By holding a wide variety of asset classes, investors have historically enjoyed smoother
gains during bull markets and gentler losses during bear markets.
High beta stocks tend to have bigger
gains during bull markets and bigger losses during bear markets.
Retail securities tend to track the market as a whole but with a greater degree of volatility, resulting in stronger
gains during bull markets but larger losses during bear markets.
But if you sit on your cash too long, you risk missing out on
gains during bull markets.
Corrections are seen as entirely normal and even helpful in curbing excessive
gains during bull markets.
Retail securities tend to track the market as a whole but with a greater degree of volatility, resulting in stronger
gains during bull markets but larger losses during bear markets.
Nimble asset allocation should help to minimize your losses during bear markets and maximize
your gains during bull market — at least in theory.
The potential for capital
gains during bull market cycles is astounding however keep in mind that those capital gains can turn into capital losses during bear market cycles like we saw during the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis.
Not exact matches
The wealth I've
gained is mostly through luck because I'm lucky to be alive
during this
bull market time period.
The broad rally in cryptocurrencies continued throughout the weekend, and the tide of the
bull market lifted all ships this time, with all of the major coins registering
gains during the weekend, although definitely Bitcoin's push towards $ 10,000 made the most headlines.
Any ratio above 1 means that a fund does a good job of capturing
gains during bull phases while lessening the impact of bear
markets.
So the future volatility of output and inflation may play an important role in the extent of the total
gains achieved
during the next
bull market.
The strongest
gains came
during the 1950's
bull market.
In short, for understanding some of my claims in my blog, the key points to know are that
during a
bull market I try to use 50 % of the underlying equity's value as my cost to determine my
gain percentage from a trade.
To be fair, however, it's important to acknowledge that many people who retired in 1999 were in their peak earning years
during the longest
bull market in history (from 1987 to 2000) and probably benefitted from the massive
gains in stocks
during those years.
If you DCA
during bull markets, you might forgo capital
gains while you sit on excess cash.
So we «knew»
during the
bull market that the
bull market gains were not real.
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.
During a
bull market, people look at the 30 percent
gains they are seeing on their stock portfolios and...
Many of today's investors swear by it not because they have considered the theoretical arguments pro and con and been convinced by the pro case but because they made money
during the
bull and attributed those
gains not to the fact that stocks were priced well early in the
bull market but to the fact that they were following a Buy - and - Hold strategy at the time.
Gains will be lumpy and
during a
bull markets there will be underperformance relative to an index.
The expansion of P / Es
during the 1982 - 2000
bull market was responsible for 75 % of
market gains; The present contractionary P / E cycle is partly responsible for the lowering the P / E of most stocks.
DAA is a core portfolio strategy that is designed to help SMI readers share in some of a
bull market's
gains, while minimizing (or even preventing) losses
during bear
markets.
For example, the average yearly
gain during the secular
bull market of 1982 - 2000 was about 18 % per year.
EOS has largely remained outside of the news
during the crypto
market's
bull run, but has quietly put together
gains of more than 1,300 %.
It rose in sync with Ethereum to USD rates
during the fourth quarter of 2017 — which was a massive
bull market — suggesting that as Ethereum
gained in value, so did its status against Bitcoin.