What a fun in Stock Market

Here is the analysis on the USA stock market. I got this from Zacks.com (c)

Top 10 Worst Declines and Rebounds Within One Year*
	Decline	Rebound
Sept. 1929-July 1932	-89.5%	+172.2%
Mar. 1937-Mar. 1938	-50.2%	+63.0%
Jan. 1973-Dec. 1974	-46.6%	+56.0%
Sept. 1939-Apr. 1942	-41.3%	+48.3%
Aug. 1987-Oct. 1987	-41.2%	+35.8%
Jan. 2000-Oct. 2002	-38.8%	+36.9%
Dec. 1968-May 1970	-36.9%	+52.7%
Nov. 1961-June 1962	-29.2%	+39.7%
Sept. 1976-Feb. 1978	-27.7%	+22.3%
Feb. 1966-Oct. 1966	-26.5%	+29.4%
Current bear market
Oct. 2007-Nov. 2008	-47.5%**
AVERAGE REBOUND		+55.6%
*Based on Dow Jones Industrial Average. Index is property of Dow Jones & Company. **Date of this study is 10/26/08.

So moral of the story, invest about 25% of your investible surplus regularly in cheap stocks.