Sentiment Survey Past Results
http://www.aaii.com/sentimentsurvey
Change from last week:
Bullish: -9.7 Neutral: +0.8 Bearish: +8.9
Long-Term Average:Bullish: 39% Neutral: 31% Bearish: 30%
| Reported Date | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
| November 15: | 28.82% | 22.35% | 48.82% |
| November 8: | 38.50% | 21.60% | 39.91% |
| November 1: | 35.74% | 23.28% | 40.98% |
| October 25: | 29.25% | 27.67% | 43.08% |
| October 18: | 28.66% | 26.79% | 44.55% |
| October 11: | 30.58% | 30.58% | 38.85% |
| October 4: | 33.86% | 32.91% | 33.23% |
| September 27: | 36.10% | 27.44% | 36.46% |
| September 20: | 37.50% | 28.72% | 33.78% |
| September 13: | 36.46% | 30.56% | 32.99% |
| September 6: | 33.06% | 33.88% | 33.06% |
| August 30: | 34.72% | 32.64% | 32.64% |
| August 23: | 41.96% | 32.17% | 25.87% |
| August 16: | 36.84% | 35.09% | 28.07% |
| August 9: | 36.47% | 36.18% | 27.35% |
| August 3: | 30.45% | 34.63% | 34.93% |
| July 26: | 28.12% | 28.75% | 43.13% |
| July 19: | 22.19% | 36.02% | 41.79% |
| July 12: | 30.23% | 35.05% | 34.73% |
| July 5: | 32.64% | 34.03% | 33.33% |
| June 28: | 28.67% | 26.96% | 44.37% |
| June 21: | 32.89% | 31.23% | 35.88% |
The sentiment survey measures the percentage of individual investors who are bullish, bearish, and neutral.
Perspective: The difference from bullish and bearish sentiment percentages is 20%. That figure has occurred only 7.8% of the time since 1987. The biggest bullish spread (62%) occurred on Jan. 6th, 2000 and on November 9th 2000 it was + 54%. The most bearish spread was -54% on October 19th, 1990 and -51% on March 5th, 2009. So individual investors have soured on the market, but they are not at an extreme.