Free Book · By Dan Fitzpatrick
The Biggest
Stock Market
Crashes
In History
And What Happened Afterwards
Learn from the wreckage of the past to survive the next storm — because the market always comes back.
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Crash Timeline
A century of devastation — and every single recovery.
1929
−89%
The Great Crash
25 years to recover
1987
−22.6%
Black Monday
In one single day
2000
−78%
Dot-com inferno
15 years to reclaim
2008
−57%
Financial Crisis
The system nearly broke
2020
−34%
COVID crash
Recovered in 5 months
2022
−25%
Inflation bear
Engineered by the Fed
2025
−$6T
Tariff panic
Recovered in weeks
20??
100%
Every crash recovered
Every single one
Inside The Book
Seven Crashes. One Pattern.
Each chapter walks through the build-up, the terrifying descent, and — most importantly — exactly what happened next.
- 1929 — The Great Crash: an 89% collapse and a generation-long nightmare.
- 1987 — Black Monday: the worst single day in market history.
- 2000 — The Dot-Com Inferno: the survivors became today's giants.
- 2008 — The Financial Abyss: the system itself nearly broke.
- 2020 — The COVID Crash: the fastest bear market ever recorded.
- 2022 — The Inflation Bear: pain engineered by the Fed itself.
- 2025 — The Tariff Crash: panic to new highs in mere weeks.
What You'll Take Away
What Every Crash Shares
- Why the same four acts — excess, trigger, panic, recovery — play out every single time.
- How policymakers went from making 1929 far worse to ending the 2020 crash in months.
- Why "this time is different" is the most expensive phrase in all of investing.
How To Survive The Next One
- Why selling into a panic is the single costliest decision an investor can make.
- How diversification turns a portfolio-killer into a dip you can live through.
- Why the discipline to stay invested is exactly what the market pays you for.
He Traded Through "almost" Every One of Them
Dan Fitzpatrick
Over 30 years of active trading. President of Fitzpatrick Trading Group and founder of StockMarketMentor.com, where he works daily with investors on reading charts, managing risk, and building the discipline that survives both bull markets and crashes.
"In 2000, I lost about 80% of my account in three days when the dot-com bubble burst — and I was too shell-shocked to buy back in at the bottom. That mistake cost me years. I wrote this book to give you what I didn't have back then: the hard evidence that every crash ends."
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— Market Wisdom —
"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves."
— Peter Lynch
Every Crash in This Book Ended.
So Will the Next One.
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