Bear Market Quotes

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash..

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull market is typically a blow-off, whereas the mania runs wild and prices go parabolic... There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

When Trump was a candidate, he talked about the stock market, because, oh, the stock market was going up when Obama was president.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls.

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they've been polished up a bit.

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

Every time the market has corrected, since 2008, it's always been the Fed that's made the bottom. The Fed has always saved the market either by cutting rates, launching QE, or threatening to launch another round of QE.

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

Peace is bearish.

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

There will be no repetition of the break yesterday …. I have no fear of another comparable decline.

September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to sell stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than three months after the post-9/11 low reached on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.