If a recession or market downturn is looming, take that opportunity to load up on strong stocks. From there, do your best to simply wait it out. Even the worst slumps are only temporary, and the investors who go into them with a strategy will reap the biggest rewards.

More than two decades later, technology stocks are still the cream of the crop when it comes to equities. After two years of massive growth driven by the artificial intelligence trade, technology stocks have recently come under pressure and bubble talk has again resurfaced.

The benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty50, ended lower by over 1 percent each in the first trading session of the financial year 2025-26 (FY26)