Guess What Happened The Last Two Times The SP 500 Was Up More Than 200% In Six Years?Michael Snyder On March 9th, 2009 the SP 500 hit a low of 676.53. Since that day, it has risen more than 200 percent. As you will see below, there are only two other times within the last 100 years when the SP 500 performed this well over a six-year time frame. In both instances, the end result was utter disaster. And as you take in this information, I want you to keep in mind what I said in my previous article entitled 7 Signs That A Stock Market Peak Is Happening Right Now. What we are witnessing at this moment is classic peaking behavior, and there is a long way to go down from here. So if historical patterns hold up, those with lots of money in the stock market could soon be in for a whole lot of trouble. According to Societe Generale analyst Andrew Lapthorne, there was an SP 500 bull market run of more than 200 percent over a six-year time period that ended in 1929. We all know what happened that year. And there was another SP 500 bull market run of more than 200 percent over a six-year time period that ended in 1999. In the end, all of those gains were wiped out when the dotcom bubble burst. And now we are near the end of another great bull market for the SP 500. The following is an excerpt from a recentBusiness Insider article So how will this current bull market end? Needless to say, a lot of people are not very optimistic about that right now. And there was another very interesting bull market that endedin 1987 Of course a lot of those huge stock market returns were eliminated in a single day. On October 19th, 1987 the Dow declined by more than 22 percent during a single trading session. That day is still known as Black Monday up to this present time. Markets tend to go down a lot faster than they go up. So if your stock portfolio has gone up substantially over the past few years, good for you. But keep in mind that all of your gains can be wiped out very rapidly. Millions of people experienced this during the last financial crisis, and millions more will experience this during the next one. And as I keep reminding people, so many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the last great stock market collapse are happening once again. For example, just yesterday I explained that there has been only one other time over the past decade when we have seen the U.S. dollar surge in value in such a short period of time. That was in 2008, just prior to the last financial crisis. Another example is what has happened to the price of oil. Since the middle of last year, the price of oil has fallen by more than 50 dollars a barrel. In all of history, that has happened only one other time. That was in 2008, just prior to the last financial crisis. I could go on and on. I could talk about margin debt, price/earnings ratios, industrial commodities, etc. But you know what? Despite all of the warning signs there are still people out there that are eagerly pouring money into the stock market. Back in 2005 and 2006, I knew people that were hurrying to buy homes before they got priced out of the market. So they did everything that they could to scrape together down payments and they took on mortgages that were larger than they could really afford. And in the end they got burned. Today, people are doing similar things. For instance, my friend Bob recently sent me an article that I could hardly believe. It turns out that an expert on CNBC is encouraging people to take out a 7 year loan with a rapidly amortizing asset as collateral in order to buy stocks. Yikes! Let me be clear. The really, really, really dumb money is jumping into the stock market right now. Those who are pouring money into stocks today are really going to get hit hard when the crash comes. And it isnt just me saying this. Just consider the words of billionaire hedge fund manager Crispin Odey The warning signs are clear. Soon the time for warning will be over and the crisis will be here. I hope that you are getting ready. This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. 