Sentiment Aggregator
Market Sentiment - Understanding the trend and making it your friend
Market sentiment is defined as the net amount of any group of market player's optimism or pessimism reflected in any asset or market price at a particular time, a kind of collective emotion. The goal of understanding sentiment is to discern when a trend has reached an extreme point and is prone to reverse its direction.
Among sentiment indicators there is the VIX, the CoT Report, Put-Call Ratios, the Ted Spread, Mutual Funds statistics, Margin Balances and Investor Polls- such as FXStreet's weekly FX Forecast Poll.
Sentiment related content
The Forex Forecast Poll
The Forex Forecast is a currency sentiment tool that highlights our selected experts' near and medium term mood and calculates trends according to Friday's 15:00 GMT price. The #FXpoll is not to be taken as signal or as final target, but as an exchange rates heat map of where sentiment and expectations are going.
The CoT Report
The COT provides up-to-date information about the trend and the strength of the commitment traders have towards that trend by detailing the positioning of speculative and commercial traders in the various futures markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) releases a new COT report each Friday.
EUR/USD
GBP/USD
JPY/USD
CHF/USD
Educational Reports
Editors' picks

EUR/USD stays near 1.0800 after US data, eyes on Trump's tariff decisions
EUR/USD continues to trade at around 1.0800 on Wednesday as investors refrain from taking large positions ahead of US President Donald Trump's tariff announcements. Meanwhile, the data from the US showed that employment in the private sector rose by 155K in March.

GBP/USD trades with caution above 1.2900, awaits Trump’s tariffs reveal
GBP/USD trades marginally higher on the day above 1.2900 as the US Dollar fails to benefit from the upbeat employment data. Traders remain wary and refrain from placing fresh bets on the major, anticipating the US 'reciprocal tariffs' announcement on "Liberation Day' at 20:00 GMT.

Gold stabilizes above $3,110 ahead of Trump's tariffs announcement on “Liberation Day”
Gold fluctuates in a narrow channel above $3,110 after correcting from the record-high it set near $3,150 on Tuesday. XAU/USD struggles to find direction before US President Donald Trump officially announces the reciprocal tariff implementation at the White House later this Wednesday.

Liberation day arrives, the fight back begins
Investors have been waiting for the announcement of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, and today it will arrive. The President is set to announce the tariff arrangement at 2000 GMT, after US stock markets have closed.

Is the US economy headed for a recession?
Leading economists say a recession is more likely than originally expected. With new tariffs set to be launched on April 2, investors and economists are growing more concerned about an economic slowdown or recession.