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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPhoto 51 showed how DNA forms a double helix. (Source: King\u2019s College London)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watson didn\u2019t discover DNA \u2013 that happened back in 1869. But 80 years went by before Franklin\u2019s X-ray image revealed the hidden pattern that had been there all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Something similar is true of the stock market. On the surface it can seem random, but there are also hidden patterns of how stocks move. You just have to have the right technology to spot them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And like the DNA double helix, you can\u2019t do it with the naked eye. You need an X-ray view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s what TradeSmith\u2019s Seasonality software is designed to do. We ran thousands of stocks through the same test, going back 33 years of market history. And we found reliable windows when they tended to rise and fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These patterns have held up through bull and bear markets, manias and panics, wars, and pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Based on these signals, we created a rapid-fire trading strategy to pinpoint bullish seasonality windows on 5,000 stocks \u2013 to the day. In our backtests, the system got the direction right 83% of the time \u2013 meaning the stock finished the window higher, not lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The returns beat the broad market, too. In an 18-year backtest, a model portfolio of these seasonal trades returned 857%<\/strong>, versus 412% for the S&P 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That doesn\u2019t mean the system will deliver those exact returns when you run it live. But it\u2019s an edge worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Thursday, more than 16,000 viewers joined me for my Breakthrough 2026<\/a><\/em><\/strong> event to see how this X-ray view works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I walked them through how one of the most important bullish windows in the entire market closes next week \u2013 and how it closes right as the market\u2019s biggest names report earnings. It’s the kind of moment where your timing matters more than stock picking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch it here while it\u2019s still online<\/a>.<\/strong> Then read on for more on how this system works \u2013 and three seasonal setups for your radar right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finding seasonal cycles in stocks on your own would be an enormous undertaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019d have to pull up a one-year chart like this one for Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then line up one-year charts like this, one after the other, going back a decade or more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026and keep track of how that stock behaved across thousands of trading windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or you could just type GOOGL into TradeSmith\u2019s Seasonality software. It averages as many years as you want and gives you one simple seasonality trend line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best of all, it highlights \u201cgreen days\u201d when the stock has gone up 80% of the time or more. Plus \u201cred days,\u201d when it\u2019s fallen more than 80% of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can do this for pretty much any stock you want and map out high-probability trade setups in advance. Not just the buy date, either \u2013 but the sell date, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past 15 years, GOOGL has had stretches of green days in January, May, July, and late October. But the best window is the one we\u2019re in now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between June 29 and July 30, Google stock has gone up in 14 of the past 15 years with an average return of 8.7%. In 2025, the price action lined up almost perfectly, with GOOGL gaining 8.9% during that seasonally bullish window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take Deckers Outdoor (DECK), the maker of Ugg boots and Hoka running shoes. DECK\u2019s next green zone is July 29 through Aug. 14. In that window, the average return was 3.5% over the past 15 years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then DECK has an especially strong bullish window starting Nov. 23. Buying that day returned an average 7% through Dec. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those are the optimal patterns to follow our seasonality strategy, trading individual stocks at their absolute best times of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or take Applied Materials (AMAT), which builds machines that are used to make advanced computer chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It gained 10% during its first stretch of green days on our seasonality chart in January and February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in a seasonally bullish window in May, AMAT climbed 16.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But don\u2019t be surprised if that party ends by August. From July 30 to Aug. 31, AMAT has fallen 80% of the time, with an average loss of 2.9%:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve noticed all the other times of year that don\u2019t get these green or red windows. They\u2019re times when there isn\u2019t a statistically strong enough pattern to rely on. When the data doesn’t clear our bar, we leave it alone. No signal, no trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using TradeSmith’s Seasonality tool, we’ve put this approach to the test across thousands of stocks, indexes, and even commodities and currencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, as I mentioned up top, over an 18-year backtest following these seasonal trades delivered 857% in total returns \u2013 more than twice what the S&P 500 delivered over the same stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The worst year in our test was 2007 \u2013 and even then, our strategy still turned a profit. It beat the S&P 500 by more than two to one that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBuy on These \u201cGreen Days\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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