MMA WEEKLY - Financial Astrology commentary, Financial Market Analyst and Market Timer

Only two weeks ! to take advantage of The annual pre-publication sale for the Forecast 2018 Book. The pre-order special rate is $45, a savings of nearly 20% from the $55.00 price (plus postage) that will go into effect on October 31. This year's 2018 Forecast Book will be available in both paper and electronic editions. There is no postage for the electronic book format. We have a special rate of $70.00 in effect until October 31 for those who wish to order both the print edition and digital edition of the 2018 book. Additionally, all pre-order purchases qualify for a 10% discount on any 1-year MMA financial markets subscription service!

This year's printed version of Forecast 2018 will also be available in these other languages, as follows :

Dutch Deutsch Japanese

Each of these will also offer the English version of Forecast 2018, as will our Chinese distributor : Your work is essential to anyone who is serious in this field. I can't thank you enough for it.

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Note : The purpose of this column is to provide educational insights into the tenets of geocosmic studies as they correspond to economic, political, and socio-psychological matters, as one of several tools that in turn may assist in the practice of financial market timing. This column is not intended, nor should it be used, as an advisory service for trading financial markets, without use of other financial market analysis tools. MMA subscription reports provide that type of advisory service, with specific recommendations for trading.

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"No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies". -George W. Bush, speaking in New York City. October 19. Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2017.

"Of all the leaders on the international stage, Mr. Xi (Jinping) will be the most consequential. This is not simply because he rules a nation ... and an economy that overtook the U.S. in 2014 to become the largest in the world (measured by purchasing power parity, which both the International Momentary Fund and CIA regard as the single best yardstick). By the end of his second term, China's economy is on pace to be 40% larger than America's. At that point, he will have firmly established Beijing as the capital and Xi Jinping as the man to which a world looking for growth and stability turns first". - Graham T. Allison, "Behold the New Emperor of China. Wall Street Journal, October 19.

"I'm being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back, and it won't be very pretty". - Donald Trump, in reply to a speech given by John McCain last week, in which McCain stated, "... to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of Earth' for the sake of s ome half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history".

It was another breakout week for the U.S. and world stock indices, related to one of the two scripts associated with the Jupiter/Uranus opposition of September 27. Those two scripts are 1) reversals from primary or half-primary cycles, or 2) breakouts of major support or resistance. The first two of these three passages in late December 2016 and early March 2017, coincided with major reversals (from highs) in the U.S. stock market, as has been the case in approximately 82% of historical cases dating back to 1928. But this third passage coincided with an explosive breakout to new all-time highs - and is still continuing. Breakouts occur about 20% of the time.

This is why traders - and why we - employ trend analysis, cycle pattern studies, and technical studies, along with financial astrology tools, in actual market trading as covered in our subscription market advisory reports. Trend analysis studies, for example, never advised position traders to be short. Trend analysis studies have not been bearish in U.S. stocks since July 2015. All declines have only been corrective 18 months, and financial astrology correctly identified most of those periods when declines began, such as the longest decline of the year that began March 1. It also correctly identified the most important lows of the year from which strong rallies followed, such as April 17-19 (end of Venus retrograde) and then again August 21 (solar eclipse and Saturn direct). But as valuable and consistently reliable as financial astrology is to the art of market timing, it should not - by itself - be used as a stand-alone system by which anyone is advised to trade. Nor is technical analysis, trend analysis, pattern recognition studies, or fundamental analysis. No factor or study is 100% predictive. Just like Jupiter/Uranus aspects. They do not correlate to a major market reversal 100% of the time. They are about 82% consistent, and we work with probabilities, not inevitabilities. But combined together, with factors of each study employed and weighed properly, one can increase one's probability of being right rather than wrong, of being profitable versus unprofitable, as a trader.

I bring this up because this column identified a market reversal possibility within 12 trading days of the Jupiter/Uranus opposition on September 27, based on its 82% historical reliability. It was a forecast based solely on astrological factors, because this column's primary purpose is to educate readers on the tenets of Financial Astrology. The forecast had nothing to do with the other studies used in actually giving a trading recommendation, for this column does not do that. It is not this column's purpose to do that. That is the function of our subscription reports, which integrates geocosmic studies with trend analysis, technical analysis, and chart pattern recognition studies related to cycles, and the MMA format that serves as a trading advisory service for real traders.

