Although the bullish bias of the past two months has presented some great opportunities for momentum swing traders, no bull market moves straight up without eventually undergoing substantial corrections along the way (
just as bear markets don't fall straight down for too long without large, counter-trend bounces).
Just as a bear market can scare off investors, a prolonged bull market can lead investors to think that market risk is nothing but an outmoded concept.
Just as every bear market is followed by a bull market, every bull market is followed by a bear market.
Not exact matches
«It is not
just extreme
bears such
as me who see that the equity
market is in trouble,» Edwards said.
As Shelby Cullom Davis is famous for saying, however: «You make most of your money in a
bear market, you
just don't know it.»
Unfortunately,
just as the three
bears came home to interrupt Goldilocks» meal, a
bear market often shows up to spoil the party.
The pitch was that if you
just keep your money in the
market when the going gets rough, such
as in
bear markets, the substantial upside in the good years will more than compensate for the down years, thereby leaving you with a solid annualized gain over long - term.
The accumulation of payments on interest -
bearing debt leads companies to search for new loan
markets,
just as industrialists seek out new
markets for their expanding output.
Why trying to avoid a
bear market can be a costly mistake for stock investors Double - digit gains have historically been seen in the 12 months leading up to a
bear marketTrying to correctly time the
market is a near - impossibility for any investor, and the potential mistakes are
just as severe whether you're trying to sell high while you can, or buy low.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (
as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological
marketing,»
just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant
bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
See,
as the 2000 - 2002
bear market was
just starting, the Federal Reserve under Alan Greenspan immediately shifted to fresh monetary easing, cutting the Federal funds rate and the Discount rate on January 3, 2001.
Btw the 10 year horizon is relevant to me
as it is when I can take my 25 % lump sum from SIPP, so preferable taking it from bonds that have
just been redeemed rather than selling down equities that may be in a
bear market at the time.
* SPY is below its 200 - day moving average, so it is fair to characterize this advance
as a «rally in a
bear market» (no prediction here,
just noting that
bear market rallies have a way of reversing quickly and painfully);
People are discouraged from the sector in periods like we're in now where we've seen several years of vicious
bear markets where people are afraid and they miss the sector
just as it's about to turn.
But where my long term account is concerned, I really have no interest to sell,
bear market or bull
market, so long
as the business is fine and the price is fair
Just wanted to explain some of my recent purchases, and why the long - term view requires a different approach.
2016, which I believe may have been the
bear market low, bottomed in January and then impulsively worked its way upward until the over-hyped sector fell apart
as its fundamentals degraded (in this post we used the gold / oil ratio
as just one example).
As an old mentor told me, it takes a lot of buying to create a bull
market; but for a
bear market to get started, people don't have to sell; they
just have to stop buying.
As Senior Vice President Sales &
Marketing, Matt will continue to oversee responsibility for Sales,
Marketing, the
Just Born Retail Group, Licensing, Consumer Relations, Corporate Communications and Community Relations.
Matt joined
Just Born in 1998
as the Group Product Manager on the MIKE AND IKE ® and HOT TAMALES ® candy brands eventually working his way up to Director of
Marketing in 2004.
Just Born Quality Confections, the maker of iconic candy brands PEEPS ®, MIKE AND IKE ®, HOT TAMALES ® and GOLDENBERG»S ® PEANUT CHEWS ®, has promoted Matthew J. Pye to Senior Vice President Sales &
Marketing from his previous position
as Vice President of Sales &
Marketing.
I had zero expectations to the content and expected it to be
just as boring as all the other games out there in the
market, but half an hour into it i was completely sold.
I had zero expectations to the content and expected it to be
just as boring as all the other games out there in the
market, but half an hour into it i was
This early scene in the film, with the dirty, hateful mother laying among the detritus of the
market — fish heads and guts and the such -
as the child is
born, and
just as quickly discarded, is the first indication of how the director is going to be conveying the smells of the film.
This suits Inarritu
just fine, the
marketing fixed so solely around the five minute sequence where Di Caprio takes on a massive grizzly
bear, which really is only where his story actually begins, that the audiences are left clueless
as to what the movie is really about, something few directors are blessed with in today's cinema.
