This year has been a reminder that the stock market doesn't move up in a straight line -- even if 2021 would have led you to believe otherwise. Through the first six months of 2022, the widely followed S&P 500 produced its worst return in 52 years.

Things have been even tougher for the technology-driven Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq 100, which have lost around a third of their value since closing at their all-time highs. The Nasdaq 100 -- an index comprised of the 100 largest nonfinancial companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange -- is packed with the companies that powered the broader market higher following the coronavirus crash in March 2020.

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