The Dow was in a secular
bull market from 1949 - 1966.
For example, the market was in a secular
bull market from 1982 - 2000, experiencing a strong primary uptrend where the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased over 10 fold from about a low of 800 to over 10,000.
Some traders like to play
the bull market from both the long and short sides.
Index investing became very popular in the long
bull market from 1980 — 2000.
That said, it still captured 85 % of the S&P 500 return over that period and 76 % during the Cycle 2
bull market from October 1974 through August 1987.
In an extreme
bull market from March 2009 to December 2009, SPY's total return was 57.8 % and the 3x leveraged ETF was 241.8 %.
Despite
another bull market from 2003 through 2006, the returns on stocks over the last dozen years have been dismal, while gold has regained its lustre.
Following the 18 year
Bull market from 1982 - 2000, it would be unprecendented to see a mere 2 year Bear Market followed by a multi year, decade long Bull Market.
The original idea was based on work by investor and Forbes columnist Kenneth Fisher (his original idea is discussed in this article — How to Tell
a Bull Market from a Bear Market Blip).
This is the process that drove the great bond
bull market from the 1980s to present.
«That will define the end of the bond
bull market from a classic chart perspective, not 2.60,» he added.
«It's going to be critical for earnings growth to kick in in order to sustain
the bull market from here and to be able to push stocks higher,» says Sarah Riopelle, vice-president and senior portfolio manager at RBC Global Asset Management.
There is nothing that we humans can do to avoid bear markets and economic crises except to permit discussion of the last 36 years of peer - reviewed research in this field and thereby prevent
bull markets from developing in the first place.
It is made better if you separate secular
bull markets from secular bear markets (as does Ed Easterling of Crestmont Research).
In
the bull markets from 2H 2012 to 1H 2015, however, the low beta leg had a counterintuitively strong performance.
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Not exact matches
(Downe's performance benefits considerably
from the
bull market of the last two years).
Just before that, relentless buying
from retail and institutional investors alike struck Wilson as euphoria, the stage that marks the beginning of the end of a
bull market.
And while he's not yet calling for a full
market collapse, Hartnett also forecasts some pain stemming
from a «full
bull detox,» or a reversal of the risk - seeking behavior that has characterized it for so long.
January's preliminary figure is down
from $ 702.7 billion at the end of September, but up
from $ 632.4 billion at the end of March, when the start of a
bull market began sending stock prices higher.
Jim Cramer pointed out the contradictory action in oil prices and airline stocks, two related sectors benefiting
from the
bull market.
The current
market is reminiscent of the 1990s
bull, he added, as stocks are benefiting
from an extended economic expansion and low inflation.
«If we enter a
bull market, these stocks will go
from five times earnings to about 10 times earnings, and they haven't done anything yet,» he says.
Bill Ackman has seen his hedge fund's assets cut more than in half
from their peak above $ 20 billion in 2015 as institutional investors flee Pershing Square's abysmal returns amid a roaring
bull market.
«The current
bull market is not going to end simply because «stocks have gone up too much»... The buyside is fairly cautious, seeing downside stemming
from: (i) deflationary pressures of the 40 % year - over-year oil decline, deceleration in China, Eurozone weakness, and the fall in 5 - year inflation breakevens; and (ii) Fed monetary tightening... Capital stock is again showing signs of pent - up demand, and as a consequence, companies and households will have to invest.
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Institutional sector rotation is common in
bull markets, and the rotation of funds
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With the S&P 500 in a 10 percent correction
from its record high in late January, investors were increasingly concerned a nine - year
bull market might be in danger of ending.
Bar 7 - Two legged pullback in a
bull move, opening reversal up
from moving average second entry buy, but big outside up bar at top of 6 bar tight trading range, limit order
market, sellers scaling in above, buyers below, both scalping.
What it really did was prevent people
from embracing one of the best cyclical
bull markets of our lifetime — in both stocks and bonds.
This way, if a bear
market occurs, you have a year of cash becoming available at the maturity date so that you do not have to sell stocks, and in a
bull market you can buy new bonds as the ones you own mature, and you thereby benefit
from the higher interest rates that high quality bonds give versus cash or CDs.
Although yesterday's action in the Nasdaq could easily lead to a near - term pullback
from the recent highs, we can not rule out the possibility of a strong recovery today, as
bull markets tend to close out the week in bullish fashion.
Who knows how much longer this
bull market, fueled by $ 4 trillion
from the Fed and low interest rates, can continue.
«I think the U.S. stock
market is transitioning
from an interest rate secular - driven
bull market to an earnings - driven
bull market.
The S&P 500 ® Index almost tripled in value
from the start of the
bull market in March 2009 through early October 2015.
If you can explain where this
bull market is coming
from maybe I'll buy in to your asset allocation model.
From the actual
bull market peak in March 2000 to the subsequent
market low in October 2002, the S&P 500 lost 49 %.
While our most profitable momentum trades in healthy
bull markets are typically realized
from small to mid-cap growth stocks, we strongly believe that trading ETFs is better than stock trading in flat or choppy
markets (due to the various asset classes available).
I'm also the author of the 2015 book, The Coming Renewal of Gold's Secular
Bull Market and I host a podcast dedicated to bringing you insights and views
from the brightest minds in Gold and junior mining.
The difficult feature of the interim, at least for hedged equity strategies, is that as the «troops» diverge
from the «generals,» portfolios that aren't comprised of the largest and most speculative stocks of the preceding
bull market often underperform the indices during top formations.
Fear and Greed Running
from a down
market and toward a
bull market.
Whenever we have big down days and it seems like the
bull market is on its last legs, I remind myself of this line
from Martin Luther King: «Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.»
Higher bond returns similar to those we witnessed in the bond
bull market helped cushion the blow
from large stock
market losses.
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.
So, while the H - Shares
market didn't capture as much upside
from China's
bull market, it was more insulated on the way down.
When valuations move
from depressed levels to historical extremes over the span of several
market cycles, the result is a «secular
bull market» and headlines about permanently high plateaus.
«During the latter stage of the
bull market culminating in 1929, the public acquired a completely different attitude towards the investment merits of common stocks... Why did the investing public turn its attention
from dividends,
from asset values, and
from average earnings to transfer it almost exclusively to the earnings trend, i.e. to the changes in earnings expected in the future?
An oft quoted line
from celebrated fund manager Sir John Templeton stated, «
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.»
After several massive swings in price, the most recent leg of the
bull market has seen the S&P 500 (GSPC) go
from 2,038 at the beginning of the year to a low of 1,810 on Feb 10 all the way up to 2,080 this past week.