The stock market's incredible asymmetric upside 📈

Reflecting on TKer Stock Market Truth No. 4 🤔

Stocks spend far more time going up than going down. (Source: eToro)

As we digest the fact that we’re in a new bull market, it’s worth reflecting on what history tells us about how the stock market moves.

Callie Cox, U.S. investment analyst at eToro, shared this killer chart mapping the duration and returns of bull and bear markets since 1950.

“Since 1950, bull markets have lasted for 5.5 years on average — four times as long as bear markets over the same stretch,” she observed. “And over these bull markets, the S&P 500 has gained an average of 183%.”

There’s a lot to unpack in what she said.