A Little Known Fact: Individual Stocks Exhibit Seasonal Trends of Their Own
You have probably heard about the Halloween effect or the autumn rally. The former term refers to the…
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The Santa Claus Rally – Myth or Reality?
A recurring phenomenon is said to take place in the stock market every year: the Santa Claus rally,…
Despite 24/7 Trading: Bitcoin Investors Are Taking off for the Weekend on Friday Already
In the last issue of Seasonal Insights I have discussed how the S&P 500 Index performs on individual…
Deutsche Bank Settlement: Seasonal Intraday Charts Provide Evidence for Market Manipulation
Deutsche Bank Caves In Deutsche Bank trader: “u just said u sold on fix.” Answer UBS trader: “yeah,…
Bloomberg Introducing Seasonax App
Save the date: November 16th, 2017, 11:00-12:00 Place to be: Bloomberg/Newsroom, Neue Mainzer Strasse 75, Frankfurt, 40212, Germany…
Dimitri Speck Winner of the 2017 Prize of the German Precious Metals Association
Dimitri Speck, financial analyst, book author and founder of Seasonax, has received the Winged Sculpture of the German…
Market Seasonal Opportunities and How to Use Them
Bloomberg invites to a deep dive of the Seasonax App Save the date: Wednesday, November 29th, 2017, 11:00-12:00…
We are proud to introduce you to our new Managing Partner Tea Muratovic
Mrs Muratovic brings experience working in international markets within different banks and has a strong capital markets background.…
October: the Most Dangerous Month
Although the month of October without outliers like the crashes of 1987 and 2008 delivers an acceptable performance…
Contrary to all Expectations: As of Now, Crude Oil Enters a Seasonal Decline
The heating season in the Northern hemisphere means that energy consumption will rise. This is however offset by…
Trump or Seasonality: Which One is Going to Prevail in the Dollar’s Late Year Surge?
Numerous strong markets moves were triggered in the wake of the US election outcome, including a rally in…
Jewelry or Industrial Metal? Take Advantage of the Different Seasonal Trends of Precious Metals!
Prices in financial and commodity markets are exhibiting seasonal trends. This applies to the precious metals gold, silver,…
Seasonax App on Thomson Reuters Eikon
The new release of Seasonax App is now available on Thomson Reuters Eikon via the app studio. The…
What is the Best Time to Buy Stocks?
Something similar to the following has probably happened to you at some point: you want to buy a…
Receive a 1% Gift When Buying or Selling a Home!
In your professional capacity and perhaps also in your private life, you are closely involved with financial and…
How To Beat Hedge Fund Managers with Just a Few Trades
In order to beat the market, you are probably – like many investors – spending a lot of…
Boosting Stock Market Returns with a Simple Trick
Systematic Trading Based on Statistics Trading methods based on statistics represent an unusual approach for many investors. Evaluation…
Seasonal Trends in Individual Stocks – More Than Just Random Patterns
Seasonality in Individual Stocks – Is it Based on Sound Evidence? People often wonder whether it is actually…
Increase Your Returns by Compounding
In the past two issues of Seasonal Insights I have shown that many individual stocks display unique seasonal…
Pay Attention to the Distribution of Gains – Only One of These Two Stocks Offers a Promising Opportunity to Generate Seasonal Profits
Seasonal charts enable one to discern seasonal trends at a glance, and see during which time periods precisely…
“Sell in May”: Advisable, or Is There a Better Way?
If you “sell in May and go away”, you are definitely on the right side of the trend…
How to Discover Unknown Market Anomalies
Seasonax Event Studies As our readers are aware by now, investment decisions can be optimized with the help…
The Golden Age Has Just Begun
In recent issues of Seasonal Insights I have discussed two asset classes that tend to suffer performance problems…
The Dangerous Season Begins Now
You are surely aware of the saying “sell in May and go away”. It is one of the…
Will Patterns that Worked in the Past Also Work in the Future?
Every investor makes trading decisions based on what happened in the past – there is no other way.…
Is Historically Low Volatility About to Expand?
You have probably noticed it already: stock market volatility has recently all but disappeared. This raises an important…
S&P 500 Index: A Single Day Beats the Entire Week!
Many market participants believe simple phenomena in the stock market are purely random events and cannot recur consistently.…
The Biggest Stock Market Crashes Tend to Happen in October!
The prospect of steep market declines worries investors – and the month of October has a particularly bad…
How Big Is the Threat of a Crash in the 7th Year of the Decade?
Years ending in 7, such as the current year 2017, have a bad reputation among many stock market…
Seasonal Analysis of the Bloomberg Commodity Index
We are proud of the fact that Seasonax made the cut into Bloomberg Global Macro Overview Q4 2017!…
Is a Rapid Advance in the Japanese Stock Market Imminent?
The Japanese stock market is quite unique: it would need to rally by approximately 80% to reach its…
The Strange Behavior of Gold Investors from Monday to Thursday
You are undoubtedly aware of one or another stock market anomaly, such as e.g. the frequent weakness in…
The Precious Metals Bears’ Fear of Fridays
In the last issue of Seasonal Insights I have shown that the gold price behaves quite peculiarly in…
How to Double Gains in Palladium with a Simple Trick
In past issues of Seasonal Insights I have discussed the very odd behavior of a variety of instruments…
2018: The Weakest Year in the Presidential Election Cycle Has Begun
Article in German You are probably aware of the influence US elections have on the stock market. After…
Sell in May and Go Away – in 9 out of 11 Countries it Makes Sense to Do So
Article in German An Old Seasonal Truism Most people are probably aware of the saying “sell in May…
The FOMC Meeting Strategy: Why It Is Particularly Promising Right Now
Article in German As you know, investment decisions can be optimized with the help of statistics. One possibility…
Interview: “It Is Important to Stay Open Minded”
As a technical analyst at Raiffeisen Bank International Stefan Memmer covers a broad range of assets, especially stock…
Interview: “A Game Changing Algorithm as a By-product”
Dimitri Speck, the author of this Blog, is a professional in the field of pattern recognition and the…
Seasonax Now Available on Bloomberg’s App Portal
Seasonax now available on Bloomberg’s App Portal New analytics and charting software gains access to financial market community…
The Earning Season Will Soon Deliver Some Pleasant Surprises!
As a shareholder you probably wonder what the dividends on your shares will be from quarter to quarter.…
May Is Over: So How Risky Is Still Having Stocks Now?
I’m sure you all know the adage: ‘Sell in May and go away!’ It’s probably the most famous…
Jewellery Season: Golden Days Ahead for this Precious Metal
The price of gold typically increases in the second half of the year. This pattern is so striking…
New Version Out Now!
We proudly present the new version of our Seasonax App which just launched on Bloomberg Professional and will…
How FOMC Announcements Really Drive Prices
The US central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) holds regular meetings, a total of eight times a…
Two Phenomena How the American Elections Influence Share Prices
At the beginning of November this year, the US presidential elections will take place, just as they do…
Could the Market Be Heading For a Crash? How Extreme Years Influence Seasonality.
The months of September and October are widely known to represent a seasonally particularly weak time of the…