Saurabh Kautilya Gupta: comprehending a Bearish Market & a Bullish Market

The names, "Bearish Market" or "Bullish Market", come from for the way that these particular animals - a Bear & a Bull - attacks its victims.
A Bull swipes its victim upward during an attack while a Bear swipes its target downward during an attack, thus becoming a metaphor for market activity under these conditions.

Bull markets are defined by the market going up aggressively over a period of time.
As the market starts to rise, there becomes more and more greed in the stock market.
You see more and more people thinking, “Oh yeah let’s put money into the market because it’s going up.”

The Bear market is exactly the opposite of a bull market.
It’s a market where quarter after quarter the market is moving down about 20%.
And when that happens people start to get really scared about putting money into the stock market.

One of the most famous examples of a bear market takes the form of the 1987 market crash, which saw a 29.6% drop that lasted roughly 3 months - Often called Black Monday.

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Another infamous example is the The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash that occurred in 1929.
It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the USA, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its aftereffects.
The crash, which followed the London Stock Exchange's crash of September, signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.