Visitors ride a roller coaster in Valencia, California. (Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg)
The percentage of people who participate in the markets is said to be a very small number. Say, for a minute that it is x, but the number of people asking when the market will top would be something close to 10x! Where did these other 9x people come from, you wonder? Those are, typically, the vicarious participants of the market.