-- crypto ones though, tend to all do badly in bear markets (no surprise) though they perhaps to limit losses and help people not throw away everything. They're certainly not on this forum =D
Vast majority yes, but not all. After all, bear market is when you can see a difference between those who know what they are doing and those who are just riding the bull market as I think for a pro trader bear or bull market doesn't make a big difference when it comes to profit, all they need is some volatility. That's how I though that I was a good trader back in 2017 when I was buying various shitcoins that were all pumping but then 2018 came and I realized that I have no clue what I am doing and that trading is not for me so I switched to hodl mode and never looked back.
I learnt that lesson about a decade prior to getting into Bitcoin. Let's just say I happened to get into the money exchange business and it was doing pretty well (at the time Southeast Asia was just booming with 50 types of different digital money alternatives and you could turnover a small fortune several times a day, earn well at the smallest commissions).
Thinking it'd made an expert in forex, I dabbled and did really well -- just as gold was also doing incredibly well between 2004-2010, I thought I was a genius and put it all into forex.
Bear market struck a few years later and brought me down to earth.
Good thing though as I didn't need to go through such a period with Bitcoin, apart from a few gambles with shitcoin ICOs.
How all our journeys differ yet converge here at the holding point