TD Ameritrade Investor Movement Index: IMX Score Shows Positive Lift in May; Rebounding from the Pri

TD Ameritrade press release June 5, 2017 ------- The May 2017 Investor Movement Index® gained momentum and jumped up a percent from April’s pullback, coming in at 6.13, TD Ameritrade, Inc. (“TD Ameritrade”), a broker-dealer subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: AMTD) announced today. 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. TD Ameritrade clients continued a four-month trend of overall net buying during the May IMX period. Client accounts showed increased equity exposure compared to the market, which was bolstered by higher relative volatility in widely held names. Market activity remained favorable during the period as indices reached new highs− S&P closed at a historic high of over 2,400− and nearly 75 percent of S&P 500 companies beat earnings estimates, reporting the highest year-over-year earnings increase since 2011. To learn more click on the picture below to read the release.