I'll go contrarian here: Quit rooting for the market to fail

[spooky3]

34. You don't have to be 100% in equities to lose lots of money . Financial advisers

Traditionally have recommended a 60/40 equities to bond and cash portfolio for retirees, because bonds and cash generally don’t keep up with inflation—in fact bonds have lost value in many of the recent years.

Here’s just one source but there are many others:
https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-60-40-portfolio/

Over the long run stocks greatly outperform bonds in returns. The problem is that there have been several severe shocks in recent years and if you look only at 2020 to the present, you’d see much more volatility than usual—because of the orange idiot, largely.

I keep seeing this myth and blame-the-victim opinion expressed all over social media. It’s simply wrong.

(Business doctorate and professor who has gotten advice from multiple finance PhDs over the years)