Originally Posted By: Hankster
Hold what you got, RICH. Unless you're invested in loser companies that are going belly-up, the only way to lose money during a correction or Bear market is if you sell your stocks when the price drops below what you paid for them.

Historically the markets have negative returns, on average, about 1 of every 4 years. What goes up must come down, but it always goes up again. From 1973 to 2016 the average annualized return of the S&P 500 index was +11.69%.



I can remember when the Dow was 800-900 for years and years. During the gas wars in the 70's. I remember passing through Idaho on a family vacation and we saw gas at .19 cent's a gallon.
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