This movement can cause a trader to long for a simple trending market or even
a boring flat market.
Not exact matches
Practices that can be gooten away with during a bull phase of the
market will fall
flat during the
bear phase.
Using rolling 12 - month returns (monthly year - over-year) from Jan 1979 — Sep 2015 of the S&P 500, the result shows that whether there was a bull,
bear or
flat stock
market, gold was positive at least half the time.
However, millennials honestly haven't experienced a prolonged
bear or
flat market.
This technique generally works only in bull
markets, and can work in
flat or choppy
markets, but you need to avoid the technique during
bear markets.
Since the secular
bear market started in 2000, the
markets could be
flat or trending lower until 2020, which could be the worst
bear market environment investors have ever seen since the last Great Depression.
In
flat and
bear markets these investments do poorly.
Using rolling 12 - month returns (monthly year - over-year) from Jan 1979 — Sep 2015, the result shows that whether there was a bull,
bear or
flat stock
market, gold was positive at least half the time.
While passive management or indexing might work in bull
markets it does not work well in
flat or
bear markets.
Bear Market bottoms are steep, Bull
Market tops are
flat.
As you can see, there were strong cynical bull and
bear markets during this time that caused the
market to essentially remain
flat for 16 years.
The more insidious outcome would be a situation like 1966, with
flat returns for 7 years, then a
bear market.