Using the CNN Fear & Greed Index as a trading signal. Another thought... it seems to me, that there is still a flaw in weighting based on fear/greed (or consumer confidence, for that matter), because those are lagging indicators (in other words: they tell recent history, they don't necessarily predict anything) I'm going to test something else: what happens if you sell when it is a mildly fearful index (ie. things are just starting to hit the fan, but there's still room to fall), and buy when it is mildly greedy... but do the contrarian moves when it hits an extreme threshold of fear or greed (aka. a "peak" or a "bottom" -- for example, when everybody was saying "Buy real estate!
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