Amy Wu Silverman, Managing Director and Head of Derivatives Strategy at RBC Capital Markets, discusses the current market ...

As temperatures plummeted over the festive season, so did the level of activity in the residential real estate market, which experienced its strongest seasonal slowdown in nearly two years.

Those are all examples of “seasonality” in the stock market: recurring periods of growth or weakness that happen with such astonishing frequency that they’ve become expected, annual events.

At TradeSmith, we’re obsessed with data and analysis about the market and that has led us to uncover one the most critical patterns yet – the seasonality that drives the movements of stocks ...