Hooya
-for Wolf
It really depends on what you call a bull market.
My definition is quite simple but not to everybody's liking.
A bull market is one which will rally up to a new high, taking out all the bears, and carry on up - without retesting the low first.
It's possible, of course. Anything is possible
But after the 87 debacle which lasted about 3 months and dropped 25%, it took 4 years for FTSE to reach a new high.
And that was only a 'wham, bam , thank you mam' affair.
This market fell for 4 years and fell more than 50% !
When it bottomed at 3277, the yield on Ftse was roughly equal to the yield on bonds.
That means the market was valued at zero growth !.
So a break of the low is unlikely to happen but a retest is still a
strong possibility, I think , as I really cannot see any growth in any sector at the moment.
(There is a lot of cheating going on with the GDP numbers).
And that, together with all the stale bulls above 6000, makes the likelihood of a straight run up to a new high, improbable.
So, a bear market rally is still my favoured outlook.
On the other hand ..........