# How does a long-only system survive in a bear market?

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**Category:** Trading and Markets\
**Created:** [February 3, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-does-a-long-only-system-survive-in-a-bear-market/13866 "2020-02-03T02:41:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![EthosPortfolio](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/ethosportfolio/32/13320_2.png) [@EthosPortfolio](https://forums.collective2.com/u/EthosPortfolio)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/how-does-a-long-only-system-survive-in-a-bear-market/13866/25 "2020-03-26T21:48:08Z")

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Any idea why your strategy’s drawdown is mirroring the market despite the backtests suggesting it would profit from the volatility? I know you put a lot of faith in those backtests. Any chance you could run a backtest on your strategy from Jan 1, 2020 till now? I wonder if the results of the backtest would match the real life performance or if the backtest wasn’t realistic?

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