oh....so you found the pattern.... but you must have forgotten we had a huge crash in 2000-2002. That crash in october 1997 was a correction, stocks only lost a lot of points for one day and the market rebounded the next. And the crash in october 1987, is unexplainable, nobody has any idea really why the market plunged that day, it was mainly panic selling. oh and don't forget 1916,1939,1929,1973,1901,1919,1906,1937,1930.................... and those are all the top ten worst.But there must be a pattern in there somewhere. I Aint Scurd.