The one way you can keep yourself out of ALL potential upside to the market and ALL potentially profitable trading (whether long or short) or investing is to over-read Zerohedge and other bearish sites. I absolutely promise you. You *may* acquire what you think or what the author(s) think is some level of superior “truth” but it will almost NEVER make you any money.
Over-read these sites and you’ll become a hearty disbeliever of anything EVER going up in dollar-denomiated value and hence you will never participate is same.
The stock market is leptokurtotic, in favor of the upside. You don’t have to be in it all the time. But it is provably wrong to believe that it is headed to zero. And by the way, should you successfully bet that the market heads to zero...who will be around to pay off your bet?
Anyone who is investing for the long-term should ignore Zero Hedge. Anyone who is properly diversified should ignore Zero Hedge. And anyone who needs their money in the next year or two should ignore Zero Hedge (and just keep their money in CD's)