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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.

There will be no normal weekly column during the next two weeks of holidays. We will, however, post articles that will be interest from past Forecast Books. To all readers of this column, we thank you for your support over the past years, and wish you and yours a very happy Holiday season and a most prosperous New Year!

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Below is the opening chapter in this year's FORECAST 2019 BOOK. Enjoy!

THE COSMIC SETUP :

MODERN DAY ASTROLOGY LOOKS AT 2019.

Setup :
1. The way in which something is organized, planned, or arranged.
2. A scheme, or a trick, intended to incriminate or deceive someone. - Dictionary, google.com.

"What you are getting is a stimulus at the very wrong moment. The economy is already at full employment. (The stimulus) is going to hit the economy in a big way this year and next year, and then in 2020 Wile E. Coyote is going to go off the cliff ", - Ben Bernanke at a policy discussion at the American Enterprise Institute, written by Craig Torres, "Bernanke Says U.S. Economy Faces a Wile E. Coyote Moment in 2020", Bloomberg News, June 7, 2018.

It's the cosmic set up of a decade. And it may take a modern-day Financial and/or Mundane Astrologer to figure out what it means before it unfolds. Yet, almost anyone with a working knowledge of astrology is aware that the alignment of planets approaching in 2020 is quite a unique and powerful set up : a stellium of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto in late Capricorn through 0° Aquarius. It is symbolic of a huge shift for humankind. And 2019 is the setup for this shift.

But what kind of setup is it ?.

According to the Google dictionary, a "setup" can have multiple meanings, and take several forms. There is the physical setup, the way in which something is organized, or arranged. The arrangement of the planets in the solar system, in relationship to planet earth, exemplifies this type of setup. We see this in the chart of the year 2020. The chart, or horoscope, which is a representation of the heavens, is in a sense, a physical, astronomical, or cosmological arrangement, or setup. It reflects the manner in which the planets are "set up" in the chart of the times. That is, the cosmic setup of 2019 is leading humanity into the Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto stellium that will take place when all three will move through the sign of Capricorn in 2020. In other words, the year 2020 will be another "Capricorn Climax". But to understand and prepare adequately for the 2020 version of a Capricorn Climax, we need to first of all understand the cosmic setup leading into it from 2019.

The last time we witnessed a gathering of three of the five outermost planets in Capricorn was 1988-1993, a period we labeled as "The Capricorn Climax". As was the case in 1988-1993, when Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were all in Capricorn and conjoined one another, the Moon's Nodes are again involved. From November 1990 through August 1992, the Moon's North Node was also in Capricorn. From December 2019 through December 2020, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto will travel through Capricorn. However, from November 2018 through May 2020, the Moon's South Node will transit through Capricorn, too. It will be another Capricorn Climax involving the Moon's Nodes.

There is another kind of "setup" defined in Google's dictionary. This one is defined as, " A scheme, or a trick, intended to incriminate or deceive someone". This could be pertinent to understanding the times we are living in as well, for just prior to the three outer planets moving through Capricorn in the same year, 2020, one of these planets - Jupiter - will form a three-passage square aspect to a fourth outer planet - Neptune - in 2019. This is not just an ordinary 13-year planetary pair cycle between these two planets. This particular square is unusual because both planets will be in their ruling signs. That is, Jupiter will be in its home sign of Sagittarius, while Neptune will be in its home sign of Pisces. On top of that, Jupiter also co-rules Pisces. Two outer planets, each in the sign that they rule (plus co-rule), and in a hard, waning square, aspect to one another. That doesn't happen all that often. In fact, it only happens about every 166-167 years. The last time it occurred was in 1852. We will revisit that period for analysis shortly, for an examination of prior times when astrological patterns occurred that are returning in current times, offers great insight into the themes and choices of the current time.

The year 2019 will highlight one major aspect formation between the outer planets, and one semi-major aspect. The major aspect will be the three-passage series of Jupiter in its ruling sign of Sagittarius, forming a waning square aspect to Neptune, in its ruling sign of Pisces. The semi-major aspect will be a three-passage waning sextile aspect from Saturn, in its ruling sign of Capricorn, to Neptune, in its ruling sign of Pisces. This will be the cosmic setup that leads us into the more powerful triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto in 2020, which is an even more unusual and rare combination than the Jupiter/Neptune square, each in its own ruling sign.

Why might 2019 be a setup in the sense of ". a scheme, or a trick, intended to incriminate or deceive someone ? Because, of all the planets used in astrology, Neptune and Pisces together have most reference to the concept of a trick or scheme where the intention or consequence may be to deceive. Not that deception is the only characteristic one can use to describe Neptune and Pisces, for each can also represent a state of trust and elevated consciousness, and an ability to experience inner bliss and a world of beauty. Neptune and Pisces can also indicate an active effort to facilitate a world of peace. These are certainly very altruistic, idealistic, and virtuous goals. But in a square aspect, the possibilities of a trick or scheme, or an effort that turns out to be more idealistic and altruistic than realistic, the probabilities are much greater than normal. And these are not "normal" times that we live in. We are living in times where there is great confusion and uncertainty about the future. The current times are fertile ground for an increase in schemes or tricks that are intended to incriminate or deceive someone.

