MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING JUNE 16, 2025
June 13, 2025
PLEASE NOTE: There will not be a free weekly column issued this week as we prepare for the annual Mid-Year Webinar on Sunday, June 15. Instead, we have prepared an interview with Raymond Merriman discussing highlights of this weekend’s Webinar. Please watch the interview, recorded on June 10, 2025. You may also read the full interview transcript below. Enjoy!
Interview with Raymond Merriman on the Mid-Year 2025 Webinar: June 10, 2025
AS: Thanks for joining me today, Ray, to talk about your upcoming webinar happening this weekend on Sunday at noon. We’ve got a big Mid-Year Webinar coming up. We do this every year. I want to hear from you about who’s presenting and how many topics are going to be covered on this Sunday’s webinar.
RM: We got a full slate scheduled for this Mid-Year Webinar. It’s going to be great! I’m going to start with Bitcoin, and then we’re going to go into the Stock Market with Wiebke Held and Gianni Di Poce. They will cover the NASDAQ and the S&P, respectively. We will go into Gold and Silver, which will be covered by Wyatt Fellows and Pouyan Zolfagharnia. We’ll cover the Euro currency by Ulric Aspegrén, and we’ll move from there to T-Notes with Gianni Di Poce. Wyatt will come back again to do Soybeans and Pouyan will come back again to Crude Oil.
We have about 8 or 9 markets. It’s going to be pretty thorough. It is probably going to last about 3 or 4 hours. Now, we’re going to have breaks, because that’s a long time to ask anybody to sit. The breaks would be 5 to 10 minutes each and probably be two of them. But it’s going to be very exciting! And I’m very proud to be working with my team of analysts on presenting our Mid-Year update on Forecast 2025.
AS: I feel like that’s more analysts than you normally have in your webinars. Is it also more markets than you typically cover in an annual webinar?
RM: Yes, we usually go with 3 to 5 analysts. This time, I think we have 6 or 7. Each of them usually do one or two topics. I think we got eight or nine this year, and in the past, it’s been more like five to seven. So yeah, that’s why it’s going to be longer. That’s why it’s going to cover more markets than we usually cover. These are the markets that these analysts specialize in, in the monthly, weekly, and even the daily reports. So they’re focused and experts, in my opinion, in these particular markets.
AS: We call this webinar the Forecast Mid-Year Webinar. How is it any different than just reading the Forecast 2025 Book?
RM: Well, you have to understand the Forecast 2025 Book is written in October and November of the year before. And it’s based on cycles, but cycles have patterns, and these patterns have time bands, or phases. So, these patterns have orbs, and they can shift a bit. So, there’s adjustments, there’s fine-tuning.
I think the basic trends we’ve been looking for in every market are working out very, very well. I mean, the Gold market is very bullish, the Silver market is bullish. The Stock Market made a new all-time high late this year after the Forecast 2025 Book was written in November, but in December and January, we had new all-time highs. We’re on the verge of making new all-time highs on other markets, like the DAX, and some other world markets, but we’re going to focus on the U.S. Markets.
The outlook we gave in the Forecast Book, the trends are still there. We’re just going to zoom in a bit and narrow it down with these time bands that have been adjusted somewhat because of the dates of these highs and lows that we forecasted, or were looking to happen in our forecast, having unfolded. So that’s the difference. We’re going to be sharper, we’re going to be crisper here, and less broad than we were 6- 7 months ago. Things have adjusted, and we’ve adjusted.
AS: So that’s how that’ll be different than the Forecast Book. How will this webinar be different than the February Forecast Webinar? Or even from the What Is Happening Webinars that took place in January and April? How will this Webinar be different than those micro-webinars you hosted?
RM: Well, those What Is Happening Webinars were based upon unusual geocosmics that were present early in the year. We focused on the retrograde chaos, where Mercury, Mar, Venus, and then Mercury again, all went retrograde back-to-back, and we thought that would be a chaotic time. And for sure it was, all the way through mid-April. But now, we’re going to focus on the outer planets changing signs, which is very rare.
You had Neptune move into Aries on March 31st. That only happens every 14 years to change the signs. You have Uranus moving into Gemini July 7th. That’s coming up real quickly. You had Saturn move into Aries May 25th or 26th. That only happens every 3 years. Uranus only happens every 7 years. And also, just this week, Jupiter moved into Cancer, which is really our path to salvation, to comfort, to safety during this time of turbulence and chaos.
So, this presentation, we’ll go a little bit more in depth on the meaning of those things, and how they specifically apply to where we are in the cycles– the intermediate-term and long-term cycles- of these various financial markets. Much more detailed, much more specific, much more market-oriented than we were with the What Is Happening Webinars. And it’s going to be adjusted in a little bit more narrow time frame, based on the markets themselves that we covered in the Forecast 2025 markets.
AS: You mentioned in the free weekly that just came out, there’s a few big events coming up this summer, specifically in June. As you said, there’s Mars squaring Uranus, you have Jupiter square Neptune. So you have some big dates coming up that you talked about in the free weekly, just this summer alone, or this month alone. Can you tell us again what those dates are, and are you going to talk about what they mean more on the Mid-Year Webinar this weekend? It looks like, based on these dates, they’re taking place soon. This webinar timing must not just be coincidence.
