Based on the average cryptocurrency
bear market cycle of slightly more than two months (71 days), the market will normalize within a couple of weeks.
Not exact matches
When valuations move from elevated levels to historical lows over the span
of several
market cycles, the result is a «secular
bear market» and headlines about the permanent death
of equities.
So it's important not to assume that just because the uniformity
of market internals has improved or deteriorated, the entire
cycle has shifted from a bull
market to a
bear market, or vice versa.
Though our investment horizon
of interest is a complete
market cycle, we don't generally think in terms
of bull and
bear markets, because they can only be determined in hindsight.
The only true test
of a money manager's ability is if he can obtain above - average results over a full
cycle that includes both bull and
bear markets.
Still, regardless
of whether or not a
bear market has started, I believe the Fund remains on track to achieve its investment objective even when we measure the complete
cycle from the 2002
bear trough to the next
bear trough, whenever that occurs.
In my opinion, we will eventually see the end
of the current, negative cryptocurrency
cycle, as many
of the weak hands have been shaken out by the
bear market and the remaining investors are on the ready to latch onto any good news after the bad start this year.»
Table 1 shows the years
of each bull -
bear cycle, the length
of the bull and
bear phase, and depth
of the following
bear market.
Bull and
bear markets often coincide with the economic
cycle, which consists
of four phases: expansion, peak, contraction and trough.
That «
cycle» measured from the low point
of one
bear market to low the low point
of the next, lasted 69 - months.
In all probability, December 2015 marked the bottom
of the cyclical gold and silver
bear market — a
bear cycle that had been in play since silver topped in May 2011 and gold in September
of the same year.
This instance may be different in the near term, but a century
of evidence argues that the completion
of the
market cycle will wipe out the majority
of the gains observed in the advancing portion to - date (even without valuations similar to the present, the average, run -
of - the - mill
bear market decline has erased more than half
of the
market gains from the preceding bull
market advance).
The chart below graphically shows what the past three bull -
bear cycles have looked like, with a projection
of the coming
bear market.
And so the emotional pressure that pulls stock
market prices down to insanely low levels at the end
of every bull /
bear cycle remains in place today.
Extremes in observable conditions that we associate with some
of the worst moments in history to invest include: Aug 1929 (with the October crash within 10 weeks
of that instance), Aug - Oct 1972 (with an immediate retreat
of less than 4 %, followed a few months later by the start
of a 50 %
bear market collapse), Aug 1987 (with the October crash within 10 weeks), July 1999 (associated with a quick 10 %
market plunge within 10 weeks), another signal in March 2000 (with a 10 % loss within 10 weeks, a recovery into September
of that year, and then a 50 %
market collapse), July - Oct 2007 (followed by an immediate plunge
of about 10 % in July, a recovery into October, and another signal that marked the
market peak and the beginning
of a 55 %
market loss), two earlier signals in the recent half -
cycle, one in July - early Oct
of 2013 and another in Nov 2013 - Mar 2014, both associated with sideways
market consolidations, and the present extreme.
When you look beyond the standard sales
cycle of Awareness, Interest, Consideration and Purchase you can find that your content
marketing, SEO and social media efforts will
bear even more productive fruit in the form
of referrals and brand advocacy.
This carries particular resonance today because
of how abnormally long the current
market cycle has become: Despite the recent sell - off, the S&P 500 Index hasn't seen a
bear market since the financial crisis ended more than nine years ago.
This has now been negative since May, portraying a pace
of economic activity that is well below potential and therefore continues to be consistent with both (a) a continuing ultimately deflationary economic Supercycle
Bear Market Period, or Winter, and (b) our working model for after - shock, double double - dip business
cycle contractions over the next four years.
From the results, we can see that even after 38 years
of consistent saving, you'll only have around $ 1,000,000 to $ 5,000,000 in your 401k in a realistic
cycle of bull and
bear markets.
Similarly, I expect that in the event
of a general bull
market in stocks, the fund will not shine so brightly in terms
of relative performance., The math
of investing would favour the fund, however, over several bull and
bear market cycles because, on a percentage basis, lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.
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In the next post
of this series, we will show the actual outperformance
of the S&P SmallCap 600 versus the Russell 2000 over the long term, the higher returns and lower risk over different time periods, and through different bull and
bear market cycles.
