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what else should newbies expect comes the bear run?
They need to expect that most of the top coins will go down by at least 70% when the bear market happens.
Not by exact 70%, but more or less at that percentage.
Staying out on the market could be a good choice, but I would suggest that don't do it for too long. Set a percentage where if the market is down by for example 50% already, try to accumulate small portions of Bitcoin and other altcoins already. Also, look at the history of the market, and look on how Bitcoin's price move and when the bear market usually starts. That would give you a good look at when you will start to accumulate for the next bull run again.
I think that a 70% drops on some of the altcoins would have turned many of them to zero or finally crashed out of the market, i just hope that some good altcoins will survive 70% dump.
Now, change is constant, the history of the Bitcoin market performance may not repeat itself, the probability for Bitcoin price to repeat itself is less than one, and there are factors that will make great changes in the future, like the increasing retail and institutional demands, at intervals will make huge difference when compared to the past market performance or the historical trends.
In a nutshell, things are changing, i have doubts that bitcoin historical price trends will play out this days.