The AAII Investor Sentiment survey provides traders with valuable insights into the overall market sentiment, enabling them to gauge the prevailing bullish or bearish bias among individual investors and make informed trading decisions.

What is the AAII investor sentiment?

The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) surveys a number of individual investors and asks where they think the market will go in the next 6 months. This survey is taken every 7 days to accumulate weekly data and history of the overall individual bias in the market. The survey ends and is updated by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m.

How To Use The AAII Investor Sentiment Survey

how do we use this to trade?

Within each vertical bar, there are three segments. In order of stacking from the bottom, the values read as bullish, neutral and bearish. The yellow line crossing through the bar chart is the bull-to-bear spread. A positive spread means that the overall sentiment is leaning bullish. And a negative spread indicates bearishness in overall sentiment.

Extreme Bullish Sentiment: High optimism can indicate overextension, signaling a potential pullback.

Extreme Bearish Sentiment: High fear often aligns with market bottoms, suggesting a potential reversal.

How Is AAII Investor Score Calculated On The EdgeFinder?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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What time frames can you use the edgeFinder on?

The EdgeFinder gives directional bias and is not time based. Therefore, there is not a specific time frame that is best for the EdgeFinder.

What assets are included on the EdgeFinder?

Forex Majors:
AUDUSD, NZDUSD, USDZAR, GBPUSD, USDJPY, USDCAD, USDCHF, EURUSD

Forex Minors:
AUDCAD, AUDCHF, AUDJPY, AUDNZD, CADCHF, CADJPY, CHFJPY, EURAUD, EURCAD, EURCHF, EURGBP, EURJPY, EURNZD, GBPAUD, GBPCAD, GBPCHF, GBPJPY, GBPNZD, NZDCAD, NZDCHF, NZDJPY

Metals:
XAUUSD, PLATINUM, SILVER, COPPER

Energy:
USOIL

Indices:
GER30, US30, SPX500, US10Y, NAS100, JP225, UK100, RUSSELL

Bonds:
US10Y

Is the EdgeFinder realtime?

While the EdgeFinder is not necessarily realtime, it is fully automatic in its data collection. The EdgeFinder uses a variety of data sources and inputs. Most price data updates are on a 15 minute timer, while economic data updates every few hours. COT data updates weekly (as it only releases 1 time per week), and retail sentiment updates every 30 minutes.

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