16 Apr 2018
Investing
April 16, 2018 glacierinvest

The CNN Fear & Greed Index was highlighted this morning in one of the research publications I consume. I discussed sentiment in a post last week and I thought highlighting the index would be a good follow up to that post.

CNN’s index is driven by seven indicators that include momentum, breadth, put-call ratio and volatility among a few others, which basically are representations of short-term sentiment. I was a little surprised to see the index reading at Extreme Fear but given the short-term nature of the indicators that drive the index it’s not surprising. A reading of Extreme Fear is quite sensationalistic though, which I suppose is what CNN wants as it draws in more readers.

As I mentioned last week, short-term sentiment tends to be transitory in nature and not incredibly useful for making long-term investment decisions. As a result, CNN’s fear index probably isn’t going to be very informative for most investors.

 

 

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