November 13th Blogger Sentiment Poll

This week we have added a new feature to the Blogger Sentiment Poll.  For those participants wishing to have their weekly calls displayed, we have added a + for bullish, a - for bearish, and a N for neutral after their names in the list of bloggers below.

Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants:

24/7 Wall Street (N) Abnormal Returns  Ant & Sons (-) Alpha Trends (-) Big Picture  Bloggin' Wall Street  Capital Chronicle (N) Carl Futia (+) Confused Capitalist  ContraHour  Controlled Greed  Crossing Wall Street  Crowder Blog (-) CXO Advisory (+) Dean Lebaron  Fly on the Wall (N) Day Trade Team  Daily Dose of Optimism (+) Daily Options Report  Deal Breaker  Dr. John Rutledge  Elliot Wave Lives On (N) Fallond Stock Picks (-) Fickle Trader  Global Economic Trend Analysis  Hedgefolios (-) Information Arbitrage (+) Daily Blog Watch (+) Kirk Report (N) Knight Trader  Learning Curve  MaoXian  Market Talk with Piranha (-) Millionaire Now (-) Naked Shorts (-) Peridot Capitalist (N) Quant Investor (N) Random Roger's Big Picture (-) SeekingAlpha  SelfInvestors (N) Shark Report (N) Sigma Options Stock Advisors  ShadowTrader (+) Tech Trader Daily  Trade King  Trader Feed (-) Trader Mike (N) Trader Tim (-) Ugly Chart (N) Wall Street Folly  WindRiver Blog (-) Wishing Wealth (+)

Comments

[Ollie]

Maybe it's just me, but I found the old blogger sentiment table (with poll date and S&P % change) more readable and useful than the newer bullish\bearish graph. Would you please consider switching back to the old format, or possibly publishing both? Thanks.

[Pradeep Bonde]

Popular blogs may not be the best place to find profitable ideas. This poll has become a good short term contrary indicator. Every time it gets released and shows that the popular bloggers are bearish, the market pops. Ever since it started the popular blogger sentiment has been more or less negative and the market has kept going up.

What determines popularity. Bearish blogs are more popular. Blogs which are wrong for over a year are more popular. Blogs which promote conspiracy are more popular. Blogs which offer newsletters are more popular. Blogs good at marketing are more popular. So if you don't want to beat the market just follow the popular blogs!!!

[Michael]

Pradeep, that's the most ridiculous thing I've read in a very long time. Define popular? I imagine that all the blogs in this pool would fit your definition. Yet, week after week, there's no consensus among these bloggers. So how the hell can "all popular blogs" be contrary indicators and under-performing the market?

[Pradeep Bonde]

Barring two bullish readings the sentiment has been bearish since this poll started. That is called consensus.
Tickersense in their selection methodology have chosen these to present popular blogger. Plus it represents the most visited blogs by site visits measures.
The data speaks for itself.

[Bill aka NO DooDahs!]

Wait! Trader Tim is NEGATIVE on the markets??? What a SHOCKER!