Stick with your own means or ways of trading and dont make yourself too impulsive nor getting depressed or desperate because things would go messy if you dont really mind even on the simplest principle which is attached to trading. Real traders are the ones who could make out money despite of bear or dumping situation but since we do know on what are the type of traders then it is something considerable in some cases.
Real traders are the ones who end up being consistent and that is possible only if they know how to deal with both bear and bull markets. What goes wrong with majority of short term traders is that they make the wrong move at the wrong time. While there are chances that many of them will recover and learn from their mistakes, the grief of losing money to something new is often tough to deal with and lead to exit from the market completely for many.
The way to prevent this from happening is to know that every bull and bear cycle is a continuous process and prices will move in the opposite in a span of time.