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stock: How can burying our heads in the sand be a good idea But the stock market's recent correction or bear market, depending on which benchmark you focus on is likely to cause you to react in self-destructive ways, according to Market Watch. Unless you can change your psyche, which is unlikely, it's not a bad idea to just not look. That seems like an odd thing to say, since retirees' livelihoods are crucially dependent on the financial markets. Or, if you do look, to do so with your hands tied behind your back. In fact, the stock market in 2018 experienced its first loss since 2008, in the middle of the Great Recession. Consider how the stock market performed in 2018 The S&P 500 SPX, 0.85% fell by 4.6% after adding dividends back in after nine straight years of gains the last two of which were in the double digits. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.