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How is sentiment defined

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The net amount of any group of market player’s optimism or pessimism

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When may the market be accompanied with sentiment

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If price is considerably above or below intrinsic value (fair value)

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If emotions (sentiments) become excessive and prices deviate from the norm, what may happen

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Price reversal back to the mean

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What are the three types of players in the market

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1) the uninformed
2) the informed
3) liquidity players

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The majority of the market is made up of what kind of players?

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Made up of uninformed players

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What can be said about when uninformed players buy and sell

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They buy at peaks and sell at bottoms

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Can professionals be uninformed investors?

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Yes

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What qualifies someone as an uninformed player?

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The timing of their moves

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How do informed players usually act compared to the majority of players?

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They act in the contrary way (opposite)

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What can be said about when informed players buy and sell

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They buy at market bottoms and sell at tops

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How can someone know the direction of future prices with market sentiment

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By determining how each group is acting

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Especially in market extremes, who acts correctly and who act incorrectly

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The informed act correctly and the uninformed act incorrectly

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What does crowd behaviour say about groups

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people tend to conform to their group

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What happens as people follow the herd

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They get caught up in extreme buying and selling, pushing prices to extreme levels

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What happens when the market reaches extreme levels

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Crashes or bubbles

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What is contrary opinion

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Investing in the opposite of crowd behaviour

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In contrary opinion, when people are buying, what would you do?

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Sell

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In contrary opinion, when people are selling, what would you do?

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Buy

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What is the “task” of the contrarian player?

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Find a way to quantity which direction the majority of players in the market are headed

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What are sentiment indicators

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Data sets that give TA an idea of how much prices are at emotionally excessive levels

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What can sentiment indicators predict

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Potential future reversals in trends

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**When are sentiment indicators more useful? (2)

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determining market bottoms when fear has reached an excess
-More useful in analyzing markets than individuals securities

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When is emotional excess highest (sharpest)

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At market bottoms when panic has occurred

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How long can optimism last

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Can last for a long time

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Most sentiment indicators focus on which players?
The uninformed
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Investors who buy call options have what view on the market
Bullish view (think the price of security will go up)
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Investors who buy put options have what view on the market
Bearish view (think price of security will go down)
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What does a put/call ratio represent
High put/call ratio would represent market is more bearish than bullish, the opposite is also true
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If put/call ratio is up, the market should be...
Down
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If put/call ratio is down, the market should be...
Up
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Can volatility be used to measure sentiment?
Yes
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What is the VIX
Implied volatility of the S&P 500
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Are volatility measures forward or backward looking?
forward looking
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When does high volatility tend to occur
At periods of stress, uncertainity, most often peaking at market bottom
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When does low volatility tend to occur?
During market rises and market peaks
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If the VIX trades high, what does this mean?
There is some sort of sell-off (prices go down) that occurs
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If the VIX trades low, what does this mean?
The market tends to increase
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When does the VIX tend to rise exponentially
When the market comes under selling pressure,
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What are polls in sentiment?
A simple way of gauging market sentiment by asking players if they are bearish or bullish
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If the poll points to players being bullish, what does this truly mean?
Contrary indicator because these players express optimism at market tops
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What can be used to measure contrary opinion, why?
Mutual funds because they are mostly made up of uninformed players
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Why do mutual funds hold cash?
Because high level of cash usually occurs at stock market bottoms
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What does margin debt reflect
What the uninformed investors are doing
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What does higher level of debt indicate?
Indicator that the uninformed players are more active
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What does lower level of debt indicate?
Indicator that the uninformed players are less active
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What is the NASDAQ to NYSE volume
Measure of speculation
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When the market peaks what happens to the NASDAQ to NYSE ratio
It also peaks
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When the market bottoms what happens to the NASDAQ to NYSE ratio
It also bottoms
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What can short selling be used for
As a contrary indicator
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When percentage of short sales to total trades increases, this is an indicator of what?
Indicates bearish extreme and the market is likely to rise
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When short sale goes up, the market goes...
Up
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When short sale goes down, the market goes...
down
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What does magazine cover theory indicate
Contrary indicator, since they are usually wrong
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What should players do in regards to insiders
Follow insiders buys, but don't necessarily need to follow insider sell
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What does the SEC require
Requires insiders to report their transactions within 2 days
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what does the sell/buy ratio take into account
number of insider buy and sell transactions for each company
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What are large blocks
It is a large amount of stocks that are bought or sold
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Who trades large bloks
Professionals or the informed players
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If large blocks are sold, what happens to price
Price goes down
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If large blocks are bought, what happens to price
Price goes up
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What does commitment of traders (COT) report
positions of non-commercials (large speculators)
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If large commercial traders are buying and small traders are selling, what should happen to prices?
Prices should rise
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If large commercial traders are selling and small traders are buying, what should happen to prices?
Prices should fall
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If the COT shows that the funds have an unusually large portion
there is a risk that prices may suddenly reverse, since the market is too high

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