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Note 2 : Monday is the Memorial Day Holiday weekend in the USA. Markets will be closed here on Monday. This is really the beginning of our summer season in the USA. So if you live in the USA, enjoy your holiday weekend and remember to honor those who gave their lives to protect your freedom! That fight never ends, whether on the battlefield or in socio-political discourse.

Note 3 : There will be no column next week, as I will be preparing for the MMA Webinar on our "Mid-Year Outlook for Financial Markets and World Conditions". I will cover my outlook for that week, and the rest of the year, in that webinar. I look forward to meeting with many of you then, 11:45 AM (EDT), Sunday, June 5.

Review and Preview :

It was a fascinating post-Mercury retrograde week. Mercury ended its retrograde motion last weekend, May 22, and started a nice rally on Tuesday that held throughout the week. Crude Oil also broke the 50.00 mark briefly for the first time in 7 months. The Dollar also rallied to a new 2-month high as concerns about a Feed rate hike in June persisted. The hawkish talk on interest rates had a chilling effect on Gold and Silver, however, which fell to new multi-week lows. Gold is challenging the $1200 mark, and Silver the $16.00 level.

Short-Term Geocosmics ~~& LONG-TERM THOUGHTS~~ :

Last week was important not only because Mercury ended its retrograde motion, but also because Jupiter completed its last of three waning squares to Saturn on May 26. Here is why that is important. There is a mutable T-square going on right now between Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. They are all in a hard aspect to one another. However, the exact opposition to Jupiter and Neptune only occurred once, on September 17, 2015. The first passage of the Jupiter/Saturn square occurred on August 5, 2015. If we allow a one month orb to the solo passage of the Jupiter/Neptune opposition, we have a time window of August 17-October 17 when these two aspects were peaking. That was an important time for financial markets and central banking decisions. The DJIA made its 4-year cycle low on August 24 (and may other markets made important cycle culminations then too). This was also near the time of the last Greek crisis and when the central bank of China decided to let the Yuan start to float lower against the U.S. Dollar. It was also the time the Fed decided not to raise rates when everyone expected that they would. Thus, markets were highly volatile as central bankers made what later can be described as questionable decisions. Both the Chinese and the Fed later changed their minds, probably regretting the confusion and turmoil their decisions caused then, in a pattern that continues today under the mutable T-square : you can't believe what you reads, hear, or see. Central bankers (and politicians) now seem to easily change their mind shortly after every major decision they have made since then. It is the nature of the mutable influence of planets in hard aspect to one another.

The next overlapping time band of the mutable T-square planets began November 26, 2015 when Saturn made its first waning square passage to Neptune, a cosmic phenomenon that will continue through September 10, 2016. During this period, Jupiter completed its second and third waning square passages to Saturn, which just ended May 26. Thus, November 26-May 26 was another highly-charged period for financial markets. As we look back, we can see long-term cycle lows have formed in Gold, Silver and stocks during that period.

This week is additionally important because both the Sun and Venus will enter the middle degrees of Gemini, forming a grand square (translation) to the Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune T-square, June 1-4. With Venus involved, this can correlate with a major reversal in policies again, directly coinciding with a trend reversal in many financial markets, but especially pertinent to currencies, stocks, Soybeans, and Crude Oil. It is interesting to note that the USA payroll reports come out on Friday, June 3, right in the midst of these signatures. Expect a wild reaction to that report.

It will be a good time to have a webinar - our mid-year outlook for financial markets.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

"The Competitive Enterprise Institute finds that, last year, Congress passed a mere 114 laws and federal agencies issued a whopping 3410 regulations. A Kauffman Foundation study cites a proliferation of 'incumbent protection' rules as a reason for a decline in small business entrepreneurship. A Brookings Institution study shows an unheralded change in American life, business closures exceeded business starts during much of President Obama's tenure".

• Holman Jenkins, Jr., "Trump for Blow-Upper in Chief", Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2016

". a portion of Republicans will break from the GOP over Donald Trump, some Democrats especially among the affluent, will, in the next cycle, start to peel off from their party over its lurch leftward. They will not be at home in a party of smiley-faced socialism that threatens to become actual socialism. They will not want the American economy destroyed ; they do not want their 10-year old daughters using transgendered bathrooms with men. They will be opposed to the political correctness that has swept the universities".- Peggy Noonan, "Clinton-Sanders : Maybe That's the Ticket", Wall Street Journal, May 21-22, 2016.

"Economics is the continuation of politics by other means".- Peter J. Turchi, paraphrasing Carl von Clausewitz, Wall Street Journal, Letters to Editor, May 25, 2016.

First off, let's discuss astrology and politics. The radical upheaval of the political and economic world under the Cardinal Climax of 2008-2015 is one thing. Neptune in Pisces is quite another and opposite thing in principle.

