Ricardo Mashregi: How Bulls and Bears Came to Represent Market Trends

1. Ricardo Mashregi: How Bulls
and Bears Came to Represent
Market Trends

2. Ricardo Mashregi leads the Canadian proprietary
equity trading organization KNC Ticker Group Inc. as
company president. With over two decades of
professional trading experience, Ricardo Mashregi is
committed to professional development through
regular participation in industry courses covering such
specialized topics as commodities, general securities,
limited futures, competitive options, and computer-
assisted trading.

3. Complex analytical methods have been developed to
examine market trends, yet one very simple concept
prevails: the stock prices will either rise or fall. When
the market is on the rise and the future looks
optimistic, it is known as a bull market. The person
who believes that stocks will travel upwards is referred
to as a bull. During a bear market, the opposite
scenario applies: stock prices are falling, and the
pessimistic trader is known as a bear.

4. Opinions vary as to where the terms originated. A
popular blood sport in centuries past involved bull and
bear fighting, and the terms may reference how bulls
and bears fight: the bull strikes upwards with its horns,
whereas the bear swipes down with its paws.