The numbers are
bearing that out,
as e-book sales, which
just last year were below mass -
market paperback, are now nearly triple.
@quid There could be other explanations such
as regulations, banking system infrastructures,... If you think this is
just because that's what the
market will
bear you're welcome to convert your comment into an answer.
History shows that
just as bull
markets give way to
bear markets, so do
bears morph into bulls, eventually pushing stock prices to higher levels.
While it's natural to focus on the carnage
bear markets inflict, it's
just as important to remember what happens in their aftermath — namely, stocks usually rebound quickly for big gains.
I have been warning about this potential for years, its impact to investor's portfolios (most investors don't know what a bond
bear market is or how to deal with it) and
just as importantly the huge potential negative impact to pension funds here in the US and across the globe.
As the guys at Nautilus Capital note, cyclical bull
markets within secular
bears have tended to average
just 26 months, with an average gain of 85 %, while cyclical
bears within secular
bears have averaged 19 months, with steep average losses of -39 %.
Under the pure DB model, employers
bear the investment risk while under a pure DC model, workers
bear the risk,
just as RRSP investors do: when
markets are up, things are great; if not, then not so much.
As we've discussed, you might get off to a very poor start (like the folks who retired in early 2008
just prior to the devastating
bear market that accompanied the Great Recession) and need to significantly reduce your withdrawal rate.
While we may tweak the 60/40 asset mix if we believe a
bear market is coming, we generally will stick with the 60/40 asset mix since we recognize how difficult is to perfectly time the
markets as it requires you to get both the sell and buy
just right.
Fear truly is your greatest enemy in a
bear market —
just as greed can be your fiercest foe when the bull is raging.
Attractive Valuations The investment community seems largely unaware of
just how cheap emerging
market (EM) assets have become
as a result of a multi-year
bear market that appears to have ended in early 2016.
That ratio dropped to
as low
as 0.45 to 1 in the weeks
just before the
bear market ended.
Applying the methodology over the past 50 years reveals
just how many «
bear -
market months» investors have endured,
as depicted in the following chart:
The first period begins
just as the famously difficult 1973 - 1974
bear market is about to start; the second begins with the infamous «Black Monday» drop of 22.6 % only months away.
See,
as the 2000 - 2002
bear market was
just starting, the Federal Reserve under Alan Greenspan immediately shifted to fresh monetary easing, cutting the Federal funds rate and the Discount rate on January 3, 2001.
As expected, bearish traders and investors think that the recent decline is
just the start of a 2007 - like
bear market or 1987 - like crash.
Alot of performance reporting suffers from what is known
as end date bias — you may find that alot of mangers beat the index depending on what type of
market we've
just been through (bull vs
bear).
Problem is, an overly aggressive approach could also backfire, especially if stocks are rocked by 50 % - or - better
bear market losses
just as you're on the verge of retiring.
So
just as bad news can get heavily discounted and ignored towards peaks, the author shows how
market bottoms can be when good news in regards to signs of a turn around are already out there, but most simply don't believe them yet or
just ignore them after being shellshocked by the
bear market.
«Dow 36,000» - type predictions come near the end of bull
markets, just as «The Death of Equities» comes at the end of Bear M
markets,
just as «The Death of Equities» comes at the end of
Bear MarketsMarkets.
The greatest unknown risk of stock investing is the possibility that you will try to follow a Buy - and - Hold strategy but come up short because you did not educate yourself up front
as to
just how bad things might get before the
bear market comes to an end.
I love watching the
markets - the fight going on between the bulls and
bears and
as long
as I
just remain an observer the trade should and would pan out my way.
Dollar - cost averaging will help to ensure that your average cost per share represents both the premiums of a bull
market and the discounts of a
bear market,
as opposed to
just the premiums usually paid by investors in a bull
market.
It is only a dream that this fund — or any fund — would be at the maximum of the range for stocks
just as the
market was entering a bull phase, or at the minimum stock allocation
as the
market was entering a
bear phase.
It seemed to be an easy decision at that time
as the
markets had
just gone through a brutal
bear market and saving 5 % in interest costs seemed a good deal compared to relentless losses in the equity
markets.
During bullish trends the histograms usually starts off
as light blue, orange histograms above the 0.00 level is
just signaling
bears pressure in an overall bulls
market.