Market sentiment is a broad term that encompasses the prevailing feeling that investors have about a market. Measuring this “feeling” can be accomplished in a variety of ways. CNNMoney has a Fear and Greed Index that displays this in a simple format showing when investors are most willing to take on risk or hunker down. […]
The IASG CTA Index has approximately 75% of managers updated through July performance with almost all sectors posting positive returns for the month. The one exception is the agricultural index where many managers struggled with grain pricing continuing downward pricing and many with expectations that there would be a bounce back in grains.