BEAR market's impact on the MIND and what it does to financial markets' participants
During Wave 1 down of the new alleged or suspected BEAR leg:
buy the dippers are out in force as usual, nothing has fazed them. Complacency is near 100%. What do they all have in common? They extrapolate an extant trend to infinity, never considering it can reverse and devastate them. They ignore the 2nd primary Rule of Trend. (1) Trends tend to continue (2) A Trend can reverse at any time without notice
During Wave 1 down there are rallies and crashed and they start getting confused but are still steadfast relatively speaking in their belief that the BULL is still alive and soon will take out the Top.
This notion of the Bull still alive is confirmed in their minds when a Minor Wave 2 rally gets underway like we have seen since June 16. They come out in force and proclaim, BEAR is dead, buy, buy, buy"
And they get validated as the days and weeks go by because in Wave 2 up its as if the sheer optimism of the alltime high is repeating itself and often can exceed that of the Top in terms of sheer Glee.
This goes on for days/weeks/ and they jump right back in LONG. The goal of the train engineer is to get as many as possible on board once again. Then, at anywhere between 38.2% - 61.8% retracement of Wave 1, all of a sudden and without warning, Wave 2 up terminates and the baton is handed over to Wave 3 down.
DEATH of the masses begins. they get hammered by the massive gapdowns and fast acceleration to the downside.
By the time sub-wave 1 of Wave 3 down is over they are so terrified that they proclaim, "something is terribly wrong"
BEAR continues and continues down, down, down, until 5 full waves are completed.
This is the WAVE TECHNOLOGY method of depicting the BEAR