Trader’s Narrative

Here is the sentiment summary for this shortened holiday week (Happy belated Canada day and 4th of July!):
Investors Intelligence
Stock newsletter editors were on average unchanged from last week: bulls 41.4% and bears 29.9%.
AAII
The weekly retail investor sentiment survey from AAII shows a sudden jump in optimism: the bulls came in at 38% - a […]

Here’s an interesting way to measure the general mood of the public towards the stock market: look at the frequency and trend of searching for related keywords. For example, “bull market” or “bear market”. Although not everyone knows that nomenclature. How about “stock market crash”? Everyone knows what that means.
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Here is this week’s sentiment summary:
Sentiment Surveys
Figures from ChartCraft’s Investors Intelligence show stock newsletter editors to be similarly bullish to last week: 43.6% bullish and 28.7% bearish. Not only is this little changed from last week, it leaves us mired in a neutral morass which is not really helpful in determining a trend.
In contrast, the […]

A quick summary of all things sentiment-wise for the stock market this past week:
Sentiment Surveys
The mind set of the retail investors as measured by the weekly AAII sentiment survey shows little change. We had an increase of 7% points for the bearish camp to 46% and a decline of 6% points for the bulls to […]

The following is a run down of this past week’s sentiment data:
Sentiment Surveys
Let’s start by looking over some of the well known sentiment surveys:
The retail investors sentiment as measured by the AAII survey was equally balanced with bears and bulls both at 39% - and the rest undecided. To arrive at the tie, the bullish […]