Longest Bull Market in History

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joe sod said:
update with the recent big sell off last few days S&P index was at 2214 points in august 2000, now its at 2351 points Dec 24 2018 almost 20 years later. So even the S&P 500 now back at year 2000 levels almost. Does this thread really stand up as the "longest bull market in history" when the best performing market in the world namely the US market is back where it was almost 20 years ago.
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Your way off!, the s+p wasn't even @ 1600 in the year 2000.
 
galway_blow_in said:
Your way off!, the s+p wasn't even @ 1600 in the year 2000.
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yes, but its the inflation adjusted charts im talking about as I explained in above post. It re adjusts year 2000 level to reflect todays prices and 18 years of inflation.



"The charts require little explanation. So far the 21st Century has not been especially kind to equity investors. Yes, markets do bounce back, but often in time frames that defy optimistic expectations."

There is still a positive return but only when you include dividends and reinvesting them. This is from April 2018 levels so also does not include the big sell off over the last few months.
 
FWIW, the S&P500 has just had its best January since 1987.

Again, not predictive of anything but interesting nonetheless (IMO).
 
joe sod said:
yes, but its the inflation adjusted charts im talking about as I explained in above post. It re adjusts year 2000 level to reflect todays prices and 18 years of inflation.



"The charts require little explanation. So far the 21st Century has not been especially kind to equity investors. Yes, markets do bounce back, but often in time frames that defy optimistic expectations."

There is still a positive return but only when you include dividends and reinvesting them. This is from April 2018 levels so also does not include the big sell off over the last few months.
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The S&P 500 is higher right now than it was in April 2008.
 
Sarenco said:
FWIW, the S&P500 has just had its best January since 1987.
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yes but it followed the worst december since 1929 another poster pointed out before. Ultimately it doesnt matter because they have cancelled each other out as irrelevant noise. I think in the era of computer trading looking for patterns from the past before computer trading was a factor is now a useless activity. Because the very fact that you have computers trading is a huge factor in itself therefore when there is volatility it is much more rapid and violent than in the past.
 
The longest bull market in history has just celebrated its 10th anniversary!:)

In the wake of the financial crisis, the S&P hit an intraday low of 666 (eerie, huh?) on 6 March 2009 and has since increased by over 300%, without a 20%+ drawdown.

I don't think that's predictive of what might happen in the future but I think it's interesting nevertheless.
 
Sarenco said:
The longest bull market in history has just celebrated its 10th anniversary!:)

In the wake of the financial crisis, the S&P hit an intraday low of 666 (eerie, huh?) on 6 March 2009 and has since increased by over 300%, without a 20%+ drawdown.

I don't think that's predictive of what might happen in the future but I think it's interesting nevertheless.
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On june 1 2000 S&P was at 1460, today its at 2748 almost 20 years later, an 88% increase on the june year 2000 figure. Both statistics 88% increase from year 2000, and 300% from 2009 are correct, but it just shows you how misleading quoting statistics in isolation are.
 
joe sod said:
On june 1 2000 S&P was at 1460, today its at 2748 almost 20 years later, an 88% increase on the june year 2000 figure. Both statistics 88% increase from year 2000, and 300% from 2009 are correct, but it just shows you how misleading quoting statistics in isolation are.
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What's your point? That your start and end point are vitally important? Of course they are!

Why choose 1 June 2000 as your starting point? Why not, say, 1 June 1990? Or maybe 1 June 1980?

The point I'm making is that we have just lived through a period of extraordinary calm in stock market history. 10 years without a single 20% drawdown? That's unprecedented!

What will happen in the future? I've no idea.
 
galway_blow_in said:
Does it not need to close down 20 % in order to officially be recorded as a bear market ?
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That's the generally accepted convention.

But, if you want to be really nit-picky, the S&P has not had a drawdown at any close of 20% or more from any previous high for 10 years now. That's unprecedented.
 
Sarenco said:
That's the generally accepted convention.

But, if you want to be really nit-picky, the S&P has not had a drawdown at any close of 20% or more from any previous high for 10 years now. That's unprecedented.
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Your just stating a fact, there were no 20% drawdowns in the s+p

The likes of the DAX however has seen 20 % plus drawdowns almost every year this past five

Europe is very volatile by comparison
 
To be fair GBI, the DAX is comprised of only 30 stocks - financial theory suggests that should be more volatile than a more broadly diversified index, such as the S&P.

But you're right - US stocks have significantly outperformed European stocks over the last 10 years.

The direct opposite of what happened over the previous 10 years, when US stocks went nowhere.

What's going to happen over the next 10 years? I've no idea.

Best plan, IMO, is to hedge your bets.
 
Sarenco said:
What's your point? That your start and end point are vitally important? Of course they are!

Why choose 1 June 2000 as your starting point? Why not, say, 1 June 1990? Or maybe 1 June 1980?
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because you chose 6 march 2009 as your starting point, the deepest trough of the worst financial crash since the 1930s as your starting point, thats why. On the surface a 300% increase in S&P500 since 2009 seems dramatic, an 88% increase since year 2000 is not.
And thats the best performing stock market in the world , what about europe back in recession again with european indices gone nowhere in 20 years.
 
joe sod said:
because you chose 6 march 2009 as your starting point, the deepest trough of the worst financial crash since the 1930s as your starting point, thats why. On the surface a 300% increase in S&P500 since 2009 seems dramatic, an 88% increase since year 2000 is not.
And thats the best performing stock market in the world , what about europe back in recession again with european indices gone nowhere in 20 years.
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I know it's sectoral but financials are an important component of the European stoxx 600

Read an extraordinary piece a while back in which the author referred to an investor who on the day the euro came into existence embarked on a twenty year plan to buy the European banking index every day for twenty years

He lost almost 99% of the time

I'm not good at copy and paste with my phone but it's on reuters, " euro curse, bankings lost decades"
 
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