What Happens When You're Approaching a Really Bad, Down Year?

There's a lot of value to looking backwards in time, to seeing it. Let's look at two thousand nine, the year immediately following two thousand eight. If we'd a known in two thousand eight, we'd have been like, woo wed. Better get out of that thing. That was over a decade ago. And even more recent memory: By march 20 third of 20 20, the s m p 500 was down over 30 %. So again, a much more drastic decline than we've seen so far in 20 22. But just because the year a certain way does not necessarily mean that it finishes a separate way.