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Last week's market activity was classical Uranus/Pluto symbolism, combined with the ongoing mutable T-square involving Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. In other words, world equity markets were all over the place - up strongly one day, down sharply the next, with successive signs of bullishness followed by bearishness.

The new moon in Aries took place on April 7. It was conjunct Uranus (and square Pluto), although the exact conjunction between the Sun and Uranus in Aries would not occur until Saturday, April 9. Still, it corresponds to world and financial conditions that reflect the principles of Uranus at least three days before and after. How does Uranus behave ? Erratically. Uranus (like Mercury retrograde, for Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury) has no respect for rules or boundaries, like support and resistance, or bullish and bearish signals. When Uranus is highlighted in the heavens, as it is now, financial markets can reverse their recent trends, or they can break through support and resistance, as in a breakout. Or they can break through support or resistance, and then reverse, as in a "fake out". One of the key principles associated with Uranus is "unpredictable". Another is "sudden changes", as witnessed in last week's financial markets.

The mutable T-square has been discussed at length in this column, as well as in our YouTube video series on "The Incredible Spring Lineup of Geocosmic Signatures" (go to YouTube and type in the search section for "Raymond Merriman"). We are filming Part 3 of this series this weekend and should be ready for viewing by Sunday, April 10. The very concept of "mutable" implies "changes". Nothing is fixed. Everything is up for adjustment, fine-tuning, even reversal. In financial markets, we postulated that the period from March through May would witness changes of trend and sentiment every two weeks or so. When Uranus is also highlighted, as it is right now, changes may happen more frequently - every day or two. Last week, for instance, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down triple digits on Tuesday, up triple digits on Wednesday, down triple digits on Thursday, and then up triple digits in the first hour on Friday, before giving back those triple digit gains the rest of the day.

Gold and Silver held up surprisingly well last week. However, Gold is very much like the DJIA in a charting sense. The DJIA, for instance, recently broke above a downward trendline connecting its all-time high of May 19, 2015, to its highs of November and December. This trendline was around 17,650. Once three-point trendlines are broken, it usually means that market is breaking in the direction of the breakout. However, it can also mean that the price level of the breakout becomes a fulcrum point around which that market will trade above and below by a certain amount. In the case of the DJIA, it broke out above 17,650 on March 30, on its way to a high of 17,811 the next day, or about 160+ points. It then reversed and fell back below 17,650, on its way down to 17,484 on April 7, or about 160+ points below the former trendline, which now acts as a midpoint of a "range-bound" market for the moment. This is a market trying to decide if it wants to be bullish (as suggested by the recent stimuli actions of central banks, and all the contributions being made to retirement plans at the end of this tax season), or bearish, as suggested by several bearish technical signals, such as last week's intermarket bearish divergence between the DJIA and S&P (S&P futures made a new cycle high last week, but the DJIA did not).

Gold is exhibiting a similar chart setup. Like the DJIA, Gold had formed a three-point downward trendline on its weekly chart, connecting the highs going back to August 2013, to the high February 2016. It finally broke above that trendline, when it was about 1245-1250 in the first week of March. Once broken, Gold rallied to its recent high of 1287.80 March 11. However, instead of continuing the breakout upwards, it reversed and fell back to 1206, this creating a range of about $40.00 above and below the breakout point of 1245. Will the DJIA and Gold continue trading around those fulcrum points of 17,650 and 1245 respectively ? Or will they resume the direction of their upside breakouts ? Or will they reverse and start to decline in earnest ? We may know the answer shortly as both Mars and Pluto turn retrograde April 17-18.

Short-Term Geocosmics & LONG-TERM THOUGHTS :

"If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates". - Jay Leno.

". we do not believe we have the authority to address this inversion question through administrative action. If we did, we would be doing more". -Jack Lew, U.S. Treasury Secretary in 2014, "Treasury Is Wrong about Our Merger and Growth", Ian Read, Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2016.

"Mr. Obama wants to help his fellow Democrats with one more lawless treasury rewrite of longstanding U.S. tax law. Twice before, in 2014 and 2015, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew simply issued notices that changed the rules to make it more difficult for a merging company to adopt a foreign legal address- so called corporate inversions. But those attempts flopped (until this week) - because the business incentive is so great to escape America's destructive combined state and federal corporate tax rate of more than 39% ( highest in the world )".- Wall Street Journal editorial. "Jack Lew's Corporate Tax Ambush", April 6, 2016.

"Many governments, including ours (USA), overtax their citizens to feed their own insatiable need for money. Then the legal thieves running the government and their cronies, unwilling to abide the tax levels they created, move their wealth off shore to places like Panama". - Daniel Henninger, "Panama Bernie", Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2016.

