A volatile stock market represents an ideal opportunity for long-term investors to pounce.

It's been a wild ride for the stock market through the first five months of 2025. As of mid-February, Wall Street's major stock indexes could do no wrong, with the benchmark S&P 500 vaulting to an all-time record-closing high. But over the next two months, tariff-related uncertainty pushed the Nasdaq Composite into its first bear market in three years, and weighed the S&P 500 down to near-bear market territory .

Historically, double-digit percentage declines in the major stock indexes represent ideal opportunities for long-term investors to pounce .

As of this writing on June 2, I hold 38 positions in my portfolio -- 37 stocks and one exchange-traded fund (ETF) -- and only four of these st

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