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Crowd Forecast News Report #358

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The new TimingResearch report for the week has been posted, you can download the full PDF report with the link below or you can read the full report in this post below.

Click here to download report in PDF format: TRReport080320.pdf

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Question #1. Which direction do you think the S&P500 index will move from this coming Monday’s open to Friday’s close (August 3rd-7th)?

Higher: 64.3%
Lower: 35.7%
Higher/Lower Difference: 28.6%

Question #2. Rate your confidence in your answer to Question #2 by estimating the probability you have correctly predicted next week’s market move.

Average of All Responses: 69.6%
Average For “Higher” Responses: 68.9%
Average For “Lower” Responses: 71.0%
Higher/Lower Difference: -2.1%

Responses Submitted This Week: 15
52-Week Average Number of Responses: 27.4

TimingResearch Crowd Forecast Prediction: 56% Chance Higher
This prediction is an attempt by the editor of this newsletter to use the full 6+ year history of data collected from this project to forecast a probability estimate for whether this week’s sentiment is going to be correct and ultimately what the markets will do this coming week.

Details: Last week’s majority sentiment from the survey was 55.6% predicting Higher, and the Crowd Forecast Indicator prediction was 53% chance Higher; the S&P500 closed 1.59% Higher for the week. This week’s majority sentiment from the survey is 64.3% predicting Higher but with a greater average confidence from those who are predicting Lower. Similar conditions have occurred 52 times in the previous 357 weeks, with the majority sentiment (Higher) being correct 56% of the time but with an average S&P500 move of 0.05% Lower for the week. Based on that history, the TimingResearch Crowd Forecast Indicator is forecasting a 56% Chance that the S&P500 is going to move Higher this coming week.

Raw Data Page (raw data files include full history spreadsheet and the above charts):
TimingResearch.com/data.

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Full Weekly Results (full version of this chart available in the raw data spreadsheet for this week, “Date” field below lists the Monday of the week being predicted).

Overall Sentiment All-Time “Correct” Percentage: 52.7%
Overall Sentiment 52-Week “Correct” Percentage: 58.8%
Overall Sentiment 12-Week “Correct” Percentage: 45.5%

Only the previous 52 weeks of data are shown below, please download the raw data to see the full range of past data.

Weekly Reports Page: TimingResearch.com/reports
Raw Data Page: TimingResearch.com/rawdata
Current Survey Page: TimingResearch.com/currentsurvey
Any feedback: TimingResearch.com/contact

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NOTE: The following open-ended answers are solely the opinions of the anonymous respondents to this survey. Responses are mostly unedited, but some have been reformatted slightly for to make them easier to read. Some irrelevant responses (e.g. “none”), or anything obviously fake, or copy and pasted responses have been omitted. All-caps responses have been changed to all lowercase. All responses for each week, unedited, are available in the raw data spreadsheets at TimingResearch.com/data.

Question #3. For your answer to Question #1, please share what specific reason(s) you think the S&P500 will be heading the direction you chose.

“Higher” Respondent Answers:

• Companies earnings have been good so far and the next stimulus package would be passed by the Congress.
• August is up to start with then turns down
• Expecting that optimism in the tech sector and continued market support from the Fed will lead to a higher S&P this coming week.
• Technical analysis
• Trend continues :(
• Trend

“Lower” Respondent Answers:

• stocks are too close to their highs.
• Forcibly raising the price acts like a resurrection of a dead cat.
• sentiment Corona

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Question #4. What styles of trading or methodologies have you had the most success with?

• Options & trading securities
• Swing trading of stocks.
• elliott wave Fibonacci on price and time moments analysis
• options
• Position trading
• With Elliot wave strategy+crossing MA.

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Question #5. Additional Comments/Questions/Suggestions?

• none

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