It started with the final stages of a big bull market, then we got the second biggest bear market since the Great Depression, a five-year bull market in which stocks over doubled, the biggest bear market since the Great Depression, and the massive start of a new bull.
He doesn't care whether there's a bull or bear market occurring.
Chart Analysis : In either a bull or bear market, whether you are talking about a stock, ETF, or commodity, it is common to see a series of flag formations.
Others lenders were willing to extend higher amounts of credit than the company was seeking, but in our view, the debt to equity ratio they were being offered was not healthy for the company, and not something that Hercules would support in either a bull or bear market.
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As I said in March 2007, you cannot have a bull market for stocks with a bear market in financials.
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This formation interrupts a previous trend and reaches completion once the resistance (in a bull market) or support (in a bear market) is overcome.
My work strongly suggests that this is the start of a significant correction, or perhaps it was even the top of a cyclical, two-year bull market in a larger, secular bear market.
Then, there are some who posit this is a cyclical bull market in a secular bear.
It may feel safe to put your money in the top performing funds in a bull market or into cash and bonds during a bear market, but both are actually riskier than they seem.
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And the disbelievers often feel vindicated, when after 3, 4, 5, 7, however many years of big bull market returns, a new bear market starts.
But then again, it takes lower levels of fear to carve out a short-term bottom in a bull-market environment relative to a bear-market environment.
During the euphoria of a bull market it seems easy to picture oneself holding through a bear market, eagerly watching for it to end so the big gains will resume.
"I am more scared about missing the bull market than I am about a bear market, " bubbles Kaplan.
The fund gets an "A" rating for bull markets and a "B" for bear market performance.
After a late '40s bear, the Dow went on a bull market run that lasted from 1949 to 1961, its longest ever.
"We expect Korea to move from a bear to a bull market this year the reverse of 2011, " Shaun Cochran, a market strategist at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, wrote in a note to clients.
Too often I have seen investors sell a stock that is just undergoing a secondary reaction in a primary bull market or buy a stock that is undergoing a secondary reaction in a primary bear market.
People tend to pile into hot funds after a bull market is well under way and to exit in a panic at the bottom of a bear market.
The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market.
But it is pretty much agreed that when the market topped out in March 2000 it was the end of the long 1982-2000 secular bull market, and beginning of a 2000 to who knows when secular bear market.
Rowe Price Latin America Fund, which FORBES rates A for bull market performance and B for bear markets.
We had the 2000 crash, otherwise known as the dot-com crash, which was a bear market lasting from 2000 to 2002, and we had a mini bull market from 2003 to 2007.
The more difficult question to answer is whether the surge is the start of a long-term bull market or simply yet another bear-market rally, like those Japan enjoyed in the 1990s.
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Then, on August 1 with the Dow at 12, 000, the bull market trend off the March 2009 broke to the downside and I declared the onset of a new bear market.
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And this new bear-to-bull ratio indicates a more positive market outlook rather than a pessimistic one from the usually on-target contrarian point of view.
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On the flipside, bear markets are simply the opposite of a bull: a market showing a lack of conviction.
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Similarly, bearish sentiment above 50% or a bull-bear spread below -29 points would be more correlated with market reversals.
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During both periods there were strong cyclical bull markets every few years, followed each time by a cyclical bear market that kept the market moving sideways, unable to break out into a long-term uptrend.
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The Forbes fund rating system, which goes back half a century, looks at a minimum of two full market cycles and awards separate performance grades for bull and bear markets.
This level represents the bottom of the major gap lower CMG experienced early in the second half of July, a gap down that took shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill from bull market territory to bear market territory overnight.
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