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MMA Commnets for the Week Beginning November 21, 2011
Written by Raymond Merriman   


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 As we quickly approach the end of the Sun’s passage through the dark and murky waters of Scorpio and the start of a new 30-day journey into the optimistic and exaggerative sign of Sagittarius, we see many signs of.…. uncertainty and confusion. The past four weeks through Scorpio have been no joy ride. But then, when has Scorpio ever been associated with lightness and ease? As we look back over the past month, we see that Greece has hit the wall on its debt problems, which cost it a change of leadership. We see that Italy has hit the wall on its debt burden, and it has led to the resignation of its leadership. We see Spain is on the brink too, along with Portugal and Ireland, in what is being feared as a “contagion” spreading throughout Europe, and even into the United States. Contagion: that’s a good word for Scorpio. It is also a good phrase to describe the more serious danger lurking in the future with Uranus and Pluto coming into their 3-year waxing square aspect. It’s the main theme of this year’s Forecast 2012 Book.

 After reaching an intermediate-term high on October 28 (+/- 1 trading day), stock markets around the world have been in a corrective decline ever since. In fact, the lowest price since October 28 was realized this past Friday, November 18, in many indices. About the only three that didn’t make a new low for November last week was the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Australia’s All Ordinaries, and China’s Shanghai Composite. Thus there is the potential for intermarket bullish divergence if these indices can find some traction quickly.

 Gold and Silver also exhibited signs of bullish intermarket divergence late last week, after a sharp decline pummeled prices first. Silver fell hard, all the way down to 3094 on Friday morning, well below its 3210 low of November 1. Gold also fell hard, down to 1711 Thursday night and Friday morning. But that was well above its low of November 1 at 1681.20. Crude Oil, on the other hand, just kept rising until Friday. Light Crude reached 103.37/barrel on Thursday, its highest level since May, and quite a recovery from its yearly low at 74.95 on October 4.

Short-Term Geocosmics

Next week is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States (Thursday, November 24), and the start to the holiday gift purchasing season. Usually this is a bullish season for stocks. 

You would also think equity prices could rally next week because the Sun leaves the debt-obsessive sign of Scorpio to the “spending-without-a-care” sign of Sagittarius. The former worries about how it will make to next week, while the latter thinks about how it can score tickets to the Super Bowl or Times Square for New Year’s Eve and how it can get onto the most exciting party list (and brag about it). Sagittarius is the risk taker, the gambler, so the collective mood will suddenly turn to thinking about buying in at these low prices in equities (and other markets).

But there are some problems. First off, the “Too Preposterous to Succeed” Congressional Debt-Cutting panel hits its deadline this Wednesday, November 24, or else automatic spending cuts across the board go into effect. Except, they don’t really go into effect until January 2013. And of course if these automatic spending cuts are elected, the newly elected lawmakers following the 2012 election can simply elect to rescind them and start all over again. How can this be? Well, it’s the same old astrological story we have seen so many time in the last three years. That is, every important piece of legislation comes up as Mercury turns retrograde. And lo and behold, it is happening again. Mercury starts its 3-week retrograde motion on November 23 or 24, depending where you are in the world. Thus we might expect the same fate as every other piece of legislation enacted over the past three years. It will be rewritten, modified, and changed because there simply wasn’t enough understanding and consensus to make enough people feel good about what they were deciding. It’s bound to be a decision that no one likes, whether they go for it or not. The problem for equity markets is that they don’t like this kind of uncertainty generated by politicians, and so the approval of Congress is likely to fall even further – except it can’t fall any further after these endless series of no-starts because it is already near single digits.

Do I sound cynical? Well, it is the last days of Scorpio, the part of this sea creature that contains its stinger. And true to form, the more we get into these last few degrees, the more stinging the attacks of the parties on one another as to why this too shall fail. Even if they succeed in reaching an agreement, it is unlikely to please everyone, and maybe not even anyone.

So here is the message of Sagittarius: the markets want to go up. Investors are looking for any reason to buy now as we enter the season of giving. But if they don’t get it, then they turn their optimism and buying power into pessimism and selling power. Sagittarius likes things big and loud. They prefer positive over negative. But if it is negative, then let’s make it a big negative. Let’s have a panic if we can’t have a picnic.

All things considered, Financial Astrology is more positive than negative this week. But if it turns negative, watch out. Have you noticed that every week this month has witnessed 400-600 point downturns from isolated highs? Wouldn’t it be nice – and appropriate from a Financial Astrology point of view - if that suddenly changed as we start the season of Sagittarius this Tuesday? Why not? The results of the deficit-cutting panel’s deadline this week really means nothing. It can all be changed after the election, and given that Mercury is retrograde, no doubt it will be changed. There really is no reason for investors to hold back their buying based on politics or geocosmics right now. It’s all going to be good, in a Sagittarian-world view.

Now, how do I score those tickets to the Super Bowl… and that New Year’s Eve Party in New York?

Longer-Term Thoughts and Personal Transit Tales

Due to deadline for Forecast 2012 Book coming up, I will have no Longer-Term Thoughts this week or next. For a preview of the Forecast 2012 Book, please see our most recent video at http://www.youtube.com/RaymondMerriman.

 

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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