Mr. Market Doesn't Care What You Think!
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Mr. Market Doesn't Care What You Think!
We all have our opinion, but a new study of AAII sediment shows that Mr. Market Doesn't Care What You Think!
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Should I care what Mr. Market thinks?
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"AAII sediment" Those individual investors that sink to the bottom??Rick Ferri wrote:We all have our opinion, but a new study of AAII sediment shows that Mr. Market Doesn't Care What You Think!
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Nice blog, but no surprise that a basically random market (with slight positive real expectations) would be largely uncorrelated with almost anything, much less to sentiment.
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Of course Mr Market does not care about what you think or feel. Humans being humans generally get emotionally involved and thus create mistakes.
I was fortunate enough to be brought up from a very early age to understand this about the market. The market is merely quoting you prices. If you are shrewd and emotionally stable, you will feel good about when the market goes down. I genuinely feel good when I see prices fall and I feel more cautious as prices rise. This is the complete opposite from 99.9% of people and for this sole reason, this is why the vast vast vast majority of people would do better off investing in an index fund. However, if you can understand this and stay stable and not lose your head when people are panicking or being greedy, you will get rich.
I was fortunate enough to be brought up from a very early age to understand this about the market. The market is merely quoting you prices. If you are shrewd and emotionally stable, you will feel good about when the market goes down. I genuinely feel good when I see prices fall and I feel more cautious as prices rise. This is the complete opposite from 99.9% of people and for this sole reason, this is why the vast vast vast majority of people would do better off investing in an index fund. However, if you can understand this and stay stable and not lose your head when people are panicking or being greedy, you will get rich.
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Depressed markets are good if you are young and have lots of accumulation ahead of you. Not so good for a retiree with a nest egg that's not large relative to projected consumption.LondonJimmy wrote:Of course Mr Market does not care about what you think or feel. Humans being humans generally get emotionally involved and thus create mistakes.
I was fortunate enough to be brought up from a very early age to understand this about the market. The market is merely quoting you prices. If you are shrewd and emotionally stable, you will feel good about when the market goes down. I genuinely feel good when I see prices fall and I feel more cautious as prices rise. This is the complete opposite from 99.9% of people and for this sole reason, this is why the vast vast vast majority of people would do better off investing in an index fund. However, if you can understand this and stay stable and not lose your head when people are panicking or being greedy, you will get rich.
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tadamsmar wrote:Depressed markets are good if you are young and have lots of accumulation ahead of you. Not so good for a retiree with a nest egg that's not large relative to projected consumption.
Yes, deff.
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From the article - "except when extreme bearish or bullish sentiment exists and then it’s negatively correlated"
Would be interesting to see if this held true for the bond market as well - Right now, there seems to be an extreme bearish sentiment in the bond market. Maybe time to load up?
Would be interesting to see if this held true for the bond market as well - Right now, there seems to be an extreme bearish sentiment in the bond market. Maybe time to load up?
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Mr. Market doesnt care what I think ... nor do my teenage children.
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Hi Rick,Rick Ferri wrote:We all have our opinion, but a new study of AAII sediment shows that Mr. Market Doesn't Care What You Think!
Rick Ferri
This was a very good post that I really enjoyed reading.
Thank you for providing your expertise to this site.
Best.
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Exactly, 5 percent cd's would have taken all the worry out of my retirement but now I am faced with Mr. Market again. And he doesn't care.LondonJimmy wrote:tadamsmar wrote:Depressed markets are good if you are young and have lots of accumulation ahead of you. Not so good for a retiree with a nest egg that's not large relative to projected consumption.
Yes, deff.
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Net extreme is >16 percent bearish and >32 percent bullish. AAII's latest survey conducted on 1/16/2013 was 43.9 percent bullish and 23.7 percent bearish resulting in net sediment indicator of 20.2 percent. It might be higher this week, but I doubt extreme.
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What we need is a survey on what people think of the AAII survey.Rick Ferri wrote: Net extreme is >16 percent bearish and >32 percent bullish. AAII's latest survey conducted on 1/16/2013 was 43.9 percent bullish and 23.7 percent bearish resulting in net sediment indicator of 20.2 percent. It might be higher this week, but I doubt extreme.
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Then we could do a survey on what people think about the survey about the AAII survey.
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AII's latest weekly survey conducted on 1/23/2013 was 52.3% bullish, up 8.4%, and 24.3% bearish, down 3.2%. The net sediment indicator is 28% bullish. That's getting close to extremely bullish, but not yet.Net extreme is >16% bearish and >32% bullish.
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a contrarian indicator....
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A good technical analyst doesn't hang his hat on one indicator.Rick Ferri wrote:AII's latest weekly survey conducted on 1/23/2013 was 52.3% bullish, up 8.4%, and 24.3% bearish, down 3.2%. The net sediment indicator is 28% bullish. That's getting close to extremely bullish, but not yet.Net extreme is >16% bearish and >32% bullish.
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Do they have a chart showing previous 1wk and 6mos return versus net sentiment? I suspect (aggregate) investor sentiment would be a better lagging indicator. Edit: Nevermind, that's the correlation chart. They did 1, 2 and 4 weeks, but didn't show 26.midareff wrote:a contrarian indicator....