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Comments For The Week Beginning July 2, 2007
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Written by Raymond Merriman   

Note: There will be no column next week due to fact that I will take a vacation during the Independence Day holiday period. The next column will appear for the week of July 16. For those in the United States, enjoy your forthcoming holiday!

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This a holiday week in the United States (Independence Day, July 4), and Mercury is retrograde. The combination implies a lightly-traded but unpredictable week ahead. Holiday markets are usually more bullish than bearish, but with Mercury retrograde, price movements tend to reverse every 1-4 days. However, right in the middle of the retrograde period (usually about the 8th trading day), some markets make a bigger than anticipated reversal of what appears to be a short-term trend. That is what happened in many stock indices last week. They were down from shortly after the time Mercury went retrograde on June 15 until last Wednesday, the 8th trading day. Then they abruptly started to rally again. The same thing happened with precious metals. Crude Oil, however, was the star last week, moving above 70.00/barrel for the first time in 9 months. With Uranus still in the middle degrees of Pisces, the possibility of 100.00/barrel remains in effect. Uranus coincides with multi-year highs or lows in signs of commodities or stock sectors ruled by the sign it is in. Pisces rules crude oil. The high usually occurs while Uranus is in the middle degrees, and then the bottom falls out as prices oftentimes decline 50-80% off those highs before it leaves the sign. Uranus remains in middle Pisces into 2008.

In other markets, Silver prices dropped significantly last week as the final Saturn-Neptune opposition unfolded. Prices then rallied smartly in to the “Sagittarius Factor” lunar cycle, Wednesday-Friday, a bullish phenomenon discussed in one of the chapters of our recently released-book on short term trading of Silver.

Because this is Mercury retrograde, and a holiday week, there is not likely to be a favorable trading week. Mercury retrograde coincides with unpredictable market behavior, as prices tend to swing back and forth every 1-4 days, with little respect for technical buy or sell signals, or support-resistance. In fact, they are more likely to exhibit “fake out” patterns than anything else. The same tends to happen in holiday markets. Nevertheless, it is interesting that the market behavior of the past two weeks was remarkably right in line with what geocosmic signatures suggested, even with Mercury retrograde. Once you adapt to the “Mercury retrograde rules” and think very short-term, the odds seem to shift in your favor.

Short-Term Geocosmics

We note that Apple released its new Iphone this past week, under the Mercury and Uranus retrogrades. Mercury rules telephones, and Uranus rules telecommunications. Under the dual retrograde, we wonder how long it will take before a recall is announced. It doesn’t appear that Apple used the services of an astrologer to launch this new product.

We also note that Venus now makes a translation to the recent Saturn-Neptune opposition, June 30-July 1. Venus conjuncts Saturn and opposes Neptune. If it were not for the fact that this is a holiday week, we would consider that a strong signature of a possible reversal, especially of any market that has been declining into it. Soybeans, which is ruled by Venus, was a great example of this late last week. After decline sharply for a few days, it exploded back up on Friday to test their multi-year highs.

Our focus will now shift to the Mercury direct period of July 10, which may be more significant for equity markets. However, all these signatures may pale to the Venus retrograde station that takes place July 27. That happens to be one of the most powerful correlates to reversals in many stock and financial and commodity markets within about 10 trading days, as demonstrated in “The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 3: Geocosmic Correlations to Trading Cycles,” as well as “The Gold Book: Geocosmic Correlations to Gold Price Cycles.”

Long-Term Thoughts:

The 36-year Saturn-Neptune opposition cycle is now over as of June 25. However, the consequences (and penalties) for many of the actions initiated during this period will probably be forthcoming for the next 1-2 years. It is not uncommon for the full effects – and consequences – to be realized after the aspect has left, for typical of this aspect, the complete details are not always known until investigations afterward reveal patterns of deception and cover-ups. As an example, one need only look back to the last instance in 1971-72 and the Watergate burglaries that occurred then, but the full scope of the cover-up wasn’t fully realized until 1-2 years later. That’s when the whole Nixon administration came tumbling down, and Nixon was compelled to become the first U.S.A. president to resign from office.

