Trader’s Narrative

This week’s sentiment run-down has a lot of cross currents so be careful:
AAII
After last week’s sudden stampede to an extremely gloomy stance, the weekly survey of retail investors by the American Association of Individual Investors is showing a dramatic realignment to perfectly neutral. The bears and bulls both stand at 39% after a -/+17% […]

At the start of the week we contrasted the strange pessimism that has gripped the US retail investor to the levitation act of Wall Street. It is almost as if Wall Street threw a party and other than institutional investors, a few day traders and algo quant jocks jamming high frequency trades, no one else […]

While we all like to think of ourselves as rational beings, making decisions based on sound judgment, the truth of the matter is much more unsettling. We are, for the most part, rather peculiar creatures, prone to irrational and emotional biases. What makes this even more disturbing is that the edifice of our economic and […]

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This week the sentiment data brings a very intriguing turn of events so let’s get started:
Sentiment Surveys
The star this week is the ever so humble and common AAII weekly survey of US retail investors. This sentiment indicator sends extreme signals every once in a blue moon. So I guess you better check the night […]