Seasonal Adjustments: Big Swing Factor?

While Knight's algos will be focusing on the headline number and furiously calculating if [X AS PRINTED] is < or > than [X AS EXPECTED] and simplistically moving the market up or down accordingly, without regard for quality or composition (they don't call it the Part-Time Non Farm Payrolls for nothing), another key swing factor in July will be the seasonal adjustment. As a reminder, as the chart below shows, in July we experience a major swing event. While in June, seasonal factors typically subtract about 1 million from the headline non-seasonally adjusted headline number, in June we invert, and instead of subtracting, seasonal factors for the first time since April "add" jobs. 295,000 (past decade average) to be exact. How will this impact the actual number? We will find out shortly. One thing to note: of the 100,000 consensus headline adjusted print, the seasonal adjustment factor itself will be roughly three times the actual print that will move the market. In a year of record temperature abnormalities and the "average seasonal adjustment" being anything but, we leave it up to readers to do with this data as they see fit.

Comments

[MillionDollarBoner_]

I see fit to call it BS

[malikai]

The purpose of seasonal adjustments is to smoothe the data accordingly, right?

Can someone remind me why nobody else can do that? Is it necessary that the government tell us anything other than FACT?

[HelluvaEngineer]

Must.Buy.The.Fucking.Dip.

[localpacific]

Market Overview by FXCC

[q99x2]

Next month I hope somebody gets the information from the secretary so we don't have to guess.

[Mr_Wonderful]

Aug 02 65 Signs That The Economic Collapse Is Already Happening  TECB   
Aug 02 China prepares vast stimulus as slump threatens Asia  Telegraph   
Aug 01 Nature wins  GreaterFool   
Aug 01 The inevitable death of the euro  GoldMoney  

[Byte Me]

TD -- I prefer my random number generator.

(Thanx anyway)