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"Mr. Draghi said the ECB was ready to take fresh action if needed, and that all policy tools were on the table - including deeper interest rate cuts, which he had all but ruled out last month". - Tom Fairless, "ECB Reopens Door to Further Cuts", Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2016.

In the continuing Saturn square Neptune saga of "You cannot believe what you read, hear, or see", the ECB now joins the FRB for yet another reversal from their so-called "policy statements" made just a few weeks earlier. It is also a symptom of the ongoing Mutable T-square of Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune, where everything changes quickly, and nothing said or agreed upon today matters if a better opportunity for more personal leverage or gains arises shortly afterwards. Today's trends and "accepted conventional wisdom" typically last 1-3 weeks under such mutable influences, and then the opposite investor psychology starts to grow.

It also supports our premise outlined in our series of YouTube videos that we started in mid-March. In particular, Part 2 of this series provided the cosmic basis as to why the central banks of the world (especially in the USA and Europe) will do everything within their power to make sure the economies of their regions will get stoked as we head into the November 2016 USA Presidential Election. They want the wealth of their citizens to explode (via rising stock markets), so that there is no advantage for opposition candidates to allege economic weakness.

Last week was also noteworthy because 1) Mars and Pluto turned retrograde on April 17-18, and 2) Venus made a translation to the Uranus/Pluto square. The latter is a strong geocosmic reversal signature, and as if set by an alarm, many financial markets did exactly that last week, on time, in rather spectacular fashion. Venus and Pluto specifically have a strong historical correlation to Currencies and Soybeans. When the mutable (changeable) sign Mario Draghi changed his mind about the future of ECB interest rate policies on Thursday, April 21, the U.S. Dollar reversed in recent declines and shot up sharply against all major currencies. Against the Japanese Yen, for instance, the Dollar was trading below 108 as last week began (April 18), its lowest level since October 2014. By Friday, it surged sharply up to 111.81, which is a big move in that market. As the Euro dropped, commodities like Soybeans fell, because their price is based on the value of the U.S. Dollar. As the Dollar gets stronger, commodities based in Dollars get weaker, generally speaking. Just before Virgo Draghi gave his mutable dilemma announcement, old crop and new crop (May and November contracts) Soybeans were trading above $10.20.bu, their highest level since November 2014, and consistent with our Forecast 2016 Book, which forecasted Soybeans would again hit double digits in 2016. Within 24 hours, May Soybeans were more than 50 cents lower, which is large decline for this market.

Gold and Silver performed is similar fashion. Before the "change of mind" by the ECB chief on Thursday, April 21 (right in the middle of the Venus translation of April 19-22), Silver was trading as high as $17.72/oz, its highest mark in nearly a year, and up 30% from its multi-year low of 13.62 in December 2015, just four months ago. By the end of the day, Silver had dropped nearly $1.00 from that high.

Stock markets of the world also turned down from new cycle highs made on Wednesday-Thursday of last week, in the midst of the Venus translation. However, their declines were not as dramatic as was the case with commodities, which are more dollar dependent than equities. One exception was the Japanese Nikkei, which continued to soar to new multi-week highs right into the close of trading Friday. It is now up over 2500 points (over 18%) since its primary cycle low of February 12.

It is wild time for financial, markets. It is a wild time in the cosmos as well. This is part of "The Incredible Spring Lineup of Geocosmic Signatures", in force March-June, 2016. Hold on. It is not over yet.

Short-Term Geocosmics & LONG-TERM THOUGHTS :

"It is not correct that a candidate, who enters the convention with a plurality of delegates although short of the majority, must receive the nomination... In 1976, Ronald Reagan got a million more votes than President (Gerald) Ford in the primaries. But Reagan did not win a majority of the delegates. President Ford did and so he received the nomination. Reagan understood the rules. Without complaint, he supported the winner. That is how it works". - "Let's Get This Straight About the Convention", Wall Street Journal, "Opinion" by several former national chairmen of the Republican National Convention, April 21, 2016.

"Bill Clinton left office with the highest approval rating of any president since World War II. Mrs. Clinton has spent the past six months in essence saying that everything he did was weak, phony, or wrong...And Hillary's switcheroos have also come at a price to the Clinton brand. The Sanders purists see her lurches left as false, and another reason not to trust her. Especially when they are combined with Mr. Sander's relentless criticism of her money-grubbing and Wall Street ties". - Kimberley A. Strassel, "Berning the Clinton Establishment", Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2016.

