Volume 9, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 142–151
Yasir Mehmood1 and Waqas Hanif2
1 Department of Management Sciences, Iqra University Islamabad, Pakistan
2 Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology Islamabad, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper measures the investor's sentiment in stock market. There are two indicators to measure investor sentiment either directly or indirectly, Closing price of stocks and traded volume as proxy variables (indirect method) were used for analyses. This study finds the connection between investor's sentiments, which depends upon the bullish and bearish market trends. After analysis, it is concluded that bullish and bearish trends in the stock market are appropriate measures for measuring the investor's sentiments as per results shown in this study.
Author Keywords: Stock Price, Trading Volume, Causality and Regression.
Yasir Mehmood1 and Waqas Hanif2
1 Department of Management Sciences, Iqra University Islamabad, Pakistan
2 Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology Islamabad, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper measures the investor's sentiment in stock market. There are two indicators to measure investor sentiment either directly or indirectly, Closing price of stocks and traded volume as proxy variables (indirect method) were used for analyses. This study finds the connection between investor's sentiments, which depends upon the bullish and bearish market trends. After analysis, it is concluded that bullish and bearish trends in the stock market are appropriate measures for measuring the investor's sentiments as per results shown in this study.
Author Keywords: Stock Price, Trading Volume, Causality and Regression.
How to Cite this Article
Yasir Mehmood and Waqas Hanif, “Impact of Bullish and Bearish Market on Investor Sentiment,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 142–151, November 2014.
