Market corrections arrive with the inevitability of changing seasons, yet they never fail to trigger the same visceral response among investors: the overwhelming urge to do something. The S&P 500's average intra-year decline hovers around 14%, a statistic that sounds alarming until you consider that markets have still finished positive in roughly three out of every four calendar years over the past four decades. This disconnect between short-term volatility and long-term returns reveals an uncomfortable truth: the greatest threat to investment success isn't market downturns themselves, but rather our instinctive reaction to them.
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