BULL MARKET VS BEAR MARKET

You can have a losing day but a profitable week.

You can have a losing week but a profitable month.

You can have a losing month but a profitable year.

You can blow up a small account then build a big one.

Play the long game.

Bull Markets: Fear of missing out.

Bear Markets: Fear of being in.

Bull Markets: Everything I buy is going up — I’m a genius.

Bear Markets: Everything I buy is going down — I’m an idiot.

Bull Markets: See, fundamentals always win out.

Bear Markets: See, technicals and sentiment rule the markets.

Bull Markets: I knew I should have had more of my portfolio in stocks.

Bear Markets: I knew I should have had more of my portfolio in bonds.

Bull Markets: That guy’s been calling for a crash for years — he’s an idiot.

Bear Markets: That guy just called the crash — he’s a genius.

Bull Markets: I want to be a long-term buy and hold investor.

Bear Markets: I want to be a short-term trader.

Bull Markets: I’m glad I was buying during the last market crash.

Bear Markets: Never try to catch a falling knife.

Bull Markets: I’ll sit tight when the market falls.

Bear Markets: Dear Lord, get me out of stocks NOW!

Bull Markets: Time to buy stocks?

Bear Markets: Time to sell stocks?