BySeasonaxThe Japanese stock market is quite unique: it would need to rally by approximately 80% to reach its former historical peak. What’s more, said peak was attained on the final trading day of 1989, more than 25 years ago. In…
BySeasonaxWe are proud of the fact that Seasonax made the cut into Bloomberg Global Macro Overview Q4 2017! Enjoy reading: ”The Quaterly Q4/2017“ Written by Oliver Woolf, CAIA, CMT, FRM, technical analysis specialist at Bloomberg LP. The chart below exhibits…
BySeasonaxYears ending in 7, such as the current year 2017, have a bad reputation among many stock market participants. Large price declines tend to occur quite frequently in these years. Just think of 1987, the year in which the largest…
BySeasonaxThe prospect of steep market declines worries investors – and the month of October has a particularly bad reputation in this respect. Although the month of October delivers an acceptable performance in seasonal terms if one disregards outliers like the…
BySeasonaxMany market participants believe simple phenomena in the stock market are purely random events and cannot recur consistently. Indeed, there is probably no stock market rule that will remain valid forever. However, there continue to be stock market phenomena –…
BySeasonaxYou have probably noticed it already: stock market volatility has recently all but disappeared. This raises an important question for every investor: Has the market established a permanent plateau of low volatility, or is the current period of low volatility…
BySeasonaxEvery investor makes trading decisions based on what happened in the past – there is no other way. What interests us is the future though. After all, what happens in the future ultimately determines investment success. But will patterns that…
BySeasonaxYou are surely aware of the saying “sell in May and go away”. It is one of the best-known and oldest stock market truisms. And the saying is justified. In my article “Sell in May and Go Away – in…
BySeasonaxDimitri Speck, financial analyst, book author and founder of Seasonax, has received the Winged Sculpture of the German Precious Metals Association (DEG), a prize awarded annually since 2013 to deserving persons or projects that have stood out in terms of…
BySeasonaxArticle in German An Old Seasonal Truism Most people are probably aware of the saying “sell in May and go away”. This popular seasonal Wall Street truism implies that the market’s performance is far worse in the six summer months…
