If I Could Tell Every New Investor Just 1 Thing About the Stock Market Right Now, It's This

Key Points Thanks to my dad, I've been investing since I was a teenager. Over the decades I've been investing, I have seen both good times and very, very bad times. 10 stocks we like better than Vanguard S&P 500 ETF › You can't explain to someone who doesn't have a child what it is like to have a child. You have to experience it for yourself to understand the joy (and frustration) of being a parent. The same is true of a bear market; until you live through a prolonged and deep downturn, you just can't understand the emotions you will live through. I know those emotions because I lived through the dot-com crash and the Great Recession. If I could tell every new investor just one thing right now, it would be "this too shall pass." What goes up...