In this week's individual investor sentiment survey, bearish sentiment declined 2% points to 33% versus 35% last week. At the same time, bullish sentiment increased 1% to 51%. The bull/bear spread widened to 18% from 15% last week. At prior market highs, the spread has generally been over 30%.
Updated: 8/15/09
Below is an updated graph of the 8-period moving average of the bullish sentiment data compared against the S&P 500 Index.
3 comments :
the bull bear spread is too noisy. Can you chart SMA of the bull bear spread?
there really doesn't seem to any correlation here
Historically I have played with various ways to show this data. I have updated the above post showing the 8 period moving average of bullish sentiment graphed against the S&P 500 Index.
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