Most of us on this forum (for the last few years I might add) have been asking your same questions.
We are all agreed the market has turned, and is headed down. The questions now are, for long, and how low. Lots of very smart people on here have answered many related questions, using very good data. This is called forecasting. It’s used all the time in business. Each week new data comes out that helps us revise these answers.
To answer your question about the run-up: yes, most of us did know the market would go up during that time period. What we didn’t know was for how long, and how high. I think it exceeded everyone’s imaginations.
I think you are just badgering us when asking for winning lotto numbers, no? In any case, here they are: 20, 12, 87, 92, 41, 43.