Getty Images Get comfortable with bearishness.What’s working in this slumping stock market? Everything seems to be getting hit, no stock looks safe, and suddenly investors care about risk again. It’s because central bank direct asset purchases were slashed in January! This is what normal markets look like. Ours also just so happened to be extremely overvalued because of that fake demand from central banks, so extra degrees of volatility exist. Normal market conditions are a welcome sight; depending on fake money is not a healthy way to grow, but given the material declines recently, investors may need to see something more positive than that right now. The market has been in a long slumber, with virtually no volatility, and now we have an environment that is not too unlike what we feel like after a midday nap. It can be painful, unless you are proactive. At least, proactive strategies have the ability to perform no matter what happens. In 2012 and 2013 the influence of central bank stimulus was still largely uncertain, but after a couple years we could see that the influence created an institutional piggybacking, where they jumped on the “buy” side too.via