How to Avoid Losses in a Bear Market: A Crypto Trader's Survival Guide Here's a number most traders don't want to hear: over the last 51 days of continuous market monitoring, 93% of the time the crypto market was classified as bearish. Not choppy. Not neutral. Bearish. That data comes from 10,000+ market snapshots taken every five minutes by the Regime API , scoring 10 weighted signals across funding rates, crowd sentiment, on-chain flows, macro context, and price structure. The traders who survived that stretch aren't the ones with the best entry signals. They're the ones who recognized the regime and stopped fighting it. What a Bear Market Actually Means A bear market isn't just "prices going down." It's a statistical regime where the market's behavior changes in measurable ways: Rallies get sold. Every bounce attracts sellers, not buyers. What looks like a reversal becomes a lower high. Support levels break. Key levels that held for weeks give way because there's no buying pressure underneath.…