He believes that bear and bull markets run on their own schedules.
In each instance, there's a buyer and seller, or a bear and a bull, with differing views on the security in question.
The contrast between bear Shilling and bull Fisher could not be starker.
The global village aspect and intertwined economic dependence on each other can be seen in the way global economies enter and exit recessions together, and see their stock markets enter and exit bull and bear markets together.
Here are the numbers: There have been 10 bear markets and 10 bull markets over the last 65 years.
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And what I mean by secular bull and bear are these are longer-term phases.
When looking at the numbers, bear in mind that the time period includes both bull and bear markets for stocks.
An interesting divergence given that global economies historically experience boom times and retrenchments, as well as bull and bear markets, pretty much in lockstep with each other.
The Forbes fund rating system, which goes back half a century, looks at a minimum of two full market cycles and awards separate performance grades for bull and bear markets.
It has a ten-year average annual return of 11% and a grade of A in both bull and bear markets.
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However, I also do not look at one single time period (like the nearly 38 year period from 1972 through 2010) and presume that every asset class just happened to have a proper balance of its bull and bear extremes.
Unfortunately, over the very long-term the market cycles back and forth between secular bull markets and secular bear markets on a quite regular basis.
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And you can have, you know, price bull markets and price bear markets and, you know, you can have these conversations.
Are there funds that, defying the pattern, excel in both bull and bear markets?
An excuse for the promotional sharks, both bull and bear, and stir up the waters.
In bull and bear markets, Madoff returned about ten per cent a year to Wilpon.
The decline in holding periods has been steady through 50 years of bull and bear markets.
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However, the bad news is that the performance through bull and bear markets remained dismal.
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"This is a conservative fund that should outperform in both bull and bear markets, " says Ward.
Using the ratings will help investors find the funds that do well in both bull and bear markets.
It gets honor grades in both bull and bear markets from Forbes, and five stars from fund rater Morningstar.
And, of course, Kaplan is a young manager, still innocent of long-term bear markets, and prone to bull-market-baby syndrome.
Market analysts (of which I am a minor variety) talk all the time about secular bull and bear cycles.
Croft Value received a B rating for both bull and bear markets in FORBES' most recent quarterly fund ratings.
Our ratings for domestic stock funds look at long-term performance over four bull and bear market cycles stretching back 12 years.
Instead, we award separate grades for performance during bull and bear markets.
He's seen bull and bear markets and his strategy is to sit out the bears and ride the strongest stocks when the bulls are running.
This articles lays out the Bull and Bear case for Rackspace.
In the stock market, we have bull and bear markets.
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