Originally Posted by gfh77665
A lot of the damage is already priced in.
The market is "forward looking".
Steep crashes are usually followed by steep rebounds. V shaped.
Production cannot resume 100% in an instant, but at some point pent up demand will make the economy roar ahead.
If you are a bear, did you short the market before? Are you shorting it now?
I won't speak for anyone but myself: I'm never shorting anything. I don't root for things to fail. Just not how I'm wired. All I'm risking is unrealized gains by pulling my money, and I'm OK with that.
I'm also pretty conservative, even with the stuff I set aside for day trading. As a for instance, I had buy orders in for Boeing @ 95, 90 and 85. Unfortunately, a 25/25/50 split (never got to $85...oops...). I have a 10% of share sell orders in at 160 and 180, 5% at 200. I'll hold the rest, since I will have paid for original stocks and then some. I know it's going to go up, a lot, eventually. The Lazy B is as much of a sure thing as you can find.
This is how a pessimistic bear can still make some money, but hedge a bit. Not suggesting this strategy for anyone else, but it's how I can play around a bit and not get sick to my stock about losses or unrealized gains (a little sick to my stomach about the purchase split, but I'll get over it).