MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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Note: No weekly column will be issued next week, as we will conduct the MMA Investment Retreat in Lake Bled, Slovenia, for that entire weekend. It’s going to be great! Mind-blowing new research and investment plans to be shared for the long-term investor. This is how we see building wealth in financial markets with long-term historical cycle and geocosmic studies overlapping. See below for an announcement about joining via Zoom.

 Review

 Most major global stock indices ended their declines last week off the highs of August 31-September 3 as Uranus turned retrograde, an MMA three-star geocosmic critical reversal period. The declines ended last Friday, September 6, for many markets and September 9 to 11 for others.

It was a tale of two worlds in Asia and the Pacific Rim. India’s Nifty soared to another new all-time high on Thursday, September 12. Australia’s ASX came close on Friday to making a new all-time high but fell slightly short. Japan’s Nikkei and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng indices both made weekly lows on Wednesday and then closed at weekly highs on Friday. The outlier was China, where the Shanghai Composite continued to plunge to another new cycle low and is now close to its low of the year, which was 2635 on February 5. China’s stock market is out of step with the rest of the world right now.

In Europe, all markets except the AEX bottomed on Wednesday, September 11, then rallied to new weekly highs on Friday. The AEX bottomed the week before, on September 6, but like the others, it too rallied smartly into Friday, September 13.

In the U.S., the pattern was similar. The DJIA and S&P rallied smartly from a low on Wednesday, and along with the NASDAQ, they all made new weekly highs on Friday. The DJIA and S&P came close to new all-time highs but then pulled back into the close. They were still up strongly on the day, which bodes well for next week.

In other markets, Gold and Silver had strong rallies last week, with Gold blasting up to another new all-time high on Friday. Bitcoin also did very well, following a secondary low last weekend at 52,511, enough to create the right shoulder of an inverted head and shoulders pattern, with the head—the lowest price—holding at 49,445 on August 6. At the same time, Ethereum took out its low of August 5, creating a case of intermarket bullish divergence. The neckline is around 61,000, so a close above there begins to look very positive, and above 65,000 will create a bullish pattern of higher highs and higher lows at the trading cycle level. But it’s more than that. It would strongly suggest that August 5 was the primary and 24-month cycle low, setting the stage for a run to a new all-time high. Crude Oil also ended the week well. After dropping to 65.27 on September 10, its lowest level since May 2023, it rallied back above 70.00 intraday on Friday.

All of these markets will be discussed from the long-term investment view at the MMA Investment Retreat next weekend. Many are entering the time band for their long-term cycles. There is still time to sign up for the Zoom version, which includes recordings of the presentations, by the next day. See “Announcements” below. Long-term investments, timed well, are the secret to building wealth in financial markets.

 Short-Term Geocosmics

 More than 500 business groups across the U.S. are calling on Congress and the next administration to keep former President Trump’s tax cuts in place, warning that allowing them to expire at the end of next year would amount to “the largest tax increase in American history.”… Harris has vowed to reverse the Trump-era cuts and is proposing to raise the rate that major businesses pay from 21% to 28%. At the same time, the Democratic nominee seeks to increase the federal government’s small business tax deduction by tenfold, from $5,000 to $50,000.

—Breck Dumas, “Chambers of Commerce Call to Extend Trump Tax Cuts, Avoid ‘Largest Tax Increase in American History,’” www.foxbusiness.com, September 13, 2024.

 “Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate,” Trump wrote. Multiple post-debate polls actually show audiences by a sizable margin believe Harris won.

—Kevin Breuninger, “Trump Rejects Second Harris Debate,” www.cnbc.com, September 12, 2024.

Tuesday’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was a train wreck for him, far worse than anything Team Trump could have imagined… It matters how debating candidates carry themselves. There, it was no contest. Ms. Harris came across as calm, confident, strong, and focused on the future. Mr. Trump came across as hot, angry, and fixated on the past, especially his own….Many undecided and swing voters will make up their minds less on any single issue than on their visceral reactions to the candidates. Ms. Harris did herself much good with that crowd Tuesday. Mr. Trump didn’t.

—Karl Rove, “A Catastrophic Debate for Trump,” www.wsj.com, September 11, 2024.

In the debate that I saw, she smoked him.

