The same sort of thing happens with insurance underwriting, and I even
think bull markets in stocks.
Not exact matches
I have no views about whether a bear
market has started
in stocks, because I don't really
think in terms of
bull and bear
markets (which can only be identified
in hindsight).
On the long
bull run we have been having, many people
in the
stock market are starting to
think the same thing.
Parting
Thoughts Don't be afraid of missing a few percentage points of
stock returns
in your efforts to safely and accurately spot a
bull market.
Also, you are incorrect
in that you
think I am myopic
in assessing
stocks only from a
bull market perspective.
In retrospect, I think this popular advice was mostly driven by the tremendous bull market of the 1990s, which as I have already noted, stimulated in many investors great overconfidence in their own stock picking prowes
In retrospect, I
think this popular advice was mostly driven by the tremendous
bull market of the 1990s, which as I have already noted, stimulated
in many investors great overconfidence in their own stock picking prowes
in many investors great overconfidence
in their own stock picking prowes
in their own
stock picking prowess.
In a
bull market, people may
think that all investors will make money from the
stock market.
Is it the
bulls, who
think the UK
market is attractively valued and could easily double if investors fall
in love with
stocks again?
This is a guest post by Troy who is a private trader who blogs at
Bull Markets Why the
stock market is going higher
in the medium term: Here's what I
think based on 3 time frames: Long... Read more
I
think that this is especially relevant at this time because many investors will tend to confuse their good efforts at
stock selection with the general returns delivered
in a
bull market.
I
think it's important - especially as I write this
in October of 2017 - to consider how with hindsight the results of buying and holding the right
stocks through a
bull market look better than we should perhaps expect we can do
in the future.
Wall Street — Money Never Sleeps As I watched this movie on HBO today it got me
thinking how this applies as much to college grads looking to get started
in the job
market as it does to the
Bulls and the Bears looking to make a killing
in the
stock market.