Which brings up the question : what are we setting ourselves up for ? What is being set up that might end with great disillusionment ? The answer might be in the Ben Bernanke quote. We could easily see the collective moving from a state of economic and financial market overconfidence, a state of "irrational exuberance", as indicated by Jupiter in Sagittarius in square to Neptune in Pisces in 2019, to the sudden realization afterwards that it is too late as we next enter the too-realistic nature of Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn. The difference in these two states of being is like the difference between bathing in a luxurious, warm body of water, like in a spa, to being pushed into a raging river of frozen ice in the middle of winter. You get sober really quick, and not at your convenience. It is like going from the frenetic and exciting pace of a Wile E Coyote, doing everything and anything you have always wanted because now you have the money to do so, running off a cliff because you think you can fly forever. It's a wonderful trip, a grand party - until you wake up the next morning with the splitting headache and hangover. But as with all things astrological, you don't have to have that unfortunate ending. You don't have to be too comfortable and complacent and fall off the cliff if you are aware that you are headed for a cliff. The key is to be aware of where that cliff is, and aware that others - leaders of the world - are moving towards that cliff and leading their followers to that edge that no one really believes is there at all. The advice is really quite simple : don't be unconscious of where you are and where you are headed and where others are trying to lead you. See the cliff and don't go over it.

This year's Forecast 2019 Book is designed to help you recognize who the Wile E Coyotes are and where he/she/they are headed. It is to help you recognize who is watching the campfire against the background of the beautiful night sky, as illustrated on the cover of this year's book, and to make sure you don't let that campfire remain unattended and grow out of control in your own life. It is to help you transfer your trust in those outside of your own being to a trust within your own inner being.

There is a setup taking place in the cosmos in 2019, leading humankind into 2020 and beyond. And, as the cycles in the cosmos have a correlation to cycles in human activity, it is important to understand the nature of the setup that is unfolding in the reality of the collective. Is it real ? Or is it an illusion ? Collectively, the square of Jupiter in Sagittarius and Neptune in Pisces indicates that this could be a period of a setup for a great disillusionment. The wake up from this disillusionment could come down very harshly, very quickly, during or near the time that the second Capricorn Climax, in 2020, gets underway.

The year 2019 is the astrological setup. It is also the setup for the very powerful collective transformation that is likely to follow in 2020-2022, and beyond..

Short-Term Geocosmics and longer term thoughts :

Happy Holidays to everyone. See you next year!

~~Longer-Term thoughts and Mundane astrology :~~

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

Note 1 : The Forecast 2019 Book is done and delivery has begun to all those who pre-ordered prior to December 7. The orders received after December 7 will be mailed out in late December. One other thing to note : we have ordered 20% additional copies to the number of printed books ordered as of this week. Whenever those remaining 20% are sold out, they are gone. There will be no second printings. At that point, the only place to order Forecast 2019 will be through third party distributors, like Amazon.com, where the price generally skyrockets to 2 or 3 times the current price. Or, through our international distributors, where shipping costs to the USA can be high. So, ORDER NOW, if you haven't done so already, and make sure you receive your copy of Forecast 2019 in a timely manner and before they sell out. For more information on this annual best seller, go to https://mmacycles.com and click the opening banner of the website. You may also email MMA at customerservice@mmacycles.com, or call 1-248-626-3034, 1-800-662-3349.

Note 2 : There will be a Special Silver Report issued in the monthly MMA Cycles Report, which will come out this Monday evening. This report will go out to all of those who have ordered the Forecast 2019 Book. If you wish a copy of this Special Update on Silver, consider a trial subscription to the MMA Cycles Report, or ordering the Forecast 2019 Book while supplies last. For further information, go to our website at https://mmacycles.com , or call us at 248-626-3034 or 800-MMA-3349, or email us at customerservice@mmacycles.com and get your copy of the Special Silver Report.

Note 3 : The best way to start your learning of cycles and geocosmic correlations to market cycles is with the MP4 recording on "Cosmic Cycles Are Forever". This workshop by Raymond Merriman features valuable tools for understanding market cycles, identifying trends, and timing changes of trends in financial markets using cycle studies and geocosmic studies along with technical tools and charting analysis. In this masterclass, the historical correlation of stock markets, currencies, precious metals and bitcoin to certain planetary and solar/lunar cycles present in today's cosmos are examined, with an eye on what to anticipate between 2018 and 2020, both in terms of world politics and financial markets, as well as shorter-term forecasting projections. The cost of the recording of this MP4 recording is $125. To order, please visit www.mmacycles.com and click the banner on the opening page. Or, you may email customerservice@mmacycles.com, or call 1-248-626-3034. .

