SeasonAlgo platform

Specifically designed for seasonal spread trading. Analyze seasonality and spreads, select and backtest strategies, build and manage your portfolio. Everything with speed, simplicity and usability in mind.

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SeasonAlgo platform

Why to trade seasonality?

Seasonality is one of the significant forces influencing commodity and futures markets and stands behind periodical price movements at specific times of the year. Seasonality can give us a solid edge and base for building profitable trading strategies.

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Why to trade seasonality?

Futures spreads trading

Spread is created by simultaneous opening long and short position. You are hedged and your exposure to whole market is limited which minimizes your systematic risk. Seasonality and spreads create perfect symbiosis because seasonal patterns are much stronger and reliable than in outright futures.

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Futures spreads trading

Winning seasonal strategies

With the help of statistical and data mining methods our sophisticated algorithms analyze billions of combinations of spreads and seasonal windows. High probability winning strategies are identified and stored in the database. You can have access to the complete database through our smart search engine interface.

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Free seasonal strategy tips

Cross-Browser Cloud App

Hosted in cloud, you can access SeasonAlgo from any computer, anywhere, anytime. No installations required, only web browser. Analyses run in real time, no static precomputed results. Create and analyze any spread you want.

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Cross-Browser Cloud App

SeasonAlgo is the first and only platform designed for seasonal spread trading. Started as a personal project for spread analysis, then released publicly for fellow traders and improved with ideas from the trading community, SeasonAlgo is now a professional service available to all spread traders.

Why trade to seasonality?

Seasonality is one of the significant forces influencing commodity and futures markets and stands behind periodical price movements at specific times of the year. Seasonal behavior can be explained by many fundamental reasons, like weather cycles, trends and patterns in consumption, important annual events and many others which cause changes in supply and demand. Although we don’t have to know all seasonal fundamentals, with enough of history data, knowledge of statistics and data mining, seasonal patterns can be discovered with the help of computers. Seasonality can give us a solid edge and base for building profitable trading strategies.

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Futures spreads trading

Spread trade is the simultaneous purchase of one security and sale of a related security as one unit. Opening spread trade, we are in long and short position. This brings us a lot of advantages compared to trading outright position:

  • Spread creates a hedge
  • Low margin requirements
  • Trading opportunities
  • Anonymity and no stop running
  • Technical analysis responsiveness
  • Low time requirements
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Analyze

Technical analysis of seasonal spreads is not complicated but requires specific tools, which are not available in common retail trading platforms. We designed our platform with all seasonal spread trading nuances in mind.

  • Real time analysis of any spread or outright futures you want
  • Intraday delayed data
  • Cross Browser Platform running in Cloud
  • Interactive charting
  • Seasonal patterns with history up to 30 years
  • Extensive data history and different types of history charts
  • Spread combinations chart
  • Spread Backtester
  • Seasonal correlations
  • Optimize seasonal window
  • Spreads combinations browser
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Strategies

Reliable seasonal trends are essential for successful futures spread trading. Because this is the edge which makes our profits. We give you thousands of strategies and smart search engine to select the strategies which suit your trading style.

  • Thousands of seasonal high probability winning strategies for each month
  • Standard and extended seasonal window
  • Five possible backtest lengths
  • Intercommodity, Intracommodity, Intra-crop spreads
  • Smart search engine
  • Search trades with historical extreme values
  • Favourites strategies
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Portfolio

It’s always good to have evidence of your trades. But in seasonal trading it’s very important. Seasonality is cyclic which means that next year you can trade the same opportunity. After few years you can have your own portfolio and pick trades only from it. Our portfolio management is integrated in platform and includes following:

  • Easy workflow and folder system with watchlist, tradebook and archive
  • Charts overview with profit
  • Tags and priority filters
  • Summary table
  • Performance statistics and equity
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Advanced backtester

Available retail trading platforms don’t allow seasonal and spread backtesting at all, because of its specific requirements. So we feel there is a lot of room for improvement and we started to work on full feature advanced backtester for seasonal spread trading. Nowadays it’s a still concept but we are working on a new version.

  • Backtest one spread inserted from Analyze
  • Walk-forward optimization
  • Trade management with application of stop loss and profit target
  • Different result comparison including equity chart
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Futures spread - for this month

  • 1376 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 5years
  • 1572 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 10years
  • 970 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 15years
  • 808 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 20years
  • 265 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 30years

Outright futures - for this month

  • 128 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 5years
  • 349 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 10years
  • 213 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 15years
  • 197 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 20years
  • 89 trade oportunities with win over 80% for last 30years