Exposure During A Bear Market or Recession

    There have been many instances in the past where the stock market has crashed. You can blame it on a war, a financial crisis, a pandemic, or just simple monetary policy. Currently our bear market is mainly due to the Fed tightening monetary policy by increasing interest rates. Either way when the market crashes we can lose money. What do we do when our investments are crumbling?
   It can be nerve wrecking watching your long term investments going down the drain for several months.  This seems to be the story in most peoples portfolios recently. The Fed monetary tightening is killing the markets. This coupled with other factors has caused a free fall in the most markets including stocks, treasury bonds, foreign exchange, and it appears that commmodities have peaked already as well.  Everywhere you look is red. Lately volatility is so bad that SPY had its biggest two day swing from high to low ever in the history of SPY. how do you invest like this?! What do you do?
    There is always a bull market somewhere. If money is taken out of one investment it usually rotates to another pretty quickly. Find a safe haven or just find out where the money is going.
    You get exposure to some sort of volatility index. VIX is the most well known. But there are volatility indexes for many sectors or asset classes.
$ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXY.US)$  $ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (VIXY.US)$  $Proshares Trust Ii Vix Mid-Term Futures (Post Rev Split) (VIXM.US)$  $VIX Index Futures(DEC4) (VXmain.US)$ 
   You can also go to inverse leveraged shares. These give you a multiple of -1x, -2x, or -3x of the related equity. For example if you bought SQQQ, which is leveraged to the NASDAQ by -3 times the percentage move for the day. So if spy drop in the red -2% then SQQQ should be up around 6% theoretically. Also if QQQ goes up then these inverse leveraged shares will go down.  There are so many leveraged shares to choose from. And there have bullish as well as bearish leveraged shares.
$ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (SQQQ.US)$  $ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF (TQQQ.US)$  $ProShares UltraPro Short Dow30 ETF (SDOW.US)$  $ProShares UltraPro Dow30 ETF (UDOW.US)$  $NRGU MicroSectors US Big Oil Index 3X Leveraged ETN (NRGU.US)$  $MicroSectors U.S. Big Oil Index -3X Inverse Leveraged ETN (NRGD.US)$  $Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 2X Shares (NUGT.US)$ 
    Currencies exposure and Country ETFs Sometime in a real market correction countries currencies as well as there stock markets will crash together. When one currency is losing value then another is gaining in value. Find the winning currency to gain some positive exposure. Right now the American Dollar is the ultimate safe haven at the moment so you can go to UUP or DXY. Right no most all global stock markets are crashing at the same time but sometimes you can find a country that is outperforming other countries and get exposure with a regional ETF. With these high oil prices Saudi Arabia’s Stock market has been greatly outperforming other countries indices so you could have went with KSA or FLSA. Another example is during the Pakistani election, when the new leader was elected there was a small rally in the Pakistani ETF PAK. Or since Europe will have so much trouble to come because of the Russian war some people might short some European ETFs and equities or even their currency VGK and FXE. There also a equity that is +2x leveraged to the euro currencies index’s performance ULE. So if the Euro ever bounces back then this one should rise quick.
$Powershares Exchange Traded Fd Tst Db Us Dollar Index Bullish Fund Etf (UUP.US)$  $iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia Capped ETF (KSA.US)$ $Franklin Templeton Etf Tr Ftse Saudi Arabia Etf (FLSA.US)$  $Global X Msci Pakistan Etf (PAK.US)$ $Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (VGK.US)$  $Currencyshares Euro Trust Euro Currency Shares Npv (FXE.US)$  $Proshares Ultra Euro (ULE.US)$ 
     Although this is not the case at the moment sometimes you can find a safe haven in treasury bonds. When people can’t find higher yields or profits than treasury bonds can offer then people will flock to bonds in masses. This actually may happen during the next real crash. There are a few leveraged equities related to treasuries.
$iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT.US)$  $iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF.US)$  $iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI.US)$  $iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY.US)$ 
     Sometime commodities can be a safe haven as well. Gold and Silver are the most popular. Recently oil has been a safe haven with other commodities during this market correction.
$SPDR Gold ETF (GLD.US)$  $iShares Silver Trust (SLV.US)$  $Crude Oil Futures(JAN5) (CLmain.US)$  $United States Oil Fund LP (USO.US)$  $Abrdn Precious Metals Basket ETF (GLTR.US)$  $PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust PowerShares Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy (PDBC.US)$  $Swedish Export Credit Corp Pub Elements Lkd To The Ice Bofaml Cmdty Idx (GRU.US)$ 
    These are just some examples of how to save your portfolio during hard times. Just remember there is always a bull market somewhere. We just need to do our due diligence and find out where the money is going or not going.
$SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY.US)$  $SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average Trust (DIA.US)$  $Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ.US)$  $Bitcoin (BTC.CC)$  $Ethereum (ETH.CC)$  $Hang Seng Index (800000.HK)$  $Hang Seng TECH Index (800700.HK)$  $CSI 300 Index (000300.SH)$  $SSE Composite Index (000001.SH)$  $Shenzhen Component Index (399001.SZ)$  $FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index (.STI.SG)$  $FTSE Straits All-Share Index (.FSTAS.SG)$  $S&P/ASX 200 (.XJO.AU)$  $S&P/ASX 100 (.XTO.AU)$  $S&P/TSX Composite Index (.SPTSX.CA)$  $SPDR Gold ETF (GLD.US)$  $iShares Silver Trust (SLV.US)$  $Crude Oil Futures(JAN5) (CLmain.US)$ $ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (SQQQ.US)$  $ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF (TQQQ.US)$  $ProShares UltraPro Short Dow30 ETF (SDOW.US)$  $ProShares UltraPro Dow30 ETF (UDOW.US)$  $NRGU MicroSectors US Big Oil Index 3X Leveraged ETN (NRGU.US)$  $MicroSectors U.S. Big Oil Index -3X Inverse Leveraged ETN (NRGD.US)$  $Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 2X Shares (NUGT.US)$ $SPDR Gold ETF (GLD.US)$  $iShares Silver Trust (SLV.US)$  $Crude Oil Futures(JAN5) (CLmain.US)$  $United States Oil Fund LP (USO.US)$  $Abrdn Precious Metals Basket ETF (GLTR.US)$  $PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust PowerShares Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy (PDBC.US)$  $Swedish Export Credit Corp Pub Elements Lkd To The Ice Bofaml Cmdty Idx (GRU.US)$  $Powershares Exchange Traded Fd Tst Db Us Dollar Index Bullish Fund Etf (UUP.US)$  $iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia Capped ETF (KSA.US)$ $Franklin Templeton Etf Tr Ftse Saudi Arabia Etf (FLSA.US)$  $Global X Msci Pakistan Etf (PAK.US)$ $Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (VGK.US)$  $Currencyshares Euro Trust Euro Currency Shares Npv (FXE.US)$  $Proshares Ultra Euro (ULE.US)$ $ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXY.US)$  $ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (VIXY.US)$  $Proshares Trust Ii Vix Mid-Term Futures (Post Rev Split) (VIXM.US)$  $VIX Index Futures(DEC4) (VXmain.US)$ $Apple (AAPL.US)$ $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ $Meta Platforms (FB.US)$ $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ $Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$ $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ $Netflix (NFLX.US)$ $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ $Twitter (Delisted) (TWTR.US)$ $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ $Block (SQ.US)$ $PayPal (PYPL.US)$ $Snap Inc (SNAP.US)$