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Dimitri Speck: Profit From Seasonalities and Cycles
Increase Your Profits Systematically With Recurring Seasonalities and Cycles
Presenter: Dimitri Speck, Fund Manager, Financial Analyst and Trading System Developer
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Dimitri Speck: Profit From Seasonalities and Cycles
Disclaimer
This is only for your personal use. Investing involves a great deal of risk,
including the loss of all or a portion of your investment, as well as emotional
distress. Nothing contained herein should be construed as a warranty of
investment results or invitation to buy and sell any type of securities. All risks,
losses and costs associated with investing, including total loss of principal, are
your responsibility.
It is possible that the panelist may have a position in stocks or funds discussed
during this presentation or in subsequent correspondence with members of the
audience.
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Dimitri Speck: Profit From Seasonalities and Cycles
Wide Range of Seasonality and Cycles
Seasonal patterns occur in many markets:
• Indices
• Stocks
• Currencies
• Commodities
• Bonds
Many instruments have seasonal patterns
There are many periods and recurring events:
• Annual
• Intra-Month
• Intra-Week
• Intraday
• Recurring Events
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Does Seasonality Work?
• "Sell in May" rule has been around at least since the 1930s
• It was also effective afterwards:
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Investment Flows Lead to Summer Weakness
Source: Alan Newman
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Halloween in UK
In UK the winter beats the whole year!
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Sell in May and Go Away
The "Halloween effect" works in 11 of 11 countries; in 9 distinctly.
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Academic Long-Term Study*
Up to 217 years, 4 asset classes, 68 markets:
*Guido Baltussen, Laurens Swinkels, Pim Van Vliet
Seasonality beats all other strategies!
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Simple and Precise Analysis Through Charts
The averaging of the movements of past years shows a seasonal trend.
You can see the seasonal trend at a glance.
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Caution: Construction Problems
The calculation is difficult for various reasons (e.g. because not every day is a trading day).
Most of the charts of other providers do not show details or are even not correct.
No day-specific information No real price information
Source: Moore Research Center Source: Bloomberg Intelligence
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Seasonal Chart: Top Information at a Glance
Chart shows the seasonal trend of the Dow Jones over 25 years.
horizontal axis: months, vertical axis: price information (%)
• Weak in first months • Strong in April • Weak during summer • Autumn Rally
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Seasonal Pattern: Autumn Rally Dow Jones
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The US Dollar Index in The Course of The Year
• Weak at the end of the year
• Exactly at the turn of the year the seasonal trend turns
At the turn of the year, money flows out of the dollar area, only to return immediately. Reason: Tax deadline
US Dollar Index seasonal, 25 years
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Microsoft often surprises positively in the 4th quarter ("Earning Surprises")
Microsoft in The Course of The Year
Microsoft seasonal, 20 years
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Microsoft: Pattern Details
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Soybean Futures in The Course of The Year
Low at the beginning of October
Soybeans futures, seasonal, 20 years
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Real Estate Prices Over the Year
US Home Prices: Seasonal Divergence From the de-trended mean
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Other Periods: Intra-Month
Chart depicts the intra-month average of the S&P 500.
Reason: payment flows (salaries, rents...).
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The Power of The Turn-of-Month
Chart depicts the turn of the month effect of the S&P 500: In blue you see the return of an investment around the turn of a month (from 26th of each month until the 5th of next month), in red of the rest of the time since 1928.
7.6% p.a. in only 35% of the time (rest: -1.68%!)
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The Turn-of-Month Effect Internationally
The "turn of the month" effect works even better in other countries than in the US
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Other Periods: S&P 500 Intraweek • Tuesday strong Rises even during crashes!
• Friday weak
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Gold Intraweek • Friday strong → Buy gold until Thursday!
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Other Periods: S&P 500 Intraday
Chart depicts intraday average of the S&P 500 over 135 days
Don’ t sell in the first half hour!
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Other Periods: 4-Year Cycle S&P 500 Election Years
Chart depicts seasonal trend of the S&P 500 only of the election years since 1952
September to October weak
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Event Studies: Be Ahead of the Curve
Important events have a major impact on the markets:
• Elections
• Last Trading Days
• Holidays
• Reports (e.g. labor market report)
• Miscellaneous
But how do they affect your market? (Note: Not what most investors expect)
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Event Study: S&P around FOMC Meetings
Chart shows +- 5 days before/after the FOMC announcement.
The 2 days before the announcement matter!
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Event Study: S&P around US Elections
Chart shows +- 10 days before/after US presidential elections
Hope before the election leads to an increase in stock prices!
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Practice: Average Not Every Year Follows a Seasonal Pattern
The Christmas rally is a fairly stable pattern
Over the last 70 years, the S&P 500 rose 53 times between December 14 and January 4. But: 17 times not!
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Exceptional years are usually not representative!
Practice: Distribution
Infineon Align Technology
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Seasonal patterns are based on actual reasons and can change due to changes in the reason itself (e.g. more harvesting in southern hemisphere).
The bull market since the 1980s destroyed many weaker seasonal patterns but not e.g. the year-end rally.
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Practice: Stability of Seasonal Trends
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Practice: Coincidence or Causal?
Seasonality delivers best results if there is a reason for a seasonal pattern that ensures its stability. There are many possible reasons for seasonal trends: ● weather (heating, harvesting etc.) ● window dressing (before reports etc.) ● taxes (before book keeping) ● emotions (during Christmas etc.) ● money flows (rate payout etc.) ● for individual stocks: earning surprises, trade fairs, holiday season…
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5 Ways of Seasonal Trading:
• Directly: Seasonal patterns can be traded directly.
• Timing: Seasonal patterns can be used for timing e.g. stocks in November instead of the beginning of January or intraday at the best moment.
• Filter: Seasonal patterns can be used for filtering and exposure; e.g. reduce stock exposure while seasonality is negative.
• Seasonality as additional input.
• Selection: E.g. Stock rolling (Microsoft in October…)
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Seasonality
Dollar
Profits
Trend
Inflation
Oil
DAX Trading System
Seasonality as additional input
• Use seasonality as one of your decision input factors.
• It is easy to implement
Source: Gebert
Interest rates
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Selection: Novo Nordisk in The Course of The Year What’s about Novo Nordisk in February?...
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Selection: Adidas in The Course of The Year
... and Adidas in March/April?
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Stock Rolling
This scheme shows you the idea of rolling from one stock to another:
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Screening
Screen thousands of instruments on the best upcoming seasonal investment opportunities
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To Make You Smile: Separation Rates
Source: www.beraterteam.info
Be careful with jokes on April 1st !
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