According to some people dumb money is close to maxicum confidence.
They have an indicator and it is at peak levels. I do not know how it is calculated.
There is also this:
"A fundamental indicator created by Yardeni Research, the Boom-Bust Barometer, has been “busting” even while stocks reach new highs. The Barometer hit a 52-week low this month even as the S&P 500 hit an all-time high."
And this:
"The Investor’s Intelligence survey of newsletter writers now has a Bull Ratio in the top 5% of all readings in the past 30 years. Such high readings led to poor 1-year returns, with the S&P averaging only 2.3%. Excluding the super-momentum years of 2013 and 2017, that dropped to -1.3%, with risk of -10.9%."
I see alot of people, really lots, bearish, so this surprised me but not that much, I live in an echo chamber. All those bearish people I see (on twitter) they are not your average idiot. It feels like the majority is bearish, but it is the majority in the elite. In the months leading up to 1929 it was the same.
Can't compare Berkshire management to Joe Boris 2017 Bitcoin investor saying the bears have mental issues.
According to that data, dumb money is optimistic for more than 80%.
At some point it becomes literally impossible the price keeps going up (smart money bought way earlier possibly got out and won't get back in, and we are running out of dumb money to buy higher), other than a direct FED intervention.
Do you see alot of bullish comments from the herd?
Do the average shoe shiners laugh at you when you make apocalyptic calls?
Do Robinhood baggies go up and up and up?
Is there a massive bubble in parallel to stocks?
(Like 2000 was accompanied by dotcoms, 2010s/20s are accompanied by cryptos.)
Are all the "indicators" and numbers at peak/bottom levels?
If you answered yes to all of these questions, you are close to a major recession.
An ERA is ending... soon.
(Unless the FED catapults a ton of money to keep number going up but that would be so dumb)
I do not think I want to speculate on this thought, I don't know...
Not until 20k dow maybe if we are at the top, because could bounce there.
I don't think we are at the top, but I don't know how far dumb money can push it... We'll see. Might short it later on, don't want to do it early here.
And my buys in anticipation of suckers rally will depend of where the top is.
Also maybe I'll see some short term (1 day - 2 weeks) bets on the way but I do not focus on indices so much, rather currencies. Indices I'll trade I think, but just the big stuff. Same as dumbcoin.
1 thing is clear to me: Now is not the time to invest in stocks.
It is the dumb money buying time (and you know there is a good reason it is called dumb money).