NIFTY has its trend going on and off. Range getting tighter, but breakouts get stalled at the next resistance. It is not because bears are ruling superior, that the bull are not able to move higher.
The few bulls who are running the markets at present lack power, no motivation for them from the front runners. They fear moving higher, traders have gone used to booking small gains. It is not happy all the way to the banks every time.
If the trend followers were a happy lot in June, it is the mean reversion traders who are doing good in July. Like how the broad market is ruled in a two party system with Bulls and Bears. The same way the trader community is a rule between the trend followers and Mean reversion traders.
Each will get their fair chance to make it good at the rings, it is how prudent they are in extracting from their opportunity that makes the real difference.