Further Comments on Seasonality: October Seasonal, Heating Oil/Gasoline, Election Year

By Lawrence G. McMillan

The fall of the year is a time when we trade two of our better seasonal patterns – The (month-end) October Seasonal buy and the Heating Oil Gasoline spread.  In fact, it is nearly time to implement a strategy for the October Seasonal Buy – if we are going to (last year, we passed on taking a position, and that was the correct call; will this year be different?). In this article, we’ll take a more in-depth look at both of these.  In addition, since this is a Presidential election year, we wanted to see if there was any pattern to the indicators and systems we watch, with respect to an election year.  So we analyzed a number of those systems, and the results are included in this article as well...

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