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Trading 101: Bull vs Bear Market

Markus
3 min readDec 19, 2019

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Bull vs Bear Market

You might have heard people talking about “being in the longest bull market in history.”

And if you’re new to trading, all this lingo can be confusing.

Let me make this really easy for you.

In the next few minutes, you will learn what a Bull Market and what a Bear Market is. And I will show you a very easy way to remember this forever.

So What Does It Mean?

When people talk about bull or bear market, they talk about the direction of a market or of a stock.

  • “Being bullish” means that people believe that a stock or the market is moving higher.
  • And “being bearish” means that people believe that a stock is going lower.

In the beginning, I was really confused about this.

For me, it was important to find a way to make it easy for me to memorize.

Here’s An Easy Way To Use These Terms

I used a very simple analogy to memorize when to use the word “bull” and when to talk about a “bear” market.

Think about it this way:

How does a bull attack?

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Markus
Markus

Written by Markus

Markus is a self-made multi-millionaire who was born in Germany. He came to the US in 2002 with $30,000 in his pocket and a dream to become a successful trader.

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