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Three weeks ago market bias was upward. Two weeks ago, downward. So not a surprise last week’s was upward again (no terrorism effect) – indicative of continued disagreement among institutional investors as to near-term sentiment. Price movement among most of our...

The same institutional investors who aggressively bought stocks 5 weeks ago and 2 weeks ago suddenly became sellers last week. This whipsaw of sentiment indicates great market uncertainty among even the “smart money” – the same behavior that was evident throughout the...

After a week’s pause, institutional sentiment returned to the positive bias seen throughout October, with widespread buying driving many stock prices up – so much so that price rises of many stocks were the largest of any week in many months, if not the entire year....

The buying that institutional investors began the prior week turned into a tsunami of buying sentiment last week. Unlike the first cycle of buying 5 weeks ago that failed to establish an uptrend, this wave of buying has involved much higher volumes and included a...

Aside from a limited number of existing long positions, our stocks are cycling into two main categories depending on whether stock-specific institutional investor sentiment remains pessimistic or is turning optimistic. Those stocks investors bought early 4 weeks ago...

Institutional investor pessimism over domestic and international economic matters has risen to the highest levels in the past 5 years – driving stock prices down further as they exit equities for other markets. In just 8 weeks major Indexes have lost what it took 18 -...