ID Historical Archive
Archive files covering ID: every file tells what happened and why it mattered, paired with playable scenarios built from authentic market data.
7 files
2012 · Stocks · US
2012 Global Equity Correction: From Summer Drawdown to Divergent Recovery
Global equities entered summer 2012 with a broad correction, then bifurcated sharply — US and Nordic markets recovered while emerging Asia and Europe diverged through year-end.
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2009: The Post-Crisis Recovery — Global Equities Rebound Through Hidden Volatility
How global equity markets climbed from the 2008 abyss in 2009 — and what the gap between headline gains and internal drawdowns revealed for traders who lived through each session.
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2008: The Global Equity Correction and Crash — How Subprime Became a Systemic Crisis
During 2008, global equities corrected then crashed as subprime contagion spread from US housing to banks, commodities, and emerging markets worldwide.
Read the file →2004 · Stocks · US
2004–2005: Reading the World's Markets in Parallel
A year-end 2004 pivot sent markets on sharply divergent paths—China's reform shock, Indonesia's commodity surge, and a mixed global picture that tested every trading style.
Read the file →2000 · Stocks · US
2000–2001: BEL 20 and the Post-Dot-Com Correction — When Europe's Blue Chips Met the Tech Wreck
How Belgium's BEL 20 index — starting at 3007.82 on September 27, 2000 — absorbed the dot-com collapse's shockwave across 150 trading days, shedding 7.0% with a 19.0% maximum drawdown.
Read the file →1998 · Stocks · US
1998: When Global Markets Caught Russia's Contagion
In the summer of 1998, Russia's sovereign default cascaded into a global liquidity crisis, hammering equity markets from Jakarta to Toronto and nearly toppling Long-Term Capital Management.
Read the file →1997 · Stocks · US
1997: MidCap Boom, Asian Contagion — Diverging Fate in One Calendar Year
US mid-caps surged 25% in calm waters while Jakarta and Seoul bled 40%. How the same year produced Bull and Crisis Replays across four markets.
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