“Weird Begets Weird”

David Merkel picks up on my post about the S&P 500 and looks at rallies in relationship to the falls. David says that “weird begets weird.” He finds that bull markets last longer than bear markets, but bear markets are faster than bulls.

The summary statistics are these: bull markets last 3.5x as long as bear markets on average. Bear markets move at 1.9x the rate of bull markets.

See David’s post for the histogram fun.

Posted by on February 17th, 2011 at 7:44 am


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