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DownloadA 10-Year Overview Of Market Sentiment by Joe Duarte, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A 10-Year Overview Of Market Sentiment by Joe Duarte, M.D. Crowd psychology plays a role in the development of market tops and bottoms. In theory, a bottom forms when the majority of investors are extremely pessimistic, and a top occurs when the investo
A New Gauge For Sentiment And Breadth Data
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a new tool you can use to help get better readings on the market. This method is based on the relative difference of squares (RDoS). Discover its advantages
A Problem With Sentiment
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While we like to believe the crowd is always wrong, they are only wrong at extremes in the market, and these can usually only be identified in hindsight.
A Sentiment Indicator For Trading The Euro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The traditional put/call ratio is used as a contrarian indicator. Here, we add a twist to enhance the ratio and use it as a coinciding indicator
A Strategy For The Nasdaq 100 Using Options Sentiment
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can the put/call ratio be used to time entries and exits in the stock market? We take a look
Back Testing The Daily Sentiment Index by Lee Ang
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V13:06: (255-259): Back Testing The Daily Sentiment Index by Lee Ang Market traders and advisors use sentiment surveys as a tool to identify extreme bullishness or bearishness. Here, then, is one trader's research into identifying what the best levels o
Building A Custom Sentiment Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders always welcome trading signals generated by their indicators. Often, these indicators are based on price and volume, but with the surge in social media, it may be worth your while to pay attention to what the general sentiment is to an equity, fu
Bullish Sentiment For NASDAQ 100
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Small speculators and commercials have very different opinions about the NASDAQ 100, and the divergence is bullish for stocks.
Combining Sentiment Indicators For Timing Mutual Funds by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Sentiment Indicators For Timing Mutual Funds by Joe Duarte Market sentiment can be useful in market timing, and mutual funds in particular. Here's a method in which a careful perusal of Investor's Intelligence, Market Vane and Barron's can hel
Commitments of Traders as a sentiment indicator By Stephen E. Briese
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commitments of Traders as a sentiment indicator By Stephen E. Briese In the past, conventional market sentiment indicators have been criticized for deficiencies such as the delay involved in reading market letters, weighing their content, estimating the
Discounting Sentiment In The Euro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Excess returns from trading sentiment are only seen in the short run ... or are they? Here's a look at a sentiment trading tactic using a contrarian, indirect sentiment indicator applied to the euro ETF that shows how over the long term, you can use a se
How Accurate Is Sentiment? by William Lansburg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Accurate Is Sentiment? by William Lansburg Of all the tools that technicians use in trying to predict the future of the stock market, one of the most common is the sentiment index. Basically, the theory behind the sentiment index holds that it is be
How Sentiment And Social Media Breaks The Roof
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Have sentiment and social media data reached a tipping point?
Index Of Chart Sentiment by Viktor Likhovidov
It's In The Sentiment by Ajay Jani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (28-31): It's In The Sentiment by Ajay Jani Here's a quantitative sentiment index based on trading behavior of the Rydex Sector Funds. With all the debate surrounding the effectiveness of market timing, often the underlying
Market Sentiment
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Take a sentimental journey through the world of contrarian investing.
Market Sentiment Extremes by John Jagerson & S. Wade Hansen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (50-54): Market Sentiment Extremes by John Jagerson & S. Wade Hansen The ability to pick up on and properly interpret minute signals in the market dictates the distinction between success and failure. Here's how implied vola
Market letter sentiment by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market letter sentiment by Arthur Merrill Analyst Abraham Cohen, many years ago, began to tabulate the opinions of stock market analysts. He watched scores of market letters (including my own!) and each week put them in three piles: bullish, bearish and
Measuring Market Sentiment Using Breakout Ratios
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a unique way to measure the bullish/bearish bias of the individual stocks that make up any given index or industry group.
News Sentiment
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...News data, which has long been the province of institutional traders, is now making its way into the hands of retail traders. Here's a look at how you can incorporate this data into your trading strategies.
On Composite Sentiment by James P. Martin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Composite Sentiment by James P. Martin Despite all the powerful technical tools available, even the savviest technicians are susceptible to emotion and on occasion succumb to psychological influences that prevent them from taking appropriate action,
Options ratios for sentiment by James P. Martin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options ratios for sentiment by James P. Martin As options activity on equity indices and commodity futures has soared in the past few years, more and more market analysts have relied on options ratios as indicators of market sentiment and contrary opin
Put-call sentiment indicator by Robert R. Prechter and David A. Allman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Put-call sentiment indicator by Robert R. Prechter and David A. Allman Put/call ratios based on volume and dollar value have been widely used by technicians (see ""Option premiums,"" Stocks & Commodities, December 1989). A third approach has been substa
Sentiment And Trendlines For Bond Fund Trading by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sentiment And Trendlines For Bond Fund Trading by Joe Duarte The Hines ratio, a key sentiment indicator, is designed to help traders pinpoint emotional extremes in the bond market. Here, the Hines ratio is combined with Barron's Bond Bullish Consensus,
Sentiment Measures Require Context
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The AAII Sentiment Survey shows that 50% of individual investors are now bullish. Is that a cause for concern?
Sentiment Zone Oscillator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's an indicator that measures extreme bullishness and bearishness and helps you identify a change in sentiment.
Stock Market Signals From The Sentiment Dimension
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Simple methods to measure sentiment of the US stock market. Every market has four dimensions: Price, Time, Momentum, and Sentiment. The Sentiment dimension delves into the realm of investor/trader psychology by discovering bullish and bearish extremes.
The Closing Score: Extracting Sentiment From Price
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gauging the emotions and sentiment of traders in any market can be one of the most important predictive indicators you can extract from available information. But what drives sentiment and how can you make any sense of it? Well, that can be a little tric
The Sentiment Dimension
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can use market sentiment readings to help locate turns in the market. Here are some to pay attention to
The Sentiment Flow Index: Confusion Or A Conviction Indicator?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Introducing a new indicator to filter the signal from the noise
Updating Option Ratios With Market Sentiment by James P. Martin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Updating Option Ratios With Market Sentiment by James P. Martin Is it true that market sentiment indicators no longer work? That's the word from many traders and market timing advisors in the past several months. They say that so many ""pseudo contraria
Using the Bearish Sentiment Index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Have we evaded another wave of extreme pessimism? Traders and investers like to monitor sentiment indicators. One of the longer standing ones is the Bearish Sentiment Index that measures the sentiment of investment newsletters. Started in the sixties, i
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