Friday, 6 October 2017

Stock Market Crash Indicator



From Tulip Mania (1637) to the Subprime Crisis (2008), each market crash has cost investors a huge fortune.  Inevitably, it also has led to a period of economic recession/ depression.  There are many theories that attempt to explain the causes of the crash but not many could predict the crash ex-ante timely.

Didier Sornette, Professor of the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks, also a Physicist and an Earth Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), has combined economic theory, behavioural finance and earth science physics, to create a model in predicting financial bubbles, namely log-periodic power law singularity (LPPLS).

The LPPLS model successfully predicted the 2008 Oil Bubble (Read more here), 2015 Shanghai Stock Market Crash (Read more here) and 2016 minor Bond Market Crash.  According to his September 2017 report (Read more here), there is a growing risk of fixed income bubble whereas the chances of an equity market crash is easing somewhat(See below chart).  However, the September report only covered up to August data, thus it did not factor in the September rally where S&P 500 surpassed 2500 level.





We love to wait for his October report to see where the equity market is heading!

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