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z ALL ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS z JEANNE LONG is an international lecturer, instructor and consultant on market patterns and timing. She has over 30 years experience in astrological research and spent over 20 years as a trader. Jeanne is a pioneer in astronomical trading techniques. Her three publications: The yearly Trader's Astrological Almanac, The Universal Clock and Basic Astrotech are sold worldwide. The best seller, The Universal Clock, has been computerized in a Windows program developed by traders for traders called the Galactic Trader™. For the first time, planetary tools became easily accessible to traders. This software is now installed in banks in Europe and Asia. Jeanne currently resides in Florida. pas24@aug.com GRACE K. MORRIS, M.A. (APAI, ISAR C.A.P., CA-NCGR, PMAFA), professional astrologer, timing trends specialist, president of Astro Economics, Inc. publishes two newsletters, the Astro Economics ® Stock Market Newsletter and The Right Time; sponsors the World Conferences of Astro Economics; and is a co-founder of the Apollon Group. Her newest book is How to Choose Stocks to Outperform the Market 2014. She has appeared on CNN Headline and Business News, CBS-TV, CNBC, and ABC-TV. Featured in articles in Forbes, her work in financial astrology was recently recognized in The Financial Times. Morris helps businesses worldwide to become more profitable using company profiles, stock surveys, timing new products, new incorporations, IPOs and first trade dates as well as long-term planning. Grace K. Morris, M.A. Astro Economics, Inc. 1415 W. 22nd St. Tower Floor Oak Brook, IL 60523 www.astroeconomics.com www.businesstimingtrends.com RAYMOND A. MERRIMAN is President of the Merriman Market Analyst, Inc. He is a registered CTA (Commodities Trading Advisor), internationally known market timer, and editor of the MMA Cycles Report, a market advisory letter used by banks, financial institutions, and individual traders throughout the world since 1982. He is the author of several books in both the field of financial market timing and astrology, including: The Gold Book: Geocosmic Correlations To Gold Price Cycles (1982); The Sun, The Moon, and the Silver Market: Secrets of a Silver Trader (1992); Merriman on Market Cycles: The Basics (1994); Basic Principle of Geocosmic Studies For Financial Market Timing (1995); The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing Volumes 1-4. Additionally he has written the Annual Forecasts Book every year since 1976. Raymond is also the developer of the FAR (Financial Astrological Research) For Galactic Trader, and the SOS (Stock Optimizing Selector) software programs, which enable traders to identify potential turning points in various stocks and/or financial futures markets. He may be reached at MMA, P.O. Box 250012, West Bloomfield, MI 48325 (USA). 800-MMA-3349, (248)-626-3034. e-mail: mmacycles@msn.com www.mmacycles.com TIM BOST has gained international recognition as a leading authority on the correlation between planetary patterns and price movements in the equities markets since 1988. An experienced trader and market analyst, he is also the editor and publisher of FinancialCyclesWeekly, an email market letter that has been cited in Barron's, the Chicago Tribune, Bridge News, and a variety of other national and regional business publications. In addition to his trading, writing and publishing work, Tim conducts research into astrologically-based trading systems and counsels individual and corporate clients throughout the world. Along with frequent contributions t o A Traders Astrological Almanac, he has written astrology columns and articles for a variety of publications including TraderPlanet.com, TradersWorld, Focus, Natural Awakenings, In Paradise Magazine, the Gann Plan Trading Letter, the Independent Observer, Practical Spiritual Astrology, and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. In 2000, Tim Bost published a forecast that correctly predicted the exact date that September which marked the end of a historic rally in stocks and the beginning of major bear market. His prediction earned a headline in Barron's and brought him much attention throughout the financial world.