Whether this will translate into a November victory remains to be seen. But I think it moved the needle in her favor in what I judge—by the several geocosmic and cyclical signatures—to be a close election. The correlations between past presidential elections and this one, plus my own analysis of their personal charts and that of the U.S., are a mixed bag. Some studies clearly show that Trump and Republicans are winning, while others show that Harris and the Democrats retain control of the White House. So, I think it will depend more on which of these studies stand out in terms of where the dominant collective attention is between now and November 5. Will it be on the economy? Border controls and immigration? National and domestic security? Abortion? Character? The “path forward,” as Peggy Noonan wrote in last week’s quote? I will share my forecast during a Zoom webinar/workshop on the afternoon of October 12, sponsored by the Tucson Guild of Astrologers, to be announced shortly.

We are in the midst of another geocosmic critical reversal zone right now, though not as powerful as the one of August 31-September 3, which is Uranus going retrograde and Pluto moving back into Capricorn (until November 19). Venus trine Jupiter is in the middle of this next zone on Sunday, September 15. A powerful but peculiar lunar eclipse on Tuesday, September 17 follows this. It’s peculiar because it conjoins Neptune in late Pisces. With Neptune and Pisces, there can be inclement weather conditions, particularly heavy rainfalls and floods, that may threaten lives or crops (its harvest season). It can also pertain to rumor-mongering and devious efforts to undermine—even harm—the reputation of others. Neptune can be a very spiritual impetus aided by the desire to transcend discord. But it can also be guilty of misleading others through false rumors and innuendo. In this part of the election cycle, one wonders what sensational revelations will be alleged or revealed against one (or both) of the candidates.

As traders and investors, markets may react to these Neptunian rumors and propaganda. This cosmic influence is in effect through the following Monday, September 23, as the Sun will be in opposition to Neptune then, trine Pluto, and at the same time, Venus (money and love) will be square Pluto. The day after, September 23, Venus will enter Scorpio, its detriment. As Pluto rules Scorpio and is in square aspect with Venus, this may become an intense period for financial markets, especially currencies and grains.

Neptune is often coincident with bouts of irrational exuberance, driving equity prices up to new highs. However, it can also lead to hysteria if prices start to suddenly decline. Neptune and Pisces are also associated with Crude Oil, so this is one market we will want to watch closely this week. Indirectly, that can also coincide with shifts in interest rate markets, which is expected anyway as the Fed is due to lower their bank lending rate. Will this create a bump up, followed by a sharp turn down in stock markets? It can’t be ruled out because we still cannot confirm the low of August 5 as a 50-week cycle trough. If not, it could happen at the end of this primary cycle, with a 16-26% decline by February and, ideally, by December. If it was the 50-week cycle trough, then stocks could go higher before an even greater decline later next year.

This is a subject we will have a plan for at next week’s MMA Investment Retreat. There is still time to sign up for the Zoom version, which includes recordings of the presentations, by the next day. Long-term investments, timed well, are the secret to building wealth in financial markets.

 Looking forward to seeing several of you there, in person or via Zoom!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 NOTE 1: NEXT WEEK!!! THE MMA 2024 Investment Retreat is fast approaching! This special wealth-building event will be available to attend online and in person, September 19-22. Week 240916

 This gathering will be very special for those looking to make long-term investments, where real wealth can be built with patience. It’s not like trading, where you need to manage your risk with stop-losses. In a long-term model, we have steps to scale into each investment both on the way down and on the way up. These investment steps are based on our proprietary market-timing methods, combined with our understanding of price objective calculations within the overlap of cyclical market and geocosmic time bands based on actual historical data.

The 2024 MMA Investment Retreat will take place online as well as live at the Rikli Balance Hotel in the Julian Alps region of beautiful Lake Bled, Slovenia. You won’t want to miss this chance to hear the outlooks and wealth-building strategies by top MMA analysts Raymond Merriman (USA), Gianni Di Poce (USA), Ulric Aspegrén (Switzerland), Pouyan Zolfagharnia (UK), Irma Schogt (Netherlands), Rita Perea (USA), Wyatt Fellows (USA), plus special guest speakers Claude Weiss (Switzerland), Aleksandar Imsiragic (Serbia) and (NEW!!!) Christeen Skinner (UK). Special attention will be given to the stock markets of the USA, Germany, and Hong Kong, plus Gold, Silver, Copper, Bitcoin, Wheat, Crude Oil, Real Estate, and interest rates. At the end of each day, there will be roundtable discussions as attendees interact with that day’s speakers.

