Stay ahead of the markets with our bi-weekly Seasonal Insights newsletter. Delivered in both English and German, it provides expert analysis and actionable insights into seasonal market patterns. Curated by a dedicated editorial team led by renowned seasonal analyst Dimitri Speck, each issue offers timely trends, practical guidance, and unique perspectives to support your investment decisions.
Dear Investor, Systematic Trading Based on Statistics Trading methods based on statistics represent an unusual approach for many investors. Evaluation of a security’s fundamental merits is not of concern, even though it can of course be done additionally. Rather, the…
Seasonality in Individual Stocks – Is it Based on Sound Evidence? Dear Investor, People often wonder whether it is actually possible to make profitable trades by taking advantage of seasonal trends in individual stocks. Most investors accept the idea that…
Dear Investor, In the past two issues of Seasonal Insights I have shown that many individual stocks display unique seasonal patterns. There is a variety of reasons for this phenomenon. Often internal procedures are responsible, which can e.g. lead to…
Dear Investor, Seasonal charts enable one to discern seasonal trends at a glance, and see during which time periods precisely an instrument’s prospects are strong and what returns were generated on these occasions in the past. I would nevertheless recommend…
Dear Investor, If you “sell in May and go away”, you are definitely on the right side of the trend from a statistical perspective: While gains were achieved in the summer months in three of the eleven largest stock markets…
Dear Investor, Seasonax Event Studies As our readers are aware by now, investment decisions can be optimized with the help of statistics. After all, market anomalies that have occurred regularly in the past often tend to occur in the future…
Dear Investor, 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…
Dear Investor, You 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…
Dear Investor, Every 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…
Dear Investor, You 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…
Dear Investor, Many 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…
