Wall Street Crash of 1929: Everything You Need To Know

Trading stocks and shares on the stock market can be seen as a quick and easy way to make money. However this isn’t always the case, historically stock market crashes have occurred throughout 20th Century history. A stock market crash is a sudden decline in stock prices across a large section of the stock market. A stock market crash generally occurs after a period of panic selling. Generally in periods of high economic optimism, stock prices can become higher than their true value, if this optimism fades, market participants become likely to sell stocks at a lower value. As stock values decrease, panic sales can set in, causing the stock market to crash. The stock market crash of 1929, also known as the Wall Street Crash 1929 or The Great Depression was one of the largest stock market crash in the history of the United States.