Could something like that happen again? Possibly. Once again we see the two Democratically-controlled branches of Congress initiating a whole slew of investigations into the past activities of the President and his White House staff, and again at the end of a very unpopular war. And the nature of the investigations has a great to do with Saturn-Neptune themes: spy programs, warrantless domestic eavesdropping, dismissal of U.S. attorneys under questionable political motives, concerns about the president’s constitutional authority in deciding specific matters, the question as to whether the Vice-President is really subject to rules of the executive branch (and if not, should his office be funded accordingly). Neptune rules confusion too, and that was very evident in last week’s news as the Senate failed to pass a long awaited immigration bill. According to Friday’s Wall Street Journal, “The battle (and failure on immigration) stamps Bush as a lame duck.” But, as stated in this column recently, Bush is already perceived by many European leaders (such as Italy) as irrelevant any longer. In a survey conducted of 45,239 adults in 47 countries, a survey released by the Pew Research this past week found that anti-American feelings have swelled throughout the world since 2002. According to the report, the poll showed that President Bush “is less trusted on foreign policy than Russian President Vladimir Putin by allies Britain, Germany and Canada” (Free Press News Services, June 28).

Saturn rules government (and people in authority) and Neptune rules trust. Together they can (and usually do) combine to foster a psychological environment of distrust, suspicion, and disappointment. It is a time when cynicism abounds, coincident with denials of responsibility or unwillingness to cooperate in efforts to find the truth. Evidence disappears – conveniently (as in the case of some White House emails related to these investigations). It is a time that requires openness and assurances of worthiness to be trusted on the part of elected or appointed leaders. But if that is not forthcoming, then the public typically wants punishment for those leaders. And as history has shown, it usually takes 1-2 years afterwards before the evidence of any wrongdoing begins to be revealed. It usually takes 1-2 year afterwards before the stock market falls too, for in spite of all the suspicion and conspiracy theories present (which may turn out to be real in the end), equity markets still tend to climb a “wall of worry,” which is a perfect Saturn-Neptune symbol. There can be declines, even very sharp ones, but a prolonged bear market is usually well after the Saturn-Neptune aspect has passed.

 

Announcements

The monthly MMA Cycles Report and its companions – the MMA Japan Cycles Report and MMA European Cycles Report – will come out this week, Monday and Tuesday, via posting on our web site, and attachment via direct emails, for subscribers. This report covers our longer-term analysis of the U.S. stock market, precious metals, crude oil, currencies, Treasury Notes, grain markets, and now GLD and SLV – the ETF’s of Gold and Silver. The MMA Japan Cycles report covers the Nikkei, JGB Bonds, and the Dollar-Yen. The MMA European Cycles Report covers the German DAX, Swiss SMI, and Netherlands AEX, each in English only, and will be available on Wednesday. Go to http://www.mmacycles.com/catalogue/subscription-services/mma-cycles-report/, for further information and subscription.

The DVD of the Denver Workshop on Financial Market Timing is now available!!! This financial markets workshop offers a completely unique and original perspective, integrating 1) Market Timing studies, 2) Price Objective calculations, 3) Technical Analysis, 4) Pattern Recognition studies, and 5) Trend Analysis. The primary focus of this workshop is on Market Timing Studies, particularly Cycles Analysis and Geocosmic Studies, as leading indicators that identify when to anticipate a reversal in all financial markets. Gold and the U.S. stock market are studied in great detail, especially regarding their current status. There is a wealth of timely and valuable information in this DVD, especially pertaining the forthcoming Venus retrograde period (May 15-June 27), the forthcoming Uranus-Pluto square of June 24, 2012, lasting through March 2015, and the important Jupiter correlation to stock market cycles coming up August-November 2012 and March-May 2013. The cost for this 4-hour DVD workshop is $180.00 plus postage. To order, please go to http://www.mmacycles.com/catalogue/multimedia/dvd-of-boulder-workshop-on-financial-market-timing!!!/. Or call Amber at 1-248-626-3034. If you are a trader or investor who appreciates the value of market timing – especially in the next few months – this is a presentation you will not want to miss!

 

June 23: A special 5-hour workshop on “The Gold Market: Forecasting the Future Price of Gold and Silver.” 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Hotel Park Plaza Victoria. Amsterdam, Damrak 1-5, Amsterdam 1012 LG, Netherlands. Sponsored by Schogt Market Timing. This is a special workshop on precious metals you will not want to miss!!! Cost is €345 ex VAT. Subscribers of any MMA reports (trials excluded) receive a 15% discount. For further information, please go to http://www.markettiming.nl/en/producten/workshop-gold-silver, or call 31 (02) 294 415 917, or by fax at 31 (02) 294-415-918 to register for an exciting event in one of the world’s most exciting cities at the most exciting time of the year: the first Uranus-Pluto square will be taking place then, right near the summer solstice! This will be special, and a great opportunity to meet some very impressive market timers who will be present. Register now as seating is limited!

