Article: INVESTORS' BIG DILEMMA: HOW TO SPOT END OF BULL MARKET, AND WHEN TO SELL INVESTMENTS

Stock market investors big and small face a tricky question these days: How to spot the end of a bull market.

No one disputes that the market boom that began almost five years ago will end at some point, whether it happens tomorrow or another five years down the road.

And because stocks have risen so sharply for so long, many analysts believe the decline that follows might be pretty nasty.

``The bull market which began in August 1982 appears to be still alive,'' says Henry Gailliot, senior vice president and economist at the investment management firm of Federated Research Corp. ``However, it is a badly overextended and overvalued bull market, which has historically led to painful ...

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