The prior week it was Mars and Pluto turning retrograde within our "Incredible Spring Lineup of Geocosmic Signatures". Mars and Pluto are relentless, and tend to harm anyone who behaves over-aggressively. The aggressor usually loses here, and this dynamic remains in force through June 29. It is going to be a very hostile environment as candidates of both parties try to nail down the required number of delegates going into their conventions.

This lack of clarity and presence of divisiveness with whining, is apt to be ratcheted up this week as Mercury will join Mars and Pluto (and Saturn and Jupiter) when it too turns retrograde, on April 28. It will last through May 22. Furthermore, this will be no ordinary Mercury retrograde, as discussed in our newest YouTube video, Part 4, just released on Wednesday and available for viewing at https://youtu.be/XoWP_ku6Pus.This Mercury retrograde will contain a rare "Mercury eclipse of the Sun" on May 9, which will be visible as a little black spec moving across the surface of the Sun for about 6-7 hours, visible to much of the world (with proper safety glasses). With Mars also retrograde with Pluto, which can rule accidents and injuries, you have to wonder how many people will go blind trying to look at the Sun and see this cosmic spectacle that happens about every 7 years.

Mercury will be in Taurus during its entire retrograde motion. Taurus rules banks and money. It is not surprising that Central Banks are announcing new policies even now - policies that negate their earlier pronouncements. It is the mutable T-square too, where nothing said can be counted on to be maintained for long. Everything changes, and again, you cannot believe anything you read, see, or hear. Truth is probably the most valuable commodity of all currently because it is - and will be - in short supply.

How will this affect financial markets ? Well, mutable means no trend lasts very long. Bullish sentiment turns to bearish sentiment in a short span of time, like every 1-3 weeks. Mercury retrograde has a similar dynamic, but only with a shorter life span. That is, sentiment can change every 1-4 days as markets whipsaw back and forth amidst unexpected events and contradictory announcements by political and banking leaders. In addition, this tends to be a period of "fake outs", via technical and charting studies, where a bullish signal is quickly followed by a bearish signal and vice-versa. Resistance and support price levels can be broken, giving the belief that a trend is in force. However, within 1-4 days, the price can suddenly reverse and negate that buy or sell signal. This might be a fantastic environment for very short-term traders. However, position traders have to be careful not to be whipsawed in and out of positions for losses. Since Mercury rules communications, it is a good idea to make sure you enter your orders correctly. Make sure you mean to buy or sell, and not enter the opposite order to what you really mean. You may have to be careful of problems with computers and cell phones too (means of communication). Yet in Taurus, Mercury retrograde may mean mathematical errors in your bank balances. Watch your accounts (bank and credit cards) closely for such errors.

We will have to keep a close eye on the recent breakouts of some stock markets, like the DJIA. Can it hold above that breakout area of 17,600-17,700 ? If so, it supports the idea that the central banks are indeed in control and engineering a strong stock market and net wealth gain. If not, there will be alarms set into motion that maybe the banks have run out of ammunition to engineer the economy and financial markets. With Mars turning retrograde now, will the Dollar resume its bull market, causing commodities to take a serious dive, and giving rise to the idea that their recent bullish moves were fake outs ? All of this, and more surprises and changes are possible.

It is almost too much to assimilate. Thus, the best advice is still the advice given before : sit back, enjoy the show, and allow yourself to be entertained. Try not to be too caught up with seriousness in this real life comedy and/or tragedy. It may be emotionally hard when great artists like the creator of "Purple Rain" passes from our planet. Just try to reflect upon all the greatness he - and others who move onto other dimensions now - brought forth during his/their lifetime. We are all blessed to have experienced such creativity.

~~Longer-Term Geocosmic Signatures :~~

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

The next Raymond Merriman webinar will take place Sunday, June 5, at 11:45 AM, Eastern Daylight time. It will last a little less than two hours, and will cover the outlook for interest rates, real estate market, grains and foods, Gold, Silver, the USA stock market, Crude Oil, and the U.S. Dollar. The cost will be $45.00. A power point of the slides will be included with your reservation. TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT AT THIS EVENT, call MMA at 1-248-626-3034, or email ordersmma@msn.com. In about three weeks, you will be able to reserve on line. Live attendance will be limited to 100 people. All of these webinars have sold out in the past, so reserve early and guarantee your slot

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.

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 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 :

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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