Essentially, a secular bull period comprises several cyclical bull -
bear cycles, where each bull
market achieves a successively higher level
of market valuation at its peak.
If this is the beginning
of what many consider a long overdue
bear market, we believe there is no better strategy than the DRS across a full
market cycle, both bull and
bear.
While the slumping price
of oil is
bearing the brunt
of the current volatility in the
markets these days, there are other signs that indicate more widespread shifts in the credit
cycle.
Historically, that puts the typical bull
market gain at about 152 % from trough - to - peak, followed by a
bear market decline about 34 % from peak - to - trough, for a cumulative full -
cycle total return
of about 67 % (roughly 10.7 % annualized).
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The start
of bear markets is historically bad for this strategy, but later in the «
bear market cycle» there usually are some huge winners.
Secular
bear markets also involve a series
of bull -
bear cycle, but with each
bear market trough achieving successively lower levels
of valuation.
Still, investors who do so should make that decision explicitly, with an understanding
of the implications
of that choice — as in «I am consciously choosing, here and now, to ignore the potential for the current
market cycle to be completed by a
bear market, either because I am willing to hold stocks regardless
of their future course, or because I will adhere to some well - tested investment discipline that has been reliably capable
of avoiding major losses.»
However, during the down
market cycles (
bear), the index beat only 34 % and 38 %
of its active management competitors.
Bull and
bear markets often coincide with the economic
cycle, which consists
of four phases: expansion, peak, contraction and trough.
Secular
bear markets come as a result
of speculative bubbles, and you don't purge a speculative bubble with one
bear market cycle.
As the
cycle progresses, each
bear market cycle lasts longer and descends lower than the previous one, reaching lower and lower
market bottoms and taking longer amounts
of time to get there.
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.
«If 10 - year yields are moving north
of 5.30 percent and making a new high yield for the
cycle, you might argue you were in a
bear market,» said Richard Gilhooly, senior U.S. bond strategist
of BNP Paribas Securities Corp., speaking at the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit on Tuesday.
The examples above highlight this strategy by demonstrating the potential
of these accounts during bull
markets and the security they provide during
bear cycles.
What these type
of strategies general out perform is over an entire bull
bear market cycle.
But robo - advisors have gained popularity in recent years during a period
of relative strength on the stock
markets, in part by
marketing toward younger clients who may not have the scars
of bear markets of the past to remind them they're a natural part
of the
market cycle.
It is unfair to look only at a new bull
market without also considering the preceding
bear market.You need to consider a full
market cycle at least to make a proper evaluation
of performance.
They often get you out
of the
market during
bear markets and get you back in to ride the next bull
cycle.
With the C Fund you won't run the risk
of your money being eroded by inflation the only considerable risk you are taking is having your money invested during
bear market cycles.
Likewise, if you don't intend to hold the Strategic Growth Fund over the course
of a complete bull -
bear market cycle, you should not invest in the Fund, because we have no firm expectation that the Fund will outperform the
market over smaller segments
of the
market cycle.
My personal opinion
of the S Fund is that it is best for individuals with a high risk tolerance and the «know how» to identify bull and
bear market cycles.
We feel that our mechanical strategies are enough to handle the
market's ups and downs, and if you stick with those strategies through both the bull and
bear portions
of the stock
market cycle, you're going to do quite well over time.
I noted back in 2007, during a similar period
of frustration, that less than half
of the typical bull
market gain is retained by the end
of the subsequent
bear market - «Once stocks become richly valued, the remaining gains achieved by the
market are almost always purely speculative - they are generally erased over the remaining course
of the
market cycle.
Since the S&P SmallCap 600 was launched in 1994, there are five
bear and bull
market cycles (as defined by peak to trough and trough to peak periods
of the S&P 500) to analyze, and the S&P SmallCap 600 outperformed the Russell 2000 in four
of those
cycles.
Every stock sector with the exception
of consumer stables and utilities - safer haven assets less tied to economic
cycles - is down more than the 20 %
bear market demarcation line.
As an investor uninterested in owning equities, it's a rather uneventful and
boring period
of the
market cycle.
«You'll go through 10 years
of cycles, very much like Japan, where you'll have bull
markets and
bear markets.»