Having said all that, it is also true that in this case, nearly every other market we analyze (except stock indices) did make a major trend reversal during our last geocosmic critical reversal date (CRD). And this illustrates another tenet of successful trading - the importance of market diversification. But that is a subject for another day. For now, despite the fact that only geocosmic signatures suggested a top and reversal down in stock prices around September 27, our other studies never put position traders short. S&P (and NASDAQ) position traders have remained long on our subscription reports, ever since mid-April when Venus turned direct.

The above explanation is written in response to a few readers of this column who have recently complained they cannot use this column to trade successfully. If one wants to use financial astrology to trade successfully, then either subscribe to a trading advisory service (like MMA) that uses goecosmic studies as part of its trading plan, or learn how to integrate geocosmic studies with other reliable tools designed to trade by. Do not use this column as an advisory trading service. You can take the timing factors provided in every column and use them in combination with these other tools I have described this week, and you can be successful. But using this column by itself to trade by? You better be under a favorable Jupiter transit.

Short-Term Geocosmics & longer-term THOUGHTS :

This is a week of "change" as indicated by geocosmic studies. Mars enters Libra on Sunday, October 22, and the Sun enters Scorpio on October 23. Also on October 23, heliocentric Mercury enters Sagittarius through November 3, one of our most important correlates to large swings in metals and/or currency prices. When planets change signs, collective psychology shifts. When Mars crosses a cardinal ingresss point, as Libra is, it often coincides with an announcement by a central bank that can affect financial markets, especially related to interest rates and currency prices. On Thursday, the Sun will conjunct Jupiter, as part of its translation of the forthcoming Jupiter/Neptune trine in early December. The Sun trines Neptune on November 3 to complete that phase of the translation. This indicates that euphoria continues, quite possibly in regards to world equity prices.

ABOUT OUR MOVE :

All of the delays and issues involved with installing our communications systems properly are being corrected nicely now. All the phone and fax lines - except our 800 number - are fully functional now, and even the 800 line is being forwarded to one of our other lines. It is getting there. And you never have to worry about me "hitting" anyone as I joked last week. I have Neptune rising. The only thing I like to hit is the swimming pool and beach, whenever my Capricorn planets allow me a break from overworking or exercising.

The whole process of moving is an exercise - test - in the human condition involving reaction to frustration and delay. These are Mars and Saturn transit issues - Mars over my ascendant and Saturn over my nadir, the latter being one of the more challenging periods anyone ever goes through in life (it lasts about a year). The good news is that once Saturn ends its conjunction with one's IC (nadir), it starts a 14-17 year "up" cycle in life. It goes slow at first, but as the years go by, a new foundation is constructed to support the most successful or accomplished times in one's life that unfolds during the 4 years before through 4 years after the time that Saturn crosses one MC (midheaven). For me, that won't happen for another 14 years +/- 4 years. In other words, I am about to begin a long-term "growth cycle" that won't reach a peak until 2031 +/- 4 years. Some people may have thought I had passed my prime. There have been times that I thought I had passed my prime. Uh, uh. Watch out, world! You can't keep a good Capricorn down.

For more information on this fascinating cycle of human development, related to transits in one's life, please refer to the Saturn (and Lunar Nodal) transit sections of Evolutionary Astrology: The Journey of the Soul Through States of Consciousness, which I wrote several years ago. Go to there for more information about this original application of astrology to human consciousness.

