Click here for BetterSystemTrader.com Interview with Jay Kaeppel
From: BetterSystemTrader.com:
Hi there, this time of year we often start hearing about the Santa Claus rally and a host of other seasonality tendencies so this week we’re talking to Jay Kaeppel, author of Seasonal Stock Market Trends, about seasonality and how it applies to trading models. Even if you’re not interested in trading seasonality directly it could be handy to be aware of these tendencies in the market so be sure to take a listen!
Click here for BetterSystemTrader.com Interview with Jay Kaeppel
Jay Kaeppel has worked as the Head Trader for a CTA and published a number of popular trading books on Futures, Options and Stock Market Seasonality.
He also spent a number of years writing a weekly column titled “Kaeppel’s Corner” and publishes ideas and research on his blog “Jay On The Markets”.
In this episode we discuss a number of seasonal tendencies, how they can be integrated into a trading model, the applications of the Known Trend Index and the reasons why most traders fail.
Topics discussed
- The Santa Claus rally – what it is and how to trade it
- How to use seasonality to complement other models
- Seasonality tendencies around holidays
- Monthly seasonal tendencies and a simple monthly seasonal system that vastly outperforms stock index returns
- Boiling down the trading process into 4 simple words
- Using leveraged ETFs for seasonality trades
- The worst performing month of the year (it’s not October)
- Converting seasonal tendencies into a trading model
- A simple seasonal sector system that takes only 6 trades per year
- Diversification vs Specialisation and the impact it can have on trading and drawdowns
- Are seasonal trading strategies just data mining?
- The Known Trends Index (KTI) and how it can be used in trading
- Why most traders fail
Click here for BetterSystemTrader.com Interview with Jay Kaeppel
Please bookmark http://bettersystemtrader.com/
