The poll reached 54.6% bullish in October, 2007, at the top of the 2003-2007 bull market, and 53.3% bullish on May 1, 2008, two weeks before the top of the 2008 bear market rally .
The longer-term secular bull trend for gold remains bullish, and there remains plenty of fodder on the horizon to help trigger another explosive up move in the yellow metal in the days and weeks ahead.
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The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, widened to -22.4 points.
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The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is 18.4 percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is at 14.6 percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, narrowed to -2.6 percentage points.
The spread between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, widened to -14 percentage points.
The spread between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is above 0.0 for the 13th consecutive week.
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The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment (the bull-bear spread) is also unusually high at 31.5%, but not so high as to create caution that individual investors are too optimistic.
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One of the statistics highlighted in the article was the spread between bullish and bearish sentiment (aka, the bull-bear spread).
In 1993 he pronounced himself "maximum bullish" on Greater China and helped spark a regionwide bull run that saw markets generally doubling in a year.
That could be seen in the sharp drop in bullish investor sentiment, and the upturn in the number of pundits declaring the end of the bull market.
"A bullish tone has been set, and we are not of the belief that this rally is a bull trap to be followed by a serious decline, " says volume-reversal specialist Mark Leibovit of VR Trader.
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