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bull market refers to a period in the financial market where there is generally an optimistic and upward trend in prices of stocks, investments, or the overall market. It means that the market is booming and doing well, with a higher chance of making profits.
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And as this chart shows, we may well have entered a new secular
bull market in 2013, which could bring huge gains over the next decade plus.
Signs
of bull market exhaustion in the bitcoin market may be having a knock - on effect across cryptocurrencies in general.
Despite the huge gains and nearly unprecedented duration of the current
bull market for stocks, there are few obvious signs that the rally is slowing down.
For 30 years, mainstream analysts have been declaring the end of the
secular bull market in bonds.
One of the most discussed financial topics of the past couple years is the seemingly imminent end of the 30 +
year bull market in bonds.
Despite the huge gains and nearly unprecedented duration of the
current bull market for stocks, there are few obvious signs the rally is slowing.
You obviously can not have a
new bull market begin until the prior bear market ends, and until those new highs get made, there is a lack of convincing evidence.
More importantly, this historical back test covers the unprecedented 30 year
bond bull market of falling yields and rising bond prices that won't be repeated any time soon.
I didn't realize that this was the longest
bull market since 2000 without a 6 % small correction.
This can be especially important during
bull markets when there is a strong human tendency to load up on the winners.
It makes sense for a number of years because of the
Great Bull Market of the 20th century, from 1982 to roughly 2000.
This is the process that drove the great bond
bull market from the 1980s to present.
This is not always possible especially after a multi year
bull market run like we have recently experienced.
But even the healthiest of
bull markets do not go straight up without significant corrections along the way.
As we discussed a few moments ago, crude oil is most likely in a
cyclical bull market which began in 2016.
We are experiencing the second leg up of the greatest
gold bull market in history.
Finally, the most aggressive strategy for a lot of people is to invest 100 % of the difference in stocks and hope the raging
bull market continues.
That prolonged
bull market started right after a sudden correction (widely regarded at the time as a crash) in which the market lost 22 % in just one day.
The best
bull markets last for years, not months, and you'll sleep far better at night if you've developed strong convictions about your investment.
There are too many fake «head and shoulders» that turn
into bull market continuation patterns.
We are now in a short term range bound market that is inside of a longer
term bull market.
Not including the out - sized gains following the 1982 bottom, all of these first - year
bull markets gained between 29 and 44 percent.
You say you want to hold off buying until after the market enters bear market territory, a 20 % decline from the previous
bull market peak.
They follow the
big bull markets with extended gaps in between, see the chart below.
But the
aging bull market comes with lofty valuations that were rarely seen in the past.
Given the length of the current
bull market cycle, one of the longest on record, clients often ask this question.
I don't anticipate a long continuation of the
recent bull market advance, but that possibility also can't be ignored.
The firm's global chief investment officer sees one last window in the nine - year -
old bull market for stocks to post major gains.
We are entering the final leg of the first stage of the secular
bull market which began in 2009.
Investors will likely tend to have also accumulated more wealth
after bull markets and less wealth after bear markets.
He provides observations and insights on why he believes this nine - year
bull market still has plenty of room to run.
Based purely on long - term cycles, a successful argument could be made that we have been in a secular
commodity bull market since the turn of the century in 2000.
Not only does rental property yield steady cash flow while building long - term wealth, it's also known to have it's
bull markets where even larger gains can be expected.
Despite a strong
bull market over the last several years, the past year or so has not been without surprises and risks.
This sounds simple but there are many traders who do not profit from
bull markets because they disagree with the move for some reason.
If bull markets are the product of investor emotion, then all that is going on is that investors are borrowing gains from the future to pump up gains artificially in the present.
Usually a strong
bull market follows a recession, he says, but that hasn't been the case this time around.
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