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The Merriman Market Analyst was incorporated on September 28, 1983, at 2:30 PM, in Lansing, Michigan. Raymond Merriman chose this timing and was present to oversee the stamping of the corporate papers at the Michigan Department of Commerce.

The story began in 1980 in Tucson, Arizona when Raymond Merriman was introduced to Walter Bressert, legendary cycles analyst and researcher, and began studying cycles related to commodities and financial futures. By March 1982, Merriman had uncovered over 60 correlations to Gold prices, which were published in "The Gold Book: Geocosmic Correlations to Gold Price Cycles," the first quantitative research effort on the correlation of planetary studies (aside from solar/lunar studies) related to financial markets. A newsletter was started, forecasting what Merriman thought was happening – and would happen – to Gold prices in the near-term, based on these correlations. The first issue of the MMA Cycles Report started out with 35 subscribers.

After one year, the MMA Cycles Report grew from 35 to 350 subscribers, MMA was incorporated, and Merriman became a CTA – Commodities Trading Advisor – registered with the National Futures Association (NFA) and the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC). Ray's new career as a financial market analyst and financial market timer had begun.

Soon after, Merriman began an 8-year stint with the Wall Street firms, while keeping up his interest in astrology, as well as the MMA Cycles Report. In 1994, he retired from the Wall Street firms as a Vice-President of Retail Commodity Futures at Paine Webber, Inc., and began to write The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, which would become a five-volume book series. This series took 17 years to complete and in total contained over 1600 pages of research studies and conclusions.

After these works were completed in 2011, Merriman asked himself: "Now what? Who is going to carry on this work when I go to the cloud?" In 2012, the Merriman Market Timing Academy (MMTA) became his next project. MMTA started its first official course in March 2013. This was not an easy study, but in 2015, there would be 20 graduates from various parts of the world who completed the 2-year program, consisting of 99 classes, given over seven 3-4 day weekends, on site.

In September 2017, MMA made a big move after over 30 years in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Scottsdale, Arizona. The organization continues to publish the annual MMA Forecast Book every December, which has been MMA's most popular book since 1976. They continue to write and publish the MMA daily and weekly reports, as well their flagship monthly MMA Cycles Report. The analysis of the USA stock markets, plus Gold and Silver, continues to be written by Raymond Merriman, while specially-selected graduates and students of MMA studies have been tasked with writing the monthly analysis of T-Notes, Euro, Live Cattle, Crude Oil, and Soybeans.

Many of the MMTA graduates and Merriman himself continue teaching the MMA methodology to students around the world via webinars, conferences, and investment retreats. MMTA graduates have also launched the MMTA International Cycles Report (ICR), covering many international stock and commodity markets.

Today, the MMA methodology is described as "the most complete and valuable model for financial market timing available." MMA is the leader in market timing products and services, and will continue well into the future.