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Mey
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regime change

October 4th, 2012, 11:43 am

Do you know of any paper that defines bear/bull markets in a "scientific" way?
 
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regime change

October 7th, 2012, 8:54 am

hello, i don't know your answer. nonetheless here is my input.one can argue that bullishness and bearishness (and "stablishness"?) are purely subjective. this is the market sentiment of operators at a certain time built upon the perception of market factors.besides, the job of TA actually is to provide a series of market indicators figuring out market (SMAs, RSI, stochastics, ...).i'm curious to know what you are searching on.
 
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regime change

October 18th, 2012, 12:36 am

"Super Cycles in Real Metals Prices?" by John Cuddington defines long term cycles. The NBER committee defines business cycles according to a set of rules but I think they also put their own perspective in : http://www.nber.org/cycles.html