If you go all the way back to 1950, you could see that only two years closed the...

…pes of swings, you deserve the mediocre results that you're going to get. Now, to take this a step further, since 1980, the average S&P 500 intra-ear drawd down is 14.1%. And in 34 of those 45 years, the S&P 500 has finished with positive returns. Separate from that, actually closing the year down is surprisingly uncommon throughout history. Like, if you go all the way back to 1950, you could see that only two years closed the year down more than 25% and only 3 years closed the year down between 15 to 25%. the rest of the time barely lost anything or more commonly ended up making you a lot of money. Plus, if you want to feel better about investing during a time like this, the average time to recovery from a 5 to 10% draw down is 3 months and the average time to recovery from a 10 to 20% correction is 8 months. But fine, let's say things get really bad. We end up seeing a market drop at the same time as a recession and things get really bad. E…