Dimitri Speck

Dimitri Speck is a renowned financial analyst and fund manager, who has earned accolades for his innovative seasonal investment strategy. Dimitri is a prolific writer, with one of the biggest stock market letters in Germany, along with several books. He won several awards, including the Hedge Fund Journal’s award for the best European commodity fund in 2013 and the Scope Innovations Award in 2018.

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How to increase your profits with Seasonality

How You Can Systematically Increase Your Profits with Seasonality

Most investors have probably heard of the two seasonal patterns shown – the Sell-in-May pattern and the autumn rally. However, there are many more seasonal and cyclical investment opportunities – and what only a few investors know will help you the most. Firstly, there are seasonal trends in other values as well. These include...

July 9, 2024
Seasonality

Volatility: The Calm Before the Storm?

Article in German Volatility, the tendency of prices to fluctuate, is not just an academic construct – there are also products such as ETFs based on it. Volatility has recently been quite low by historical standards. Can we now expect…

July 9, 2024

Gold Performance Over the Year and the Month

Around 50% of current gold production flows into jewelry production. This has a considerable influence on the price of gold. The Indian wedding season in autumn, the Christmas season and the Chinese New Year increase the demand for gold for jewelry production, with purchases by jewelers taking place in the run-up to the respective festivities.

June 12, 2024
Gold

ZEW DAX Example: How to use Innovative Event Studies!

In this environment, many investors are turning their attention to economic indicators. One of the most important for Germany is the ZEW Index. More than 350 institutional investors are surveyed for their assessment of the economy. The ZEW Index is published monthly around the middle of the month.

May 15, 2024

What Threatens at the FED Meeting? Events Offer Systematic Benefits for Investors.

The next Fed meeting will take place in just over a week, from April 30 to May 1. In view of a higher-than-expected inflation rate, many investors are wondering whether the Fed will signal interest rate cuts this time, and by how much, and what this means for share prices.

April 17, 2024
fed meeting

Sprint Into the Performance Spring With Adidas!

In the past 25 years, the share price has risen in 23 out of 25 cases between March 20 and May 9. This corresponds to a high hit rate of 92%! The annualized performance is also very good at 71.73%.

March 20, 2024
Adidas

How Can I Find Really Bad Seasonal Patterns?

You are probably familiar with common loss limitation measures, such as diversification or the use of stop losses. At Seasonax, we always advise you to take such measures. Today, however, I would like to show you how to recognize seasonal patterns that look good at first glance, but are actually bad - and which you should not act on.

February 21, 2024
Patterns
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Crude Oil: Is The Next Price Surge Coming?

Some seasonal trends are counter-intuitive. The price of crude oil is falling despite the start of the heating season in the fall. Would you have known?

January 24, 2024
oil

4-Year Election Cycle: How will 2024 go?

The turn of the year, 2023 into 2024, is just around the corner. As an investor, you may well be wondering what the new year will be like. In terms of politics, the US presidential elections are approaching. Although the new - or old - president will not be inaugurated until 2025, elections also influence share prices in their run up. This election cycle is in fact known as the four-year cycle.

December 13, 2023

Gold at USD 2,000: What’s next?

As you may have noticed, the price of gold recently touched the psychologically important round mark of USD 2,000 per troy ounce, before coming back down again.

November 14, 2023
Gold