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Calendar effect analysis software for any investments

Good statistics is the key to calendar effects

Many investments show calendar effects like as Santa Claus Rally, January effect, Halloween indicator, October effect. Some of them may be just a coincidences but a lot of them are statistically significant.

Having checked monthly trends of many cases we must say that these calendar effects are not equally strong in the case of each investment. Some of them are very strong (check out the chart below), others may be weaker or completely missing. One can also discover important seasonal tendencies other than the effects mentioned above, regarless on talking about stock market, commodities, forex pairs, indices or mutual funds / ETFs.

Since these effects vary with investments it is better to analyze their effect for each investment separately. This analysis can be made e.g.: per month in a chart like below:

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3+1 charts you should have used so far

There’s more to the market data than you think!

Market data can be analyzed in many ways to support investment decisions

4 of these methods were quite painful and complicated to carry out (until Chartoasis Sesame software came) though they could help a lot to make better investments.

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