{
  "id": "investor-sentiment.read",
  "term": "investor sentiment",
  "sense": "read",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "The reach a market's members report as their own, asked of them or read from prices, a report that moves the prices it is read from.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "morale.collective",
      "reach.action",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "market.economic",
      "member.social",
      "report.information",
      "asks.social",
      "read.information",
      "price.economic",
      "motion.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "The self-read of investors is taken both by asking them and from what they pay; because paying is itself acting on the read, the prices are the report and its effect at once.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a self-read measured from its own consequences",
      "a reading often used against itself as a contrary signal"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The American Association of Individual Investors runs a weekly Sentiment Survey asking members whether they expect stocks to rise, fall or stay flat over the next six months.",
      "domain": "finance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "consumer-confidence.measured",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "consumer confidence is asked of households; investor sentiment is also read from prices"
    },
    {
      "id": "fear-and-greed.swing",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "sentiment is the level; fear and greed name its two ends"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "investor sentiment",
    "market sentiment"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-investor-sentiment.read"
}