Bear Market
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Categories: Finance
An extended period of general price decline in an individual security, an asset, or a market.
Bear Market (Wikipedia)
A market trend is a perceived tendency of financial markets to move in a particular direction over time. Analysts classify these trends as secular for long time-frames, primary for medium time-frames, and secondary for short time-frames. Traders attempt to identify market trends using technical analysis, a framework which characterizes market trends as predictable price tendencies within the market when price reaches support and resistance levels, varying over time.
A market trend can only be determined in hindsight, since at any time prices in the future are not known.
