What is sentix?

The sentix-project started in February, 2001. Within two years it ranks now as one of the leading surveys of investor opinion in Germany and Europe. The poll is taken every week on Friday. Due to our effective polling procedure we are able to publish all results until Monday morning!

Article about sentix in the IFTA Journal 2008 with in-depth information about sentix

A second goal is to provide investors and academics with accurate and timely data about what investors think on markets. This data is a missing piece to run investment strategies based on behavioral finance.

About 3.100 people (among them more than 690 institutional investors) will be asked about their opinion on 12 different markets. These markets are:

• DAX-Index
• TecDAX (german technology stocks)
• EuroSTOXX 50
• S+P 500
• Nasdaq Composite
• Nikkei-Index
• Bund-Future
• T-Bond-Future
• EUR-USD currency
• USD-JPY currency
• Gold
• Oil

The poll includes the investors' expectations for one (short-term) and six months (medium-term). From these raw data we calculate several indices:

• sentix-Index for each market (available on Bloomberg and Datastream)
• sentix-Index Private Investors (available to registered sentix voters from the sentix website)
• sentix-Index Institutional Investors (available to registered sentix voters from the sentix website)
• sentix-Index Neutrality-Index (available on Bloomberg and Datastream)

Article about sentix in the IFTA Journal 2008 with in-depth information about sentix

How are the sentix values calculated?

The sentix indices of investor sentiment are calculated with the following formula:

• sentix = (no. of bulls - no. of bears) / (no. of all votes)     Example Graph (powered by sentix-Freegenerator)

The sentix uncertainty ratios are calculated as follows:

• sentix uncertainty = no. of neutrals / no. of all votes     Example Graph (powered by sentix-Freegenerator)

One of the key features of the sentix-index family is, that it is very wellcome for everybody to take part on the weekly survey. As a result every sentix-voter has FREE access to the huge sentiment database.

Other unique features of the sentix-project are:

• investor opinions on special themes (i.e. iraq crisis, risk assessments etc.) for your behavioral studies
• business expectations (sentix-economics indices are highly correlated to other surveys (like ZEW) but due to the high speed polling process are leading these surveys)
• investor sentiment for several market sectors
• investor sentiment for commodities
• investor positioning (for stocks and bonds)

Further informations

In the following we will guide you through some pages of interest for you. These pages are mostly in German but should understandable for you if you are familiar with sentiment surveys and securities data:

Register for sentix
FAQ-section in German
A survey example
Actual analysis with some graphics
Some sentix-statistics
Go here with your User-ID to the My sentix-portal
Press archive (what the media says about us)
Article about sentix in the IFTA Journal 2008 with in-depth information about sentix

If you have additional questions, feel free to contact us.

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