Since 1926, the S&P 500 index has fallen by more than 20 percent fifteen times. On average, the index fell 34 percent in seventeen months during such a period. As many as eleven of the fifteen times the market paused somewhere between 15 and 20 percent price decline, just as it is doing now.
Then some of the earlier losses were made up for. On that basis alone, there is a good chance that the fall will continue.
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