The stock market then and even now went through some major fluctuations in very short amounts of time making it so that the stock market was very unpredictable, “First you're up, then you’re down, and then between” would capture the nature of the market pretty well as the prices would increase than decrease than increase again through bear and bull markets. The 1920s had an extended bull market, the stock prices rising constantly so people thought that it was a almost infinite amount of money but when a bear market occured on October 29 1929 also known as Black Tuesday where 6 million stocks were exchanged and there was huge panic and many people tried to sell their stocks further lowering the stock value. Some were not fast lucky enough to be able to sell in time with there being ~$4,000,000,000 lost on Black Tuesday alone