us to issue a special update on both markets that evening to our subscribers, as Gold was trading around 1186.50 and Silver around 17.75. Subscribers were alerted that this represented a favorable risk-reward buying opportunity. By Thursday, Gold was up to 1234 and Silver to 17.72.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

Our best trade of the week was in Gold and Silver, where our special update on Sunday night, October 5, to subscribers advised, "Aggressive traders may buy here (Gold under 1189.50 and Silver under 1677) with a stop-loss based on Silver falling below 1664 AND Gold falling below 1179.40". The low was Sunday night, and they closed the week above 1220 and 17.35 respectively.

The best trades of the week in the daily report were in stock indices. Monday's report advised aggressive traders to ... "Sell short again at 1970-1975, with a stop-loss on a close above 1980 or 1990, depending on your risk allowance". The high of the week was 1971. Traders captured 2/3 of those for excellent profits, and were stopped out of the final position (in the money) on Wednesday's rally.

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 focus will now shift to the center of the current Mercury retrograde period (October 4-24), which will be this Tuesday, October 14. Any financial market that did not reverse around the time of the retrograde (October 3-7) is a candidate to experience a sudden reversal within one trading day of October 14. That is one reason why we can't just assume the long-term cycle top in stocks is in, and a new bear market is underway. That may be the case, but this is the part of the Mercury retrograde cycle where hope (of the bulls) can be rekindled. Thus, there may be sudden, sharp, but brief rally in equities shortly. Additionally, the T-square of transiting Venus-Uranus-Pluto ends this weekend. That too can end the recent decline, at least temporarily.

Yet, there are greater concerns ahead. For one, transiting Saturn is about to enters its own T-square with the natal position of Mercury and the Sun is square to Pluto in the Buttonwood chart of the New York Stock Exchange (May 17, 1792). If the bear market is in force, then even with brief but sharp rallies, stock prices could continue to plummet into a low that is due in that time frame (October 24-December 4).

By the way, the low on Silver at 1764-1766 on October 3-6 happened exactly as described in the Forecast 2014 Book. Page 58 stated, "Venus will be in Libra September 29-October 23. This period has a strong correlation to primary or half-primary cycle troughs in Silver". That is the beauty of Financial Astrology. Nothing compares to it in terms of accuracy in market timing. Well, OK, there are other accurate market timing tools, like cycles, Gann studies and Fibonacci time sequences. And we will use them all. However, Financial Astrology has proven repeatedly to be exceptionally reliable in pinpointing highs and lows on the primary cycle level.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

"The list of sensible legislation passed by the House but languishing in the Democratic Senate is long and distinguished. But of all the bills Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has refused to bring to the floor, an extension of the ban on Net access taxes stands out for the acute consumer pain that would result from its absence". Wall Street Journal editorial, October 9, 2014.

"Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identification is unchanged from the last four years but down from 36% in 2008". www.Gallop.com , January 8, 2014.

Will Harry Reid and the Senate really allow consumers to be hit by big internet taxes that will arrive on December 11 by failing to act on this important legislation ? That is when the Internet Tax Freedom Act expires.

Uranus rules the internet in the study of astrology, and Pluto rules taxes. They will make their final waxing square explosion when Mars transits from Pluto in Capricorn (government power/repression plays) to Uranus in Aries (masses demanding independence), which takes place November 11, 2014 through March 11, 2015.

It is interesting to watch world dynamics and opinions change as the Cardinal Climax of 2008-2015 enters its final stretch. For most of this period, the Republican-led House of Representatives has been labeled as the "Party of Obstruction", and for good reason, given their role in the government shutdowns and near shut downs of 2011 and 2013. But in the last year, that has completely reversed, as the House passed over 300 bills that the Senate, under Reid's direction, refused to let come up for a vote. One can only wonder how this label of "Obstruction" will unfold in the November mid-term elections. Even more interesting will be how this label will apply if the Republicans gain control of both the Senate and the House, and President Obama decides to veto bills sent for his signature.

It's all happening in the final passage of Uranus square Pluto, December 2014-March 2015, with the presence of Mars to both starting even in early November. What was thought to be the case suddenly turns out to be something very different. However, I doubt that this will have any effect upon one's political ideology, where facts have little relevance to one's beliefs. The polarity is apt to remain a deep divide. And that is a reason why the strongest political affiliation in the USA today is not with either the Democrat or Republican party. For the first time in memory, the majority of voters in the USA consider themselves as Independents.

Hmmm... independents. That is a key word for Uranus too, especially in Aries, a sign of independence.

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

The two talks I presented at the ISAR 2014 conference last week are now available for purchase in the CD or MP3 format. They include 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 !.

February 21, 2015 : Webinar by Raymond Merriman on "Preparing for the Post-Cardinal Climax - An Outlook of Financial Markets and World Economics". Cost is $45.00. Contact MMA at 1-248-626-3034 or ordersmma@gmail.com for details or sign up.

August 27-30, 2015 : "Preserving Wealth and Recognizing New Investment Opportunities". A special event and retreat for MMA subscribers only, at a destination to be revealed later. Attendance limited to 12 subscribers. Cost $4000. Contact MMA at 1-248-626-3034 or ordersmma@gmail.com for details or to sign up.

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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