Post-game drug tests should ignore any signs of Viagra and Rogaine. Similarly, investors can't get caught up in the euphoria of short-term market rallies and extended bull markets. Certain rules of this game have to be kept in mind, or they risk striking out at anytime. Never confuse brilliance of your part with a bull market. A watched stock never boils.
Nobody rings a bell when a bull market is over.
You might be right about where the market is going-but you have no idea where it will go after that. Wall Street is motivated primarily by two emotions fear and greed. If you made money, you invested. If you lost money, you speculated. There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate - when he can't afford it and when he can.