How to Profit When Stocks Are Falling
If investors didn’t learn the lesson between 2000 and 2001, odds are that 2008 finally taught them the need to be prepared for a portfolio-destructing bear market. By early 2009, the major stock indices revisited lows not seen in more than a decade, effectively unwinding years worth of gains in just a matter of months. It didn’t have to happen though, if these simple strategies had been understood.