How the Bear Erases Traders You don’t lose to the bear. You lose to what you bring into it. I see a lot of you afraid of the bear market. You fear that everything you’ve done over the last two years will amount to nothing, that the window to make it all back is closing, that your overall PnL will end red. But that fear leads nowhere. It keeps you still. It makes you wait for something to save you instead of doing what would. You shouldn’t fear the market turning bearish. What you should fear is what happens when it does and you are unprepared. Fear One: Arriving with Nothing The first thing you should actually fear is arriving to the bear market with no capital and no confidence. That is how people get erased. Once you run out of both, there is no re-entry. You stop thinking in terms of opportunity and start thinking in terms of escape. To avoid that, move now. Sell enough to get to 40-50% in stables. From here the world splits in two: either the bear has begun or there’s one final push left. ...