ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Defining The Bull And The Bear by Chuck Dukas "Bullish" and "bearish" are terms frequently used to describe the price behavior of financial instruments. What exactly do they mean? All price action can be categorized into six phases of trends that describe the cycle of markets. You can apply this insight to any financial instrument on any time frame. Although the principles will be illustrated with daily bars, you can utilize the concepts on intraday data, daily, weekly, or any time frames on commodities, stocks, or indexes or in fact any financial instrument subject to market forces. To be ...