Seasonax

The new release of Seasonax App is now available on Thomson Reuters Eikon via the app studio. The following video created by Thomson Reuters shows you all the features.

Prices in financial and commodity markets are exhibiting seasonal trends. This applies to the precious metals gold, silver, platinum and palladium as well. The chart below depicts the seasonal trends of the gold price over a time period of 45…

Numerous strong markets moves were triggered in the wake of the US election outcome, including a rally in the US dollar. What is going to happen after this initial advance though? Will the “Trump rally” in the US dollar continue,…

The heating season in the Northern hemisphere means that energy consumption will rise. This is however offset by other factors, such as the use of alternative energy sources and prices that have often been agreed to in advance. What is…

Although the month of October without outliers like the crashes of 1987 and 2008 delivers an acceptable performance in seasonal terms, these particularly strong declines in such short time periods are nevertheless scary: what use is it to anyone if…

In recent issues of Seasonal Insights I have discussed two asset classes that tend to suffer performance problems in most years until the autumn, namely stocks and bitcoin. I thought you might for a change want to hear of an…

Article in German You are probably aware of the influence US elections have on the stock market. After Donald Trump was elected president, a particularly strong rally in stock prices ensued. Contrary to what many market participants seem to believe,…

In past issues of Seasonal Insights I have discussed the very odd behavior of a variety of instruments in the course of a week: in issue 17 the topic was the S&P 500 Index, and in issue 18 the no…

In the last issue of Seasonal Insights I have shown that the gold price behaves quite peculiarly in the course of the trading week. On average, prices rise almost exclusively on Friday. It is as though investors in this market…

You are undoubtedly aware of one or another stock market anomaly, such as e.g. the frequent weakness in stock markets in the summer months, which the well-known saying “sell in May and go away” refers to. Apart from such widely…