Raymond Merriman’s “On-Line Market Timing Academy” (OLMTA) will offer a pre-training course on “Beginning Principles of Geocosmic Studies for Financial Market Timing,” September 15-16, in Troy, Michigan, at the Management Education Center of Michigan State University. This 10-12 hour course may be attended live, in person, or via webcast televised to your computer. A DVD will be available afterwards as well. This workshop will basically train non-astrologers in the use of reading an ephemeris, the table of planetary positions for any given day. This is essential to anyone who wishes to understand how to find a geocosmic critical reversal date for financial markets. This course (or audit of it) is a pre-requisite for anyone entering the OLMTA market training course, as developed and instructed by Raymond Merriman. The OLMTA two-year training course will begin in March 2013, and will involve 8 weekends of study – 4 weekends each in 2013 and 2014. For more information and registration, please go to www.mmacycles.com (front page, near bottom). We will make announcements as this training program unfolds. The cost for the September 15-16 pre-training workshop is $395.00 ($300 for MMA subscribers). This cost will be deducted from the fee of the two-year training course to those who apply and are accepted into OLMTA by late October 2012.

 

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 position trading and aggressive trading recommendations. 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), Dollar/Yen cash and Yen futures, Euro-Yen cash, T-Notes, Crude Oil, Gold and Silver. The daily reports cover all stock indices listed above, as well as futures in Euro, T-Notes, 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. For more information, go to http://www.mmacycles.com/services, or 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 $850,000.  Thanks for your excellent publications.” - Bryden C., Small Business Owner, Illinois.

NEW! Now available Mini-Congress ‘Outlook for 2012’ on CD!!! Recordings of the congress “Outlook for 2012,” held January 21, 2012 in Amsterdam, are now available on CD, with audio and PDFs of PowerPoint slides. All lectures are spoken in English. The following presentations are included on this CD:  “2012 End Time of Dawning” by Irma Schogt (20 minutes);“Happy New Year” by Drs. Karen Hamaker-Zondag (20 minutes , regarding ECB and Federal Reserve Board); “2012: The Center of the Storm” by Antonia Langsdorf (20 minutes, regarding Mayan calendar and astrology); “Forecast for 2012” by Raymond Merriman (1 hour). Total length 2 hours, with PowerPoint slides sent online in a PDF document.  Cost is $55.00 plus postage. Please go to http://www.mmacycles.com/the-news/about-mma/cd%27s-now-available-on-the-forecast-2012-mini%11congress-in-amsterdam,-january-21,-2012/, or www.mmacycles.com for ordering info.

Our new 2012 MMA Catalogue is now out!! You can download this catalogue directly at http://www.mmacycles.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=41&Itemid=63.

EVENTS:

May 24-29, 2012: UAC!!! The world’s largest astrological conference. Taking place at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel. Go to www.uacastrology.com. There will be an awesome Financial Track, featuring some of the top Financial Astrologers and researchers in the world. There will be private meeting for MMA on Friday evening on the top floor of the Marriott. If you are interested in attending, please contact us and reserve your space! No cost to subscribers! Otherwise $95.00 to participate.

June 23: Amsterdam. A special 5-hour workshop on “The Gold Market: Forecasting the Future Price of Gold and Silver.” 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Hotel Park Plaza Victoria. Amsterdam, Damrak 1-5, Amsterdam 1012 LG, Netherlands. Sponsored by Schogt Market Timing. This is a special workshop on precious metals you will not want to miss!!! Cost is € 345 ex VAT. Subscribers of any MMA reports (trials excluded) receive a 15% discount. For further information, please go to http://www.markettiming.nl/en/producten/workshop-gold-silver for an exciting event in one of the world’s most exciting cities at the most exciting time of the year: the first Uranus-Pluto square will be taking place then, right near the summer solstice! This will be special. You may also register by calling 31 (02) 294 415 917, or by fax at 31 (02) 294-415-918. Register now as seating is limited!

August 2-6, 2012: Midwest Astrology Conference, in Ann Arbor, MI, Holiday Inn. Pre-seminar workshop on Financial Astrology, Thursday, August 2, with Raymond Merriman. More details soon.

 

September 15-16, 2012: Troy, Michigan. OLMTA – the On-Line Market Timing Academy – will conduct it pre-curriculum introductory workshop on “Basic Principles of Geocosmic Studies for Financial Market Timing.” This will be an introductory course on how to read an ephemeris and how to calculate a critical reversal date. It is open to anyone, but understanding this material is mandatory for anyone entering the MMA mentor-apprenticeship program that will officially start in March 2013. This introductory workshop will be available as a live webinar too. The cost is $300 to subscribers of any MMA subscription report, or $395 to others. For further information, please contact mmacustomerservice@gmail.com or ordersmmma@msn.com.Or go to www.mmacycles.com, and scroll down to the bottom of the first page.

 


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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