Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

An Expert's Guide to Calling a Market Top

The landscape is filled with pundits predicting the demise of the bull market. Here's how to get in on the action.

July 7, 2017 at 4:41 PM UTC

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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Everyone and members of his and her close family seem ready to call a market top.

You’ve heard the arguments and any number of permutations time and again: This bull market is geriatric, it’s mainly a few overrated tech behemoths that account for all the gains, valuations are stretched and are too far ahead of fundamentals. So you figure if the clueless pundits can do it, why can’t you? If you’re in the money management business, you’d look like a star if you got this one right. So go ahead and give it shot.