Trader’s Narrative

We’ve had some interesting developments in sentiment this week:
Sentiment Surveys
The American Association of Individual Investors survey results for this Thursday February 4th show only 29.2% in the bullish
camp and an growing bearish camp (43.1%). Fear increased by approximately the same degree as optimists fell and pessimists increased by about 6% points from just a […]

Jake Bernstein’s Daily Sentiment Index (DSI) is a proprietary sentiment indicator which we’ve looked at before a few times for different markets. It is not a commonly used index since what goes into its composition is not known and unlike the AAII’s weekly sentiment survey, the results are not free. There are two sources that […]

Here’s this week’s round up of various sentiment data for the stock market:
Sentiment Surveys
The weekly AAII survey of retail investor sentiment shows little change. The bulls decreased slightly to 35% and the bears inched higher by a smidgen to 36.7%. Basically that puts us squarely in neutral territory which is a bit surprising since I […]

In case you missed it, there was a cornucopia of charts covering sentiment yesterday when I summarized the fantastic webinar given by Jason Goepfert of SentimenTrader (and hosted by Fari Hamzei of Hamzei Analytics). So rather than repost the charts here, I’ll just refer you to that yesterday’s summary. As well as a multitude of […]

Fari Hamzei (of Hamzei Analytics) hosted a webinar by Jason Goepfert (of SentimenTrader) yesterday. I almost missed the chat myself so for those that did, here is a annotated summary. It includes most of the charts that Jason shared with us and I’ve included - to the best of my ability - some of the […]