Dorsey, Wright Sentiment Survey - 7/30/10

July 30, 2010

We are hovering just off the most extreme fear levels we’ve seen in this survey since we launched it in March. Reader participation is also near historical highs.

Here we have the next round of the Dorsey, Wright Sentiment Survey, the first third-party sentiment poll. As you know, when individuals self-report, they are always taller and more beautiful than when outside observers report their perceptions! Instead of asking individual investors to self-report whether they are bullish or bearish, we’d like financial advisors to weigh in and report on the actual behavior of clients. It’s two simple questions and will take no more than 20 seconds of your time. We’ll construct indicators from the data and report the results regularly on our blog–but we need your help to get a large statistical sample!

Click here to take Dorsey, Wright’s Sentiment Survey.

Contribute to the greater good! It’s painless, we promise.


Sector and Capitalization Performance

July 30, 2010

The chart below shows performance of US sectors and capitalizations over the trailing 12, 6, and 1 month(s). Relative strength strategies buy securities that have strong intermediate-term relative strength and hold them as long as they remain strong. Performance updated through 7/29/2010.