During bear market (before sideways market starts) you are best to hold only stable coins like USDT and wait for the bear market to end. When a sidewards market begins you can start to buy back your coins and tokens fast at a low price.
This is why they are called stable coin because they are always pegged to $1 it's very useful in times of bear trend, instead of trading to other coins which has no guaranty that will also suffer from bear trend, trade it to stable coin and wait for the right time to do buyback, serious traders are doing this if you have good timing, trading it to a stable coin is a sound move.