April 7, 2021

Volatility Reports 4/7/21

Is Everybody Ready? “Yeah!” Ok, so here we go, a 1 a 2 a 1-2-3-4

Well hang on there, not so fast.

The sentiment is not – as nearly everyone knows – a precise timing tool. Surveys of what members of the American Association of Individual Investors are doing or put/call ratios are all good to know but as a background factor. AT a major turn or an S-T pivot, out of the massive proliferation of sentiment services, not all will be at an extreme of one side of the other. Some analysis will find a source that is unique and preferable, but to date, I have not found anything that works better than my team’s measures of VIX.

You will see below I use two recent charts from the public domain from “SentimentTrader” who from a researcher’s point of view provides some of the better insights around. I show them when my group sees them tieing indirectly to our independent research.

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