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

The third edition of The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 1: Cycles and Patterns in the Indexes is now out as of Friday, September 8! This is the most comprehensive book ever published on the cycles of the stock market (DJIA and Nikkei), with analysis going back to the British stock markets of the 17 th century. This is a must-have book if you are a serious investor, trader, or student of cycles. There is nothing else like this book available today. The cost of this book is $125. There is also a special $25 discount for those who also pre-order the Forecast 2018 Book . Call us to get this rate. The new material and tables on long-and intermediate-term cycles in the U.S. and Japanese stock markets are worth the cost of the book alone. For more information, go to visit the MMA website at www.mmacycles.com, or here and check it out. You can also order now by e-mail to ordersmma@msn.com or calling 1-800-662-3349, or 248-626-3034. "The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing : Cycles and Patterns in the Index" is literally the ultimate book on the analysis of the stock market. We are especially impressed with various waves of long-term cycles for more than 200 years, which we have never seen : T. Kaburagi, Toshi Nippou Ltd (Japan's major commodity newspaper).

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.

Only two more weeks to take advantage of The annual pre-publication sale for the Forecast 2018 Book will begin on September 5 - when Mercury retrograde ends! The pre-order special rate is $45, a savings of nearly 20% from the $55.00 price (plus postage) that will go into effect on October 31. This year's 2018 Forecast Book will be available in both paper and electronic editions. There is no postage for the electronic book format. We have a special rate of $70.00 in effect until October 31 for those who wish to order both the print edition and digital edition of the 2018 book. Additionally, all pre-order purchases qualify for a 10% discount on any 1-year MMA financial markets subscription service

MMA's annual Forecasts Book, written by Raymond A. Merriman since 1976, is one of the most unique, affordable, and accurate glimpses into the coming year. Utilizing the study of cycles and geocosmic factors, this annual Forecast book outlines forthcoming trends pertaining to political, economic, and financial markets throughout the world. Specific markets analyzed for the next year(s) include: T-Notes and interest rates, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Gold, Silver, Currencies (U.S. Dollar, Euro, Yen, Swiss Franc, and British Pound), Crude Oil, Grains and Weather. Each market contains the important geocosmic three-star critical reversal dates for 2018. Special sections also include the USA and world economy, the USA and world politics, the USA and its President. A 2018 ephemeris and calendar (one month per page) with geocosmic signatures is included, as well as descriptions of the Mercury, Venus, and Mars retrograde periods for 2018. This is a book with an impressive background for insightful accuracy into world economic and financial market conditions that you will not want to miss! For further information, go to www.mmacycles.com. ORDER NOW AND SAVE BIG BUCKS!!! !!!

For more information, visit www.mmacycles.com or call 1-800-662-3349 or 1-248-626-3034.

This year's printed version of Forecast 2018 will also available in these languages:
Dutch : at www.markettiming.nl
German : at http://www.mma-europe.ch
Japanese : at http://merriman.jp

MMA's weekly and daily subscription 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 :

January 20, 2018 : Phoenix, AZ. Workshop on Forecast 2018. Details to be announced soon.

February 17, 2018 : Miami, Florida, "Forecasts 2018 and the Great Reset". A three-hour presentation on the world and national political scene for 2018, plus an analysis of the stock and Gold market, USA economy and housing market. Details soon.

March 3, 2018 and/or February 13 : Atlanta, Georgia: "Forecasts 2018 and The Great Reset". Presentation on the world and national political scene for 2018, plus an analysis of the stock and Gold market, USA economy and housing market. May be followed by a workshop two weeks later. To be determined. Details soon.

May 23-29, 2,018 : The UAC (United Astrology Congress), Chicago, IL. The largest and most exciting conference for astrologers in the world take place then. 15 tracks, over 200 of the world's top astrologers making presentations. For more information, go to www.uacastrology.com.

June 21-24, 2018 : AAGB (Astrological Association of Great Britain's) 50 th anniversary conference. Details to be announced soon, but I will be there, conducting special post-conference workshop on Financial Market Timing.

July 12-15, 2018 : GLAC (Great Lakes Astrology Conference), Ann Arbor, MI. I will be there, conducting a special pre-conference workshop on "Mundane Astrology and The Great Reset". Plus, the Keynote speech.

September 15-18, 2018 : 3 RD MMA INVESTMENT RETREAT, Majorca, Spain. Tentatively being planned. 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.

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.

Valeur des terres Robert Loquet - Conseiller général

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