A bull market is a sustained period of rising prices across an asset class, driven by investor optimism, growing demand, and positive sentiment.
A bull market is an extended period — typically months or years — during which the price of an asset or market trends persistently upward, accompanied by rising investor confidence, increasing trading volume, and a narrative of growth. The traditional benchmark is a 20% rise off a recent low.
In crypto, bull markets are famously intense. Bitcoin's halving cycle has historically seeded roughly four-year bull cycles in which total crypto market cap expands by an order of magnitude. These cycles are characterized by retail FOMO, leveraged longs, exchange outperformance, and rapid proliferation of new tokens and narratives.
Bull markets reward risk-taking but punish the undisciplined at the inevitable turn. Recognizing late-stage signals — euphoric sentiment, leverage at all-time highs, marginal participants claiming cycles are obsolete — is how experienced traders preserve gains into the next bear market.
A bull market is a sustained period of rising prices, typically defined as a 20% gain off a recent low, accompanied by optimism, growing demand, and increasing trading volume. Bull markets can last for months or years.
Historically, major crypto bull markets have lasted roughly 12-18 months after each Bitcoin halving (which occurs every four years). However, past cycles do not guarantee future duration, and structural changes in the market can shorten or extend the pattern.
The opposite is a bear market — a sustained period of falling prices, usually defined as a 20% decline from a recent peak, accompanied by pessimism and declining demand.
A bear market is a sustained period of falling prices, typically a 20%+ decline from recent highs, accompanied by pessimism and declining demand.
FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) is the psychological urge to buy an asset after watching its price surge, usually right before a local top.
HODL is a crypto slang term meaning to hold an asset through volatility rather than selling, originally a misspelling of "hold" from a 2013 Bitcoin forum post.
Diamond hands describes holding an asset with unwavering conviction through extreme volatility, refusing to sell even under heavy losses.
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