The Average Loss in a Bear Market

Last week, the market made six %. It's called a v shaped recovery. Yet if you think about bear markets in general, the average loss that is experienced in a bear market,. now this is data dating not just back to the great recession, but all the way back to 19 50. The average length of that bear market is about 13 point eight months. Some are longer and more severe. Some are shorter and less severe. You never actually know until after the fact.