How Common Are Market Pullbacks?

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[You can see them free today here.]( Stock Market How Common Are Market Pullbacks? Key Takeaways - The recent market pullback was a bit more than 5%. - Shallow pullbacks of 5%-10% occur a bit more often than once a year. - Data below shows how often larger corrections and bear markets occur. - Since we didn’t have a correction of 10% this year, it’s likely we’ll see one some time next year based on the last decade of market data. Recent market action put everyone on edge. We know stocks drop from time to time. But how common are pullbacks? Raw Data Market pullbacks are defined as ‘corrections’ when they exceed 10% from peak to trough and ‘bear markets’ at 20%. In the last 76 years the S&P 500 saw: - 84 declines of 5%-10%, each lasting about a month and taking about a month to recover. - 29 declines of 10%-20%, each lasting about 4 months and taking 4 months to recover. - 9 declines of 20%-40%, each lasting about 11 months and taking 14 months to recover - 3 declines of 40% or more each lasting 23 months and taking 58 months to recover. Essentially, you are bound to get a decline of 5% or more at least once a year and a correction once every 3 years. Recent Trends Are More Volatile [Charles Schwab]( put together an excellent graphic that shows the intra-year decline by year over the last two decades (excluding 2020-2021). The graph tells us that in the last two decades, markets experienced more volatility than they had historically in terms of declines. We know this because of those major market drops of +40%, two happened in the last two decades (1973, 2001, 2008). Surprisingly, the 2020 decline didn’t quite get to 40% before it bounced. Reserve Capital To Deploy Most pullbacks last a few months. And even bear market corrections take about a year to work themselves out. Long-term investors struggle the most with corrections of +40% just because they can take years to recover. That’s why the data suggests that investors should always keep a portion of their capital in cash, ready to deploy it during downturns. You can do this by either reserving a portion of your assets in cash or making regular contributions to your portfolio. By purchasing as markets decline, you lower your average price per share, known as dollar-cost-averaging (a concept promoted by Warren Buffet). The Bottom Line: Top to bottom, the S&P 500 only dropped a bit more than 5% this go around. That’s par for the course. From 2010-2020 we saw corrections of +10% about once every other year. So, if we don’t see one this year, it’s quite likely one is just around the corner. However, that doesn’t mean markets can’t go higher first. 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