Why Current Bearish Analyst Sentiment May Be a Contrary Indicator

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We always love a good contrary indicator!  And here’s a great one from Barry Ritholtz on his always-excellent blog entitled Are Wall Street Analysts Contrary Indicators? As we have noted so many times previously, following the Wall Street crowd of analysts is rarely the way to make money. Collectively, the analyst community has turned excessively […]

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GoldAlert.com reports that bullish sentiment towards gold prices has hit its lowest levels in 19 months: Bullish sentiment toward the gold price continues to drop, evidenced by the current 60% Market Vane Bullish Consensus reading on gold. This is the lowest level since December 9, 2008 – a few weeks after the gold price plunged […]

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Could the re-emergence of Mr. T be the mother of all sell signals for gold? Kevin Depew, Editor-in-Chief of Minyanville, explored the “Mr. T Gold Indicator” in a wonderfully written – and hysterical – article: The Mr. T Gold Indicator is a proprietary technical indicator created by Minyanville to identify and anticipate prospective exhaustion points […]

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Contrarian indicators don’t get much better than this. Our good friend here in town, fellow Austrian economist fanatic Jonathan Lederer sent along word today that the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), has approved a plan to begin investing in commodities “as a hedge against inflation and to buffer losses in equities” (Seriously, I’m not making this […]

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