Sentiment just snapped hard. AAII survey shows bears jumped to 53% while bulls dropped to 29%. That's a massive swing in investor psychology within a single week.
This is the kind of fear spike that often marks short-term bottoms, not tops. When everyone's positioned defensively and cash allocations are climbing, you're closer to a flush than a crash.
Markets don't need optimism to rally. They need pessimism to exhaust itself. And right now? Plenty of exhaustion showing up in the data.
This is the kind of fear spike that often marks short-term bottoms, not tops. When everyone's positioned defensively and cash allocations are climbing, you're closer to a flush than a crash.
Markets don't need optimism to rally. They need pessimism to exhaust itself. And right now? Plenty of exhaustion showing up in the data.
