Seasonality studies are commonly used as a research tool to analyze price patterns surrounding certain time periods. For example, what happens to the price of the nearest to deliver Natural Gas futures contract during the high-use winter season or what happens to stock prices during the month of January or at year end? Multiple charts are commonly compared to determine whether or not certain pricing patterns surround important calendar periods.

MIMIC simplifies the process of multiple chart analysis by providing users with the ability to perform seasonal analysis, or to isolate the price history of a series over several years in a year-on-year stacked chart.