In the recent years since I started investing, I have managed to gain quite a fair bit on the return of my equity portfolio from the assistance of a running bull market. Even though this was partially achieved through hundreds of hours of thorough monitoring and research into companies which I think are worth investing, the last thing I wanted to see is to think my strategies are formidable and can outlast any market correction or recession. Not true. A complete investor is one who is not only able to research on undervalued companies through analysing the different gargantuan metrics in the financial statements but who is also able to handle proper asset allocation as and when is required. In such cases, shifting towards the different percentage asset allocation at different times will serve to adapt the changing needs of the environment. Patience will become a very ......