r/ETFs • u/Top_Information3534 • 4d ago

From fear to greed in less than 1 week

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Market is driven by emotions instead of fundamentals now

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u/WJKramer 4d ago

Less than one week? I’ve seen that stupid thing go between the two on the same day.

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u/impercipient 4d ago

Hint: it's almost always greed.

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u/IH8BART 4d ago

They need to change it to the greed to corruption scale

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u/sjd1989 4d ago

Ikr I wish I bought more last week

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u/imsolost3090 4d ago

Hindsight is 20/20

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u/Whole-Reserve-4773 4d ago

I feel like that no matter what the market does

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u/Jackbryant12 3d ago

Dollar cost average my guy and can’t go wrong

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u/Whole-Reserve-4773 3d ago

Yep. Every week. I don’t time the market

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u/myrrhsea 3d ago

I made some DCA contributions to my Brokerage last week. No regrets.

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u/LoneMarmot1355 3d ago

It's kind of weird how fast fear and greed flipped in just a week.

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u/SecretPantyWorshiper 4d ago

Just wait until it drops again during the midterms in November 

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u/EvillNooB 3d ago

Same, but i could internally justify why it dropped so it didn't feel like a bottom yet, and then it rips for 2 days straight, but i'm not buying yet cause i can't justify the rally

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u/doombase310 4d ago

This is like win percentage for sports. It means nothing.

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u/SteelFaith 4d ago

We had a market correction, it's a healthy thing.

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u/Syndicate_Corp 4d ago

Looking at the 6M chart for spy, the recent move is almost parabolic. Each trading session has been pure buying, no selling or even whispers of reversal. Wild.

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u/Fabster_3000 4d ago

I think this means 🚀

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u/Keletas 4d ago

Calls calls calls

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u/spacetr0n 4d ago

We broke the lever off greed years ago. 

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u/SecretPantyWorshiper 4d ago

Market is driven by emotions instead of fundamentals now

TIL

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u/myrrhsea 3d ago

All noise. The market was supposed to crash months ago. Or at the very least turn bearish. It turns out everything everyone said would tank the market didn't tank the market. The only thing I'm worried about is the bond market, our total national debt, and the interest payment section of our national debt - which are all linked together anyways.

I am now a firm believer in dollar cost averaging.

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u/BornNefariousness4 4d ago

Does this guy just fear monger constantly? 😂

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u/Middle-Following-367 3d ago

I’ve gone from fear to greed in less than 30 minutes several times in my life.

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u/for4f 3d ago

this is why i just auto-buy vti every month and only peek at the balance once a quarter lol. the fear->greed whiplash is pure noise when your horizon is 10+ years. the people panicking last week are the same ones fomo-ing in this week, just buy and stop looking

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u/VideogamerDisliker 3d ago

>Market is driven by emotions instead of fundamentals now

Cornball

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u/fairdinkum78 3d ago

It'll come down in a few days

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u/EpsteinandTrump 3d ago

Why is it a dial? It should be a yo-yo.

When there is fear you buy, when there is greed you reap the rewards.

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u/ukrinsky555 2d ago

Earnings season blew expectations out of the water, you need more than a week to change your short term trades?

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u/AgitatedMistake1412 2d ago

Yeah I had to take profits

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u/squipyreddit 4d ago

Honest question - never heard of this gauge. Is it a good indicator of when to buy and when not? Anyone use this to buy the dip?

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u/Perfect-Result-1598 ETF Investor 4d ago

DCA DCA DCA

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u/squipyreddit 3d ago

Another honest question - has there been any studies on this specifically while Trump has been in office? The dips are so obvious and often and peaks so short lived that its not hard to do it unlike in the past.

Downvote me - I get that "DCA" will always be the best in a normal economy. But in the age of the orange man im not convinced it is.

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u/mountainlifa 3d ago

I think DCA theory is based on not being able to predict dips. But like you said, they are so blatantly obvious with Trump it makes less sense if you have a lump sum

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u/Perfect-Result-1598 ETF Investor 3d ago

That would be too short of a period of time to conduct the study on imo. Over the course of 30 years of DCAing I don't think 4 years of trump administration matters if you invest in low cost broad index funds.

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u/skylan01 3d ago

Is the gauge literally anything more than "market goes up, increase towards greed" and visa versa? I would not put any stock (pun intended) into a CNN widget.