Cycles and Seasonality of the Stock Market

Hi, Pat and Team.  Can you share your experiences in learning about and then learning to manage expectations during different cycles of the Stock Market?  The things I am curious about are as follows:  - Yearly and quarterly cycles.  - 4-year political cycles (I read that the year before a presidential election is usually the economy's most improved year). - The major cycles with crashes/recessions.  - Can you share your experiences with 1987, the dot com bubble, the 2008 recession, 2020's crash, etc.?  - Are there any other big events that shocked the market?  My reasoning is that when I first started with MW, I believe what I experienced was that I was catching a lot of the big winners for 2020's rally after the crash. In late summer of 2020. Then earnings season hit and I learned that that was a period of harder to get returns. I felt frustrated. I was just had to learn that the market isn't just an ocean of stocks that mostly go up. I had to learn that the market and the indices get extended and need to take a breather periodically.  What I understand so far is that the summer has doldrums and the late fall and winter months are the market's biggest returns, on average.  Thank you again! Eric