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AAII Sentiment Survey Still Show Extreme Bearishness
By Investment Moats  •  April 12, 2013
The AAII Investor Sentiment Survey measures the percentage of individual investors who are bullish, bearish, and neutral on the stock market for the next six months; individuals are polled from the ranks of the AAII membership on a weekly basis. Only one vote per member is accepted in each weekly voting period. Some how or rather this data makes me wonder if the survey is skewed because a few people are managing a larger portion of the money. they may be bullish while more are bearish. AAII Sentiment Survey Still Show Extreme Bearishness bullishsentimentcollapseapr11 Definitely not something to use to make a decision upon, considering the sentiments did reach a rather overly bearish proportion in 2008. Still its fascinating. I think the take away is the market for the next 6 months. So its not like people are factoring a 10-20% correction and ending up higher. People are thinking it will end up lower. HatTip | The Reformed ......
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Investment Moats is set up by Kyith Ng and have been around since 2005. He aims to share his experiences making sense of money, how money works and ways to grow his money. It hopes that by sharing his experiences, both good and bad, season investors can advice and critique his decisions and new investors can learn from them and find their own style ...
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