You sold before 2008. Congratulations. Now when do you buy back?
Escaping the fall is only half a market-timing story. The next rally asks whether you trust it.
Read the storySTORIES & RESEARCH
History is obvious.
After it happens.
Markets give every crisis a tidy name and a precise bottom—eventually. These stories return you to the uncomfortable moment before anyone knew the ending.
Rehearse my own responseTHREE DECISIONS. NO PERFECT FORESIGHT.
Start with the question that bothers you.
Each story uses closing-price history, shows its limitations and lets you replay the scenario with your own assumptions.
Crash or correction? The label arrives after your money has moved.
Four red screens. Four radically different endings. None came with its final label attached.
Compare the endingsJapan waited 34 years to regain its old market peak. What does “recovered” really mean?
One extraordinary number—and all the things it cannot tell you about an investor.
Examine the claimHOW WE WORK
A rehearsal, not a forecast.
We use selected historical closing-price paths to illuminate decisions—not to estimate the odds of the next crash. Every article identifies its benchmark, return basis, dates, sources and missing pieces.
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