Sentiment Updates

By Brad Lamensdorf During the first two weeks of this year most of the S&P500 was in a black out period. That has ended and buy backs are starting back up. That should add liquidity to the market place that wasn’t around in January.   To learn more about how these indicators can help manage…

By John Del Vecchio and Brad Lamensdorf The market is deeply oversold and not just in technology stocks, which we highlighted on Monday. The level of fear has reached a point not seen since the COVID smash in 2020. Since most people are wrong most of the time, the odds favor a big bounce. The…

By Brad Lamensdorf “Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered” is an old market saying. Right now, market sentiment is way too greedy. The chart below shows the recent history of the CNN Fear & Greed Index. After surging over 80 (Extreme Greed) the index is starting to roll over and hit 72…

By John Del Vecchio and Brad Lamensdorf Hedging is dead. As the markets climb higher, investors have abandoned protecting their portfolios. One of the clearest examples is from the Equity Hedging Index (EHI) calculated by SentimenTrader.com The EHI measures the activity across numerous ways that investors can hedge their portfolios. The more heavily hedged investors…

By John Del Vecchio and Brad Lamensdorf A little dip in the markets recently has led to a marked decline in the level of Investors Intelligence advisors’ bullishness. Bulls have dropped to 53.9% down from 56.3% the prior week. This marks the fifth week below 60% where sentiment was pinned for most of the fall…