The extreme bullishness that the poll was talking about was from The American Association of Individual Investors is a nonprofit organization with about 150,000 members. This is a poll that is regularly taken like consumer confidence etc.They are not talking about individual stocks . Market sentiment is used as a contrarian indicator.It is just one measure and there is no one magic bullet for timing the market.Some other indicators pointing to a top is overall market stock volume decreasing .If the price is moving slowly higher, but volume keeps dropping off that could be another indicator of a top . The Vix is very low and has been for awhile.Mutual funds cash levels are very low see chart
Investors can boo hoo all of these indicators seperatly but taken together with our governments excess debt spending which is the main reason we have a plus gdp and soon to run out , Well its smart to hold some cash
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