While the market has jumped in recent weeks, MarketWatch’s Mark Hulbert says sentiment appears to remain low — which is good news for stocks. According to Hulbert, the average equity…
Category: Behavioral Finance
Paulsen on the "New Normal" Mania
Wells Capital Management’s Jim Paulsen says that, just as investors succumbed to a mania that made technology stocks wildly overvalued in the late 1990s, they now are falling prey to…
Global Value Picks Buffett, Graham & Lynch Might Like
In his latest article for Forbes.com, Validea CEO John Reese says the high levels of fear in the market are creating a variety of opportunities around the globe for disciplined…
Fisher: Focus on Present Opportunities, Not Fears of the Past
Kenneth Fisher says investors continue to be fixated on the problems of the recent past, which is preventing them from seeing opportunities in the present. “Generally, one thing I’ve learned…
Fear Has Fisher Bullish
Investors have been fleeing stocks in a hurry in recent months, and that has top money manager Kenneth Fisher feeling bullish. “I’m never going to be bearish when people are…
Two Top Newsletters Bullish
Two stock-investing newsletters with excellent long-term track records are sounding quite bullish, despite — or, perhaps more to the point, in part because of — the significant amount of fear…
Consumers As Contrarians Indicators
One of the reasons for the market’s tumble late last week was a much worse-than-expected consumer confidence reading. But according to Mark Hulbert and the research of Kenneth Fisher, the…
Dreman: Time to Seize Opportunities
In his latest Forbes column, David Dreman says fears of Europe’s demise — and an ensuing global economic downturn — are overblown. “It’s as if people were having nightmares of…
Paulsen on "Post-Traumatic-Armageddon-Hypochondria"
Wells Capital Management’s James Paulsen continues to say we’re in a correction that is part of a broader bull market — not the beginning of another huge downturn. Paulsen tells…
Lynch-Inspired Model Far Outpacing Market
Every other issue of The Validea Hot List newsletter examines in detail one of John Reese’s computerized Guru Strategies. This latest issue looks at the Peter Lynch-inspired strategy, which has…