Map Directoryv1.0
42 maps on the network — market history + community theses. Not investment advice.
The 1929 Wall Street Crash (1929)
The 1929 crash demonstrated that rampant margin-fueled speculation, supported by opaque investment trusts and weak regulatory oversight, creates systemic fragi…
AMEX:DIA · Stocks
The Volmageddon Short-Volatility Blowup (2018)
A feedback loop between rising VIX futures and mandatory rebalancing of inverse-volatility ETPs transformed a standard market correction into a structural liqu…
AMEX:VIXY · Indices
Turn-of-the-Month Effect
The Turn-of-the-Month Effect posits that equity indices tend to exhibit abnormal positive returns during a specific window bridging the end of one month and th…
AMEX:SPY · Indices
Triple Witching
The quarterly simultaneous expiration of stock-index futures, index options, and stock options on the third Friday of March, June, September and December — a 1…
AMEX:SPY · Indices
The Three Arrows Capital (3AC) Liquidation (2022)
3AC's 2022 collapse serves as a seminal case study in counterparty risk; the fund's massive, leveraged bets on the Terra ecosystem triggered a contag…
COINBASE:BTCUSD · Crypto
The Asian Financial Crisis: Thai Baht De-peg (1997)
The 1997 Thai Baht de-peg exposed the fatal fragility of fixed exchange rates paired with massive unhedged foreign debt, proving that currency pegs cannot with…
FX_IDC:USDTHB · Forex
The Taper Tantrum (2013)
The 2013 Taper Tantrum demonstrates that in a regime of unconventional monetary policy, markets are hyper-sensitive to central bank communication; forward guid…
AMEX:TLT · Bonds
The Swiss Franc De-peg (2015)
The 2015 'Swiss Franc Shock' demonstrated the catastrophic risk of liquidity black holes when a central bank abandons a long-defended, artificial pri…
AMEX:FXF · Forex
The SVB Liquidity Crisis (2023)
SVB’s collapse highlights the lethal risk of duration mismatch: financing long-term, interest-rate-sensitive assets with short-term, flighty uninsured deposits…
AMEX:KRE · Indices
The Sumitomo Copper Scandal (1996)
A decade of unauthorized trading by Yasuo Hamanaka to corner the global copper market collapsed in 1996, revealing a $2.6 billion loss and underscoring the let…
COMEX:HG1! · Futures
Soros vs. The Bank of England (1992)
The 1992 ERM crisis demonstrated that fixed exchange rate regimes are vulnerable to speculative attacks when domestic economic mandates diverge from currency-p…
FX_IDC:GBPDEM · Indices
The September Effect
The September Effect is a documented historical tendency for U.S. equity markets to post their weakest average monthly returns in September — a long-observed s…
AMEX:SPY · Indices
The Santa Claus Rally
The S&P 500's documented tendency to rise over the last five trading days of December plus the first two of January — a window named by Yale Hirsch (1…
AMEX:SPY · Indices
Presidential Election Cycle
The Presidential Election Cycle is a documented four-year pattern in equity markets aligned with the US electoral term, a concept popularized by Yale Hirsch an…
AMEX:SPY · Indices
Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift
A documented tendency for equity markets to post positive returns in the 24 hours before scheduled FOMC announcements — measured by Lucca & Moench (2015) o…
AMEX:SPY · Indices
The Orange County Bankruptcy (1994)
The 1994 Orange County bankruptcy reveals the catastrophic risk of using heavy leverage and interest-rate-sensitive derivatives to bridge structural budget gap…
AMEX:TLT · Bonds
The 2008 Oil Price Spike and Collapse (2008)
The 2008 oil cycle demonstrated how extreme inelasticity in supply/demand, exacerbated by speculative financial inflows, creates a bubble that inevitably burst…
AMEX:USO · Commodities
The 1973 Oil Crisis (1973)
The 1973 oil crisis demonstrated the vulnerability of global economies to centralized supply shocks, shifting geopolitical power to oil-producing states and en…
AMEX:USO · Commodities
The 2022 Nickel Short Squeeze (2022)
A massive, under-hedged short position by a producer, compounded by low liquidity and geopolitical shock, forced a market-breaking short squeeze, prompting the…
TVC:NICKEL · Commodities
The Mt. Gox Exchange Hack (2014)
The Mt. Gox collapse revealed the catastrophic fragility of centralized, non-custodial-standard exchanges, establishing 'not your keys, not your coins…
BITSTAMP:BTCUSD · Crypto
The MF Global Liquidity Crisis (2011)
A classic liquidity crisis triggered by a massive, leveraged proprietary bet on Eurozone sovereign debt that violated the core futures-market principle of cust…
FX_IDC:EURUSD · Futures
The 1982 Mexico Default (1982)
Mexico's 1982 sovereign default, triggered by volatile oil prices and rising U.S. interest rates, exposed the systemic fragility of syndicated bank lendin…
FX_IDC:USDMXN · Bonds
The LUNA/UST Terra Collapse (2022)
The Terra collapse illustrated the fatal flaw of algorithmic stablecoins: reflexive minting mechanisms trigger catastrophic death spirals under market stress, …
BINANCE:LUNCUSDT · Crypto
The Long-Term Capital Management Collapse (1998)
LTCM demonstrated the risks of excessive leverage and model reliance during extreme liquidity events. When historical correlations decoupled in 1998, the Fed-l…
AMEX:SPY · Stocks