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Strategies & Market Trends : Ask DrBob -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockmarket14 who wrote (41497)	7/27/2001 6:46:15 PM
From: Drbob512	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 100058

stockmarket14: I use several Sentiment indicators, and they have proven useful over the past 26 years (some of them were not around then, LOL!). I have not followed the success or lack of success from following indiv. investors sentiment in past years. Consumer confidence is an important sentiment indicator but I have not found it very good for timing the market. This is not to say that your premise is wrong. I think we can add the individual investors sentiment to our list of indicators to follow, and we shall see how useful it is as a contrarian indicator, and maybe it is better for longer term "timing," as you hyothesize. Have you followed it very long? If so, how has it worked for market timing? I am always open to new or different indicators. Appreciate your dialogue and insights, as per usual. Best wishes, Dr.Bob