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Bullish vs Bearish: Explained

You may have heard the terms bullish or bearish from various stock market or investment news outlets. These sources frequently classify the market conditions based upon the forecasts of stock traders and investors.
If you’re new to the investing world, there are a few characteristics of bullish vs. bearish markets that can help you understand what these terms mean.

Understanding the Investing Terms Bullish and Bearish
How investors feel about market conditions drives stock market performance. Whether there is a bullish or bearish market reflects how most investors believe the stock market is going to perform in the future.
What is a Bullish Market?
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The “Critically Counterintuitive” Lessons of Investing

In order to grow your wealth, you may think you need to be very intelligent and highly analytical.
But, as Nicholas Vardy explains, some of the most critical lessons of investing are counterintuitive.

I’ve written before about mental models in investing.
Today, I want to introduce a particularly compelling set of models I call the “critical counterintuitive.”
The concept is critical because little else matters. It is counterintuitive because it reminds us that the world works in ways opposite to the way we think it does.
Once you understand what it is, the critical counterintuitive is everywhere you look.
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