{"id":40882,"date":"2020-11-16T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T13:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tradestation.io\/insights\/?p=40882"},"modified":"2020-12-03T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T22:02:56","slug":"coronavirus-aaii-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2020\/11\/16\/coronavirus-aaii-sentiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Pulse: Coronavirus Vaccine Gives Sentiment a Huge Shot in the Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>News of Pfizer&#8217;s coronavirus vaccine last week pushed stocks to new highs. It also had a big impact on sentiment, as measured by the American Association of Individual Investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization&#8217;s weekly survey is a popular guestimate of the crowd&#8217;s psychology. It plunged from about 40 percent bullish in February (pre-pandemic) to the lows 30s in March. The number of &#8220;bearish&#8221; respondents also rose above 50 percent and stayed there for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until that week, it is. The vaccine seems to have triggered two milestones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The percentage &#8220;bullish&#8221; spiked from 38 percent to 56 percent. That&#8217;s the highest since January 2018.<\/li><li>The 18 percentage-point change was the biggest positive swing since July 2010.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2020\/11\/15\/iwm-vs-qqq\/\">This Chart Highlights the Sharp Swing Toward Small Caps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of Pfizer&#8217;s coronavirus vaccine last week pushed stocks to new highs. It also had a big impact on sentiment, as measured by the American Association of Individual Investors. The organization&#8217;s weekly survey is a popular guestimate of the crowd&#8217;s psychology. It plunged from about 40 percent bullish in February (pre-pandemic) to the lows 30s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":40417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Market Pulse: Coronavirus Vaccine Gives Sentiment a Huge Shot in the Arm | Market Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2020\/11\/16\/coronavirus-aaii-sentiment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Market Pulse: Coronavirus Vaccine Gives Sentiment a Huge Shot in the Arm | Market Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News of Pfizer&#8217;s coronavirus vaccine last week pushed stocks to new highs. 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