Our current bull run in U.S. equities has turned 99 months old. Depending on how you count the last month or two, this has become the second longest bull market in the history of U.S. stock markets. I think the bull has room left to run and will show you why with a chart at the end of this article but first, let’s take a look at how this bull compares to others in length. There’s a graphic that has been making the rounds on sites like StockTwits that appeals to those with a downside bias. The person posting the table was fishing for comments about when this market will end in a crash with the request, “How much longer?” Here’s that table —

Some accounts have our bull a bit further down the pecking order as we’ll see next but either way, we can agree that this has been a long run by just about any measure. The next chart comes from a money management company (First Trust) that has a bias toward keeping people invested in the market. Even with that disclosure, it is still a pretty cool graphic:

In the February 15, 2017 Tharp’s Thoughts, I wrote an article with the splashy title Markets Don’t Plunge When This Happens. “This” referred to new all-time highs combined with improving breadth or broad market participation.