IMX

After gaining more than 65 percent over 2017 to reach a new all-time high of 8.59 by the end of the year, TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index (IMX), which measures TDA client buying and selling activity to arrive at a relative sentiment score, made another record-breaking move in the first...

2017 was a record year for the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average made record highs 71 times. The S&P 500 increased every month for the first time ever. By most metrics, it was an amazing year for nearly every segment of the economy and nearly every developed market. Here were the most...

According to one index, non-institutional investors have more exposure to the stock market than at any point since 2010. The Investor Movement Index, a monthly index created by TD Ameritrade to track sentiment among its clients, increased to 8.59 in December, an all-time high for the 8-year-...

If sentiment among retail investors is to be believed, this bull market is stronger than ever. TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index (IMX), which measures retail investor sentiment, increased to 7.4 in October, just shy of a record high. The higher the IMX, the more positive TD Ameritrade...

With most of the major indices at or near all-time highs, some investors are using this as an opportunity to take profits from their positions. That's according to TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index, which tracks investing behavior and sentiment among customer portfolios. The IMX...

Another month down and another impressive record set among TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD) clients. The broker's monthly Investor Movement Index (IMX) report showed that investors with TD Ameritrade remained net buyers for the fourth month straight, making August the third month in a...

Investors have been riding high this year. The Dow posted nine consecutive all-time high closes in the past two weeks, and traders have responded appropriately. The Investor Movement Index, or IMX, an index TD Ameritrade tracks to measure investor sentiment, also hit an all-time high this month. A...

On tempo with the broader growth trends in the major equity market indices, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.'s (NASDAQ: AMTD) monthly survey of investor activity, the Investor Movement Index (IMX), reached a new high of 7.09 over the month of July. That makes July the sixth consecutive month in...

2017 has been the year of tech. With the Nasdaq 100 up about 18 percent, investors have poured money into large-cap names like Facebook.com, Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ:...

Retail investors ended the first half of 2017 with record equity exposure, according to TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index, or IMX. The index indicates that investors used the first six months of 2017, during which the S&P 500 rose 7.6 percent, to increase their exposure to tech and...

The S&P 500 was largely flat in June, but that didn't stop retail investors from remaining very bullish according to one measurement.  TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index (IMX), which tracks the monthly investment behavior among TD Ameritrade clients, showed that in June,...

After a slight pullback in April following a series of all-time highs, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD)’s monthly summary of its Investor Movement Index showed its customers regained much of their former bullishness in May. This despite the first single-day decline of more than 1...

The first quarter of 2017 has gone overwhelmingly to the bulls, according to the TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD) monthly Investor Movement Index (IMX) Report. The March edition the IMX report, which measures investor movement in and out of equities, showed that for the third month in a...