This Chart Predicts the Future of the Longest Bull Run in Stock Market History
If you want to know the future of something, very often you have to trace it to its beginnings.
On March 9th, 2019, the longest bull run in stock market history celebrated its 10th anniversary. I wondered to myself what might eventually bring it to an end, and possibly even cause a reversal.
I decided it had to be an ‘act of God’. For the last decade mankind had managed its way out of several threats to the economy with stimulus policies. We seemed to have ‘conquered’ man-made recessions!
The only possibility left had to be Mother Nature.
A huge earthquake, a monster volcano erupts, a deadly epidemic… some kind of natural disaster that hits our economy so hard many fortunes would be lost and hordes of investors would have to liquidate their investments quickly to recover cash.
Risen from the grave
A year later, on March 12th, 2020, the Financial Times ran an article with the words “R.I.P. to the 11-year bull market”.
COVID-19 had spread from China to the rest of the world and stock markets plunged from mid-February through March as the world locked itself down in their homes and wild…