The cost to attend the retreat, live or online, is $3500. There is a 10% discount for subscribers of MMA Daily or Weekly reports or one-year monthly reports. For those who attend in person, the rate includes meals, snacks, an opening reception, and the Saturday evening banquet at the historic castle on Lake Bled. For further information to sign up to attend or in person, follow these links:

PDF brochure: https://www.mmacycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NEW-MMTA-RETREAT-2024.pdf

MMA Investment Retreat 2024 FAQs: https://www.mmacycles.com/articles/mma-investment-retreat-2024-faq/

MMA 2024 Investment Retreat product link to purchase: https://www.mmacycles.com/product/mma-2024-investment-retreat/

 NOTE 2: IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN! THE “ANNUAL MMA FORECAST 2025 PRE-PUBLICATION SALE” is now underway!!!! The sale will run through October 31 and includes our once-a-year discounts on both the annual Forecast book and MMA subscription reports.~

During this pre-order period, the FORECAST 2025 print edition is available at the discounted rate of $55, and the eBook version is available for $45. This is also when we offer the best deal on MMA subscription reports! Save 10% off any subscription ($275+) with the purchase of Forecast 2025. For instance, you can save over $300 on a yearly subscription to the MMA Daily Report, which additionally includes the full weekly report (two reports in one!). After the pre-order event ends on November 1, the retail price of the Forecast 2025 print edition increases to $66, the eBook price increases to $55, and the subscription reports return to their normal prices. ORDER NOW AND SAVE BIG BUCKS!

MMA is also offering a special “bundle” discount rate for those who wish to order both the eBook and printed editions of Forecast 2025 for $75. The eBook usually comes out 1-2 weeks before the print edition and avoids delays caused by the postal system, especially for those who live overseas. Yet many readers prefer the print edition, so ordering both via the Forecast 2025 Bundle makes sense. You will receive the Forecast 2025 eBook on December 15, and the print copy will be mailed in mid-December.

MMA’s annual Forecast book is an astrological-themed almanac that has served students of cycles and markets since 1976. It provides a cyclical outlook of the collective world psychology, national economy, geopolitical overview, sociocultural trends, weather, and natural calamity potentials, as well as financial market projections for the U.S. stock market, the U.S. Treasury market, interest rates, Gold and Silver, currencies (the Euro, British Pound, Swiss Franc, and Japanese Yen), Bitcoin, Crude Oil, and Grain markets. Its valuable market timing forecasts are based on the historical correlation of market cycles overlapping with geocosmic planetary cycles. Additionally, it provides the three-star critical reversal dates for each market for the year, which have an 80+% accuracy over the years to trading cycle highs and lows when given an orb of three trading days. The book is approximately 200 pages, 8.5″ x 11″, and has set the standard for all astrological almanacs written today.

The scorecard for Forecast 2024, as of August 15, 2024, is now available for viewing by clicking here.

To pre-order Forecast 2025 now, please click here.

NOTE 3: YOUR PERSONAL “JUPITER REPORT — YOUR MOMENTS OF OPPORTUNITY” IS COMING!!! The release date is now scheduled for September 20! This newest product, created by Raymond Merriman, is a report that all traders (and even non-traders) will find to be of great value. It identifies the times during the year when Jupiter transits are highlighted in your chart. It delineates the meaning of Jupiter’s transits to your natal planets and angles over 14 months (including one month before your order and one month after the year ends). Why is this valuable? Because transits of Jupiter identify special opportunities for financial gains, success in one’s career and social life, popularity, and good fortune (luck) when under harmonious aspects and used correctly. However, they can also indicate periods of potential misjudgment leading to losses if Jupiter is afflicted and one is not properly prepared. As an added bonus, each transit is ranked from –3 to +3 in terms of favorability for trading. Traders may find this most valuable! Would you like to know when you are most prone to trading successes or potential losses? You betcha! The cost for your 14-month Jupiter Report is $69.00. Stay tuned for the announcement and link for ordering your personalized Jupiter report for next year!

