Thursday, March 27, 2014

Equity Market Declines, Bullish Investor Sentiment Declines

Recently, changes in investor equity market sentiment have followed changes in the S&P 500 Index. As the market declines, bullish investor sentiment has declined as well. True to form, bullish sentiment fell this week as reported by the Association of Individual Investors. Bullish sentiment fell over five percentage points to 31.2% versus the prior weeks level of 36.8%. The long term bullishness level is 39% and one standard deviation below this average is 29%. Consequently, this level of bullish sentiment is nearing levels seen at prior market bottoms. Readers should keep in mind this contrarian indicator is most accurate at the extremes.

From The Blog of HORAN Capital Advisors
Source: AAII


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