One of its members was Thomas Jefferson, a lawyer from Virginia. He had been a leader in Virginia, and Virginia had elected him to the Continental Congress. The others on the committee were too busy with the revolution to work on the declaration, so Jefferson wrote it alone. He finished the document in a week.
The time frame is in weeks, so it shows the average bull market cycle is 155 weeks or about 39 months. The average bear market is about 17 months, which actually matches the most recent bear market from October 2007 to March 2009 (17 months). A full market cycle is 56 months.
Bulls tend to lead far shorter lives, on average, than cats and dogs, your 30-year mortgage, the neighbor next door, Boeing's 747 and the clothes dryer that always seems to go cold when you can least afford it. The average lifespan of a bull market is 56 months, as in four years and eight months.he 2002-2007 bull lasted five years. The decade-long bull that ended in March 2000, the longest bull in history, lasted 113 months, or more than nine years. It was also the biggest-gainer of all-time, posting a return of 417%, more than double the 162% average gain since 1932.