Not yet. They'll be back if the market comes roaring back, telling everyone that permabears "be like money gone".
permabears be like money gone still 100% up room to go when this bubble is over it will make the 1999 top look like an anthill on the longterm chart more junk ipos still need to come out like bitcoin baba ipo means only 50% there still need crude to crash to $75 and gold sub $1000 and John Paulson must capitulate safehaven GLD investment flows from EU and Asia will continue to bid SPX EU and Asia will recover in 2016 Then a synchronized bull market in 2017-2019 Apple must announce the iPhone 10 with new Siri that lets you buy Apple stock using just your voice and Apple Pay/Bitcoin: "Siri, buy 1,000 shares of Apple at the market" Army of hipsters must daytrade using Siri, and students must buy stocks before class starts and then sell on the bus ride home. Dozens of students must make millions, before this bull market is over. Lawyers, surgeons, politicians, and Ron Insana will quit and start hedgefunds again. 5 year olds will say "when I grow up, I wanna be a hedgefund manager" Yellen will quit in H2 2019 "mission accomplished" Crash in 2020
You gotta love "dip buying strategies". Works always in a "Zero-Interest-Rate-Policy" (ZIRP) environment. By the way: anybody is allowed to say "Thank you Ben!"