Tim Bost is the author of Mercury, Money and the Markets; How To Find The Money In Your Horoscope; the Basic Stock Market Astrology Course, and Gann Secrets Revealed: Beyond Symbolism in Financial Astrology. For more information on his publications and personal services, call him at 941-544-5475, email him at tim@timbost.com, or visit www.financialcyclesweekly.com IRMA SCHOGT from Amsterdam, The Netherlands is financial astrologer and market analyst, certified by Dutch AVN and ISAR (Ethics). With her business company Schogt Market Timing she is Netherlands representative of Raymond Merriman's work since 2002. In 2007 she founded the Worldwide Platform for Financial Astrology. Ms. Schogt produces a monthly market newsletter, Market Timing Digest, accessible via internet, which forecasts Stocks, Gold, and Euro/dollar and which incorporates input from 12 top-rated financial astrologers. She employs her newsletter’s methodologies to openly trade her accounts, quite successfully outperforming the market in 2010, 2011, 2012. As a former foreign exchange dealer who studied astrology she speaks both the financial as well as the astrological language. She is a frequently invited guest at the Finance Television studios in Amsterdam, lectures internationally and regularly conducts workshops on Financial Astrology. You can reach Irma at ++31-294-415-917, info@markettiming.nl www.markettiming.nl BARRY ROSEN is a financial analyst and has been studying Indian philosophy (Vedic Science) for forty years and Indian astrology for the past 28 years. He began applying it to the financial markets in 1987. His newsletter, Fortucast, began in August 1987 by focusing on stocks and is currently in its twentieth-sixth year, having evolved into a daily and hourly advisory service covering over 20 commodities and 15 major ETF’s. For more information contact FORTUCAST MARKET TIMING at www.fortucast.com or email support@fortucast.com or call 928-284-5740, ext. 1. Toll free in the US: 1-800-788-2796. Trials available. Also visit his Facebook Site: Financial Astrology by Barry Rosen. He also has a home study course available. FRANCES RACKOW is graduate of Noel Tyl’sMasterLevel Astrological Certification Program, and currently an Apprentice in Ray Merriman’s Market Timing Academy. Fran has also studied with Joyce Wehrman, David Railey and Lee Lehman, earning certificates in Horary and Mundane astrology. Fran has been a speaker at UAC, ISAR, NORWAC and SOTA Conferences. Fran has passed Level III of the NCGR exam (1996), as well as the licensing exam for the City of Atlanta (1994.) Fran has held offices in the Metro Atlanta Astrological Society (1994 – 2001), and served on the Board of Directors for Kepler College (2004-2007.) Fran is a Certified Public Accountant and has worked as the Controller of a telecom company from 1989 – 2002. Since then, she has focused on learning more about both astrology and trading.

JIM COLOMBO earned his B.A. in Fine and Applied Arts - Art History from Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois in 1977. The Keys to the Vault, Jim’s first novel was published in January of 2009. He is hard at work on a second novel with the heroine Caroline Baker caught up in another dangerous adventure. Jim has been studying the natural cycles of nature for over 30 years, and has a keen interest on how they can be applied to the stock, commodity and forex markets . www.jamescolombo.com

JEFFREY SPRINGER is a practicing astrologer working with full-life experiences, located in Norwood, NJ. He completed a Master’s Certification in Astrology in August 2002. He obtained a Master’s degree in Psychology from The New School for Social Research – Graduate Faculty in 1979. He can be reached at jeff@Stock-Compass.com.

THE SEVENTH YEAR OF THE CARDINAL CLIMAX

By Raymond Merriman

We knew it would be different, unlike anything we have experienced in our lifetime. In this regard, the Cardinal Climax of 2008-2015 has not been a disappointment. However, in terms of the “Hope and Change” promised by world leaders at the time, well… let’s just say they did deliver on the “change” part. The “hope’ part is further away now than it was at the start of the Cardinal Climax for most people on this planet. In fact, when this began in 2008, our annual Forecast Book suggested that it would be as if the collective was entering a modern-day version of the “Twilight Zone.” Our understanding of reality would enter a new dimension of time and space. In retrospect, it may be more accurate to say that instead of entering “The Twilight Zone,” we have morphed from a people who were initially excited about the prospect of “Hope and Change,” to a population undergoing mass weariness. We are more like a world of zombies today, who seem to have lost control of our destinies or even the privacy of our personal lives. It is all under the watchful eyes of Big Brother, Big Business, and banks “Too Big to Fail.” It all feels so impersonal, so removed, despite our leaders’ promises that our well-being is all that matters, and that is why we should elect them (assuming we have the choice to do so, and the right to vote).

Today’s big businesses and banks promote the never-ending advertisements that “… we are all in this together, and together – as a community - we can make it happen.” But, what exactly can we make happen – together or individually - that is not subject to approval by the ever-expanding governments and their regulators of the world? As the Marx brothers once said, “Who are you going to believe? Me or your own eyes?”

