Investor Sentiment is important for traders when determining a directional bias for their swing trades. Remember, swing trading consists of trades generally last more than a day and can continue for a few weeks if the trader’s bias remains constant.
It is even quite common for institutional traders to use the bias generated from investor sentiment analysis to determine the type of scalping trades they make. For instance, if the investor sentiment bias is bearish, the traders generally trade the market on intraday signals from the short side.
Investor sentiment isn’t discussed much in the mainstream media, but it is an important tool in determining market bias. I’m not sure, but maybe it’s not mentioned because it doesn’t have “sizzle” or is as “black and white” as a moving average. Or, perhaps, it’s due to the fact that it is a “smart money” indicator and the “dumb money” wants avoid learning how their emotions fueled the huge turnaround they recently missed. Whatever the reason, the less people educated about market psychology the better the market becomes for the informed trader.
“Smart Money” or institutional investors do the difficult work and look deep at the internals of the market while everyone else waits for the media to explain it. Since it is difficult to find the CBOE VIX or the Put/Call ratio from one source, I need to dig through multiple web sites to determine the current readings of each one.
Here is a site that has a few of the indicators I mentioned http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/.
Robert J. Ogilvie
CIO and Head Trader
http://www.skyboxtrading.com/
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