"To wit, the story here (about leaks of the Panama Papers) isn't about tax evaders and offshore accounts, deplorable as they may be. It's about public polices and incentives that make a career in politics an expedient route to personal enrichment". Bret Stephens, " 'C' is for Corruption", Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2016.

I have often wondered how politicians became millionaires after - and very soon after - they were elected to public service. Most were not wealthy when they stared their career in politics. The explosive leak of the Panama Papers last week sheds a huge light on this shadow world of offshore accounts that allow many world political leaders to avoid the very taxes that they create and thus force their citizens to pay. This is so Pluto-in-Capricorn. And right now, the Sun is in conjunction to Uranus and square to Pluto, as Mars and Pluto are both about to turn retrograde. As much as this is a Mars period, it is also a Pluto-in-Capricorn period. Financial markets are prone to sudden changes, as explosive news stories are announced. It is all Uranus (sudden) and Pluto (corruption regarding tax avoidance and secret offshore bank accounts in order to avoid detection by one's government - the same government that wants to punish corporations trying to save money for their investors, for research to stay competitive in world markets, through "inversions"). This expose' of political corruption and hypocrisy is coming into its fullness now, because Pluto is right in the middle of its 16-year sojourn through Capricorn. There is more - much more - to come, and along with it, more resignations as demanded by the populace of their leaders, as witnessed by the first casualty of the leak last week in Iceland.

As stated in last week's column, " We are now in between the first and second stages (of four stages) described in our recent YouTube video on "The Incredible Spring Lineup of Geocosmic Signatures". The second stage will manifest April 17-18, +/- ten days, when Mars and Pluto both turn retrograde. This is a particularly challenging combination, for both represent principles that are forceful and relentless". Pluto can be forceful, coercive, and pertain to such matters as taxes, cover-ups, secrecy, and -especially in Capricorn (2008-2024) - corruption.

We are in the early stages of a long time band containing 15 geocosmic signatures related to reversals in financial markets, extending from April 5 through May 13. No two consecutive signatures are more than 5 calendar days apart. This usually means there will be a rolling series of markets reversing at different times throughout this period. This week it might be currencies and treasuries, next week (or one of the following weeks) it might be stocks or metals. But the main thing to watch, in our opinion, is the idea that metals and/or currencies tend to form a low or high within two weeks of Mars turning retrograde (April 17) and/or direct (June 29) that will not be seen for the rest of this year. We may also witness some world leaders who will be leaving the world stage for the rest of their life.

Last week, the Sun translated the Uranus/Pluto square. Venus will do the same April 19-22. If you thought last week was a little crazy in the news, in the world of financial markets, there is another similar episode right around the corner. Of course, finding the "corner" will not be so easy, because Saturn is also in square to Neptune. Saturn may be a straight line (linear thought), but Neptune bends reality. What you see and hear is not necessarily real. If you are having sensations that something is strange and surreal (like the face you see in the mirror), relax. That's Neptune bending the laws of Saturn (which may actually be the laws of the land). And this is happening while the Sun and Venus are translating Uranus (suddenness) and Pluto (coercive and unilateral), all during the incredible mutable T-square in force this spring.

Have fun. Enjoy the show. It can be very entertaining if you don't take it (and yourself) too seriously. Yet, by all means, play it safe. Stay out of danger.

~~Longer-Term Geocosmic Signatures :~~

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

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We are pleased to announce announce the release of a new book titled "Mundane Astrology 2016" by Toshi Nippou, our MMA sponsor (agent) in Japan. This book is compilation of many of my Mundane Astrology articles from Forecasts Books and weekly columns, put together by Hiyoka Akiyama, who translated these works into Japanese. For our Japanese audience, you can go to and learn more about this exciting new publication. I only wish I could read Japanese. I would love to see this new book.

Attention crude oil traders ! A new report, titled, "Time for Crude Oil", will be soon be offered by MMTA graduate Nitin Bhandari, starting April 1. This service will consist of daily, weekly, and monthly reports on crude oil for active traders, investors, and hedgers. It will begin April 1. However, as an introductory offer, these reports will be available for free starting this Monday through April 1! Nitin has been writing MMA daily crude oil report for two years now, and the monthly report on crude oil for the MMA Cycles Report for the last several months. He recently called the bottom in crude oil, and advised all traders to get long at that time. As you know, crude oil is up nearly 50% from the low just one month ago. What is he advising now ? To find out, sign up now for his free introductory reports on crude oil. Call Lisa at 1-248-626-3034 or email her at ordersmma@msn.com to get your copies starting this Monday, March 14. All you have to do is ask to receive these free trial editions before they become paid subscription reports.

