Sentences with phrase «about bull and bear markets»

Jay and Venn - The SEC letter does not say anything about bull and bear markets and it provides a very narrow exception to the new FAS 157 rules — much narrower than many have been calling for.

Not exact matches

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 % -10 % return going forward... If he wants to argue against that, and talk about Dow 5000 and bear and bull markets, then he's welcome to, but he's pushing at windmills in my opinion, and he belongs back in his ivory tower.

These risks are about the same in bull and bear markets.

Naples also seeks to educate Millennials about Modern Portfolio Theory and the importance of consistent contributions in a tax - free environment, as well as diversification and rebalancing concepts to smooth long - term returns through bear and bull markets.

I have no views about whether a bear market has started in stocks, because I don't really think in terms of bull and bear markets (which can only be identified in hindsight).

Ned Davis Research has looked at many of the major Bear markets worldwide for the past Century, and found that they tend to last about a third as long as the preceding Bull.

Having seen the share market's ups and downs since he started buying shares in the 1960s, share market 85 - year - old trader Frank Hirst knows a thing or two about the bears and the bulls.

It's all about secular bull and bear markets.

In looking at all sides of the argument about share repurchases, one could say that companies that were repurchasing their own shares during the bull market of the 1990s looked smart as the value of their shares continued to go up, and foolish a decade later in the bear market of the 2000s as their shares declined in value.

An average bear market within a «secular» bear market period (a period generally about 17 - 18 years, where valuations begin at rich levels and achieve progressively lower levels over the course of 3 - 4 separate bull - bear cycles) is about 39 %, and wipes out about 80 % of the preceding bull market advance.

It's a good reminder that the average bear market loss represents a run - of - the - mill market retreat of about 32 % and wipes out more than half of the preceding bull market advance.

-- Mike Williams, Founder and Managing Partner at Alan Steel Asset Management, writing on 2/19/18 about a chart showing all the bear markets (in orange) and bull markets (in blue) since 1926.

What I also like was the quote about how to gradually move from 75 % equities to 25 % starting in mid career - taking money off the table when there was a bull market and standing pat when there was a bear market.

We also might buy an ETF if we were very confident about a bull or bear market move and wanted to leverage the move by using an ETF that aimed for double the market's move.

I made two quick runs with Bull Bear Retirement Trainer B. Using what I have learned about stock allocations and valuations, I made it through 30 years OK withdrawing 5 % in today's (secular) Bear Market.

This post is part 2 of last week's post about the duration and magnitude of all bull market periods in U.S. stocks since 1871, which used the S&P 500 price series from Shiller's publicly available database and the method adopted by Butler Philbrick Gordillo and Associates» post What the Bull Giveth, the Bear Taketh Abull market periods in U.S. stocks since 1871, which used the S&P 500 price series from Shiller's publicly available database and the method adopted by Butler Philbrick Gordillo and Associates» post What the Bull Giveth, the Bear Taketh ABull Giveth, the Bear Taketh Away.

Notice how it began at about 1000 and ended at about 800 while encountering several good cyclical bull and bear markets.

In the article The psychology of bear markets published in December 2009, during the brunt of the bear market James Montier writes about that the mental barriers to effective decision - making in bear markets are as many and varied as those that plague rationality during bull markets but that they more pronounced as fear and shock limits logical analysis.

Also everything I read so far about CC ETF's say that they are a lot less volatile in bear markets (+ according to my stats, they return more in bull markets), and CC strategies reduce risk, etc. etc. so I have a hard time understanding why it wouldn't be a good way to invest.

All it really shows is that I was able to look at past performance, and come up with a window that would fit about 50 % of the time in a bull or bear market.