We are zombies and 2008-2015 is our generation’s version of “The Twilight Zone.” Fortunately, the real-life movie that we are collectively living in is coming to an end. And this begs the

question: what have we learned – and yet to learn – from these “Seven Years of Tribulation?” After all, as students of the cosmic sciences, we know that nothing is purely negative or without purpose. Within every experience is, at least, a lesson to be learned from which we can grow and evolve – assuming we see the lesson, understand its purpose, and choose to apply the knowledge that is gained from the experience. If we can do that collectively (and we can), then we are about to enter an entirely new dimension of time and space – and collective growth both psychologically and economically – that indeed does offer great hope for humanity after our descent into this abyss of confusion and disillusionment.

The personal and collective life experiences of 2008-2015 are unlike anything we ever encountered in

several generations. We all went through it, and it is not quite over. No one was spared from personal loss in

love, money, work, and/or health. No nation was spared from the threat of natural or man-induced disasters, violence, bankruptcy or the grab for personal power from its political leaders. Yet it did not destroy our spirit. To the contrary, it has awakened an even stronger quest for the basic rights that all people on this planet deserve, that all souls long for. And that collective longing is to be connected with one another, to be free from loneliness and irrelevance, and to have the freedom to experience meaning in life on one’s own terms as long as it does not harm others, without interference or impediment by outside impersonal forces.

Sometimes it takes the threat of losing those basic liberties to realize just how important they are.

Sometimes it takes a Cardinal Climax – a rare and powerful cosmic configuration – to drive these points home and awaken us. And for this awakening – which is surely one of the most positive possible results of the Cardinal Climax – we can be grateful.

THE CARDINAL CLIMAX

To understand this unique period of time that we live, it will be useful to first review the Cardinal Climax. We will do this by once again defining what it is, how we have experienced it so far, what we have learned from it, and what our prospects are for the future as a result of it.

The Cardinal Climax is an unusual time in history when nearly all of the planets in the solar system (except

Neptune) spend a considerable amount of time in cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn). Most notably, three of the four slowest moving planets in our solar system - Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto - are each in cardinal signs, and/or forming hard aspects to one another, between January 2008 and March 2015 (7 years, 2 months). Mars and Jupiter (the next furthest out planets) are also involved at critical points in this period, particularly in the summer of 2010 and then again in April 2014.

The last Cardinal Climax occurred in 1927-1934. Before that, it was 1843-1851 and 1761-1770. As written

in the Forecast 2012 Book, “Each involved Saturn, Uranus and Pluto transiting through cardinal signs, making hard aspects to one another… Each of these periods corresponded with severe economic downturns and debt crises.”

Historically, these have not been “enjoyable” periods for most of humanity. They were periods of increasing frustration and loss of trust with world leaders, which were followed by economic downturns and then wars. Yet these “dark days” led to a collective awakening, a time of invention, great economic growth, and powerful social transformation. It was as if the universe exerted a cosmic balancing mechanism, where periods of anxiety and despair were followed by prosperity and collective renewal.

THE TWIN PEAKS OF THE CARDINAL CLIMAX

The Cardinal Climax of 2008-2015 can be divided into two parts and two peaks. The first part took place in 2008-2011. The geocosmic peak was in the summer of 2010. The second part occurs in 2012-2015,

and will peak August 2013 through April 2014.The periods of the twin peaks refer to the times that the most significant geocosmic patterns unfolded, which will be described shortly.

Start of Cardinal Climax, January 26, 2008, as Pluto entered Capricorn, shortly after Venus did the same on January 24, 2008.

THE FIRST PHASE AND FIRST PEAK: 2008-2011

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

- Thomas Jefferson, third president of the USA.

The Cardinal Climax began the last week of January 2008 when both Pluto and Venus ingressed into Capricorn, a cardinal sign. That very week, a major banking crisis erupted in Europe, when it was discovered that rogue trader Jerome Kerviel of SocieteGenerale Bank of France had lost €4.9 billion through unauthorized trading that involved nearly €50 billion of the banks funds (which it did not have). This coincided with Europe’s further revelation that many of its banks were more exposed to the USA sub-prime bank derivatives than originally believed, and they were suffering huge losses as a result. Suddenly there was a worldwide banking crisis and the Federal Reserve Board – the USA’s central bank – took its first giant step in bringing short-term

interest rates sharply lower to stem the escalating financial panic. Stock markets around the world were in free fall, but the dramatic measures initiated by the Fed stopped the bleeding – for a while.

However, a new hemorrhaging was just about to begin due to the dramatic lowering of interest rates: the

wreckage of the savings class, the primary core of the middle class and retired workers who were on the verge of seeing everything they were taught about the value of savings - and investment in real estate - turned on its head. Like the credit ratings of so many countries, their lifestyle was about to be downgraded, from “satisfactory” to “survival mode.” They would no longer be able to accrue interest from their savings account, where the yield on CD’s and money markets and bank savings went from 5% in 2007 to zero in 2008. Many would have to start depleting their capital (savings) in order to get by. In addition, the homes they owned – their primary investment – would fall into negative equity.

