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Gold •141 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 968.70 | -1.80 | -0.19% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 70.23 | +0.13 | +0.19% |
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Gasoline •17 mins | 2.058 | -0.001 | -0.05% |
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Ethanol •141 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •141 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 141 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 141 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 74.33 | +0.10 | +0.13% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.419 | +0.080 | +2.40% | |
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Heating Oil • 37 mins | 2.276 | +0.002 | +0.07% |
David Knox Barker
Contributor since: 22 Apr 2010
Biography
David Knox Barker is the founder of Long Wave Dynamics, LLC, and the publisher and editor of The International Long Wave Dynamics Letter. Barker is one of the world's foremost experts on the economic long wave, stock market cycles and Fibonacci market analysis. He is the creator of the Market Cycle Dynamics (MCD) software and author of The K Wave (2012). He is a writer, entrepreneur and technical market analyst. He has researched stock market cycles and written on the impact of the long wave on international financial markets and the international political economy for over 25 years. Barker developed the powerful Market Cycle Dynamics Formula Timing Plan (aka Theory 144) approach to market cycle analysis based on decades of market cycle research. Barker was founder and CEO for ten years from 1997 to 2007 of a successful life sciences research and marketing services company, serving a majority of the top 20 global life science companies. Barker also founded ALP Life Sciences, LLC in 2007, which is managing research and development on the Nanoveson(TM) project. He received his bachelor's degree with a major in finance from Appalachian State University and a master's degree in political science from University of Central Florida, where his thesis research explored disequilibrium in the international political economy from the long wave perspective. He is happily married to Berdjette, a citizen of Switzerland, and they are the parents of three great kids. His hobbies include reading, writing, running and discussing big ideas with family and friends.
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Tracking the Wall Cycles in Search of the Business Cycle Top in 2011
One of the contributions to market cycle analysis by the late financial analyst PQ Wall was the discovery that there are nine dynamic market cycles…
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The Commodity Price Rollercoaster and the CRB Golden Ratio Failure
Commodity prices have been on a rollercoaster ride as central banks have pumped trillions in liquidity into the global system, trying to prevent a deflationary…
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The Pricing Mechanism of Markets: SP500 1344.07 and US 30-Year $117.09
Evidence is mounting that the pricing mechanism of global markets creates spontaneous order out of the chaos of billions of people pursuing their self-interested purpose.…
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The Edge of Chaos
Nobel economist Friedrich Hayek's most enduring legacy is his defense of classical liberalism and free market capitalism. The Road to Serfdom is Hayek's case against…
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Tracking Individual Stock Cycles in Price and Time
Individual stock cycles in price and time are the building blocks of major market index cycles. Historically it has been more effective to study stock…
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Schumpeter vs. Wall and the Business Cycle Count in the Long Wave
Joseph Schumpeter was a Harvard economist and president of the Econometric Society (1940-41). He was author of the two-volume tome Business Cycles (McGraw-Hill 1939). Schumpeter's…
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Explaining the Heisenberg Omen(s) of Human Action in Markets
In a recent article, I introduced the possibility that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle provides far more insight for stock market cycle analysis than the infamous…
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Global Stock Market Cycle Forecast 2011
The job of a stock market cycle tracker and forecaster is far more difficult with trillions of dollars in government intervention and global central bank…
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New School Fibonacci Market Cycle Analysis
There are investors and traders that have been misinformed. They believe the application of Fibonacci ratios to stock market movements in price and time have…
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The Legal Fiction of Corporate Income and the Coming U.S. Reorganization in 2012
Markets and pundits are celebrating the great tax deal "compromise" between the Obama Administration and the Republicans. A tax deal pitched as a compromise between…
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Gold Market Forecasting and the Magnetic Power of the $2,298 Target Price
The Long Wave Dynamics approach to Fibonacci drill-down price grids in any market index such as the S&P 500 and European S&P 100 generates extraordinary…
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Stock Market Cycles, Virtuous Circles and Trillions of Dollars
The op-ed in the Washington Post a few weeks back by Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke contained a few interesting revelations. Bernanke came clean on what…
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Benjamin Graham's Investing Wisdom and Market Cycle Formula Timing Plans
Most investors are aware that Benjamin Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor, the acclaimed investment book first published in 1949, is the father of value…
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Hindenburg Omen Meets the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Tracking Market Cycles as "Fields" in Price and Time The rather ominous sounding Hindenburg Omen was the latest in a long line of one-off indicators…
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Demystifying the SP 1228 Target that Killed the Rally
If you were not looking for an important potential market top in the 20-week cycle, that was anticipated to be running long, on November 8,…
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The Rule of Law and the Mortgage Mess
The Chronicles of Atticus McShrugg are fiction, but intended to give relevant, timely and sometimes entertaining perspective into current events in the global financial crisis…
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Currency Wars, Gresham's Law and Digital Gold Currency (DGC)
Introducing the Chronicles of Atticus McShrugg: Instead of typical article format, I've created a fictional character and will chronicle his interaction with the President of…
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Bernanke vs. Kondratieff: Round QE2
In Round QE1 2007-2009 of the unfolding global financial crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke fought a remarkable round. It was the global financial and economic…
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Theory 144 and Disequilibrium Explain Market Price Action, EMH RIP
The idea that markets tend toward a state of equilibrium is a fundamental principle of the efficient-markets hypothesis (EMH). This hypothesis, based on an equilibrium…
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Fascinating Fibonacci Price Grids and Intraday SandP 500 Price Action
Analyzing a 2-day 15-minute interval S&P 500 chart from last week, August 19-20, 2010, provides a valuable lesson in Fibonacci ratio related market action. The…
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