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TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index: March Numbers Rise as Low Market Volatility Continues

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TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index: March Numbers Rise as Low Market Volatility Continues

Investors remain bullish as IMX trends upward for seven of the past nine months

OMAHA, Neb.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– TD Ameritrade, Inc. (“TD Ameritrade”), a broker-dealer subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (NYS: AMTD) , is today revealing the Investor Movement IndexSM score for March 2013. The Investor Movement Index, or the IMXSM, is a proprietary, behavior-based index created by TD Ameritrade that aggregates Main Street investor positions and activity to measure what investors are actually doing and how they are positioned in the markets.

The March 2013 Investor Movement Index for the five weeks ending March 28, 2013, reveals:

  • Score: 5.37 (compared to 5.14 in February)
  • Trend direction: Positive
  • Trend length: 2 months
  • Score relative to historic ranges: High

Following a spike in February, the IMX numbers for March are currently the highest the Company has on record since June 2011, adding to an ongoing bullish trend among the Company’s retail investor base spanning seven of the past nine months. TD Ameritrade’s retail clients continued to rotate their positions throughout the month, selling securities at highs and buying into lows. March also saw an increased number of clients seeking out stocks with higher dividend yields and holding positions with higher relative volatility compared to that of the general market.

“March’s IMX score indicates that our retail clients remain diligent in increasing their exposure carefully,” said Steve Quirk, senior vice president of TD Ameritrade’s Trader Group. “In this period of low volatility and a rising market, clients are leaning toward selection of yields and individual equities.”

The IMX value is calculated based on a complex proprietary formula. Each month, TD Ameritrade pulls a sample from its client base of 6 million funded accounts that includes all accounts that completed a trade in the past two months. The holdings and positions of this statistically significant sample are evaluated to calculate individual scores, and the median of those scores represents the monthly IMX.

For more information on the Investor Movement Index, including historical IMX data going back to December 2010, to view the full …read more

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