We could not identify of how much an increase is considered as a "bull market"because as what we said its volatility and decentralized,but for us now we should wait those feed news that there's a bull run coming this remaining months of this year,so that we can gain a good profit of our crypto coins,otherwise for now the exchange market is still struggle and continue to fixed and maintaining its stability form.
It could be easily identified if you have the reference to check in a daily basis, like coinmarketcap. Why do you rely in the news? When you can easily check for yourself regarding the price movement. Some of them news are fake that spread FUD.
However, in the case where we have the opposite, lower highs and lower lows, then that pretty much sums up a bear market. Uptrend or downtrend, we can call it whatever we like, but that is pretty much the layman term for it. However this is totally different from a rally which a lot of people mistaken a lot!