Why bears are bears?

[notme]

i believe the market will neither go up or down.  what kind of animal am i? 

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[evolve]

We disagree in the terminology. I use it in a logical smart way, you use it in an absolute way.

Yes, I use words in an absolute way.  As in how they are actually defined.

Now, based on the definition of a bear, the only possible option is to short sale. since waiting for a drop, is technically a bull position as they are waiting for the stock to go up. Are we ok on that definition?

Nope.

 Again, If you believe the market is going down, you are a bear. Period. That's it. It has nothing to do with what you are waiting for. Just what you believe will happen.

What is so hard to understand about that?


Just a little more reading for you:

Another strategy is to wait on the sidelines until you feel that the bear market is nearing its end, only starting to buy in anticipation of a bull market. If a person is pessimistic, believing that stocks are going to drop, he or she is called a "bear" and said to have a "bearish outlook".

http://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/stocks7.asp



But hey, whatever man...if you want to keep using words wrong, thats up to you. I'm done.

[naphto]

 " Because they believe pragmatically that the price will go down. " should be "because the price will inevitably go down" but this is the correct answer.