One market, followed end to end. How it was built, what broke it, and what it forgot. Exchanges, assets and instruments, from Amsterdam 1602 to the present.
Gold miners have just been more expensive, measured in barrels of oil, than at any time since 1975. In February 2026 a basket of gold-mining shares bought more crude than it had in fifty years. Then war with Iran all…
Market History · Trading Championships World Cup vs U.S. Investing Championship Same founding year, different markets, different maths Last reviewed: September 2026. Every result comes from the two organisers’ published standings and entry rules. The comparisons and medians are our…
From Drake's well and Standard Oil to OPEC, the day WTI settled at -$37.63 and the 2026 Hormuz crisis: the full history of oil, read as a trader would.
From the world's first organised futures market at Dojima in 1730 to the 1989 bubble, the 34-year wait and the Nikkei's run through 70,000: the full history of the Japanese stock market, read as a trader would.
The history of the London Stock Exchange, from Castaing's 1698 price list at Jonathan's Coffee House to the South Sea Bubble, the 1986 Big Bang, the listings exodus and the FTSE 100 above 10,000, and what three centuries of London teach a trader.
The full history of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest in the world: the 1602 VOC IPO, the first short seller, Tulip Mania record and legend, the 1763 crisis, Euronext and the AEX at 1,000, with ten lessons for traders.
History has been brutal to paper money. Most currencies ever issued have been devalued, redenominated, replaced or destroyed outright, and the empires that printed them went with them. One thing has come through all of it. A pharaoh could spend…
On 3 January 2009, an anonymous programmer switched on a piece of software and mined the first block of a new kind of money. Buried in that block was a line of text: a newspaper headline from that morning –…
MARKET HISTORY The History of the US Stock Market From a Buttonwood Tree to Dow 50,000 ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music On a spring afternoon in 1792, twenty-four brokers gathered…
Market History · Episode One History of the Indian Stock Market From a Banyan Tree to $5 Trillion Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music · YouTube Music The Indian stock market began…
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