So the leveraged ETF outperformed
in a bull market as expected.
Some people will tell you it's easy to do well
in a bull market as everything is going up.
Not exact matches
Erin Enriquez, who manages a Red
Bull account for Terralever, says with Red
Bull the company focused on the client's desire to be perceived
as technologically forward
in its online
marketing.
«While common wisdom has it that higher volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [
bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence
in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates,
as was the case
in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.
«If you line up the previous El Niño outlier of 1998 with this March 2016 El Niño (
as we might do
in lining up
bull market highs) it gives an idea of when 2 degrees Celsius might first be broached
in a future El Niño effect: just 17 years!»
But
as we approach the eighth birthday
in March of the second - longest
bull market in modern times, recency bias can lull us into a false sense of security, especially given the very good returns of the past three or four years.
Now another kind of risk is starting to get attention
as concerns mount that the second longest - running
bull market in history may soon end.
During a webcast presenting his 2017 outlook, Gundlach, the founder of DoubleLine Capital, said certain «second - tier» managers were focusing on 2.6 %
as an important level for the 10 - year Treasury yield — a threshold beyond which the
bull market in bonds would end.
In general, so - called value stocks — often defined as those trading at earnings multiples below the market average or their own historical norms — have tricked a lot of investors in the most recent phase of the current bull market, which has worn on nearly seven and a half year
In general, so - called value stocks — often defined
as those trading at earnings multiples below the
market average or their own historical norms — have tricked a lot of investors
in the most recent phase of the current bull market, which has worn on nearly seven and a half year
in the most recent phase of the current
bull market, which has worn on nearly seven and a half years.
Those observations came the same day
as stocks set still new records
as the ninth anniversary of the current
bull market approaches
in two months.
As for when the current six - year
bull market will lose steam, Lee pointed to two preconditions that marked the downturn
in three similar long - lasting rallies.
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.
As Olaf Carlson - Wee, founder of the hedge fund Polychain Capital and a
bull in the
market, told me during a cocktail hour after the event, «It's only a bubble if it crashes.»
«This does need to go back down (maybe not go quite
as low
as it was
in February) to say the
bulls are back, we're oversold enough to get that good rally
in the
market.»
Greger Johansson, analyst at research firm Redeye who had a
bull case scenario of 250 crowns per share, said he thought the main owners had been unwilling to sell below 300 crowns
as Axis had high revenue growth and was the No. 1 player
in its
market.
The question of the day on the tip jar (
as pictured): «
In a
bull market, prices are expected to (A) fall, (B) rise.»
«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.
So unlike brokers, we have no conflict of interest pushing us to recommend high volumes of trades whether we believe
in the potential of those trades or not We have no perpetual bias for a
bull market as most of Wall Street has to be (to justify the heavily - weighted stance of «buy» vs. «sell,» a stance that always persists even
in harshest bear
markets) Instead of all of these kinds of anti-investor establishment motivators, we will sell our products on subscription, with a customer - friendly, overwhelming motivation to deliver an experience that will win very profitable renewals for many years to come.
Markets tend to move
in long sweeping eras that reflect underlying economic activity; think of the expansions that lasted a decade or two, such
as the postwar era (1946 - 66), or the tech
bull market (1982 - 2000).
For example, the largest U.S. pension, California Public Employees» Retirement System, is considering more than doubling its bond allocation to reduce risk and volatility
as the
bull market in stocks approaches nine years.
«So long
as the Fed is
in an accommodative mode and the economy is out of recession, the odds are that you will have a
bull market,» David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff and Associates, told the New York Times Tuesday.
But it is important to remember
as Richard Russell points out, that oversold conditions can persist
in bear
markets much longer than they would during
bull markets.
The recession is only a distant memory now
as the 6 - year - and - counting
bull market has pushed stock
markets in the United States and Europe to all - time highs.
Bulls feeling some pain
as the
market has fallen $ 55
in 3 weeks, just when some thought gold was ripe for an upside breakout over $ 1375.
It's just another number, but the milestone is widely viewed
as another sign that the secular
bull market in bonds that's prevailed for decades has ended.
World growth will remain low on average but negative
in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so
as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock
markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical
bull market is long by historical standards.
April 4 - Omar Aguilar of Charles Schwab says U.S. stocks are still
in a cyclical
bull market and feels that retail investors will get back
in the
market as the housing and labor
markets stabilize.
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.
«M&A activity globally is very high, which is common
in the late stages of an equity
bull market as both private equity and corporate owners look to cash
in on rich valuations,» Lait explains.
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.
«This narrow spread continues to offer encouragement to equity
bulls,
as they attempt to divine the
market's performance
in 2016.
More than $ 80 trillion sits
in global equities right now, a monumental sum that's likely to surge even more
as we venture further into the
bull market.
For
bulls, the weakness
in the Yen and gold could be an encouraging sign,
as the main safe - haven assets are not confirming the selloff
in equities this week, but forex
markets could look different
in a day,
as the FED will likely stir things up substantially.
Naples also seeks to educate Millennials about Modern Portfolio Theory and the importance of consistent contributions
in a tax - free environment,
as well
as diversification and rebalancing concepts to smooth long - term returns through bear and
bull markets.
If current levels were to turn out,
in hindsight, to be the final lows of this decline, I suspect that the overall return over the next cycle (by the time we do observe a full 20 % loss) will be
as tame
as we've seen since the
bull market started
in 2003.
As a result, I tended to hoard cash, which is suboptimal
in a
bull market.
This is a pre-tax maximum recommendation post that goes to show once you've built a big enough financial nut, life becomes much easier (
in a
bull market)
as your money really starts working for you until you can take it out.
As for upward leadership, Deemer also notes that small stocks, being more volatile, typically surge
in the early part of a new
bull market.
Everything is relative and the pace of growth will not be
as quick
in a
bull market.
He recently argued that bitcoin's
bull market will resume
in the very near term
as hedge funds, high net - worth individuals and commodity speculators enter the crypto
market.
While we seek to outperform during all parts of the
market cycle, our historical experience suggests that our strategy may lag during broad - based
bull markets, such
as was seen
in 2017.
All
in all the
bull market in the cryptocurrency segment looks well and alive,
as the total value of the coins is just shy of $ 140 billion.
We are not perma -
bulls and do not consider ourselves «gold bugs», we simply see
market conditions
as bullish for gold
in the longer term.
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.
The second - largest
bull market in history started off
as a positive for gold
as prices crossed $ 1,900 a troy ounce
in 2011.
After the third longest
bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration
in key trend - following components within our measures of
market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even
as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.
Technical damage has been done on all but the biggest pictures
as we watch for secular
bull market down leg 4 to be put
in.
I have never seen a
bull market, especially a long - enduring one such
as the bond
bull market that started back
in 1981, that failed to end
in total euphoria and universal acceptance of the prevailing trend.
Everyone now loves the US stock
market bull and utterly detests the ugly image of the gold stocks
in the fun house mirror
as the public has finally decided to run with the aging US stock
bull and the final holdouts are throwing
in the towel
in the precious metals.
A secular
bull market blew out
in 2000
as the final speculative surge by the public and wildly imprudent financial «professionals» just expired and fell apart.