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76% of the best days happen in or just after a bear market
Roughly three quarters of the market's largest single day gains occurred at moments when almost nobody wanted to be invested. Source: Hartford Funds using Ned Davis Research and Morningstar data.
The market's largest daily gains do not arrive in calm advancing markets. Of the fifty best days in thirty years, 48% fell in a bear market and 28% in the first two months of a recovery. Selling into a decline steps out where they cluster.
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