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Bear hunting

When were there bear and bull markets in US stocks since 1950? Smoothing While we’d really like to estimate the expected return at each point in time, finding bear markets is ambitious enough.  The plan starts by smoothing the daily returns through time, as in Figure 1. Figure 1: Smoothed returns with a 4 year … Continue reading

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