Bull and BearFrom an old stockmarket course:
A new bull market starts with the Financials,Utilities and Transportation being the first sectors to start to rise and the bull ends with Oil and Gold topping out. Also watch General Motors as it is one of the first stocks to turn up in a bull market.
The indices may keep rising for awhile after stocks begin their retreat at the end of a bull market.
You are often 9 months into a new bull/bear before the new bull/bear is confirmed.
I think the bear market started last Feb.-March and is coming to an end. Any comment?