You can't survive in a bear market, you can only understand if you survived or not after bear market ends, this market is uncertain so any action is risk.
Exactly, the moment you still make good profit during the bear market is great but you will just know if you really did good is when the bear market ends. Cutting loss doesn't mean you succeed but maybe because you make a bad decision to buy that coin without any study and the result is negative. Always invest with good coins so you will not be force to sold your token even at a lower price.