Although the number of bulls has stayed fairly constant recently, the number of bears from the American Association of Individual Investors survey has dropped from 23.6% to 18.9%.
Arbeter says another indicator showing high levels of fear, which came out before the market got whacked on Thursday and Friday (Oct. 18 and 19, respectively), came from the American Association of Individual Investor survey: Bullish sentiment dropped to 28.7% while bearishness jumped 44.6%.
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Mr. Schiller testified that such surveys are considered important trade secrets because while it is easy for an individual company to survey its own customers, it is very hard to survey a competitor's customers.
The fall in giving is the largest one-year decline in the survey of individual giving's eight-year history, and the total given is the smallest in real terms since the survey began.
The AAII survey of individual investors shows that only 22% are now bullish, with 41.8% bearish.
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We began to survey our individual communities to identify gaps in their preparedness processes.
The most recent AAII survey of individual investors shows that now just over 45% think the market will be higher over the next six months.
The September AAII Asset Allocation Survey found that individual investors held 57.8% of their portfolio in stocks and stock funds.
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The most recent American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) weekly survey revealed only 24% of investors were bullish, while 48% were bearish.
The sentiment numbers are also turning more negative, as the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sentiment survey showed a jump to 49.8% bearish, up from 31% bearish the prior week.
More than 50, 000 individual prices are collected in each survey round, and a cost-of-living index is calculated from the price data to express the difference in the cost of living between any two cities.
Individual investors as measured by the AAII survey are also more bullish as of December 15, with more than 40% bullish.
The household survey contacts about 60, 000 individual households to find out how many Americans are working.
The number of bulls in both the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) and Investors Intelligence survey declined a bit, with both around 50.
Another exciting open data announcement came from the U.S. Census Bureau which updated its popular QuickFacts site with the new American Community Survey statistics (about 11 billion individual estimates), providing access to information about a town, county or state.
It is worth noting, however, that it is not just our survey that has shown an improvement in individual investor sentiment.
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Even with a small decline in optimism, more than 40% of individual investors describe themselves as bullish in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey.
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The recent bounce to a two-month high in stock prices lessened the glum our survey has been indicating, but not so much that individual investors can be described as being sanguine.
Optimism among individual investors reached a five-week high in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey.
Coe and Anthony Webb used data from the national Health and Retirement Survey to track spending and saving changes in 2001 through 2007 of individual households where the kids had moved out.
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According to the January AAII Asset Allocation Survey, stocks and stock funds accounted for 63.5% of individual investor portfolios.
By using the Family Spending Survey (FSS) to estimate a few key expenditure items, some individual household accuracy is lost.
Individual investors increased their allocations to stocks last month, according to the October AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
Individual investors decreased their allocations to equities last month, according to the March AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
Stock and stock fund allocations did receive some benefit from improved optimism about the short-term direction of stock prices, however, with individual investors being more bullish in July than they were in June according to our weekly Sentiment Survey showed.
Bullish sentiment of individual investors rose 10.1 percentage points to 30.8% in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey.
Individual investors have become more optimistic about the stock market, as is evident in our weekly Sentiment Survey.
Individual investors increased their stock and stock fund holdings last month, according to the April AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
Individual investors kept their portfolio allocations to equities essentially unchanged last month, according to the latest AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
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