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Ask HN: What are a few ways one can protect their portfolio in a bear market?

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I'm familiar with standard methods like diversification, making sure you have non-correlating stocks in your portfolio, options and stop losses but are there other ways not typically discussed in the mainstream? Are there any APIs that can tell me if any of my stocks are at risk of being systemically affected by what's happening in the market today?

Thank you for your responses!

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Edit: "<...individual stocks...> are there other ways not typically discussed in the mainstream?" You haven't mentioned not timing the market, and instead investing in low-load index funds. I just want to make sure that that's called out as being in the mainstream - and is literally the investment strategy everyone should adopt, barring insider trading, being close to retirement, or being Warren Buffet.

Choosing the right correlation calculation has helped me in the past such as the Pearson correlation co-efficient shown here https://towardsdatascience.com/time-series-and-correlations-...

There's another company that's partners with Morningstar offering a direct API to protect portfolios here https://vectorspacebio.science/finance

Hope that helps!

Disclosure: I’m one of the founders, but this is exactly the kind of thing we’re working on with Quantbase (getquantbase.com)

We’re a roboadvisor that acts like a quantitative hedge fund, and so we share all that cool data with you from data-backed strategies on decades of market data, to showing your portfolio sharpe ratio, automated recommendations based on market evolution (the API for sector-risk alerts you were talking about), and more.

went to cash when ukraine was invaded. staying in cash until the fed goes back to dovish.

Smart. Was so obvious in retrospect (of course).

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