Bear markets tend to be shorter than bull markets, but they're typically more violent. While a bull market's median duration is 772 trading days, bear markets have a median duration of 367 trading days, which works out to nearly 18 months in real time (we investors enjoy our weekends off).
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/02/25/an-illustrated-guide-to-bull-and-bear-markets.aspx
The average bull market rally since 2009 has lasted 99 calendar days and has seen the market rise by 18.8%. By contrast our current rally, which started in mid November, is just 75 days old and has charted a 10.9% rise.
http://avondaleam.com/how-long-does-average-bull-market-rally-last/
How Long Does the Average Bull Market Rally Last? As of today, the bull market which began in March of 2009 is 1,422 calendar days old. Over that whole period there have been nine drawdowns of greater than 5% which segment the bull market into ten periods of bull market rally.
http://avondaleam.com/how-long-does-average-bull-market-rally-last/
Lets put the current interest rate and equity market into historical context. We have been experiencing a prolonged bull market in USTs since the early 1980s and we are in the midst of a strong equity bull market dating back to the end of 2009. The most recent equity bear markets can be seen on the graph (sharp fall in the red line above) coinciding with the last two recessions, in 2001 and 2007-2009.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/2433545-the-bull-market-in-equities-has-a-long-way-to-run
May 28, 2015 6:55 PM ET. That's One Resilient Bull Market By Dr. Van Tharp Trading Education Institute. The endless jabber from bulls and bears about the age and health of the current bull market is a great source of fascination to me.
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/127148-michael-michaud/4044716-how-long-will-this-bull-market-run
So while the run-up since March of 2009 has been pretty amazing, we are not yet in uncharted territory. Before hitting any of the records from the last 70 years, this bull market still has a long way to go in terms of length, gains and time between corrections.
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/127148-michael-michaud/4044716-how-long-will-this-bull-market-run
First of all, it shows you how long the recovery lasts, and that's by the width of the graph bars that you see there--the wider the bar, the longer the recovery. We can see that some of the recoveries have lasted as long as 168 months. We're only at about the 61 right now.
http://www.morningstar.com/cover/videocenter.aspx?id=645790
One thing to notice is just how long most secular market cycles are. The average length of all modern secular cycles is 194 months, and the median length is 200 months. That's a little less than 17 years -- about the amount of time needed for a new generation of investors to mature and enter the market.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/02/25/an-illustrated-guide-to-bull-and-bear-markets.aspx
Then the other way to measure is by the height: How much in a bull market recovery does the market tend to gain? Now keep in mind, 168 months, we're talking a lot of years. We're talking more than 10 years. And so you would expect a pretty decent return as money compounds. The graph shows that in some periods the market has gone up as much as tenfold during a period of economic growth, and that's really great news.
http://www.morningstar.com/cover/videocenter.aspx?id=645790
How Long Will This Bull Market Run? The endless jabber from bulls and bears about the age and health of the current bull market is a great source of fascination to me. I've heard certain voices which have been bearish since 2012 and others have never seen a pullback that they didn't buy.
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/127148-michael-michaud/4044716-how-long-will-this-bull-market-run
how long do bull markets run
Bull markets run for 772 days. The bull markets run for 772 trading days.