Sentences with phrase «few bull and bear market»

I needed a few bull and bear market cycles to really wrap my head around the fact that I don't know anything at all.

Not exact matches

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

The chart below captures a fairly simple filter of instances when the market lost 5 % or more over a 2 - week period, from a market peak in the prior 6 weeks (within 5 % of the prior 52 - week high) that was characterized by a Shiller P / E over 19, more than 50 % advisory bulls, and fewer than 25 % advisory bears.

The Bulls vs. Bears Death Match Intensifies A few weeks ago, I wrote an article describing the current state of the market as a death match between two camps — the bulls and the bBulls vs. Bears Death Match Intensifies A few weeks ago, I wrote an article describing the current state of the market as a death match between two camps — the bulls and the bbulls and the bears.

The chart below captures a fairly simple filter of instances when the market lost 5 % or more over a 2 - week period, from a market peak in the prior 6 weeks (within 5 % of the prior 52 - week high) that was characterized by a Shiller P / E over 19, more than 50 % advisory bulls, and fewer than 25 % advisory bears.

The cost averaging principle allows investors to buy more units in bear markets and fewer units in bull markets.

We investors have been doing well the past few years as the economy and stock market recovered from the Great Recession, When in a bull market, the probability of making mistakes becomes lower than when one is in a volatile or bear market.