RM: That’s a joke. Yes, it’s not a coincidence. This is intentionally planned to be right in the middle of the most intense geocosmic signatures unfolding this year. And this involves Jupiter, which is a planet that squares Saturn and Neptune, which are both outer planets, between June 15th and 19th. But you’re going to feel this. We’re already feeling it.
June 6th, say about 10 days before, through about 10 days after, about June 26th and 27th. This has an orb of at least 10 days either side of it and it’s pretty intense, as I mentioned in the Free Weekly Forecast. It reminds me of two things- On the one hand, it’s the Rolling Stones 19th Nervous Breakdown. People are very intensive. They’re flipping out. A lot of people are feeling, you know, vulnerable and exhausted by the intense changes and drama going on politically, as well as economically, as well as in financial markets. Nothing is really stable or sure anymore.
And it’s also characterized by Mars square Uranus, which is another unstable indication that, you know, it doesn’t happen that often. So, this is the most intense geocosmic gathering of planets going on this year. From June 15th to 19th but give it a 10-day orb of either side (one week to 10 days either side).
AS: Are there any other highlights of the webinar you want to mention before we sign off here today that people might not expect you to talk about in this Mid-Year Webinar compared to other past webinars?
RM: Well, for one thing, it’s not just me. You know, I did the Forecast 2025 Webinar in February, as I do every year in February, just to update on the book that I wrote, and others have contributed to. But now I’m bringing in the other analysts, because I want to see what their viewpoints are, how they see their projections made this year in the Forecast 2025 Book are coming out.
And I’ll just tell you something, we got a letter from a subscriber, a very long-term subscriber, where he directed my attention to page 86 in the Forecast 2025 Book, and that was very interesting, because that page indicated kind of what’s going on here. It started out that our studies suggest that the stock market is rising to the crest of its 3-year cycle. Sometime between November 2024 and July 2025. And we already had a new all-time high during that time, in December and January, and we’re on the verge of testing those highs as we go into July.
We also forecast to be at least two 10% declines this year. We already had one of them, 19% on April 7th. And we’re about to retest the all-time highs again. And I think there’s another 10% decline happening. I’m going to go over that with everybody, and Gianni will and Wiebke will too, to get everybody on the webinar prepared on how to trade and handle your investments or hedging during the next couple of months coming up.
AS: All right, well, thanks, Ray. Just to remind everyone, that webinar we’re talking about is our Forecast 2025 Mid-Year Webinar. It takes place this Sunday at 12 p.m. Eastern. It’ll be about 4 hours long. You do not need to have read the Forecast 2025 Book already to join us. You can still sign up and you will get great content from listening. Everyone who signs up will have access to the live event. It takes place over Zoom, and everyone who signs up will also get access to the video recording on Monday evening. Once the recording’s available, we’ll send out an email to everyone, they can review it an unlimited number of times directly through our website. Thanks for your time today, Ray, and I look forward to hearing more on Sunday.
RM: All right, looking forward to it. See you, everybody. Have a good week until Sunday. See you then!
Watch the Video Interview on YouTube
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOTE 1: THE JUNE ISSUE OF THE MMA Monthly Cycles Report will be released this week, June 16. With the important Jupiter square Saturn/Neptune conjunction happening now (June 15-19) this will be an important issue for intermediate-term investment planning — especially regarding the U.S. stock market and Gold. Each issue includes our outlook for the U.S. stock market, Gold, Silver, Copper, Treasuries, the Euro currency, Crude Oil, and Soybeans. The MMA Monthly Cycles Report also provides MMA’s original geocosmic critical reversal dates (CRDs) and solar/lunar reversal dates for traders over the next several weeks, as well as trading strategies for position traders.
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EVENTS
JUNE 15, 2025: THE ANNUAL MMA “MID-YEAR MARKET UPDATE” SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025, AT NOON EDT (9 AM PDT, 5 PM Greenwich), THE ANNUAL MMA MID-YEAR MARKET WEBINAR WITH MMA MARKET ANALYSTS!!! In the comfort of your own home or office, you can tune in to MMA’s annual Mid-Year Financial Markets Update Webinar. This broadcast will be hosted by Raymond Merriman and will include updates for the next several months from top MMA market analysts as follows: Bitcoin (Merriman), NASDAQ (Wiebke Held), S&P and T-Notes (Gianni Di Poce), Euro (Ulric Aspegrén), Silver and Crude Oil (Pouyan Zolfagharnia), and Gold and Soybeans (Wyatt Fellows). This webinar will last approximately four hours (about 20 minutes per market plus Q&A, with two or three five-minute breaks. The cost is $66 (incredible value!), which includes access to the live presentation via Zoom, the presentation slides, plus the video recording of the live event 24 hours after the presentation. This is MMA’s once-a-year midterm market update. If you are unable to attend live, the video recording will be available the following day. Don’t miss this! To register, click here.
JULY 13, 2025: Next MMA Options Webinar with Derek Panaia and Ray Merriman. Save the Date. Details for registration will be announced soon.
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Disclaimer and statement of purpose: The purpose of this column is not to forecast 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 of educating the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they occur. In this regard, this report will often cite what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week and discuss those movements 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, month, or even years and the author’s understanding of how these signatures may affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from the 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 to the psychological climate we are in from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand the psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and their potential effect on financial markets.
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