1971: the Nixon shock, the Sunday night that set every currency afloat
The Nixon shock 1971 closed the gold window, broke Bretton Woods and created the floating forex market. The numbers, and what a journal would have shown.
Read the articleThree centuries of markets
Market history
Bubbles, crashes and regime changes since 1720, and what a trading journal would have shown.
Panic of 1907: the crash one banker stopped from his library
The Panic of 1907 began with a failed copper corner on 16 October and ended in Morgan's library on 4 November. What a trading journal would have shown.
Read the articlePanic of 1873: the crash that started in Vienna and shut Wall Street for ten days
The Panic of 1873 began in Vienna on 9 May, reached New York on 18 September and opened a 65-month contraction. What a trading journal would have shown.
Read the article1720: the Mississippi Bubble, when John Law printed the buyer
Mississippi Bubble 1720: shares rose from 500 to 10,000 livres, then 2.7 billion livres of notes chased them down. What a journal would have shown.
Read the articleBlack Monday 1987: the day portfolio insurance sold into its own crash
Black Monday 1987: the Dow fell 22.6% in one session while $60 to $90 billion of portfolio insurance sold into the fall. What a journal would have shown.
Read the article1929: what the crash taught Wall Street about leverage
Buyers put down 10% in 1929. The Dow fell 13% in a day. How margin turned a bad week into an 89% drawdown, and what Regulation T changed afterwards.
Read the article1720: the South Sea Bubble, the first crash anyone could trade
From £128 to £1,050 and back to £124 in twelve months. What the South Sea Bubble of 1720 did to Britain, to Isaac Newton, and what a trading journal would have shown.
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