May 7th Blogger Sentiment Poll

This week's bloggers are more bearish than bullish, coming off of an up week.

Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants:

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

Comments

[Fred]

Sentiment continues to be the best way to game the market these days.

[David R. Burton]

It seems to me as if your blogger sentiment is pretty clearly a lagging indicator of stock market performance. Bearish sentiment especially spikes right after poor market performance and then fades away with subsequent increases in the market indices.