This a high - risk investment that has the ability to produce huge
gains in a bull market and huge losses in a bear.
But there are downsides — leveraged investors typically have more to lose in a bear market than they stand to
gain in a bull market.
Not exact matches
The nearly decadelong
bull market in the U.S. is long
in the tooth and there are better
gains to be had elsewhere, says one strategist.
And overall, though Subramanian expects more modest
gains in 2015, she says the
bull market is still
in tact.
Our fourth open position
in the model trading account, PowerShares U.S. Dollar
Bull Index ($ UUP) long, is also showing an unrealized
gain, but has a low correlation to the direction of the equities
markets either way.
At present, though, both the S&P Mid and Small Cap Adv - Dec Lines have reached new
bull market highs and are leading
gains in their respective price indexes.
Any fool can make money
in a
bull market, but bear
markets are where knowledge is
gained and future profits are carved.
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.
While there's a great deal of variation across individual
market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year
market cycle: a 135 %
gain, a 30 % loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming
in at less than half of the
bull market gain).
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.
... to rising corporate profits, an ok economy, slow inflation and a reasonably quiet Fed and you get all the reasons to defer selling and booking your eight - year
bull market capital
gains, especially since TINA (there is no alternative) remains
in everybody's mind.
I believe we're
in the «legitimate uptrend» portion of a
bull market in stocks — the time when the big
gains are made... All the ingredients are
in place for an incredible year
in stocks...
The stock
market is considered to be
in a
bull market once it has
gained 20 percent from a recent low point.
Quiet overnight
in Asia as Japanese
markets were closed for a public holiday — China
gained 50bp as HIBOR fell — Aussie enters a
bull market, climbing almost 1 % as the Big Banks Rallied, while all of EM was
in the red as the Greenback caught bid.
Now, a new day dawns and as the
bulls seek to make it five sessions
in a row of rising stock prices, we find that the
markets were generally higher
in Asia overnight, while the
gains are incremental thus far
in London and on the Continent.
Anytime the largest member (bitcoin)
gains 30 %
in value and still ends up being the weakest major performer, the crypto
bull market is not only off life support, it is alive and
in recovery.
That is, it's true that silver has
in the past achieved a greater percentage
gain than gold from
bull -
market start to
bull -
market end.
This instance may be different
in the near term, but a century of evidence argues that the completion of the
market cycle will wipe out the majority of the
gains observed
in the advancing portion to - date (even without valuations similar to the present, the average, run - of - the - mill bear
market decline has erased more than half of the
market gains from the preceding
bull market advance).
As you can see, Nevada's cannabis industry is
in a long - term
bull market as more patients
gains access to cannabis.
The
bull market has wobbled a bit
in March, as investor unease has risen
in the face of unsettling developments
in Ukraine and concerns about the prospect of higher interest rates
in the U.S. Still, the major
market benchmarks managed to show modest
gains for the six - week period end March 25th.
One benefit of traditional «buy and hold» investing is the ability to fully participate
in all upside
gains of
bull markets.
Now, to be fair, as Michael Sivy points out, it is precisely the large, bluechip stocks
in the S&P 500 that have
gained the most
in the
bull market's latest surge, which makes them vulnerable now.
The firm's global chief investment officer sees one last window
in the nine - year - old
bull market for stocks to post major
gains.
The bulk of U.S. stock
gains in this long - running
bull market are due to one variable: the expansion of the price - to - earnings ratio.
Corrections are seen as entirely normal and even helpful
in curbing excessive
gains during
bull markets.
The bottom line is that tightening US policy conditions may represent a headwind for a maturing US
bull market, while accommodative conditions outside of the United States could help a fledgling recovery
gain pace
in other regions.
Despite lots of talk about the
bull market nearing its end and signals pointing to a correction
in the near - term, stocks were up strongly
in 2017 and have continued those
gains this year.
Similarly, I expect that
in the event of a general
bull market in stocks, the fund will not shine so brightly
in terms of relative performance., The math of investing would favour the fund, however, over several
bull and bear
market cycles because, on a percentage basis, lost dollars are simply harder to replace than
gained dollars are to lose.
With yields low and the
bull market in global equities long
in the tooth, advisors and institutions need new ways to seek income, risk - reduction without triggering capital
gains liabilities, as well as, new potential sources of alpha and return.
In the post-war period, the average US equity
bull market has lasted approximately 64 months, and generated a
gain of 163 %.
Someone who started out with a mix of 70 % stocks and 30 % bonds when this
bull market began back
in 2009 and simply re-invested all
gains in whatever investment generated them, would have something close to a portfolio 90 % stocks and 10 % bonds today.
Nimble asset allocation should help to minimize your losses during bear
markets and maximize your
gains during
bull market — at least
in theory.
In a bull market, investors are more willing to take part in the (stock) market in order to gain profit
In a
bull market, investors are more willing to take part
in the (stock) market in order to gain profit
in the (stock)
market in order to gain profit
in order to
gain profits.
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.
In order to get the guarantee and the safety that comes along with it, you will give up some of the big gains that come in the incredible bull market year
In order to get the guarantee and the safety that comes along with it, you will give up some of the big
gains that come
in the incredible bull market year
in the incredible
bull market years.
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 trad
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 trad
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.
As you can see from our first
bull market trigger the indicator returned a 50 %
gain in 5 years.
As we all know, the stock
market really has been a raging
bull over the past years producing some quite nice book
gains in my portfolio as well.
The most recent trigger occurred
in September 2009 which indicated a
bull market, we are still currently
in this
bull market which has returned a 50 %
gain to date.
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.
An article
in Barron's reports these findings, stating, «On average since the late 1920s this hypothetical portfolio
gained 15.1 % over the three months prior to
bull market peaks — equivalent to a 75.8 % return on an annualized basis.
If past
bull markets are any indication, we could be looking at hundreds of percent
in gains over the next decade.
Most
in the media have been touting
bull market accomplishments, job
gains and economic progress.
There are some instances when investing
in ETFs makes sense — whether it's
gaining maximum exposure to a red - hot sector,
gaining access to an entire country's stock
market, or simply taking advantage of a
bull market.
Due to the length of the
bull market, which has been big
in gains, all the U.S.
market averages currently are at or near record highs, so the desire to know when the advance will end is even more acute.
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.
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.
Like everybody else that writes about stock investing and wants to be liked by his or her readers, people who have made plans for their financial futures rooted
in a belief that
bull market gains are real.
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.
Bull markets are not a good thing if all of the excess
gains they produce have to be paid back
in future years
in which returns will be as much below average as they are
in the current day above average.