The Cardinal Climax led to efforts to transform societies everywhere, often against the historical culture of the people who make up those societies. This, in turn, has created great anger among populations everywhere. Change is not easy to accept, especially when you seem powerless in the decision to make those changes, which is the case today that might explain the ruptures that are unfolding in the dysfunction of today's American political parties And now, under the Saturn/Neptune waning square of 2015-2016, the level of distrust directed against political leaders and political systems is probably as great as it has ever been. Hence the attraction - and alarm - towards political leaders who are stepping outside of the box, like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, in the USA.

Trump's slogan is to "Make America Great" again, a call beckoning for a retreat back to values of a former time. But in the case of Bernie Sander's attraction, it is a desire to move to a future where the government assumes a role of a compassionate, paternalistic, entity that provides for everyone's basic needs. His is a revolution towards Democratic Socialism. Trump's is a revolt against - what ? - stupid executive decisions that have caused America to fall economically and militarily, to be taken advantage of by everyone else in the world, as his message implies.

So Trump represents the consequences of decisions and actions taken by political and banking leaders under the Cardinal Climax, which are now viewed as "failures" by him and his supporters under Saturn square Neptune. Trump is also very Martian, as Mars is conjunct his natal ascendant in the fire sign of Leo. Bernie's movement represents the other large cosmic transit taking place in the heavens - Neptune in Pisces, 2012-2026.

How does astrology, in this astrologer's mind, view these cosmic conditions ? I think Neptune in Pisces is the movement towards Socialism, and contrary to the beliefs of conservatives, this movement will continue to grow well beyond the politics of 2016 and Bernie Sanders. And if Trump represents Mars and the consequences of the Cardinal Climax, well, Mars is currently retrograde in the USA chart for nearly 80 years, staring in 2008. The arc of the cosmos is in a direction against war and violence, even though both were - and still are - on the increase due to Uranus in Aries as part of the Cardinal Climax. That will change soon, perhaps as soon as Uranus moves into Taurus (2018) or maybe as late as 2026 when Saturn and Neptune together cross over into Aries.

The point is, whether I like it or not, Bernie Sanders is the current symbol of a change - a "revolution", as he calls it - towards an expanding political Socialism in the world through 2026. It doesn't mean he wins the 2016 election. In fact, I don't really know who will win yet (I will let you know at the ISAR 2016 Symposium). A case can be made for both Clinton and Trump to win, as discussed in last week's column. But regardless of who wins - even Trump - the presence of Neptune in Pisces implies (to me), that the principles of Socialism, as espoused by Bernie Sanders, will not stop with the election of 2016. It may be temporarily interrupted, but more and more people will want their governments to provide more and more for them.

The only question in my mind is : who is going to pay for it ? What is going to happen to the national and global debt that has just exploded in the 21 st century ? I am not so sure this experiment - this movement, this revolution - is going to end well. After all, a downside to Neptune in Pisces can also be global chaos.

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

Our fourth interview on "The Incredible Spring Lineup of Geocosmic Signatures", has now been posted on our YouTube station at https://youtu.be/XoWP_ku6Pus. This latest video focuses on the importance of the current Mercury retrograde and contains a special section on the recent explosion upwards in Silver prices. All four interviews are available for viewing. Part 1 can be seen at : https://youtu.be/KmaySvng0dk, and Part 2 at https://youtu.be/JTCO9JlCnB8. Part 3 may also be viewed now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7YGVkmlSew. These videos are getting great reviews and are very relevant right now. Hosted by German Journalist and Astrologer Antonia Langsdorf, interviewing Raymond Merriman, these YouTube videos describe the incredible spring geocosmic lineup now in force, and its association with financial markets and world affairs. You will not be disappointed. You will be surprised. .

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.

Our monthly MMA Cycles (The monthly edition of the MMA International Cycles Report (ICR) 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 $55.00, 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 $55.00.

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
Then year is now 5 months complete, and we will now drop the price for copies of the Forecast 2016 e-book from $55.00 to $35.00. MMA will also offer a one-month special of a free copy of the Forecast 2016 e-book with any order exceeding $250.00 (offer ends June 30). The Forecast 2016 Book is still very valuable. The first 50 pages cover the outlook not only for 2016, but the year's role in the greater outlook for the next ten years, when Saturn and Neptune will start a new conjunction cycle on February 20, 2026, as both cross over into 0° Aries. It describes the correlation of this planetary pair cycle to the political situation in Russia as well as its correspondence to long-term USA interest rates. Equally valuable are the 7 months of geocosmic three-star critical reversal dates (CRDs) still remaining in the year for USA stocks, Gold and Silver, Treasuries, Currencies, Crude Oil and Grain prices. Order now at the discounted rate and get your copy of the Forecast 2016 Book while it is still current and of great value.

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...

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, is now confirmed at the beautiful Kona Kai Hotel right on the Pacific Ocean, in San Diego, California. Save the dates! It will be special. Cost is $4000 ($3300 if reserved by July 1, 2016, $3600 if reserved by October 15). Details now available on the MMA website (www.mmacycles.com).

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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