October to April is generally a favorable time to own stocks but within this period lies another smaller period that provides even better odds for success for technology stocks. Our research – combined with others industry watchers including Stock Trader’s Almanac – have found seasonal tendencies within Technology sector that could be profitably traded towards the long side between March and…
The seasonal tendencies within the Utility sector quite demonstrably show the upward bias between late Feb and early May time period. We have applied our proprietary algorithm to generate favorable entry and exit signals for a variety of sector ETFs and the results are pretty good. Since 2000, our strategy has produced 40 trades with a winning…
Seasonally, Dow has had good Monday during the expiration week in October. The blog of Stock Trader’s Almanac, also noted that Dow’s advance on the Monday before expiration – October 15th – was second consecutive Monday gain after a string or losses – 16 of previous 17 Mondays. However, the Monday after the expiration week…
The Stock Trader’s Almanac observes that seasonally for the last few decades, Dow has been up on the Monday before the expiration Friday in October. During the last 32 years, Dow Jones Industrial Average had been up 26 times for a success rate of 81.25%. Such a success rate augurs well for developing a trading strategy based upon…
The Stock Trader’s Almanac notes that seasonally for the last few years, Dow has done well on the triple witching day in September. Dow Jones had been up 8 of the last 10 years on the third Friday of the last month of the third quarter. We can develop a trading strategy based upon this seasonal trend. This…
According to Stock Trader’s Almanac, British pound has a tendency to form a seasonal bottom in the month of March with respect to the US dollar. This phenomenon is due to the financial adjustments that multi-national companies make at the end of United Kingdom’s fiscal year, which ends in March. Companies delay making money transfer…
This is a seasonal trading strategy based upon an idea from the Stock Trader’s Almanac. It is based upon the stock market’s tendency to retreat after the New Year – especially if there has been a strong fourth quarter. Almanac attributes this trend to profit taking. This also follows another seasonal idea – bullish Santa Claus Rally – at the…
Commodity Trader’s Almanac observes that coffee prices have a seasonal pattern of peaking in May. This weakness provides a seasonal tradable short opportunity in coffee futures in May. Being an agricultural crop, coffee is affected by the global production. Latin America – mostly Columbia and Brazil – is a major producer of coffee. If the weather there stays good…
Stock Trader’s Almanac provides very valuable analyses and interpretations of historical data. It has also developed many trading strategies based upon seasonal patterns in the commodities and equity markets. One such idea is a seasonal long trade in 30-Yr Bond starting in late April and holding for nearly four months. Buying Treasury bonds is a…
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