Millions of people   +   Emotion   =   Stock Market

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Millions of people choose the top movie every week.  Their top movie choice is an emotional decision which reinforces hope or fear for the future.  Investors use emotion to make Buy/sell decisions.  Are they confident (Bull) or nervous (Bear)?  Imagine if you had a weekly emotional indicator of Investor Confidence? Well, NOW YOU DO!  MarketBOB is the only emotional indicator to track investor confidence weekly based on millions of movie ticket buyers.

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MarketBOB's DOW Market Prediction This Week!

MarketBOB predicts another BEAR week with Alice In Wonderland dominating the box office with $116 million in ticket sales but disappointing audiences with a derivative story.  Last week, the DOW gained 2.33% on better than expected economic numbers. 

Alice in Wonderland is a 3D crayola fantasy for about an hour and then turns into Joan D'Arc slaying the Dragon because it is her destiny - written on that long scrolly-thing we've seen about a hundred times in the movie so we don't forget.  Predictable story aside, the theater was sold out on opening night and this movie will do huge business and Johnny Depp can write his own ticket to do anything he wants.  However, the full house was quiet throughout and no cheers or clapping rang out at the end so this movie will open but not have the legs to sustain the mountain of Alice-related products Disney has licensed from clothing to tea pots.  So sad.

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Quotes about how Emotion Influences Market Action:

"Investing requires you to make decisions using data from the past and hunches in the present about risks and rewards you will harvest in the future – filling you with feelings like hope, greed, cockiness, surprise, fear, panic, regret, and happiness." - From Your Money and Your Brain by Jason Zweig

"When you win, lose, or risk money, you stir up some of the most profound emotions a human being can ever feel." - From Your Money and Your Brain by Jason Zweig

"If you put together a big enough and diverse enough group of people and ask them to “make decisions affecting matters of general interest,” that group’s decisions will, over time, be intellectually [superior] to the isolated individual,” no matter how smart or well-informed he is."  - From The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

MarketBOB Special Report: Sub-prime Chronology of Collapsing Confidence

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Learn how the movies predicted the sub-prime crisis and the 40% drop in the market.  See how you could have avoided big losses last year as the movies signaled disaster early in the summer.  Why did Beverly Hills Chihuahua signal a massive drop in the DOW?  And why did High School Musical 3 signal a brief period of optimism and the biggest rise in the DOW all year?

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MarketBOB Special Report: MarketBOB Wave Theory

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Learn how Hollywood matches the mood of the nation well in advance and delivers movies in sync with audience hopes and fears.  The multi-year waves of emotions can help you be a better investor.  Also learn how each year displays predictable "seasons" of emotional highs and lows and how you can profit from knowing when they occur.   

There are two theories explained in this special report.  The Long Wave tracks the underlying sentiment of investors over months and years.  Are we anxious, frustrated, cynical as the events of the day pile up and assault our core values?  Then there is the Short Wave, the weekly sentiment of the investing herd, reacting to the immediate news of the day, jumping for joy at the latest earnings report or selling in panic at the latest economic number.  Together, the Short and Long Waves help investors understand the emotional state of the investing herd.

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