Are traditional market cycle lengths (bull/bear) becoming significantly shorter due to high-frequency trading, social media hype, and instant information flow?
Historical data feels less and less useful. The speed of reactions now, fueled by algorithms and retail access to info, seems to invalidate long-term patterns. What used to take months now happens in days/hours.
Anyone else feel like we're in a new era where 5/10/20 year cycle analyses are increasingly irrelevant?
EDIT: A lot of the expert analysis still seems to be focused on these long term cycles, are they just hanging on to that idea because they don't know any better? And if they know better, they wouldn't really be a stock market analyst, would they.