Trader’s Narrative

Here is this week’s sentiment summary:
Sentiment Surveys
After several weeks of flirting with the half-way mark and just peeking above it for a single week, the retail investors surveyed by the AAII finally went all in. This week’s bullish camp jumped sharply to 57.6%. That is the highest since mid-January 2007.
But while that is garnering […]

This is a guest post by Terry Coxon, Senior Editor, Casey Research:
By now you have plenty of reason to congratulate yourself for having boarded the gold bandwagon. The early tickets are the cheap ones, and you’ve already had quite a ride. The best of the ride, I believe, is yet to come, and it should […]

Tim Hayes, chief investment strategist at Ned Davis Research, stopped by the Bloomberg studios for a brief interview:

NDR has been very bullish for some time now. They actually went maximum overweight equities in early April, just ahead of the intermediate market top. And they remained with that thesis throughout the summer: NDR Continuing Bullish.
As […]

Richard Russell is not only the preeminent expert on Dow Theory, he is one of the most prolific newsletter writers (Dow Theory Letters) and thanks to his epic longevity, will hopefully go one to break records for many years to come. The “Oracle of the Dow” is not omniscient, unfortunately. Otherwise, we mere mortals would […]

The following is a guest post by a buy-side analyst working in a US asset management firm. The author’s comments are in italics. I welcome your feedback in the comments:

A Gold Standard, which can prompt brutal economic adjustments and exacerbate inflationary/deflationary forces via accelerated capital flows, is incompatible with the demands of modern economies, most […]