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Tough days do not last forever. But when they come alone, you need to know how to respond. You need a game plan ready so you can figure out what kind of sell-off we're dealing with and then react appropriately,

because the early days of the decline are never easy to navigate. You need all the help you can get.

To borrow a line from Tolstoy's fantastic Anna-Kerenna, all happy rallies are alike.

Each sell-off is unhappy in its own way.

It's true. Bull market and stocks hire, everyone thinks they're genius participating because it seems so darn

easy. Same every time. But big declines, much harder. They could be the start of a bare market, or maybe something worse.

Or they might actually be just a buyable glitch.

That's why tonight we're turning to history to illustrate some of the common qualities of sell-offs.

So you know what to do the next time the market has an inevitable moment of weakness.

Now, really, there only been truly horrifying sell-offs since I started investing over four decades ago, the one-day moment of weakness. Now, really, there only been two truly horrifying selloffs since I

started investing over four decades ago. The one day crash of 1987 and the rolling crash in 2007 and

2009. That was the financial crisis. Do you know what? Even the COVID crash when the SB

lost, SB 500 lost 35% of his value in just over a month, that wasn't nearly as bad as these two,

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