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Last Monday, June 22, was not only the first day of the summer season, but also the last of three passages of the Jupiter/Uranus trine aspect. It was similar to the first two passages of September 25, 2014 and March 3, 2015 when many world equities markets staged impressive rallies to a crest nearby. In the first case, the USA stock market (DJIA) made a new all-time high just three trading days before the trine, and then promptly commenced its sharpest sell off of the year, lasting four weeks, into October 15, right in the middle of a Mercury retrograde. The second passage occurred on March 3. On the day before, the DJIA posted another new all-time high, and then sold off four weeks again. In this third passage, the DJIA made a secondary high to 18,188 on June 23, one day after the aspect. Although it was not a new all-time high, it was only 163 points off, whereas the Japanese Nikkei Index made a new 18-year high the very next day, June 24. Then, all stock indices began turning down again. Wouldn't it be nice if we had foresight instead of hindsight? Well, in this case we did, which provides that extra edge that illustrates the value of Financial Astrology for traders.

Our concern now is whether or not world equity markets will resume a 10% correction down or more, consistent with the history of the Sun/Mars conjunction that occurred June 14. As stated in our last column two weeks ago, "Of interest to investors right now is the Sun conjunct Mars this weekend, June 14. This aspect has a very high historical correlation to 10% or greater reversals in the DJIA within 8 degrees, or one month. The question is whether that decline has already started, or if there will be one more high before mid-July, and then that reversal. The following week will find Jupiter making its third and final trine aspect to Uranus on June 22, and the reason why we will be hosting our second and final webinar of the year on June 20. This aspect has an 85+% correlation to primary or greater cycles within 8 trading days, and two-thirds of the time it has been a crest. The first two cases in the current passages have coincided with important crests in the DJIA, on September 19 and March 3. What will this one bring? If we get a crest in stocks, then it may be time to take some positions off, or even sell short".

Jupiter aspects are seldom favorable for precious metals, and last week was no exception. Gold fell to a low of 1167.10 on Friday, June 26. This was above its half-primary cycle low of 1162.10 on June. This may be important because Silver fell to a low of 15.45 on Friday, June 26, well below its low of the past three months. This may become a case of intermarket bullish divergence if both markets can stage meaningful rallies before Gold falls below 1162. Lows oftentimes happen within days of July 1, which is now. Otherwise, it may be full steam ahead (or below) into the Venus and Uranus retrograde periods coming up on July 25-26. This not only applies to precious metals, but many markets that are affected by the interest rate policies of central banks throughout the world. Something big may be in the works.

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Short-Term Geocosmics and longer-term thoughts :

It is ironic that the deadlines for both an important Greek debt repayment (or else default), and the conclusion to the USA/Iran negotiations, come up this week, June 30. Negotiators could not have asked for a better cosmic set up. And yet very few are optimistic about these deadlines being met. In Mundane (and traditional) Astrology, Venus represents the principle of agreements. On Monday, Venus will make a favorable trine aspect to Uranus, and on Wednesday, Venus will form a conjunction with the most benevolent planet of the astrological universe, Jupiter. In addition, the Sun will also make a favorable trine to the peace-loving Neptune on July 1. If financial and political leaders of world cannot come to an agreement under these celestial metrics, then this represents a great disappointment, another case of wasted cosmic opportunity. One has to question the underlying real motives of some of those involved. But who?.

In terms of financial markets, one would also think these geocosmic signatures are favorable for rising equity prices, but not necessarily for precious metals (Jupiter is present again). But all that could change quickly - both for precious metals and equities, as well as "good will and peace on Earth" opportunities for humanity.

The cosmic balance shifts sharply after the first few days of July. From the harmonious aspects between the three benefics of the solar system (Sun, Venus, and Jupiter), the sounds of disgruntlement and the drums of war begin to beat as both the Sun and Mars fall into a cardinal T-square formation with Uranus and Pluto, July 6-25. It is like being on a picnic on a nice, sunny day, when all of a sudden dark clouds gather, the wind picks up, and a ferocious storm starts to envelope the area. The race to the Venus/Uranus retrograde is underway, at the same time the last passage of the Mars T-square to Uranus/Pluto takes place (July 25).

