Author: Austin Root, DailyWealth.com

You want to prepare before the trouble starts…

For the sake of your long-term wealth, you must allocate part of your capital base to measures that will help protect the whole in the event of a sharp market downturn.

Signs of trouble are starting to form in the distance. So today, we’ll look at which assets you should rely on when things in the market get really scary.

While you want to buy and hold shares of world-class companies for the long term… remember that the process doesn’t end there. If the story changes, sell and move on.

When the bear market finally arrives, it could become the poster child of what not to own.