In the fall of 2008, the first major aspect between the dominant planets of the Cardinal Climax (Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto) unfolded. Saturn made its first of five opposition aspects to Uranus on Election Day (USA), November 4. Just prior to that, a full moon in mid-September fell on the approaching Saturn-Uranus opposition. The financial crisis struck the USA in full force on that day, September 15, 2008. One of the world’s largest investment banks - Lehman Brothers - went bankrupt.

Other troubled banks almost went under, but the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury Department negotiated deals to save them. However, Lehman Brothers, a former competitor of the U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen when he headed Goldman Sachs, could not (or would not) be saved, and the worldwide Financial Panic of 2008 erupted. It was the worst Financial Panic since the Great Depression, which just happened to be the last time a Cardinal Climax occurred. No one saw it coming – except Financial Astrologers. Readers of this annual Forecast Book, for example, were apprised of this cycle every year since 1994 – that an economic and banking crisis could erupt, starting in 2008. Those forecasts were based on the history of the Cardinal Climax.

In the midst of the Financial Panic of late 2008, a young, charismatic African-American - and markedly

inexperienced Senator from Illinois - ran on the slogan of “Hope and Change,” and was elected President of the United States. It was an historic upset and milestone in American politics. Americans were unhappy with the dysfunction and disunity of its government and were ripe for a change that promised to reform this alarming state of affairs. Barack Obama became the face of the Cardinal Climax, the “Seven Years of Tribulation.” In Barack Obama, the hopes of a new political unity and financial reconstruction, both in the USA and the world, were placed - or misplaced, depending on how one views the events and decisions that followed.

It was in the summer of 2010 that the first astrological peak of the Cardinal Climax took place as Jupiter and Uranus moved from Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac, into Aries, the first sign of the zodiac in late May through early June. This was followed by Mars and Saturn ingressing into Libra in late July, and all four forming a powerful T-square to Pluto, July 28-August 6, 2010.

Events would now occur, and decisions would be made that would radically change how central banks, world economies, and world governments would operate. The first alarm bell sounded in April-June 2010 when Greece’s debt was downgraded to junk status. The Euro currency immediately plunged. This coincided with the British Petroleum Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which threatened to become the world’s worst ecological man-made disaster. However, it also served as an opportunistic event for the rollout of a slew of new USA government regulations and the hiring of new government regulators. Big Business, along with banks “Too Big to Fail,” were clearly becoming enemies of the White House, if not the people too. They had to be controlled. They were referred to as “Fat Cats” by the USA leadership, which began an ardent campaign to exploit that idea of “haves” and “have nots” for politically divisive advantages.

First peak of the Capricorn Climax, summer 2010

The USA (and other nations of the world) was already in an era of political and social division, unlike

anything experienced in many generations, under the previous administration of George W. Bush. But this would not be reformed to a period of political unity and “bridging the gap between the aisles,” as promised in the election season of 2008. The Cardinal Climax suddenly propelled divisions to a new height, and in response, two new political movements began in the USA that would heighten the division: the “Tea Party” and the “Occupy Wall Street.” The former succeeded in overturning the House of Representatives from Democratic to Republican control in the largest shift of that part of Congress in over 60 years. The sweeping midterm election victory by the Republicans in 2010, with the support of the new Tea Party, took away the control of all three branches of government by the Democrats.

Yet, neither the Greek bailout nor that monumental shift of government control in the USA would turn out to be the most significant events related to the first peak of the Cardinal Climax, the center of which was July 26-August 6, 2010. That was when the Federal Reserve Board initiated its first QE – Quantitative Easing – program. It would intervene in financial markets with huge monthly purchases of USA Treasury and mortgage-backed securities in order to drive long-term interest rates to historic lows. Such unorthodox and never-tried-before policy to control prices is within the purview of Pluto in Capricorn. Other nations would soon follow that lead, and a currency war, or race to have the world’s cheapest (and most competitive) currency, was on. Pluto, along with Venus, rules currencies, and remember: the Cardinal Climax began when both Venus and Pluto entered Capricorn in the last week of January 2008. In the summer of 2010, it would reach its first geocosmic peak as five powerful planets not only entered the early degrees of cardinal signs together, but they also formed a grand square with the Sun-Pluto opposition in 0-1 degrees of Capricorn-Cancer in the Federal Reserve Board chart (created December 23, 1913). This suggested that the Federal Reserve Board was going to be audited and stripped of its powers, per an act posed by Congressman Ron Paul and approved by the House of Representatives, or given new and greater powers than ever before. It would be the latter, and the world would learn a lesson about real power. Real power is in the hands of those who control the purse – those who create the money. The Federal Reserve set about to create $3 trillion of new money out of thin air, used to buy USA debt – a debt the USA taxpayers would have to pay back to the Federal Reserve, with interest, over time.

