SAN FRANCISCO MarketWatch — Twenty-five years ago, on Oct. The Dow DJIA, With that in mind, MarketWatch polled several money managers who witnessed Black Monday about lessons from that are relevant to investors today.

Langerman, who started with Heine Securities Corp.

While Black Monday made it into the record books, crashes are fairly common throughout history, said Charles Rotblut, vice president at the American Association of Individual Investors.

See slideshow of the 10 greatest market crashes. Investors who used the crash as a buying opportunity took full advantage of those recoveries, Rotblut said. He mentioned Nike Inc.

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In the two trading sessions on Oct. The crash of was a big one-day correction to a stock market that had spent the first half of the year gaining momentum, Shilling said. The problem with such schemes, Shilling explained, is that when they become widespread, they no longer reflect the fundamentals upon which they were first modeled. When plugged into programmed trades, the compromised system is overwhelmed and prone to crash.

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