Plus, if you want to feel better about investing during a time like this, the av...

…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. Even in that scenario, the stock market recovered on average within 1 to two years. Because of that, investors are much better off just adding to their portfolio and holding than selling and trying to buy back cheape…