the.com/bull market
When everyone's a genius and nobody checks the math.
means A sustained period in which prices (usually stocks) keep rising, confidence runs high, and buying begets more buying.
from The origin is genuinely debated. The leading theory traces 'bull' and 'bear' to 18th-century London stock jobbers: bears were linked to the old proverb of 'selling the bearskin before catching the bear' — selling what you don't yet own, betting prices fall — while 'bull' emerged later as its natural opposite, the animal that tosses things upward with its horns, fitting a trader betting on a rise. No one can prove the pairing's exact birth moment, but by the 1700s both terms were alive in financial slang, and they've stalked each other through every market cycle since.
- origin
- bulls thrust horns upward, bears swipe down
- duration myth
- average lasts years, feels like minutes
- danger sign
- your barber gives stock tips
- official rule
- no official rule, just vibes and 20 percent