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Sentiment
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- Consumer Confidence Survey measures of how households feel about the economy and their finances, such as the Conference Board and Michigan indexes.
- Contrarian An approach that deliberately goes against prevailing sentiment, buying when others are fearful and selling when they are greedy.
- Market breadth How many stocks are participating in a market move, measured with advancers versus decliners or the share above a moving average.
- Market sentiment The overall mood of investors toward a market or stock, from fear to greed, and the surveys, ratios and volatility gauges used to measure it.
- Put-call ratio The volume (or open interest) of put options divided by that of calls, read as a gauge of how bearish or hedged options traders are.
- Short interest The number of a company’s shares that have been sold short and not yet bought back, reported twice a month and read alongside float and days to cover.
- VIX Cboe's volatility index, computed from S&P 500 option prices, measuring the market's expected 30-day volatility; often called the fear gauge.
- What moves stock prices? Earnings, rates, flows, news and sentiment The forces that set a stock price, from earnings and expectations to interest rates, fund flows, news and mood, with real 2025–2026 examples from Finabase data.
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