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By: Tom Gentile
on September 1st, 2023
If you are unaware the month of September is one of, if not, the worst performing month for the financial markets, let me inform you now, it is. Even if you are aware how are you preparing or have you prepared for it?
That is also something I will go over with you today and into next week.
Just because the month is seasonally one of the worst performing moths for the stock market we can still find bullish opportunities. I will go over a bullish mindset today and over the coming week discuss with my buddy CJ Johnson, in our Power Profit Podcast, bearish viewpoints.
September Money Calendar
I will start by showing you what the month of September looks like from the perspective of my Seasonal Pattern scanning tool, Money Calendar.
By the way. What is written here today is expanded a bit further in my recent video found on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TomGentileTrader
Important Date to Pay Attention To
Now that summer is basically over as well the most recent earnings season, the key date to pay attention to is September 20, 2023.
This is the date we get the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision on interest rates.
Will they cut, raise, or pause interest rates? Whatever they decide will have cause a reaction of investors and traders that we will have to assess where we feel the markets will head directionally.
More Elaboration on the Data
You can see by the data on the monthly view of Money Calendar data there are a majority of dates where the majority of candidates each day have bearish patterns on those start dates.
The Money Calendar library of stocks and ETF we have are upwards of 350. And of those each day the data produces which of those stocks and ETF’s have bullish or bearish patterns and provides that total,
And to be a candidate they have to have a 10-year success rate of 90 or 100%. This means 9 or 10 of the past 10 years they had to have traded higher or lower over that trading day number of days – which we plot out as days of the calendar.
One can use the Money Calendar Tool to just assess the stock or ETF average price move and extrapolate that out and trade based on seeing if the security will move that average amount this year and that sets your profit expectations for the security.
The Stocks with Bullish Patterns with Start Date After labor Day.
Option Traders Bullish Opportunity on Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR)
Money Calendar calculates past history of a security (many of them, actually). It then provides me the data as seen below.
One can either entertain trading just the security or one can use the data above to then analyze an option strategy based on the historical pattern or tendency of a security.
In my video I discuss why I am looking at an option chain from my tools, www.tomsoptiontools.com and why I further home in on options for a September 15 expiration, why I am looking at the $200 strike price and what one might expect with that scenario.
We will discuss next week bearish opportunities, but this video is great education and a starting point on how options traders can prep for what may come our way in the markets from a seasonal standpoint in the markets this September.
App: Toms Option Tools
Market Insight articles may show images of lists of stocks meeting a variety of options parameters like Unusual Call and or Put activity or Expensive IV found on my app Toms Option Tools.
Other times I will have other charts may work to amplify my educational points.
Those options data lists, however, can be found on my app Tom’s Option Tools. Use your device to search up and download this app and get free access to the Morning Reports section of the app.
Other parts of the app are available at a premium subscription rate, but the Morning Reports Lists are yours free.
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