investing

It is officially gut check time.

So, I’d like to tell you a story about two investors who lived through a bear market and how their decisions during the correction affected their lives ever after.

Do you know why bear markets happen?

Or what you should do during them?

It’s easy to lose focus in the chaos of a bear market. In fact, behavioral economists say we’re primed to look for the negatives after a market downturn.

When that happens, we tend to seek out more negative information. When we find it, we start to feel threatened. It’s human nature.1

You know what can help?

Corrections are anxiety-provoking.

They make us wonder if we got it wrong. If we’re going to be ok.

If this time is “different.”

After all, the S&P 500 plunged “at unprecedented speed,” and this was the “worst point drop in history.”1