What is earnings season and why is it important for traders?

Every earnings season is a new opportunity to grow as an investor

An Earning Season is an important financial event and a new opportunity to grow as an investor. During the earnings weeks, investors follow the markets more closely to spot new trading opportunities. The year’s four earnings seasons can also be used as a benchmark to hone your goals and methodology as a trader as well as learn how to manage risk more efficiently.

What is earnings season and when does it take place?

There are certain financial events during the year that could cause price swings, and the earnings season is one of them. earnings season takes place four times a calendar year and two weeks after the last month of the quarter. During that time, the majority of publicly listed companies disclose their quarterly earnings.

Why is earnings season important for the markets?

Earning reports reveal a lot about the fundamentals of a company and could contain a lot of tradeable information that affects the stock market. Analysts, investors, and the media alike await the earnings reports with bated breath to see the progress of major companies.

Why is earnings season important for traders?

Every earnings season is a unique opportunity to gain valuable market insight. Understanding how earnings season works could help you improve your trading skills and widen your understanding of the stock market. It gives insight into a company’s management and it highlights the importance of trading with a plan instead of playing a guessing game.

As a trader, you can use earnings season as a benchmark to build a solid trading strategy or to make sure that your existing investment strategy is still valid. You can also use it as a reference to identify Bellwether stocks, meaning stocks whose performance can reflect the overall state of the market. Ultimately the earnings season can help you learn how to measure the pulse of the stock market and the pulse of the economy at large.

What to expect from Q1 earnings

It has been a turbulent start to the year with a banking crisis unfolding in the US and spreading to Europe, and Big Tech layoffs affecting more than 160,000 workers. From April 12, 2023, to May 19, many major names in the banking, tech, and cryptocurrency industries will report their quarterly financial results.

Will their results reverse the bearish sentiment, and, if they fail to meet analyst expectations, what sort of short-selling opportunities could be found in FAANG and Banking stocks?

Trading tips during earnings season

• Earnings season can be highly volatile, so, during that time it’s important to monitor the markets closely and be ready to react fast to breaking news.
• Use Axi’s Autochartist plugin to get daily market reports about earnings
• Find opportunities in both rising and falling markets by going long or short. If you expect that a certain stock will beat expectations, for example, you may place a long trade ahead of the release.

How to trade the earnings season with Axi

1. Go to Earnings Calendar
2. Monitor closely the price of a stock around an earnings announcement. This could be before, during, or right after the earnings day.
3. Assess the direction
   What do you think the announcement will be and how does it compare to market consensus?
4. Go long or short
   Find opportunities in both rising and falling markets with CFD trading.

Stocks to watch this earnings season

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Why trade the earnings season with Axi?

Axi offers 50+ popular global shares to trade with 1:5 leverage and 0% commission* on deposits and withdrawals. When you trade share CFDs, you don't own the product but you are still paid or charged stock dividends, capitalising on both rising and falling prices. With Axi you can trade the top stocks of the Earning Season including Goldman Sachs (GS), JP Morgan Chase (JPM), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Coinbase (COIN), Meta Platforms (MVRS), Uber (UBER), Microsoft (MSFT), Walt Disney (DIS) and more.

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This information is not to be construed as a recommendation; or an offer to buy or sell; or the solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any security, financial product, or instrument; or to participate in any trading strategy. It has been prepared without taking your objectives, financial situation, and needs into account. Any references to past performance and forecasts are not reliable indicators of future results. Axi makes no representation and assumes no liability with regard to the accuracy and completeness of the content in this publication. Readers should seek their own advice.