Stock Trends Gauge of Investor Sentiment: A Market at the Crossroads of Renewal

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The Stock Trends Gauge of Investor Sentiment has long served as a vital compass for interpreting the emotional currents that drive markets. By measuring the distribution of Bullish and Bearish Stock Trends indicators across all New York Stock Exchange issues, this gauge transforms the abstract notion of “market mood” into a quantifiable, observable pattern of investor behavior. Over the past two decades, it has proven to be an uncanny mirror of investor psychology — revealing when fear gives way to opportunity, and when euphoria conceals risk.

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