[b]Hi Forumites,

If you're like me, you can't help but be excited during times like these. We're talking periods when the market contracts,  businesses consolidate,  and then winning stocks emerge and make powerful moves upward:

Take for example the brutal bear market of 1973-74 that knocked 48% off the S&P 500,  making room for Radio Shack (called Tandy Corp back then) to surge from $2.75-a-share to $60 between 1973 and 1983,  Or consider how The Gap went public in 1976 and shot up more than 1000% over the next 10 years,  and Scientific Atlanta went up like a moonshot between 1973 and 1983 -- and keep in mind, most of these gains were made before the bull market officially began in 1982,

Or more recently when the market collapse of 2000-02 took the Nasdaq down by more than 78%,  opening up a lane for companies like Amazon to zoom up more than 400% between October 2002 and October 2007,  eBay more than 150% over the same period,  and Apple who went from $4-a-share to $167! And yet, these same companies, along with the rest of the market, have been roughly cut in half over the last 12 months.

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