Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
If I am a trader, and I know you have got ample stocks, why should I buy?
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.
The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.
One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.
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