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The calendar moves money: 8 lessons on stock seasonality

Data, not sayings. Use 76 years of numbers to separate patterns that are still alive from those that are already dead, and learn how to put them into your own trading rules.

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Seasonality Investing · Lessons 1–8 (8 lessons)

Stock seasonality, 8 lessons

One number, one insight, one twist, one action. Use 76 years of numbers to separate living patterns from dead ones.

01Seasonality InvestingStock seasonality, 8 lessons

Seasonality Investing · Lesson 1 · 15 min

Why is September so hated?

Check what seasonality is and is not, using the S&P 500's 76-year monthly record.

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Seasonality Investing · Lesson 2 · 15 min

Sell in May was real. And then it cooled

See the 76-year record of Nov–Apr and May–Oct, and how the gap disappeared over the last 10 years.

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Seasonality Investing · Lesson 3 · 15 min

Santa comes, and January speaks

See how the Santa rally and the January barometer weakened and the small-cap January effect disappeared.

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Seasonality Investing · Lesson 4 · 15 min

Stocks were strong on the days money flowed in

See why the turn-of-month effect disappeared, and why the presidential election cycle still remains.

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Seasonality Investing · Lesson 5 · 15 min

Every industry has its own seasons

Energy and materials in Nov–Apr, with tech stocks the exception. A look at the calendars of sector ETFs and gold.

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Seasonality Investing · Lesson 6 · 15 min

Korea's market calendar was made by taxes

Explains KOSPI and KOSDAQ January and year-end patterns through the major-shareholder capital gains tax rules.

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Seasonality Investing · Lesson 7 · 15 min

Why do patterns die? So how do you use them?

Use the calendar as a filter, with five verification questions and the three-line 'condition, action, invalidation' rule.

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Seasonality Investing · Lesson 8 · 15 min

People who made money with the calendar

See the six masters' methods, the one thing they share, and the shelf life of those methods.

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For educational purposes only, not investment advice. Past statistics do not guarantee future returns.