Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Interesting Yale Confidence Indicators

The Yale School of Management has a number of stock market confidence indices that question US investors. Recently, two of the confidence indices have been showing some interesting trends.

The first chart below highlights historical results for Yale's One-Year Confidence Index. The index surveys both institutional and individual investors for their confidence that the market will be up in the next year. As shown, market confidence from individual investors has ticked lower and lower since 2004 and is currently just over 70%. Institutional confidence peaked in mid-2006 and then fell significantly later that year. In recent months, however, institutional confidence has picked up and a big divergence has been created between institutional and individual investors. Hopefully the weak individual confidence and higher institutional confidence means a rally is coming soon.

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Another index that the Yale School of Management conducts is Crash Confidence. This survey asks institutional and individual investors for their confidence that there will not be a market crash in the next six months. In the most recently monthly survey (June), confidence that there won't be a crash from individuals fell to its lowest level in the survey's history. The prior low occurred in November 2002.

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Lunch is for wimps

Lunch is for wimps
It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.