
Market Seasonality: How to Test Calendar Effects Without Data Mining
Learn how to define, validate and cost-test weekday, monthly and seasonal market patterns without selecting a false result from many calendar rules.
Stocks, gold, oil and Bitcoin perspectives. Read each article’s date: historical analysis is not a current trading signal.

Learn how to define, validate and cost-test weekday, monthly and seasonal market patterns without selecting a false result from many calendar rules.

Understand option exercise and assignment, American versus European timing, dividend-driven early assignment, expiry instructions and settlement exposure.

KOSPI deepened its loss to 4.1% and tested within five points of 5,488 as foreign selling hit chipmakers and Nasdaq-100 futures reversed lower.

Learn how exchange auctions concentrate orders into one official opening or closing price, what indicative imbalances mean and how auction order types differ.

Turn a chart idea into a testable trading plan by defining the setup, exact trigger, thesis invalidation, position size, exits and no-trade conditions before entry.

Learn how Sharpe and Sortino ratios measure different forms of risk, calculate a worked example and avoid misleading comparisons across targets, samples and formulas.