The stock market is doing what it does so well: climb a wall of worry. Investors have shrugged off higher, recession worries, tensions with China and commercial real estate problems. If your portfolio isn’t at a new high, it’s close.
. Continue making regular contributions. Stick to the mix of cash, bonds and stocks that best fits your time frame and goals. In other words, prepare to be your average self. Even without the requirement of greatness, however, staying on course is no picnic. One of the most important things you can do to prepare is have realistic expectations of what it will be like. As a starting point, I’ve compiled a list of what you’ll be experiencing when the bear market hits .Earnings and economic reports won’t be mixed like they are now. They’ll all be bad. You’ll have to search for the positives because they’ll be obscured by the negatives.
To be clear, doing nothing is not a bad result, and will be better than most other investors will be doing, but doing what you always do would be even better.