Market Forecaster · Cycle Analyst · Author
Mason Sexton
Price · Time · Cycle
He called the 1987 crash on national television.
His new book argues the next great transition is already underway.
Fifty years on Wall Street. Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers, Mitchell Hutchins. Founder of Harmonic Research and Code Yellow Research. Author of The Map and Stargazers & Kings. Mason Speed Sexton has spent four decades mapping the cycles that move markets and history — and telling clients what happens next, with dates.
- 50years
- on Wall Street since 1972
- 40years
- advising the same hedge fund client
- 16,000readers
- of his daily market letter
- 2books
- published, three more in progress
Figures are self-reported by Mason Speed Sexton and reflect his own records.
01The Record
A career of public, dated calls.
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1972
Morgan Stanley, employee number 188.
Began in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, with IBM and General Electric among his accounts.
As described by Mason Speed Sexton.
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1976
Salomon Brothers.
Worked alongside the head of mergers and acquisitions and advised the arbitrage desk during the era that defined modern risk arbitrage.
As described by Mason Speed Sexton.
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1980
Mitchell Hutchins.
Covered the era's leading hedge funds, including the Soros and Steinhardt organizations, at what was then the top institutional research firm on Wall Street.
As described by Mason Speed Sexton.
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1984
Harmonic Research.
Founded his own firm and broker-dealer built on cycle analysis. He ran it for close to twenty years.
As described by Mason Speed Sexton.
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1987
The crash.
On Financial News Network, the precursor to CNBC, he forecast the October 1987 crash in advance. The network revisited the call in a post-crash program on who saw it coming.
As described by Mason Speed Sexton.
“I understand virality and how powerful it can be.”
— Mason Speed Sexton
02The Thesis
Five cycles are converging. He mapped them.
In a market defined by narrowing breadth, extreme concentration, and record leverage, most investors are navigating without a map. The Map is Sexton's argument that we have entered the late exhaustion phase of a multi-decade advance — and that the architecture of the coming transition is already visible.
He builds the case on W.D. Gann's Law of Vibration, the Delta Phenomenon's solunar timing, and the convergence of five independent long-term cycles that rarely intersect.
For a booker, the value is specificity. Sexton does not deal in vague warnings. He names levels, dates, and windows, and he does it in public.
- The Gann decennial Year Six
- The nineteen-year Metonic echo of 2007
- The Saturn-Neptune conjunction at the World Point
- The eighteen-year credit cycle
- The sixty-year regime change
Educational analysis. Not personalized investment advice.
03Topics
Two audiences. Two conversations.
For finance, macro and investing shows
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The Architecture of the Coming Collapse
What five converging cycles say about the top of a multi-decade advance.
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How He Called 1987
The method behind the call, and what it looks like on today's tape.
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Price and Time
Why Gann's Law of Vibration still predicts turns that fundamentals miss.
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The Exhaustion Phase
Narrowing breadth, concentration, and leverage read as a cycle signature, not a headline.
For history, ideas and culture shows
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Stargazers and Kings
Four thousand years of astrological counsel to heads of state, from Sumerian ziggurats to the Reagan White House.
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The Astrologer in the White House
Joan Quigley, Nancy Reagan, and the calendar that scheduled a presidency.
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The Great Crossing
Reading history's largest catastrophes as a pattern, and what the pattern says about 2029.
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The Psychic Record
Joan of Arc, Napoleon, and the warnings sent to the Kennedy White House.
04The Method
He does not hide how he works.
Cycles, not forecasts of feeling.
His work rests on repeating time structures: decennial, Metonic, credit, and sixty-year regime cycles.
Price and time geometry.
Following W.D. Gann, he measures markets as relationships between price movement and elapsed days, and looks for the squares where the two align.
Mundane astrology, named plainly.
He is a trained astrologer and uses mundane astrology, the branch concerned with collective events rather than personality. He does not lead with it and he does not conceal it.
He is comfortable being asked about it on air.
05Published Work
Two books, and a third in progress.
The Map
Understanding the Architecture of the Coming Collapse.
Five independent long-term cycles converge on a single conclusion: a multi-decade advance has entered its late exhaustion phase. Not a prediction, Sexton writes, but cartography — a framework for what the transition will demand of capital and institutions.
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Stargazers & Kings
Four thousand years of astrological counsel to heads of state.
From the Sumerian priest climbing the ziggurat to write to his king, through the pharaohs, caliphs, Roman emperors and the Medici, to the astrologer who scheduled the Reagan White House.
View on AmazonExecutive Producer
Client 9
The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.
Sexton served as executive producer on Alex Gibney's feature documentary on the Spitzer scandal — money, sex, power, and betrayal on Wall Street. Under Sexton's executive production, Client 9 premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before a theatrical release through Magnolia Pictures. It went on to become one of the more critically celebrated documentaries of its year: the film holds a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 69 reviews, with an average score of 7.3/10.
- 2011 Emmy Nominee — Outstanding Investigative Journalism, Long Form
- 2011 Emmy Nominee — Best Documentary
Forthcoming
The Great Crossing — in progress. History's largest catastrophes, read as a repeating pattern, and what that pattern indicates for 2029 and 2030.
Star Crown Press.
06Media
Seen, heard, and on the record.
Financial News Network, 1987 — archival footage
The Black Label podcast with Porter Stansberry
Keynote, investor conference, Nashville — one-hour talk to roughly 1,200 investors
Morgan Stanley · Salomon Brothers · Mitchell Hutchins · Paradigm Press · Millennium
Prior and current professional affiliations.
07 · Advisory
Code Yellow Research.
Sexton's consulting practice serves institutional clients who want direct access to his read on price and timing. One client relationship has run close to forty years.
Inquiries from qualified institutions and serious individual investors are reviewed case by case.