Imagining the worst-case scenario: if the market falls into the 2014/2015 bear market trap, it could mean two years of relentless downward grind—utter darkness with no end in sight. The market will push people to their breaking point: accounts shrinking, mental states collapsing, time completely drained. 99% of people won’t make it to the dawn, and most will have no choice but to cut their losses and switch careers. This is the true hellish market, and those who haven’t experienced it can’t even begin to understand that level of despair. Those who went through it are no longer here. I only entered this space a year later.