Monday, January 26, 2009

Types of Sentiment Indicators

This link -- if you scroll down to the bottom -- provides a nice summary of the 9 or so different types of sentiment indicators available to traders.

They are listed as

  1. Volatility Measures
  2. Put/Call Ratios
  3. Breadth Ratios (Are these really sentiment indicators?!)
  4. Rydex/Proshares Mutual Fund Asset Flows
  5. Sentiment Surveys
  6. Commitments of traders
  7. Short Sales Analysis
  8. Coroporate Insiders
  9. Cash Levels

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