I am a dividend investor with a general bias toward value-oriented stocks. My approach isn't reliant on the market's direction. Many investors, however, get enthralled by the bull and bear cycles of the broader market, linking their investment activities to these big trends.

But it doesn't matter when the market will recover or when it will falter again. Here's what you should be focusing on instead.

Wall Street isn't some monolithic entity; it is a huge collection of individual stocks owned by individual investors. Even when the market is going up, running like a bull, there will be stocks that are going down. And when the market is going down, being gored by a bear, there will be stocks that are performing well.

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