Fearing a Bear Market? These 3 Retail Stocks Should Be on the Top of Your List

At nearly eight and a half years, investors have enjoyed one of the longest bull markets in U.S. history. Only the bullish run from 1987 to 2000 has exceeded the current period. Though we're still four years away from breaking that record, all good things do come to an end -- eventually, the market will turn sour.

With the great recession and dot-com burst fresh on investors' minds, it's natural that some are feeling nervous about an inevitable bear market. It would be folly to try and predict when the tables will turn, but whenever I'm feeling a little anxious, I remind myself of a famous quote from legendary investor Peter Lynch: "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves."

So for investors who want to find stocks that might not be so vulnerable to such a correction, one strategy is to find companies that have historically outperformed when economic times are tough.

Source: Fool.com