David Knox Barker

David Knox Barker is the founder of Market Cycle Dynamics, LLC, and the publisher and editor of The International Market Cycle Dynamics Letter. Barker is one of the world's foremost experts on market cycles and the global economic long wave. He is the author of The K Wave; Profiting from the Cyclical Booms and Busts in the Global Economy. He is a writer, inventor, entrepreneur and technical market analyst. Barker 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 twenty-five years. Barker developed the price, time and sentiment method of market cycle analysis based on decades of market cycle research and study of market timing masters. He 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, focused on the science of applied lipid polymorphism. ALP is managing research and development on the Nanoveson(TM) project and producing the most bioavailable Omega 3 on the market. He received his bachelor's degree with a major in finance and a master's degree in political science, 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, running and discussing big ideas with family and friends.