Tag: market sentiment

Chart Flipbook: A Look At Recent Volatility and Sentiment

There were a number of bearish negative divergences emerging in the equity market complex for several weeks. Standing alone, each divergence carries relevance only...

Is Investors Intelligence Poll Sounding Contrarian Alarm?

We’ve been seeing some very extreme readings from the Investors Intelligence polls lately and today I want to dig in and see what it...

Investor Sentiment: How Concerning For Stocks?

We would need a supercomputer to track the number of articles and tweets over the last few months regarding “excessive” or “near record” levels...

Will High Consumer Confidence Derail Stocks?

Consumer confidence in May came in at 85.2, the highest reading since January 2008.  On the surface that sounds like your average person is...

Is Market Sentiment Signaling A Major Peak In Equities?

What do investors make of the record new low levels seen on the CBOE Options Equity Put/Call Ratio? Is market sentiment getting too complacent?...

10 Things I’ve Learned About Trading Over The Past Decade

For the past 10 years, I worked at Schaeffer’s Investment Research. Over that time, I woke up every day and watched and traded the...

Gold Sentiment, Price Cycles Point To Higher Prices In 2014

Precious metals began 2014 as one of the best asset classes to be in. But since mid-march, Gold prices have drifted lower, retracing more than...

Market Sentiment Watch: Are Headlines Getting Frothy?

Market sentiment has been downright nasty during this bull market. And sentiment-focused analysts like Ryan Detrick have correctly highlighted this as a major catalyst...

Caution: Investor Optimism Running High Into 2014

I am at best agnostic about technical analysis. I tend to believe that charts are like footprints: they show where you’ve been, not where...

Margin Debt: An Important Theme to Monitor

The first half of 2013 left investors obsessing about a myriad of  macro-economic issues – the Federal Reserve’s potential tapering of monetary policy, Ben...

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