Federal Reserve Board, created December 23, 1913, 6:02 PM, Washington D.C., according to the December 24, 1913

edition of the New York Times, submitted by Mundane Astrologer Matt Carnicelli. Note the Sun-Pluto opposition, 0-1 degree of Cancer-Capricorn.

The idea was that this first QE program would rescue the failing USA housing market, where many homeowners watched in alarm as equity in their homes fell into a negative value. They were “underwater,” which meant they owed more to the banks than their homes were worth, due to declining home values during the Financial Panic of 2008. Another purpose was to drive investors away from extremely low yielding Treasury bonds and notes into the more risky area of stocks, thus driving up stock values, and with it, individuals’ net worth who owned stocks. Since a large number of Americans owned stocks, it worked. Stock prices began to soar, and by 2013, they were making new all-time highs, up triple digits percentage-wise from the lows of late 2008, early 2009.

The first peak of the Cardinal Climax was not limited to the USA banking and political upheavals, however,

or even the Euro debt crisis signified by the Greek bailout. That was all Pluto activity, for Pluto rules debt, deficits, defaults, bailouts, and taxes. And, as can be seen in the charts shown earlier, Pluto in Capricorn was right in the midpoint area of area of the potent T-square involving the oppositions of Mars-Saturn in Libra to Jupiter-Uranus in Aries. But, Pluto also rules “power grabs.” There was to be another dynamic exploding onto the world stage in late 2010 through the spring of 2011. It was the sudden mass uprisings in the Middle East. Individuals and groups demanded freedom and independence from tyrannical leaders who were subsuming more and more control over their lives. This quest for independence and freedom from tyranny was reflected in the Jupiter-Uranus passage through Aries. This became the “Arab Spring,” and it coincided with the overthrow and/or demise of very entrenched leaders from Egypt to Libya. It transformed the balance of power in that region. Iran became the dominant political power in the Middle East, and it was on course to develop nuclear weapons, despite economic sanctions against it by much of the world.

The transformation in banking, monetary policy, and the escalation of spending as a fiscal policy driving

up sovereign debt around the world, combined with power grabs by authoritarian leaders whose populations rebelled against such measures, set the stage for the second phase of the Cardinal Climax.

THE SECOND PHASE AND SECOND PEAK, 2012-2015: COVERUPS AND REVELATIONS

“When thestory blew up again, last week, they said ‘Benghazi happened a long time ago.’ Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, really said that… Think of that. They can’t give answers when the story is fresh because it just happened, they are looking into it. Eight months later they don’t have anything to say because it all happened so long ago. Think of how low your opinion of the American people has to be to think you can get away, forever, with that.”

- Peggy Noonan, “The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi,” Wall Street Journal, May 11-12, 2013. The first phase of the Cardinal Climax was about economic shock brought on by the overextension of credit – too much spending, not enough revenue. The response by banking and government leaders was to address the spending part of the crisis. With Saturn moving through Virgo and Libra, the proposed mantra for solving the financial crisis was “austerity.” Cut back on spending and reduce the debt by showing fiscal discipline. However, that didn’t win elections, nor did it increase employment. People wanted jobs. They needed income. And the post-2008 recovery was woefully weak throughout the world, but especially in Europe and America where it was much weaker than the aftermath of any recession in the past 60 years.

Politicians learned quickly that they could more easily maintain their positions of power – keep their jobs, be re-elected – if they instead swung 180° to the position of economic stimulus, or “increased spending,” as a policy to deal with the debt. Increased spending would create jobs, which in turn would increase revenues by putting more people back to work, who would then pay more taxes. It might have worked, except the heads of many governments, including the USA and France, decided that even more revenues could be raised by also increasing taxes, especially on the wealthy, which included mostly people who weren’t that wealthy. In the United States, this prospect, along with the complexities of Obama Care that changed the concept of “full time employment,” resulted in small businesses deciding to hold back on hiring. Many decided to hire mostly part time workers, which was now defined as anything less than 30 – not 40 – hours of work per week because that would avoid penalties for noncompliance of the mandate required for employees to cover health care costs of their full time employees, now defined as 30 hours/week. Growth stalled, and more people than ever did not even try to find a job. Unemployment in the USA is still a historically high 7.3% as of this writing, but the real percent of people not working who could be working is closer to 15%. The labor force’s participation rate was 63.2 percent in September 2013, its lowest level in thirty-five years.

