maybe I didn't convey it well enough - but what I meant is that I don't see how the Fed can pivot and change anything soon - and yes the market looks ahead 6 months out or whatever but given the backdrop of so many things, I don't see how the market can just be healed so quickly and be ready to go back to highs. 

if you don't count the Feb/Mar correction as bear market - we've had a bull market since 2009 - near 13 years the market just from a technical perspective needs a bear market that lasts a while.  A bear market that is long enough to reset things, really consolidate the charts. And as Steve and I have stating - we hope all we get is a 1 or 2 year bear market for stocks - we can handle that. What we don't want to see is a breaking of the system, financial markets, deflation, food shortages, social unrest, crap like that. I would feel fortunate if all we see is a 1 - 2 year bear market in stocks play out