Which stock market trend is associated with increased investor confidence? Bull? Or Bear?
Market trend secular bull market the prevailing trend is "bullish" or upward-moving. The United States stock market was described as being in a secular bull market from about 1983 to 2000 (or 2007), with brief upsets including the crash of 1987 and the market collapse of 2000–2002 triggered by the dot-com bubble. In a secular bear market, the prevailing trend is "bearish" or downward-moving. An example of a secular bear market occurred in gold between January 1980 to June 1999, culminating with the Brown Bottom. During this period the nominal gold price fell from a high of $850/oz ($30/g) to a low
Market trend downward movement that is not large enough to be a bear market (ex post). Another type of secondary trend is called a bear market rally (sometimes called "sucker's rally" or "dead cat bounce") which consists of a market-price increase of only 10% or 20% before the prevailing, bear-market trend resumes. Bear market rallies occurred in the Dow Jones index after the 1929 stock market crash, leading down to the market bottom in 1932, and throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Japanese Nikkei 225 has tracked a number of bear-market rallies since the late 1980s while experiencing an overall