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Hi SKC - do you have any stats on this?
I tried doing some numbers myself and wanted to see I was on the right track :1zhelp:
I couldn't see any notable difference in terms of performance between the first and second weeks of January. Looks like the first few weeks as a whole over the past 7 years aren't too promising (xjo stats).
Thanks
Perhaps big don't revert means they are trending... take a bank or insurer and you have some pretty good trends. So trend following pays in the right space. On the other hand, what we seeing is mean reversion over longer timeframes... as SkyQ mentioned in the mid cap space, but also in goldies vs oilers.
The index tends to be quite strong over this Xmas / NY period. Apparently the day to get short is after first week of Jan.
The period from dec option expiry and NewYears is one of the strongest periods of year statistically
i have charts on this but cant upload from PC anymore , you will just have to trust me )))
Ok lets see if this works
My main interest is trying to time a volatility play using options straddle
IV is very low, was 10.5 down to 10.1 a few days ago.
If the market turns negative then IV spikes, so the strat is too expensive to use
However if the market keeps going up better to wait as IV will probably drop
Making options even cheaper..
okay
So looking a the first chart
Day 1-6 up , peaks at day 6
Day 6-11 down, lose all gains to break even
Day 11-21 up with a small petering out at the last 3 days
From that I would conclude that January is positive overall
From the second chart
I would conclude that it is mostly sideways with a small positive bias
But really the positive trend starts at the end of January even end of February,
as Feb is mostly sideways as well/a bit positive
March, April may, strongly positive
and up trend finishes at end of may
Down from may to October
Except august is pretty positive
and then positive again from end of october.
Looking at the second chart should wait until may for up trend to end.
I haven't done the seasonality for IV
Should probably do that.
Of course seasonality is also competing with the other factors, but interesting nevertheless.
As the basis of strategy or additional factor to add to a strategy.
US indices while a guide to asx seasonality are not totally in synch , many factors influence under and over performance between us and asx markets . this year US is basically flat since OPEX whereas XJO big overperformer
Double bottom?
Where's the double bottom? What am I missing here?
I think Gringo was looking much more short term Smurph ...
And a Diamond.
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