Comments on: Ticker Sense Blogger Sentiment Provides No Edge http://www.tradersnarrative.com/ticker-sense-blogger-sentiment-provides-no-edge-1065.html Freshly squeezed market commentary & analysis Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:37:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Sentiment Overview: Week Of February 1st, 2008 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/ticker-sense-blogger-sentiment-provides-no-edge-1065.html#comment-28951 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:30:14 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/ticker-sense-blogger-sentiment-provides-no-edge-1065.html#comment-28951 [...] UPDATE: Its been a while since I mentioned the TickerSense blogger sentiment poll but I just noticed that the bulls are at only 24% while the bears are at 44%. This is the highest disparity between the two camps since March 12th, 2007 when bloggers were 13.16% bullish and 42.11% bearish. [...] […] UPDATE: Its been a while since I mentioned the TickerSense blogger sentiment poll but I just noticed that the bulls are at only 24% while the bears are at 44%. This is the highest disparity between the two camps since March 12th, 2007 when bloggers were 13.16% bullish and 42.11% bearish. […]

]]> by: Babak http://www.tradersnarrative.com/ticker-sense-blogger-sentiment-provides-no-edge-1065.html#comment-8004 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:39:21 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/ticker-sense-blogger-sentiment-provides-no-edge-1065.html#comment-8004 David, good point. Sentiment is only a guide. Not gospel. Today I mentioned a few measures of <a href="http://www.tradersnarrative.com/you-call-that-a-correction-1077.html" rel="nofollow">what people are actually doing</a>. David,
good point. Sentiment is only a guide. Not gospel. Today I mentioned a few measures of what people are actually doing.

]]> by: David Merkel http://www.tradersnarrative.com/ticker-sense-blogger-sentiment-provides-no-edge-1065.html#comment-7965 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:56:21 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/ticker-sense-blogger-sentiment-provides-no-edge-1065.html#comment-7965 Hi. I write for RealMoney, and also my own blog, Aleph Blog. I usually ignore most surveys of what people think about the market; there is often no money on the line behind those opinions. What I want to know, and try to figure out, is what people are relying on. If people are relying on a certain investment result to occur, and it doesn't happen, or much worse, the trade goes the wrong way, then regret kicks in, and we get panicky selling or short covering. I guess another way to say it is I try to figure out whether an asset is predominantly held by strong or weak holders (shorts are almost always weak); that helps me figure out what might happen in the short run as to what sort of price reaction we could get from a negative or positive event. I throw this out for what it is worth. I had a series of articles on this topic at RealMoney. Take care. Hi. I write for RealMoney, and also my own blog, Aleph Blog. I usually ignore most surveys of what people think about the market; there is often no money on the line behind those opinions. What I want to know, and try to figure out, is what people are relying on. If people are relying on a certain investment result to occur, and it doesn’t happen, or much worse, the trade goes the wrong way, then regret kicks in, and we get panicky selling or short covering.

I guess another way to say it is I try to figure out whether an asset is predominantly held by strong or weak holders (shorts are almost always weak); that helps me figure out what might happen in the short run as to what sort of price reaction we could get from a negative or positive event.

I throw this out for what it is worth. I had a series of articles on this topic at RealMoney.

Take care.

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