Could This Simple Strategy Save You From the Next Bear Market?

The stock market continued to move lower on Wednesday, with market participants clearly expressing their preference for old-economy value stocks over the high-growth momentum-driven plays that performed so well throughout the last part of 2020. As has commonly been the case in the past couple of weeks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) held up reasonably well thanks to its hefty helping of financial stocks, but the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) lost more ground, and the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) saw even bigger declines. What makes it simple is that it involves investing in the same 500 stocks that make up the S&P 500 and are the basis of so many index-tracking ETFs and mutual funds.