Other way to earn profit on the bearish trend is by shorting the price in margin trading, there are 2 different trading product that offer profit from shorting the price, that is CFDs and futures trading platform. Margin trading is more risky than spot trading, so its better to trade in this platform only in bear market.
Doing margin will be dangerous for the traders because they will need a high-skills in analyze besides that, they will need accurate analysis so they can know where the price wants to moves. But the profit will bigger and of course to get a bigger profit, and we need to use a big balance because this is what I see in the past in the poloniex on the margin trading section. We have our strategy, and we cannot say that our strategies are the best than the other because we don't know how much profit that every trader can get with their strategies. It is better to stick with our strategy and keep trying to make a profit even for small profit.
I have the same thinking with you ,dude. Personally, there is no fixed strategy that can help us pass through bear market. In fact, each person took part in the market with their own different capital, and it depends on some major factors such as knowledge, experience, skills and the like in order that they can manage better in bear trends. When we have enough effort to do own strategy with high efficiency, it would be a good way to solve your problem instead use strategy of other people.