 NOTE 4: THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF THE MONTHLY MMA CYCLES REPORT WAS ISSUED LAST WEEK! The MMA Monthly Cycles Report covers the outlook in 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 over the next several weeks, as well as trading strategies for position and aggressive traders. If you want to try out a one-month subscription to the MMA Monthly Cycles Report, you can sign up for the September Report and MMA Special Stock Market Update issued on August 22, for only $35! Or save by ordering a three-month or one-year subscription.

 NOTE 5: The MMA Weekly YouTube show, “Geocosmic Week in Review and Look Ahead,” with Gianni Di Poce, is conducted on Wednesday evenings! Each 5- to 20-minute FREE episode reviews the previous week’s market activity and offers a preview of the geocosmic signatures in effect for the coming week and beyond. Last week’s interview was with MMTA graduate and psychological trading coach Rita Perea, who will be a speaker at the MMA Investment Retreat in Lake Bled on September 19-22.

NOTE 6: MMA’s Free Weekly Column Podcast Is Available on SPOTIFY, APPLE, and AMAZON! Now you can listen to a podcast of this weekly column by Thomas Miller on Saturdays! Just follow Merriman Market Analyst on Spotify or Apple to listen to all our episodes. A new podcast episode will be released every weekend. This is a FREE service and is available to everyone. Check out our podcasts on Apple, Spotify, and Amazon Music. It makes for great listening!

EVENTS

 September 19–22, 2024: MMA’s 2024 Investment Retreat. Save the dates!!! You won’t want to miss this chance to meet with the top MMA analysts (plus special guest speakers Claude Weiss, Aleksandar Imsiragic, and Christeen Skinner) live and hear our long-term investment and wealth-building strategies using MMA market-timing methods. Learn when and at what price to scale in on the 18-year cycle in world stock indices, which is now entering the time band for perhaps the best long-term investment opportunities in over a decade. The location is the beautiful Lake Bled in Slovenia, a premier (and affordable) destination in the Julian Alps, with a historic castle nestled in the mountains where the Saturday evening banquet will take place. The cost is $3500 (10% discount for subscribers of MMA Daily or Weekly reports, as well as one-year monthly reports). Click here to register! The event will be available in person or online. For a brochure, click here.

Saturday, October 12, 1:00–4:00 PM (MST), Ray Merriman will present his Election 2024 Forecast for the Tucson Astrologers Guild. Attendance may be in person or via Zoom. In this presentation, Merriman will cover his outlook for the U.S. and the world based on the forthcoming “Aries Vortex.” He will then go over his delineation and studies on the two candidates for U.S. President (Kamala Harris and Donald Trump), the relationship of their chart to the U.S. chart, historical cycles of the U.S. election relative to the major transiting aspects underway now, the Federal Reserve Board chart and what it says about the next president, and the relationship of stock market cycles correlated to the party in office and what it projects for this election cycle (will it result in a crash or a surge to new highs?). Registration procedures will be announced shortly, but at a cost of only $35, this is as good a price as one will ever have for a 3-hour workshop with Merriman. Stay tuned for details.

March 7-9, 2025: Cosmic Patterns Inc. presents its Convergence 2025 conference in Orlando, Florida. This will be one of the top astrological conferences of 2025 and will include a track on “Research and Financial Markets.” MMA market analysts Ray Merriman, Gianni Di Poce, Pouyan Zolfagharnia, Ulric Aspegrén, and Wiebke Held will speak, along with well-known financial astrologer Christeen Skinner of the U.K. There will also be several well-known professional astrologers speaking, including Lynn Bell, Charlotte Benson, Öner Döşer, Pam Gallagher, Demetra George, Aleksandar Imsiragic, Dr. Lea Imsiragic, Rick Levine, Darri Low Murphy, Anne Ortelee, Joni Patry, Kathy Rose, Gisele Terry, and Fei Cochrane. For further information, please go to https://cosmicpatternsconference.com/. You can also hear and read about this exciting gathering on YouTube (click here).

 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 to educate the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they are happening. 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 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 may affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from the perspective of a cycles 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 the psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and their potential effect on financial markets.

 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 of this column assume any responsibility whatsoever for anyone’s trading or investment decisions. Readers of this report should understand that commodity futures and options trading are considered high-risk.