Institutional Sentiment
Learn how institutional positioning, retail sentiment, and market participation can be used to understand the forces driving financial markets.
Price action only tells you what the market has done. Sentiment analysis can help provide additional context about who may be positioned in the market and how that positioning is changing.
Institutional Sentiment Lessons
Learn how to analyze positioning and sentiment step by step.
COT Analysis
Learn how Commitment of Traders data can be used to study positioning across major futures markets and identify changes in institutional exposure.
Smart Money
Understand institutional positioning, professional market participants, and how large traders can influence market structure and sentiment.
Retail Sentiment
Learn how retail positioning can provide insight into crowd behavior and how traders can use sentiment as part of a broader market analysis.
Sentiment Divergence
Discover how differences between institutional positioning, retail sentiment, and price action can reveal potentially important market conditions.
Why Sentiment Matters
Markets are driven by the decisions and expectations of participants. Studying positioning can help traders understand whether market participants are becoming more bullish, more bearish, or increasingly divided.
Sentiment should not be used in isolation. It becomes more useful when combined with fundamental conditions, technical structure, economic data, and broader macroeconomic trends.