bear market

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a market characterized by falling prices for securities

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Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price. Benjamin Graham

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. Paul Tudor Jones

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes. Ron Chernow

Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market ... in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages. Warren Buffett

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue. Jeremy Grantham

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right. Jim Cramer

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