A Bear Market Is Coming Eventually. Here's How I'm Preparing My Investments.
There are four things you should do today before the market starts falling.
Overview
Investors haven't had to deal with much market turmoil over the past several years. The last real "shock" was the 2022 bear market. But even that was a relatively orderly decline, followed by the artificial intelligence (AI) bull market.
There was the COVID-19 pandemic crash in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). But that reversed within months when the government injected a multi-trillion stimulus package into the economy. There was a mini-bear market in late 2018 that took 20% off the S&P 500. That was completely recovered by spring 2019.
Details
You could argue that you'd have to go all the way back to the financial crisis nearly two decades ago to find the last really face-ripping bear market. The next big bear market is coming. Eventually. It could happen in a year. It might not come for the next 10 years. But history has shown us that the bill usually comes due in time.
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Originally published at www.fool.com.