In fact, looking back historically, yesterday's drop was the second biggest drop in history for the second day of the New Year.
The biggest drop on the second day of a new year was in the year 2000. That was the year when the NASDAQ bubble originally popped.
That big drop happened at a time where the market was peaking and we were just beginning a bear market where the U.S. stock market went down by about half and the NASDAQ went down by abut 80%. So not a good comparison.
- Source, Peter Schiff