There are three animal metaphors for market sentiments and trends:
🐂 - “Bull Market” describes a strong, upward trending market with rising prices, whereas a
🐻 - “Bear Market” describes a weak, downward trending market with falling prices.
🦀 - “Crab Market” for a sideways moving market, prices move neither up nor down.
The most widely accepted theory is that the terms "bull" and "bear" are derived from the way these animals attack:
- Bull: A bull thrusts its horns upwards, symbolizing prices rising in a market.
- Bear: A bear swipes its paws downwards, representing falling prices.
- Whereas the crab denomination comes from the way crabs walk sideways.
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