Triggers of Market Crashes (According to Doomsters and...

Triggers of Market Crashes (According to Doomsters and Shortsellers)

Floods
Fires
Droughts
Hurricanes
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Volcanic Eruptions
Wars
Pestilence
Plagues
Famines
Global Warming
Net Zero
Ice Ages
Asteroid Strikes
Alien Invasions
Inflation
Interest Rates
FOMC Pronouncements
RBA Pronouncements
Shortselling
Margin Calls (margin calls? yes, even margin calls are now added to the list)
Plus, whatever else traders who have shorted the market can think of.


Most of these things are happening all the time. Yet markets crash only once every ten years on average.


Professional commentators influence idiots because there are hordes of idiots who read their claptrap. But they can't influence whole markets. People who base their trading on delusional misinformation have only themselves to blame when doomsday fails to materialise yet again - for the ten thousandth time this year.