We have just completed a fascinating interview with Ted Lee Fisher, the keynote speaker at the 2017 MMA Investment Retreat taking place March 10-13, 2017, in sunny San Diego, California. Go there to read about this remarkable trader and analyst.

We are pleased to announce that the second MMA Investment Retreat will take place at the beautiful Kona Kai Resort on Shelter Island in San Diego, California, March 10-13, 2017. One of our guest speakers will be Ted Lee Fisher, money manager, retired member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and a legend in Commodity Futures for his pioneering work on creating Treasury futures. He is one of the most profound thinkers I have met on the current situation in world financial markets - a brilliant man and savvy trader, who has also been an ordained Buddhist Monk, and for 40 years, a diligent practicing lay person. We will open up early registration for this event shortly. Stay tuned, and don't miss this powerfully enlightening event!

New interview! It seems like we are in demand for interviews lately, which is a good thing. It probably also illuminates the fact that the investment world is in a state of uncertainty right now, and given our accurate forecasts of late, and outlook for 2016, they want to know what we think, how we view the current state of affairs financially and politically. The highly regarded FXstreet.com just conducted an interview/review of Forecast 2016 Book by yours truly.
It is very good, discussing major political, economic, and financial market themes of 2016. To view please go to http://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/conversations-with-forex-experts/2016/02/18. It is in English here, but will soon be translated into Spanish. For our Spanish-speaking friends, FXstreet.com will be posting our free weekly column in Spanish shortly.

Check out The Mountain Astrologer, the Dec/Jan 2016 edition that just came out. It features a two-part interview with Raymond Merriman on Financial and Mundane Astrology, the economy, financial markets, and the state of the world astrology community. For information on subscribing to America's top astrological magazine and getting your copy of this and the next issue's interview with Ray Merriman, conducted by Editor Tem Terriktar, call TMA at 530-477-8839, 800-287-4828, or their website at www.mountainastrologer.com.

MMA's annual Forecast Book, written by Raymond A. Merriman since 1976, is now completed and HAS SOLD OUT! There will not be a second printing. However, eBook copies may still be purchased. That is the beauty of this new electronic age and books. You never sell out of eBooks.

This year's printed version of Forecast 2016 will also available in four other languages, as follows :
Dutch : at www.markettiming.nl
German : at http://www.mma-europe.ch
Japanese : at http://merriman.jp
Russian : at http://www.mmafinance.ru

MMA's weekly and daily reports have been extremely accurate and profitable lately, catching the lows in metals, stocks, crude oil, soybeans, and currencies. 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 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.
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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.
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Upcoming Events :

April 14-18, 2016 : Saturn Square Neptune : What It Means for the World and for You Personally ; Great Lakes Astrology Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. For further information, contact 1-734-434-0804, info@greatlakesstrology.com.

June 5, 2016, 11:45 AM, EST: Mid-year Review of Financial Markets with Raymond Merriman. Our next webinar. Reservations to the live event online is limited to the first 100 people who apply. Cost is @45.00, and will last slightly less than 2 hours.

October 13-17, 2016 : ISAR 2016 - "The Power of Forecasting Meets the Consequence of Choice". Costa Mesa, California (near LA). The climax will be a panel of expert Mundane Astrologers giving their Forecast of the USA 2016 Presidential Election. An "Application to Speak" process is currently underway. More details at www.isarastrology.com, and via the ISAR ezine that is sent out to all members of the organization. This event will include tracks on Mundane and Financial Astrology as Forecasting Tools, plus others on Psychological Shifts in Life, Timing of Spiritual Transformations, and Timing of Significant Relationships.

March 9-13, 2017 : Second MMA Investment Retreat, tentatively planned for Southern California or Hawaii now (no Sedona). Details 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.

The new book titled Solar-Lunar Keys to Gold Prices : Secrets of a Gold Trader , is now out. The long awaited sequel to the Secrets of a Silver Trader is due out in late October (maybe before)!!!
Now, GOLD as you have never seen it by night or day. The studies for the soon-to-be-released book are now completed and the results are now being used in the weekly and daily MMA subscription reports for short-term trading strategies in Gold. That's right... historically tested Solar-Lunar Correlations to trading reversals in the Gold Market - as only available from Raymond Merriman. The studies cover over 40 years of daily Gold, starting from December 31, 1974 through April 2015. The book will change how you approach trading Gold using these leading solar-lunar indicators, with very clear instructions as to "when" to expect 3%, 4%, or greater reversals in Gold prices and how to trade them. It will be a valuable guide for short-term traders of Gold, GLD, and other ETF's involving Gold prices. You may call 1-248-626-3034 or email ordersmma@gmail.com and place your pre-order now. It is also now available for purchase on the MMA web site at www.mmacycles.com. Order now and get the first printing of this new book on trading Gold!

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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