{"id":8009,"date":"2017-02-02T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2017-02-02T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:20:58","slug":"there-are-more-bears-than-bulls-out-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/02\/02\/there-are-more-bears-than-bulls-out-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are More Bears Than Bulls Out in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Permabulls always say everyone's bearish.<\/p>\n<p>And permabears always say everyone's bullish.<\/p>\n<p>Neither side provides evidence for their views.<\/p>\n<p>So let's see how traders are feeling into today's inauguration:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) VIX Spread &#8211; Bullish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 3-month VIX spread is at +4.51, which indicates traders are pricing in very low near-term volatility.<\/p>\n<p>This means traders are bullish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) CNN Fear & Greed Index &#8211; Neutral\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fear & Greed Index is at 49.<\/p>\n<p>F&G operates on a 1-100 scale, and 50 is neutral.<\/p>\n<p>So we're right in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) AAII Sentiment &#8211; Bearish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest AAII Sentiment Survey shows that 32.8% of individual investors are bullish, which is below the long-term average of 38.5%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong><strong>) CBOE Equity Put-Call &#8211; Bearish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CBOE Equity-Put Call ratio is at 0.71 with a 3-day moving average of 0.74. This indicates higher-than-average bearishness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) ISE Sentiment &#8211; Bearish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ISE Sentiment Index is at just 79 (79 calls for every 100 puts) this morning &#8211; which is a bearish reading.\u00a0 And the 10-day moving average is 81.3.<\/p>\n<p>This also indicates bearish sentiment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Out of 5 sentiment indicators, we have 1 bullish, 1 neutral, and 3 bearish.<\/p>\n<p>I've been hearing a lot of chatter about how bullish the crowd is.<\/p>\n<p>But if anything, traders are leaning against the market, hoping for a fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permabulls always say everyone&#8217;s bearish. And permabears always say everyone&#8217;s bullish. Neither side provides evidence for their views. So let&#8217;s see how traders are feeling into today&#8217;s inauguration: 1) VIX Spread &#8211; Bullish The 3-month VIX spread is at +4.51, which indicates traders are pricing in very low near-term volatility. This means traders are bullish. 2) CNN Fear &#038; Greed Index &#8211; Neutral\u00a0 The Fear &#038; Greed Index is at 49. F&#038;G operates on a 1-100 scale, and 50 is neutral. So we&#8217;re right in the middle. 3) AAII Sentiment &#8211; Bearish The latest AAII Sentiment Survey shows that 32.8% of individual investors are bullish, which is below the long-term average of 38.5%. 4) CBOE Equity Put-Call &#8211; Bearish The CBOE Equity-Put Call ratio is at 0.71 with a 3-day moving average of 0.74. This indicates higher-than-average bearishness. 5) ISE Sentiment &#8211; Bearish The ISE Sentiment Index is at just 79 (79 calls for every 100 puts) this morning &#8211; which is a bearish reading.\u00a0 And the 10-day moving average is 81.3. This also indicates bearish sentiment. Conclusion Out of 5 sentiment indicators, we have 1 bullish, 1 neutral, and 3 bearish. I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of chatter about how bullish the crowd is. But if anything, traders are leaning against the market, hoping for a fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,465],"tags":[302,303,305,330,47,475,476],"class_list":["post-8009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-michael-comeau","tag-aaii-sentiment","tag-cnn-fear-greed-index","tag-ise-sentiment-index","tag-put-call-ratio","tag-sentiment","tag-sentiment-update","tag-weekly-sentiment-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}