Thursday, July 24, 2008

Bullish Sentiment Inches Higher

The American Association of Individual Investors' Sentiment Survey released this week shows a continued increase in bullish investor sentiment. The bullish sentiment level increased to 35.8% versus last week's reading of 25%. The bull/bear spread narrowed to -8% from last week's spread of 33%.

Why pay attention to sentiment indicators? An old Wall Street saying goes something like:

"the crowd is right in the trends and wrong at the ends"

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More information on the application of sentiment indicators can be found at the Investment U website and the article Investor Sentiment Indicators.


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