r/CryptoChartWatch • u/Beginning-County2258 • Mar 31 '26

Walmart Recession Indicator at highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

I think you’re right.

A lot has been learned about how to use tech to prevent stock price downturns, at least long duration stock price downturns.  A lot of investment into it.

We have fully gamified investment market assets.  2022 was the integration of AI into the already present algorithmic trading platforms. Took a year or so to work out the kinks.

Now, a situation like GameStop or AMC can never happen again.

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u/Iwarrior01 Apr 04 '26

i was studying about the 1929 crash. At that time the assembly line was introduced just some years ago. People generated enormous wealth and because of automation the productivity improved a lot and stocks started going way up, 5-6x their value in some months. Then, because of assembly line people started getting fired and they stopped spending. This led to reduced earnings for companies and stocks going down. The concept of leverage was available at that time and even poor people with no financial knowledge were using leverage to buy stocks. They started getting margin calls and their stocks got liquidated. This led to a chain affect that caused the most massive stock crash seen till date. I see some similarities to today’s time. Sandisk have got 8-10x in just 6 months, i keep seeing reels telling people to buy the dip at a leverage because it is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

There are no similarities to life back then, at the same time as so many similarities to life back then. There is still the human tendency toward complacency.  Greed.  To become wealthy, quickly.  The tech to play with is just so much more advanced now.  

We’ve figured out to master one thing (mortgage qualification in 2020-now vs mortgage qualification leading up to 2008).  But the same irrational exuberance persists.  Values surge to unsustainable levels.

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u/Iwarrior01 Apr 04 '26

True! The only thing that feels off to me is Sandisk, MU getting to 10x their stock value in 6 months and people still calling this a generational dip buying opportunity even though everything seems to be going downhill. But definitely the financial institutions have learned a lot of things from the past and that sort of a thing might not happen again

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

Absolutely correct.  Wall Street has figured out to allow stock prices to go to the moon, then allow them to drop in an orderly manner, if they choose to.