The International Skool of Forecasting.
Jonathan Evans has published a dated forecast every year since 2018 — a market low named before the COVID crash, a recovery called against the recession consensus, a systemic-aviation theme flagged a year before the Boeing crisis. The courses teach the methods behind the calls.
The Record
Every forecast below was published before the period it covers. Read them against what happened. Judge it for yourself.
A market low, named before the crash.
The February 2020 forecast named a mid-March low before the COVID crash. The market bottomed on March 23.
Original document, dated before the crash View the dated forecastRecovery, while everyone forecast recession.
An early-2023 recovery was called against the consensus. The S&P 500 went on to new highs.
Read the record 2024 · Past the MarketsAviation breakdowns, flagged a year early.
A 120-year cycle lookback put systemic aviation failure on the 2024 forecast — twelve months before the Boeing crisis defined the year.
Read the record 2026 · UntestedThe call being tested right now.
A 2024–2029 peak-and-panic window, with the year ahead already dated. Watch it land, or miss, in real time.
Read the current forecastThe full archive holds every call — the 2022 gold target to 68 cents, and the ones that missed.
Open the complete recordThe Method
A century of this method sits in scattered texts, written in code and obsession by men who told no one how it worked. A market low named before the COVID crash is not luck — it is what happens when you measure time the way those men did, in fixed intervals that repeat.
Panics, peaks, wars, and weather cluster around the same cycle lengths, decade after decade. The method is to find those intervals, line them up, and read where they next converge. The tools include planetary cycles — McWhirter tied business activity to the lunar cycle, Bayer timed commodities by planetary motion. The question is not what data the method uses. It is what the method commits to. A systemic-aviation theme, placed on the 2024 forecast a year before the Boeing crisis. A market low, named before the COVID crash bottomed. That kind of dated, falsifiable commitment is what separates this work from interpretation.
It does not forecast everything, and it is honest about where the intervals stop. The full record — hits and misses both — is open. Decide on the evidence, not the concept.
The Tradition
The men who worked it out spent their lives on it. Most of what they wrote was never explained — and the books are still in print, still unfinished on most shelves.
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W.D. Gann
1878 – 1955 The originatorTraded on the idea that price and time are the same measurement seen from two angles — and left behind a geometry of the market that traders still argue over a century later.
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Louise McWhirter
fl. 1930s – 1940s Specialist · the indexTied the rise and fall of business activity to a lunar cycle of just under nineteen years, and published a calendar for reading it — one of the few methods written plainly enough to test.
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George Bayer
1894 – 1957 Specialist · commoditiesTimed wheat and the grain markets by the precise motion of the planets, in work so dense and guarded that most who own his books have never finished one.
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Sepharial
1864 – 1929 Context · world eventsRead wars, weather, and the fate of nations through long planetary periods and the chart of a country itself — the bridge from market timing to world-event forecasting.
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Samuel Benner
1832 – 1913 Context · the long waveA ruined Ohio farmer who, in 1875, charted the iron and corn price cycle decades ahead. The pattern he drew is still visible in modern markets.
“I spent years reading the original texts so you don’t have to spend years getting lost in them. Every year since 2018 I have published a dated forecast to test what I learned. The courses are the path I built from that.”
Read Jonathan’s storyWhere to Begin
Reading a plate like the one above is a skill, and it is taught in order. Most students take the same route — ground themselves in the free reading, set the foundation, then specialise.
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Step I
Read the free library
Start here — the essays are free and cover the method honestly, including where it fails.
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Step II
Set the foundation
The Financial Time Table teaches the long market cycle first — the sixteen-to-eighteen-year rhythm that governs every shorter move. Everything else is read against it. See the foundation course.
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Step III
Specialise — or take the whole method
From there the specialist courses open up McWhirter's index method, timing by solar degrees, world-event forecasting, and Gann's master annual methodology. Or take The Market Forecaster — every course, plus a year of live forecasts written alongside yours.
The Library
Read before you spend anything.
All essaysThese essays are free. They cover what the method can and cannot do, and they are written in the same voice as the courses. If Jonathan Evans’s thinking is not for you, you will know before you spend a cent.
What Market Forecasting Can and Cannot Do
The honest limits of the method, before you spend anything on a course.
Does Cycle Forecasting Actually Work?
The case for and against, judged on results rather than belief.
How to Read a Forecast Before You Trust It
What separates a forecast on record from a guess after the fact.
The 36-Year Cycle in World Events
How the same method reaches past markets into politics, conflict, and weather.
The Courses
Learn the method, one tool at a time — or all of it.
Begin with the foundation, add a specialist tool, or take the complete body of work the dated forecasts are built on.
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Foundation · start hereOpen the foundation
The Financial Time Table
When you finish this course you will be able to place the next major market turn — not the week, but the window — using the sixteen-to-eighteen-year cycle that sets the stage for every shorter move. It is what the gold call was built on.
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Specialist coursesSee all courses
Then specialise, one method at a time
From the foundation, the specialist courses open the method up — McWhirter’s lunar index, timing by solar degrees, world-event forecasting, several cycles read at once, and Gann’s full annual methodology. Each stands on its own.
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The complete methodSee everything included
The Market Forecaster
Every course, plus a year of Jonathan’s dated forecasts written alongside yours — so you study the method and watch it applied in real time. For the student who wants the complete framework, not one tool at a time.
Every course is self-paced and studied online through the student portal at study.skoolofforecasting.com — written lessons with worked examples, and access opens the moment you enrol.
Begin
Learn to read the turn before it comes.
The complete method is the whole framework the dated forecasts are built on — every course, plus a year of live forecasts written beside your own. If you would rather start smaller, the foundation course is where the method begins.