Worst 5-Year Crash Periods — S&P 500 Recovery Analysis

Worst 5-Year Crash Periods & What Followed

Non-overlapping 5-year windows ranked by total loss · Right columns show the 2 calendar years that followed each crash

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Worst 5-Year Periods

	Period	5-Yr Return	$10K →	— Recovery years —
				Yr +1	Yr +2	Combined

Each calendar year appears in at most one period (non-overlapping, greedy worst-first selection). Recovery = the 2 full calendar years immediately after the streak ended. Returns are nominal total returns (price change + dividends), compounded from monthly Shiller data. Data: Robert Shiller / Yale Economics (shillerdata.com), 1871 – present.

📉 5-Year Crash Periods & Recovery