A brief history of scary markets. Below are charts of the last 8 bear markets. Each one was scary and each one ended with a bull market.

And here is the 2020 Bear market:

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Each of those time periods were hard to stay invested. But if you can take a step back and look at the big picture and a longer time frame, it doesn’t look quite as bad. Here is the chart from 1960 to present:

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Steve R. Conkin, MBA, ChFC, CFP

President - Conkin Financial Group

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