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Contrarian trading on financial news sentiment

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Most people in trading agree on that too much optimism is a warning signal and too much pessimism is an opportunity. But how much is too much?

The buy and sell signals provided by the ATH Sentiment Index are suitable for timing of all investments that correlate with the global markets, such as index futures. Below are the results from trading index futures based on our signals during our first year (May 2, 2011 – May 2, 2012):


US

Return
Dow Jones50.6%
S&P50051.6%
Nasdaq30.4%

Europe

FTSE10051.8%
DAX81.1%
CAC4094.5%

Asia

Hang Seng58.8%
Shanghai38.9%
Nikkei19.7%

The complete results for all individual trades on all markets including drawdowns are available for download here.

Up-to-date information is only available to subscribers. Please note that all information on this page is one month old.

Realized result rolling 12 months: 0.2%

Apr 20, 2013

Since May 2nd 2011 we trade on the signals from ATH Sentiment Index. The realized result since start is 84.9% All trades are found in Our Portfolio.

Keeping our position

Apr 19, 2013

As our OMXS30 Futures (April) expire today we move our short position to OMXS30 Future (June).