Visitor: If I wanted to trade the markets actively, could you help me?

RouteMaster: As you know the product is intended to generate high performance with low maintenance, which means that all the investment tools are built for two transactions a year on average.

However you might be interested in the Seasonal Trader, which analyses over 30 years of past history to identify the best time of year to buy or sell. Notice here that, instead of signals or forecasts, the odds of the market moving in the indicated direction are shown. As an active trader, you could switch monthly to whichever asset class offers the best odds.

There is a risk that results are biased by an extraordinary event, such as the Wall Street Crash in October 1987. To expose such anomalies,  the chart shows performance through the year for different time periods. The series are shown in increasingly dark shades of grey, the longer the period. Those periods are respectively 8, 15 and 30 years.

Demoland's Domestic Shares display a well defined pattern. Buy in November, hold through to July and stay well clear until October is over.