Stem The Tide

“Stem the tide” means holding back or stopping the prevailing trend.  It can be used to warn about risky investments where it means the long-term reversal in trends induced by unanticipated factors like inflation, high-interest rates, job loss, and of factors affecting individual stocks rather than short-term change. 

It is used in many ways – For example - Every Bull Run is followed by a steady decline but the tide turned in 2018 when the budget brought back long-term capital gains to the Xmarket.

Even professional investors and managers have not been able to stem the tide and tell how buying shares work or hedge funds losses as their net asset values have been taking a regular knock in the last few months.