A dealer on a stock exchange, currency market, or commodity market who expects prices to fall, often selling securities without owning them in anticipation of repurchasing them at a lower price.
A bear market is a prolonged period during which investment prices fall and widespread pessimism causes the negative sentiment to be self-sustaining. A bear market typically describes a condition where security prices fall 20% or more from recent highs.
A bear market is a financial term used to describe a market where the prices of securities are falling or are expected to fall. This state of the market is often characterized by a decline of at least 20% from recent highs.
A downturn refers to the shift of an economic or stock market cycle from rising to falling, indicating a move from expansion to recession or from a bull market to a bear market.
A bear market where investors who sell incur substantial losses, while potential investors prefer to remain liquid until market conditions improve. Like a graveyard, those who are in cannot get out, and those who are out have no desire to get in.
A selling climax refers to a sudden plunge in security prices when investors, driven by panic, simultaneously decide to dump their holdings. This event can sometimes signal the bottom of a bear market, after which the market may start to rise.
