Ha, yeah, I used the wrong term. :( Apologies on the confusion.

My main point is still on the "contra to my view" side, though. I'm skeptical that they are as good of an idea as stated, but evidence is positive on them.

You ride a bull, you run from a bear.

It's confusing, because people generally don't ride bulls. Where I'm from you gently back off from both bulls and bears.

I remember it as bears hibernate, so they will stockpile resources and not let go of them.

I don't really have an analog for the bulls, oddly.

Nice! I actually knew the correct term, though. Have a bad habit of switching binary things a lot. :(

Edit: Amusingly, I think I was thinking that I was bullish against it. Such that I flipped a different part of the sentence. Still, wrong as written.

Or: bears hibernate, bulls charge

I was taught it was how they attack.

Bears: stand and swipe down with their paw

Bulls: start with their head low and jut upwards with their horns