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    How to Make the Most of a Down Market

    by John Waggoner, Senior Associate Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Oct 03, 2019 3 minutes

    You may never learn to love bear markets, but you can learn how to make them more bearable. A bear market rips your portfolio for at least a 20% loss. (Smaller downturns of at least 10%, even the 19.8% price drop in the fourth quarter of 2018, are corrections.) Since World War II, the average bear market has clawed 33% from Standard & Poor's 500-stock index and lasted 14 months.

    It typically takes 25

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