Here’s a sample of record sentiment readings for stocks
Recession coming or not, people are still EXTREMELY bullish.
Read this excerpt from the May 17, 2024 Elliott Wave Theorist:
Record Sentiment Readings for Stocks
Investors are enamored with stocks that pay little or nothing in the way of dividends. The extent of that bias has now reached an all-time extreme. The chart below shows the history of investors’ preferences for low vs. high-dividend stocks, on a 20-year return basis. … Here in 2024, the preference for low-payout stocks over high-payout stocks just established a new record.
On May 15, Goldman Sachs published a chart showing record equity allocation among a broad spectrum of investors.
[And,] on May 4 and 14, respectively, the Financial Times of London showed that retail investors’ gorging on equity ETFs leveraged by two to three times has approached the 2021 extreme, while the total flow of retail money into the stock market has exceeded that of 2021.
[Finally,] here is the title of an opinion piece, published by Bloomberg on May 9:
It’s Dangerous to Stay Out of Stocks
Research from Barclays provides fresh evidence that you should almost always have
some money in equities
No one expressed this attitude in 1974, 1988 or early 2009. Today it is gospel.
The consensus is always to be in cash at major bottoms and fully invested at tops. The reason for this inevitability is that pessimism makes market bottoms, and optimism makes tops. In both environments, few can see the inevitable turn. Success among the crowd is always temporary.
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