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Practice Drills: Building a Timeline of Major Market Crashes

A hands-on drill course for market enthusiasts, history and macro curious readers, and investors from every track. Instead of only reading about crashes, you build your own timeline of them. You start by fixing the rules: what counts as a crash, how to date a peak and a trough, and how to measure the fall and the recovery. Then you log India's major crashes one by one, from the 1992 Harshad Mehta scam and the 2000 to 2001 dot-com and Ketan Parekh fall to the 2004 election day crash, 2008, the 2013 taper tantrum and the March 2020 COVID crash, each in the same format. You add the big global crashes alongside, compare every entry by depth, speed and recovery, pull out the triggers that keep coming back, and finish with a complete timeline and a one-page summary you can update for the next crash.

Market CrashesMarket HistoryDrawdownRecovery TimeSensexNifty 50Macro and Markets

MODULES

5

DURATION

~2.5 hrs

TRACK

Macro & Markets

What You'll Master

Tell a correction, a bear market and a crash apart using clear drawdown thresholds

Find the peak and trough of any fall and measure its depth, speed and recovery time

Pick the right data for the job: Sensex or Nifty, price index or total return index

Log India's major crashes, from 1992 to March 2020, in one consistent format

Place global crashes like 1929, 1987, 2000 and 2008 alongside the Indian record

Compare crashes side by side by depth, speed and time to recover

Spot the triggers that keep repeating: leverage, fraud, policy shocks and global contagion

Finish a complete crash timeline and a one-page summary you can keep and update

Access Level

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Actionable Exercises

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Curriculum Breakdown

Chapter 1: Setting the Rules for Your Timeline

4 Lessons

Drill Setup: What Goes on a Crash Timeline and Why You Should Build Your Own9 min read

Drill: Defining a Crash: Correction, Bear Market and Crash Thresholds10 min read

Drill: Measuring a Fall: Peak, Trough, Drawdown and Recovery Time11 min read

Drill: Choosing Your Data: Sensex or Nifty, Price Index or Total Return Index10 min read

Chapter 2: Logging India's Early Crashes

3 Lessons

Drill: Logging the 1992 Harshad Mehta Crash on the Sensex11 min read

Drill: Logging the 2000 to 2001 Dot-Com and Ketan Parekh Crash11 min read

Drill: Logging the May 2004 Election Day Crash and Its Circuit Breakers10 min read

Chapter 3: Logging India's Modern Crashes

3 Lessons

Drill: Logging the 2008 Global Financial Crisis on the Sensex and Nifty12 min read

Drill: Logging the 2013 Taper Tantrum Through the Rupee and the Market10 min read

Drill: Logging the March 2020 COVID Crash11 min read

Chapter 4: Adding the Global Layer

2 Lessons

Drill: Placing 1929 and Black Monday 1987 Alongside the Indian Record11 min read

Drill: Lining Up Global and Indian Crashes in 2000, 2008 and 202011 min read

Chapter 5: Reading Your Finished Timeline

3 Lessons

Drill: Comparing Crashes by Depth, Speed and Recovery Time11 min read

Drill: Spotting the Common Triggers: Leverage, Fraud, Policy and Global Contagion11 min read

Capstone Drill: Finishing Your Crash Timeline and Writing a One-Page Summary12 min read