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Most of the bubbles described in this (old) article have some jaggies on the way up. It's anyone's guess whether they're random volatility or constitute "cycles", and the definition of a cycle is anyway more to do with market psychology than the underlying asset (with the possible exception of tulips which do have a growing season).
https://www.man.com/insights/a-brief-history-of-bubbles
I'm not unduly weighting that article, it's just a convenient collection of graphs in one place.
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Literally everyone on the upslope of every asset bubble in history
Of course you can make plenty of money on the upslope of a bubble, but trying to time it optimally is probably a mug's game.