Jonathan Evans is a former financial planner, independent researcher, and decade-plus student of Gann, McWhirter, Benner, and Sepharial. This page explains why the Skool is built around source work, public records, and limited access.
Jonathan Evans spent years as a licensed financial planner. He was trained in the conventional curriculum: modern portfolio theory, asset allocation, managed funds, the usual tools of the industry. He was good at it. He also noticed, early, that the industry had almost nothing useful to say about when.
Price targets, fair value estimates, analyst ratings — the entire framework was built around the question of what to own. The question of when a market would turn, when a boom would exhaust, when a panic would arrive — these were treated as unknowable. Random. Outside the scope of serious research.
He did not believe that. And the more he read, the less convincing the official position became.
The work of W.D. Gann is the place most researchers start and most researchers stop. They read the summaries, buy the indicators, watch the YouTube videos, and come away with the impression they have studied the man. They have not. The actual manuscripts — the 1909 Ticker interview, the Tunnel Thru the Air, the Wall Street Stock Selector, the private courses — are dense, coded, and written for a specific kind of reader. That reader has to work for what is in them.
Jonathan worked for it. Then he worked through Louise McWhirter's 1938 text on the 18.6-year lunar cycle, Samuel Benner's 1875 commodity panic maps, and Sepharial's planetary rulership tables. He went to the source material that the mainstream market tradition had quietly buried — not because it was wrong, but because it was hard to sell alongside index funds and quarterly reports.
What he found was that these researchers were not mystics. They were pattern analysts. They had catalogued recurring rhythms in markets and economies across centuries and built probabilistic models from them. The models were imperfect — every serious researcher acknowledged cycle failures — but the edge was real and documentable.
The International Skool of Forecasting was established in Brisbane in 2018 to teach that body of work directly — from primary sources, on camera, over the shoulder. Not a summary. Not a trading system. A structured curriculum in how the old forecasters thought, what they built, and how to apply their frameworks against a modern market.
The public track record begins in 2020. The February 2020 annual forecast identified a mid-March low before COVID crashed markets on March 23. The 2022 Gold forecast named a harmonic target of $1,621; the actual low printed at $1,620.32. Eight calls across six years. All published before January 1st of the year they covered. The incorrect 2023 forecast is in the record too. The record is not curated to show only the hits.
The Skool operates on a single annual intake, limited to 72 members. That number is deliberate. The intellectual property holds its value at that size. It does not at larger ones. A student is not buying access to a mass course library. They are entering a small research environment built around source work, method discipline, and a public record that can be reviewed before purchase.
The forecasting work is one expression of a single underlying view: that very little in markets and economies is actually random, and that the serious student of history has a structural advantage over the participant who ignores it.
That view shapes everything Jonathan works on. Trading infrastructure that removes noise from the connection between a platform and a broker. Real assets — specifically Argyle pink diamonds — that sit entirely outside the cycle he forecasts. Research that earns study rather than demands trust.
The full picture of that work is at jonathanevans.com.au.
Before enrolling in anything, use the public record. The YouTube channel carries free lectures on cycle analysis, historical market method, and live commentary. The library on this site is open to anyone. The six-year annual forecast archive is fully accessible without a login.
That is the buyer-first path: read the free work, review the forecast record, decide whether the method deserves your attention, then choose the course that fits your next study problem. If the approach resonates after reviewing the public material, the annual intake runs from November 1st. If it does not, the library remains open regardless.
The Skool teaches market forecasting as an educational discipline. It does not provide personal financial advice, investment advice, trade signals, or instructions to buy or sell any financial product. Students are responsible for their own decisions and should seek qualified advice before making financial decisions.
Primary-source curriculum in Gann, McWhirter, Benner, and Sepharial. Annual intake, 72 members, one forecast service running live since 2020.
Purpose-built routing infrastructure that gives a trading platform its own lane — separate from general internet traffic. Built for active traders on MT4, MT5, cTrader, and TradingView.
Secondary market access to certified Argyle pink diamonds from the now-permanently closed Argyle mine. Real assets governed by geology, not policy — uncorrelated to the cycles the Skool forecasts.
Full background at jonathanevans.com.au.