Description

• Long period of time where security prices are rising
  
  
• Can be for
  
  
  • Stocks
    
    
  • Bonds
    
    
  • Real Estate
    
    
• Characterized by
  
  
  • Confidence
    
    
  • Strong results
    
    
  • Optimism
    
    
• Characterized by
  
  
  • Drop of 20%
    
    
  • Followed by a rise of 20%
    
    
  • Before another drop of 20%
    
    
• More characteristics
  
  
  • Investors my more stocks
    
    
  • Companies bet more on their future
    
    
  • Unemployment rates go down
    
    
  • Money easier to spend
    
    
  • Risk of excessive inflation
    
    
• Is difficult to predict so it is only noticed while it's happening
  
  
• Take place when
  
  
  • Markets are strengthening or already strong
    
    
  • Strong GDP
    
    
  • Drop in unemployment
    
    
  • Rise in corporate products
    
    
• Take advantage by
  
  
  • Getting in early
    
    
    • Buy and hold
      
      
    • Increased buy and hold
      
      
    • Retracement additions
      
      
    • Full swing trading
      
      
• Recent bu markets
  
  
  • Post WW2- June 1949 to August 1956
    
    
    • S&P 500 rose 267%
      
      
  • Housing Boom- October 2002 to October 2007
    
    
    • Dramatic growth in housing sector
      
      
  • Longest in history- March 2009 to March 2020
    
    
    • S&P 500 rose 400% from low if 666