What Is a Bear Market?

A bear market is when a market experiences prolonged price declines. It typically describes a condition in which securities prices fall 20% or more from recent highs amid widespread pessimism and negative investor sentiment.

Bear markets are often associated with declines in an overall market or index like the S&P 500, but individual securities or commodities can also be considered to be in a bear market if they experience a decline of 20% or more over a sustained period of time—typically two months or more. Bear markets also may accompany general economic downturns such as a recession. Bear markets may be contrasted with upward-trending bull markets.

Optimism Price

This chart shows the total daily Optimism price.

According to the chart:

• The trend of Optimism price was constant till July 7th
• First there was a growth on July 18th.
• There was significant growth om July 28th and after that the trend of Optimism price was upward.
• The highest price was 1.75 on July 30th.
• The lowest price was 0.45 on July 13th.

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