1.   Also, the jury is still out as to how much liquidity will be available in a prolonged bear market.

2.   Amateur investors have been so burned by the bear market that it may take a generation for them to regain interest in stocks.

3.   Also, tech stocks have posted the biggest and longest declines of the bear market.

4.   Analysts are still reluctant to predict an early end to the current sell-off, which many observers are calling a bear market.

5.   An additional attraction is that even in a bear market, some sectors do well.

6.   Analysts say the run-up indicates that raw commodities have emerged from a decade-long bear market.

7.   An extended bear market undoubtedly would push out many small investors.

8.   And since last spring, the Nasdaq has been mired in a deep bear market, off roughly one-third from its peak.

9.   And the bear market continues.

10.   And the tech slide, and the bear market that has followed, have taught Fawaz to be a slightly more cautious and patient investor.