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To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

It's coming up fast. In fact, it will take place in just one week. Mark your calendars for June 20, 2015! That is when Raymond Merriman's "Mid-Year Outlook on Financial Markets and World Economies" webinar will take place. This will be the second and final webinar of the year by MMA. The cost of the live webinar, which includes free viewing of the presentation that will be posted for the following 30 days, is $45.00. Reservations must be made at least 48 hours in advance, or by June 18. Attendance during the live webinar is limited to the first 100 people who make a reservation (the last webinar on February 21 sold out). MP4 recordings will be available three days afterwards for those unable to attend the live webinar. The speech will begin at 2:00 PM, EDST. That is 11:00 AM in the Los Angeles and San Francisco, 7:00 PM in London, 8:00 PM in Zurich and Frankfort, and 6:00 AM in Australia (NSW). It will last about two hours, including a 20-minute Question and Answer period at the end. The topics - forecasts - to be discussed include the world and national economy for the second half of 2015, based on cyclical and geocosmic studies. Markets to be discussed will include Gold, Silver, the USA stock market, Crude Oil, Treasuries, and the U.S. Dollar. Call MMA at 1-248-626-3034, or go to the www.mmacycles.com website (scroll down the opening screen) to make your reservation, or email to ordersmma@msn.com. Less than two weeks to sign up!

What's Next??? Get ready! The new book on "Trading the Gold Market : Solar-Lunar Correlations to Price Reversals" is now being written and due out within six months. This book will change how you approach trading Gold, with very clear instructions as to "when" to expect 4% or greater reversals, and how to trade it. This book will be a very valuable guide for short-term traders of Gold, GLD, and other ETF's involving Gold prices. Written by Raymond Merriman. More details later.

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...

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.
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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.

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September 4-7, 2015 : Tuscany (near Florence, Italy) : "Identifying the Next Long-Term Investment Opportunities". A special 4-day MMA retreat for independent investors and traders. Raymond Merriman, and graduates of MMTA, will present their newest studies on various financial and commodity markets that are entering new long-term cycles (trends), which we believe offer long-term investment opportunities. The last day will discuss trading plans for the next week for those who are traders. Special Keynote Speaker will be Claude Weiss of Zurich, Switzerland, speaking on "The History of Capitalism and the Saturn/Uranus/Neptune Cycle - Implications for the Present Period". Special guest presenter is Egon von Greyerz of Matterhorn Asset Management in Zurich, Switzerland, His topic will be, Is Physical Gold the Best Insurance Against Unprecedented Economic & Geopolitical Risks ? Cost is $3600 for sign up by June 21, 2015 (it will increase to $4000 after June 21). Contact MMA at 1-248-626-3034 or ordersmma@gmail.com for details, or to sign up. Excursions to the Uffizi Art Museum and the Florence School of Wine are optional. A formal announcement is now available at www.merrimanmta.com/italy2015. A more formal brochure will be posted shortly. It's Tuscany! It's beautiful! Visit www.montegufoni.it for a description of the Castle di Montegufoni where this event will take place.

October 6-10 or 13-17, 2016 : ISAR 2016 - a Symposium of Forecasting. The climax will be a panel of expert Mundane Astrologers giving their Forecast of the USA 2016 Presidential Election. More details later, at www.isarastrology.com.

December 11, 2015 : Tucson, AZ. "Forecasts for 2016", with Raymond Merriman. Details to be announced soon.

The MMA Catalogue of products and services for 2015 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.

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.

It is with great pleasure that I announce the addition of Egon von Greyerz to MMA Investment Retreat faculty of presenters. I met Egon last week in Girona, Spain, at a special gathering attended by MMTA Graduates Nitin Bhandari (India), Philipp Beyer (Germany), Henry Canciglia (USA) and myself. Egon is an expert on Gold. He owns Matterhorn Asset Management, a Swiss Asset Management company specializing in wealth preservation, located in Zurich ( www.goldswitzerland.com). He was also the person who initiated the "Save Our Swiss Gold" Act in Switzerland late last year, which would have required the Swiss National Bank to back up their assets with 20% Gold holdings. The initiative failed, but his reasons for initiating this effort are still valid. Egon is very interested in MMA cycles' work, and will share his outlook on Gold and the world debt. This is a real treat!

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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