Can Illumina (ILMN Stock) rally into year-end? [Video]

Giles Coghlan LLB, Lth, MA Financial Source

Original content: Can Illumina (ILMN Stock) rally into year-end? [Video]

Using the seasonal screener to find a seasonal pattern

Which stocks are entering into a strong seasonal period in the upcoming days? The Seasonal screener function automatically generates a list of the most promising investment opportunities.

How does the screener work?

With two clicks generate signals for more than 25,000 individual stocks, currency pairs, indices, as well as commodities are being identified within seconds.

What do you have to do?

Choose your market. Let’s look at the S&P500.
Set your limits. You can look for seasonal opportunities that are starting from today, tomorrow, or even in one month. Let’s look at Dec 16. Set the history of the data that you want to examine. Let’s go for the past 20 years. Set the minimum and maximum time period that you want to hold the instrument ranging from minimum 15 and max 90 days we will go for 31-60 days.
Select the filter that will screen your results and remove all patterns with lower rates of winning trades.

Illumina seasonality

We see that over the last 20 years Illumina has gained 68.42% of the time and made over 15.94% in returns on average. Illumina, Inc. is an American company that develops, manufactures, and markets integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and biological function.

Major Trade Risks:

If interest rates are seen to be rising too fast, that could cause a broad sell-off in stocks in the near term.
Any bad news for Illumina could also weaken the stock.

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Author

Giles Coghlan LLB, Lth, MA

Financial Source

Giles is the chief market analyst for Financial Source. His goal is to help you find simple, high-conviction fundamental trade opportunities. He has regular media presentations being featured in National and International Press.

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