If you're long term then it would really be understandable that you do need to wait and patience would really be tested on times like these and it's not surprising that market could really move sideways whether going up next or would really dip down further that's why it's really hard.
When you do have the experience then you do have the advantage over or compared to those people who are just new to deal with the market. So expect the unexpected because everything could really happen along the way.
Some people are always in hurry they want to get profit as early as possible.
I am one such character - so the waiting time is so much trouble for me. for this I always find an alternative sources and I have to keep myself very calm while doing all this.
The biggest alternative that I found has been gaming, during this low period I just love gaming and I played a lot of games, not a lot because I am working hard these days, but whenever I got any free time, that went to playing a game.
Plus, I had some health issues, for some weird reason I damaged my muscles in my left peck, so like left side of my stomach, so I have been laying down a lot these days, not a horrible big injury or anything, been a week and already feeling better, but that took some of the attention away as well. All in all, it feels like it is a great period to find alternative sources of fun or anything that takes your focus away, so you can wait patiently, and fail, or have fun doing something else.
Not all people are gamers or who do really get enjoyed by playing games which does simply means that not all would really get entertained from it but its really effective on making
yourself get out from stress on looking into your portfolio on making yourself get distracted because if you do keep yourself on watching and checking out every now and then
then it would really be the most stressful thing that you would really be able to experience.I know its not something simple and easy to deal with stress and fear when you do see
that your investments is going low but to consider that this had been always the case on this unpredictable market then making yourself get used to it.