Content Global Beauty Trends Intermediate Market Trends Stock Market Trends Words near market-trend in the Dictionary Translations of trend While the trend is up, traders focus on buying, attempting to profit from a continued price rise. In a secular bear market, the prevailing trend is “bearish” or downward-moving. An example of a secular bear market occurred in gold between January 1980 to June 1999, culminating with the Brown Bottom. During this period the market gold price fell from a high of $850/oz ($30/g) to a low of $253/oz ($9/g). Nothing moves straight up for long, so there will always be oscillations, but the overall direction needs to be higher in…