Last month NinjaTrader sponsored a market sentiment webinar with SentiTrade. It covered previously unpublished information on how we detect market sentiment tonality in news stories and use it to create a trading edge. If you missed this opportunity to see SentiTrade in action, you can now watch it as a video on NinjaTrader’ YouTube channel… Read more

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We’re currently seeing a similar situation to that of early 2008. The market sentiment and stock prices have recovered for the past few weeks. Since mid Dec. the DAX index has gained ca. 7% and in this time window, the SentiTrade Team made 2 important observations: Read more

Tags bull bear psychology - dax futures - market psychology - market sentiment - market sentiment values - sentiment analysis - sentiment volatility

Market Sentiment and Oil Price; A correlation between developments in SentiTrade’s market sentiment values and commodity prices has been established. An initial study looked at entry points based on the 38 / 200 moving averages in the Brent Future (BRN) vs. those of the SentiTrade Index. In the chart, SentiTrade’s “cross above” is marked with black squares, whereas the BRN 200 line is green and the 38 line in red. Read more

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That Mr. Wouldhave and Mrs. Couldhave are the most successful investors of all times, is hardly breaking news. That the 20 day SentiTrade average anticipated the current market downfall is however, breaking news.

The method behind SentiTrade’s market sentiment indicator, is simply to calculate the ratio between positive and negative news items. Our fully automated computational software takes care of the hard part, namely reading and assessing whether the news is bullish or bearish. Read more

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Since last week the DAX lost about 700 points, same with the DJIA. Could SentiTrade predict that this was about to happen? Our commentary over the last weeks gave plenty of clues and we’re pleased to note that our fully automated momentum strategies followed through. They apply a combination of the concept previously discussed, namely high/low marks from the SentiTrade indicator (trigger points) and momentum calculations of how quickly the sentiment is changing. Read more

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