15 Powerful Lessons on Bear Market From Ace Investors

Bears have gripped stock markets around the world. Be it Dow Jones and S&P 500 of the USA or Sensex and Nifty of India, the color red is omnipresent. “Novice” investors are selling in heavy losses.

But is there a need to Sell?

The shares you have belong to a company and that company is still working well, making the same products, offering the same services.

Why do you think that the shares will not bounce back?

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To help you get the most out of this bear market, here I’m sharing 15 lessons on the Bear Market from some of the greatest investors of all time.

15 Powerful Lessons on Bear Market:―

1.

Experience in former markets indicates that just as they are too high in bull markets, they get too low in bear markets.

― Benjamin Graham

2.

There’s an old market saying about stocks to the effect that they all go down together.

― Charles Ellis

3,

Missing the bottom on the way up won’t cost you anything. It’s missing the top on the way down that’s always expensive.

― Peter Lynch

4.

You need to know the market’s going to go down sometimes. If you’re not ready for that, you shouldn’t own stocks. And it’s good when it happens.

― Peter Lynch

5.

It’s absolute cockamamie crazy to sell stocks after they drop. Instead, you should say, “Today there’s a first-rate bargain and I’m buying.

― Charles Ellis

6.

The man in the street associates the acquisition of wealth with rising markets; failures, ruin, depression, and panics with falling markets.

― Philip Carret

7.

There is a considerable tendency for common stock investors to do the greater part of their buying, both “good” and “bad” securities, at high levels of the market. They are equally inclined to do the greater part of their selling at low levels of the market, a procedure which is not conducive to successful results.

― Benjamin Graham

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8.

I’ve found that when the market’s going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.

― Peter Lynch

15 Powerful Lessons on Bear Market From Ace Investors

9.

What you learn from history is the market goes down. It goes down a lot.

― Peter Lynch

10.

Bull markets and bear markets last long enough so that the average trader is likely to forget by the time the climax is approaching that any sort of movement is possible.

― Philip Carret

11.

The True Investment challenge is to perform well in difficult times.

― Seth Klarman

12.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand what’s going to happen, then you’re not ready. You won’t do well in the markets. If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know it’s gonna be cold. You don’t panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

― Peter Lynch

13.

It would be silly to expect every bear market to turn into the Great Depression. It would be equally wrong to expect that a fall from overvalued, to more fairly valued, couldn’t badly overshoot on the downside.

―Seth Klarman

14.

If you’re going to be in this game for the long pull, which is the way to do it, you better be able to handle a 50% decline without fussing too much about it.”

― Charlie Munger