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Warren Buffett Buying Stocks
Warren Buffett, without a doubt the world’s most famous investor, said he is buying...
- Posted October 17, 2008
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Fear Index Hits All-Time High
The Tactical Timing System Fear Index reached a peak of 10 today; the highest...
- Posted October 17, 2008
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Stocks May Not Be Ready to Climb
*** In a N.Y. Times article, Mark Hulbert indicates that sentiment looks good (weak),...
- Posted August 4, 2008
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Jim Cramer Says Market Has Bottomed
*** On July 30th, with the Dow standing at 11,583, Jim Cramer said the...
- Posted August 2, 2008
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Newsletter Writers Most Bearish Since 1995
CNBC just reported that 50% of financial newsletter writers are bearish which is the...
- Posted July 30, 2008
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Prudent to Reduce Exposure to Equities
Originally published in July 1999: INDEXES ON 7/1/99 DJIA 11,066.42 S&P 500 1,380.96 NASDAQ...
- Posted October 18, 2006
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Market Sentiment’s Worth as a Directional Indicator
Originally published in December 1998: INDEXES ON 11/30/98 DJIA 9,116.55 S&P 500 1,163.63 NASDAQ...
- Posted October 1, 2006
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Dangerous Bullishness
Originally published on: February 9, 1997 Investment newsletters are for the most part worthless....
- Posted May 25, 2006
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Shift in Sentiment
This newsletter mentions Jim Rogers who was carping about inflation way back in 1996....
- Posted May 3, 2006
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iShares Global REIT ETF Sold
Investor euphoria/greed has been elevated with the extension of the...
- January 20, 2021
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CNN Fear & Greed Index Shows Negative Sentiment
The Fed raised interest rates 1/4 point yesterday. This...
- December 20, 2018
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Bullish Jeffrey Saut Sees Stock Market Transitioning
This morning Raymond James strategist Jeffrey Saut told CNBC viewers...
- August 11, 2016
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Investor Sentiment at 7 Year Low
Global stock markets have been swooning for nearly nine months....
- February 15, 2016
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Tobias Levkovich Discusses Benefits to the Economy of the Oil Crash
Tobias Levkovich, Chief U.S. equity strategist at Citigroup, was on...
- January 26, 2016
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iShares Global REIT ETF Sold
Investor euphoria/greed has been elevated with the extension of...
- January 20, 2021
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iShares Silver Mining ETF Increased
With interest rates creeping up and the US Dollar...
- January 12, 2021
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iShares Silver Miners ETF Added
The iShares MSCI Global Silver Miners ETF (SLVP) was...
- December 21, 2020
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Is the Retirement Crisis Really a Crisis?
PBS Frontline recently presented a documentary called “The Retirement...
- April 25, 2013
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Alarming Chart of the Stock Markets of 1987 and 2012-2013
Several days ago I posted a chart showing the...
- May 22, 2013
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Bill Ackman Thinks Diversification is for the Lazy
Bill Ackman made a speech at the Active/Passive Investor...
- March 4, 2010
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Based on a scale of 1 (major complacency) to 10 (extreme fear): Current and Selected Past Readings:

Date	Index	SMA Comment
1/20/2021	2.3	Massive stimulus and Fed support have nearly eliminated fear
3/23/2020	7.0	Coronavirus and oil price war panic investors to the highest level of fear since October 2011
12/26/2019	2.3	Lowest level of fear in nearly two years (January 2018)
12/21/2018	6.7	Raised fears likely setting up a buying opportunity
1/11/2018	1.8	Unusually low fear could mean we're near the top in valuations
1/13/16	6.3	Terrible start to 2016 raised fears
10/3/11	8.5	A good tradable bottom (S&P 500 @ 1,085) based on lots of nonsense
3/9/09	7.0	Market bottom (S&P 500 @ 666); end of the world was nigh
10/27/08	8.8	Market had dropped 28% in 5 weeks, Paulson pulled out all stops to save Wall Street bankers
10/12/07	3.2	Market top (S&P 500 @ 1,562); worldwide housing bubble pricked