Now the second half of the Cardinal Climax is

underway, 2012-2015. The period is anchored in the seven passage series of a waxing square aspect – the first quarter cycle phase – between Uranus and Pluto, which started June 24, 2012 and will be completed March 17, 2015. This is the longest lasting aspect series of our lifetime, and it is arguably the most potent one based on the principles of modern, mundane and financial astrology. In this author’s opinion, no other

astrological signature is as hard-hitting and relentless as a hard aspect involving Uranus and Pluto, especially when Saturn or Mars are also involved.

The time band of 2012-2015 is compounded further by the transit of Saturn in Scorpio (October 5, 2012-

September 18, 2015), and transiting Neptune in 3-6° Pisces, forming a challenging T-square to USA President Barack Obama’s natal Moon (3° Gemini) and Pluto (6° Virgo), from March 2013 through February 2015. These factors will be addressed later in this Forecast Book. For now, we will focus on the implications of Uranus in Aries, forming seven exact squares to Pluto in Capricorn. The peak of this signature – and hence the second peak of the Cardinal Climax – will be in force August 2013 through April 2014. That is when Jupiter will be in Cancer, forming a T-square to Uranus and Pluto. This signature has been described as an indicator of financial crises (particularly Jupiter in hard aspect to Uranus), in various works by Andre Barbault, renowned Mundane Astrologer from Paris, France. The peak of this period will be April 20-22, 2014, when Mars joins the threesome, and all are in 13 degrees of cardinal signs, forming a grand square that brings in the USA’s natal Sun-Saturn square at 13-14° of Cancer-Libra. This is the stuff from which deep and dark conspiracy theories will be constructed, for Pluto in Capricorn can be deep, dark, and full of behind-the-scenes decisions by people in power - leaders in business, banking, and government who want to know what you are doing, but don’t want you to know what they are doing. But, the secrets come out, for Pluto not only hides, it also reveals. And heads will roll. Just ask the NSA, IRS, and those who work for other agencies yet to be uncovered.

The second peak of the Cardinal Climax, April 22, 2014

The best Market Timers of 2013

The year 2013 was one of the best ever for stock markets of the world. In 2013, global equity markets reached peak after peak. Starting from the seven best buying opportunities of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied more than 6 percent each time to the next top. Those were enjoyable rides for traders and investors! Those seven tops were followed by corrections of 2-3+ percent until the next buying opportunity was reached. All in all, 2013 contained 16 excellent trading opportunities.

Of course, information like this is most advantageous to anyone when it is known beforehand. To achieve this, with the reversal dates that are being brought out by Financial Astrologers traders can define where reversals are most likely to occur.

It is as simple as that. Traders can use this market timing information alongside their favorite technical studies to not just know where (in which price area), but also when a trend change is most likely. When entering a time band defined by a tight orb that allows up to three days to be qualified as a “turn dates,” the chances of a trade being profitable are greater. Market-timers specialize in this analysis, providing this needed and hard-to-find advantage for traders. Knowing when to trade can make a huge positive difference for traders.

Market Timing Digest analyzes the subscription reports of 12 well-known Financial Astrologers, each month. At the end of the year, MTD announces those who made the most consistently correct calls, via the criteria set forth here. MTD is proud to present its list of “Best Market Timers for 2013.”

The best Market Timers of 2013:

First place, golden medal is for: Raymond Merriman of the Merriman Market Analyst, Inc in Farmington Hills, MI. Ray won convincingly by mentioning all 15 reversal dates that MTD published in 2013.

Second place, Silver is for: Robin Handler of Handler & Associates, Inc in Neenah, WI. Robin mentioned 12 out of 15 reversal dates in MTD.

Third place, bronze medals go to: Ted Phillips, Jr. of Astro Advisory Services, Inc in Malibu, CA, Norm Winski of Astro Trend in Naples, FL and Daniel Ciuntuc of Dharmik Market Timing in Iasi, Romania and London, UK.

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