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oncallthrowtoday at 2:11 PM4 repliesview on HN

Do you mean “bullish”?


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djeastmtoday at 3:13 PM

That would be the more general/traditional way of saying it, but in modern investment circles the focus seems to have turned towards the actual people being "bulls/bears" and not just the attitudes of the market. A person is a bull or a bear, as opposed to a person being either bullish or bearish.

So in this construction, a "bull case" is a "case that a bull (the person) can make".

ahokatoday at 2:21 PM

Bull and bear markets. Bull’s horns are pointing up (expecting growth, optimistic), bear’s claw is pointing down (expecting recession, pessimistic). Yeah, it’s stupid.

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standarditemtoday at 2:16 PM

"Bullish" means optimistic or even aggressively optimistic. It's typically used in the context of markets.

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luplextoday at 2:27 PM

"a bull case" gets lots of google results, so it seems to be a commonly used construction amongst analysts. Basically it means "The case that OpenClaw will develop as a bull".

"bullish" seems more common in tech circles ("I'm bullish on this") but it's also used elsewhere.