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As the market continues to seemingly move higher every day, investor complacency appears to be on the rise. The recent CBOE equity put/call ratio is at a low level of .50. Like other sentiment indicators, this measure tends to be more accurate at extremes. On April 20th we wrote about the elevated put/call ratio and wondered if the market was excessively bearish. Since the time of that post, the market has advanced over 7%....

Investors seem to be realizing that higher interest rates are not good for their bond investments. As we wrote in mid November in an article, higher interest rates translate into a declining value in the price of an investor's bonds. Recent mutual fund flow data shows investors have been placing less of their funds into bond mutual funds.

Investor Sentiment And Fund Flows

Posted by DisciplinedInvesting on November 25th, 2010

Two weeks ago bullish investor sentiment was reported at its highest level of the year coming in at 57.56%. At the same time the S&P 500 Index hit is yearly high of 1,225. In the following week the bullish sentiment level fell over 17 percentage points to 40% and the market has trended lower since this time.

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