Our monthly MMA Cycles : The monthly edition of the MMA 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.
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MMA's annual Forecast Book : The MMA Forecast 2019 Book will be completed at the end of this week and sent to the printer for publication. Expected delivery remains on track for December 15. For more information on this annual best seller, go to https://mmacycles.com and click the opening banner of the website. You may also email MMA at customerservice@mmacycles.com, or call 1-248-626-3034, 1-800-662-3349.

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 2019 ephemeris and calendar (one month per page) with geocosmic signatures is included, as well as descriptions of the Mercury retrograde periods for 2019. 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 https://www.mmacycles.com and click the banner.

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This year's printed version of Forecast 2019 will also available in these languages :
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German : at http://www.mma-europe.ch
Japanese : at http://merriman.jp
Chinese : www.nodoor.com

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Upcoming Events :

January 11-12, 2019 : "Trends for 2019", sponsored by Astrodata, Zurich, Switzerland. There will also be a workshop taught by Raymond Merriman on "Forecast 2019" the following day, January 12, with an outlook on several financial markets. For further information, contact info@astrodata.com and ask about pricing and location.
Saturday workshop in Zurich : "Forecasts for Financial Markets in 2019".Based on the Forecast 2019 Book , Ray will present his outlook for the world geopolitical and financial landscape in 2019. He will discuss various cycles - both rhythmic and geocosmic - to support his outlook. In this workshop, he will also share his forecast for several financial markets, including Gold, the USA and German/Swiss stock markets, crude oil, and the Euro/U.S. Dollar. If you are an investor or trader, or just interested in the correlation between cycles in human activity and the cosmos, this is a workshop you will not want to miss !.

January 19, 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Forecasts 2019", sponsored by Schogt Market Timing. This Congress will take place at the Hotel Breukelen outside of Amsterdam, and feature Karen Hammaker-Zondag. Antonia Langsdorf, Irma Schogt, and Raymond Merriman. For more information, please visit www.markettiming.nl or take the direct link https://goo.gl/VPxGSe for congress details.

February 9, 2019 : MMA'S 2019 WORLDWIDE "FORECAST 2018" LIVE WEBINAR, will take place on Saturday, February 9, 2019, 11:00 AM (MST). This is 1:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT. In the comfort of your own home or office, you can tune into Raymond Merriman's annual worldwide webinar on "Forecast 2018". This broadcast will address subjects from this year's Forecast 2019 Book, with updates on financial markets since the book was written in November 2018. Outlooks for the U.S. stock market, Gold and Silver, crude oil, and currencies will be discussed. Cost is $45.00, and includes the slides of the presentation, plus a downloadable MP4 recording of the event, within 72 hours afterwards. To reserve your spot in this live webinar broadcast, contact us directly at 1-248-626-3034, 800-MMA-3349, or email us at customerservice@mmacycles.com , or register via our website at https:// mmacycles.com > Products > Webinars. If unable to attend, you can pre-order MP4 recordings, which will be delivered as soon as they are available - within 72 hours after the live webinar.

March 9, 2019 : 10:30 AM - 4 PM. Nova Southwestern University, 3301 College Ave, Carl DeSantis Bldg, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. An all-day workshop on "Forecast 2019", by Raymond Merriman. Contact 954-296-1211. $50.

April 26, 2019 : Boulder, Colorado. "Forecasts for Financial Markets and USA Economy and Political Situation". Details and contact information to be announced shortly, sponsored by ROMA.

June 8-16, 2019 : "Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles", Beijing, China. A two-weekend intensive Market Trading workshop/retreat with Raymond Merriman. This 32-hour class intensive workshop will focus on the primary cycle and its phases - the half-primary, major, and trading cycles - and how to determine when they are due. Then, we will identify geocosmic signatures - Levels 1, 2, and 3 - as the basis for calculating CRDs (Critical Reversal Dates), to narrow the time band down for an important cycle reversal. Within that time, we will identify and discuss specific technical and charting tools that will further enhance the timing of a major market reversal, and the price target range to look for. In this analysis, we will also explore the use of 60- 30-, and 5-minutes charts for even more accurate entry and exit points. With these tools, we will then construct a daily and/or weekly trading plan, as used in MMA Daily and Weekly Reports, using current market situations. The workshop will take place on the weekends of June 8-9 and June 15-16. During the week, participants will have the option of taking tours with other MMA students to exciting areas of China. The cost for this unique and valuable trading retreat is $4000 (discounts will be available to subscribers of MMA Reports). For further information, please contact MMA at customerservice@mmacycles.com or call 1-248-626-3034 or 1-800-MMA-3349.

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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