Global Market Drawdown Tracker

A drawdown measures the percentage decline of an asset's price from its historical peak (All-Time High / ATH) down to its current valuation or subsequent trough: Drawdown (%) = ((Current Close Price - All-Time High Price) / All-Time High Price) × 100 For example, if an asset reached an all-time peak of $100 and currently trades at $80, the current drawdown is ((80 - 100) / 100) × 100 = -20.00%. It resets to 0.00% only when a new settled daily close exceeds $100.

Financial market convention categorizes declines by their magnitude from all-time highs: • Pullback (-5% to -9.9%): Routine and healthy breathers during ongoing bull trends. • Correction (-10% to -19.9%): Meaningful sell-offs that reset market leverage and investor sentiment. • Bear Market (-20% or worse): Severe cyclical declines often triggered by macroeconomic contractions, tightening liquidity, or earnings recessions. Volatile asset classes like Cryptocurrencies operate under wider volatility bands (-10% to -25% pullback, -25% to -50% correction, and >-50% crypto winter).

Drawdown Tracker monitors official daily closing prices across all tracked stock indexes, cryptocurrencies, and commodities, sending automated email notifications when an asset crosses your chosen drawdown threshold (e.g. -5%, -10%, -20%) or reclaims its all-time high. Alerts are evaluated once daily after official market close to filter out intraday wick noise. Each active alert includes an automatic 24-hour notification cooldown to prevent repetitive emails during volatile market sessions.

A 52-week high is a rolling 365-day window. If an asset plunges -70% during a multi-year bear market and consolidates for 14 months, its 52-week high resets downward, falsely reporting a "0% drawdown" while long-term positions remain deeply underwater. Measuring peak-to-trough from historical all-time closing peaks reveals the true multi-year decline relative to historical peak valuation.

Intraday price wicks are frequently distorted by momentary flash crashes, exchange connectivity interruptions, automated liquidation cascades, and microsecond spoofing that reverse within minutes. Evaluating drawdowns exclusively on official daily settled closes filters out intraday noise and reflects true institutional consensus pricing.

Losses and recovery gains are mathematically asymmetrical because declines compound on a diminished capital base: • -5% Drawdown → Requires +5.3% gain to break even • -10% Drawdown → Requires +11.1% gain to break even • -20% Drawdown → Requires +25.0% gain to break even • -33% Drawdown → Requires +49.3% gain to break even • -50% Drawdown → Requires +100.0% gain to break even • -75% Drawdown → Requires +300.0% gain to break even • -90% Drawdown → Requires +900.0% gain to break even This mathematical asymmetry illustrates why deeper declines require exponentially larger percentage gains simply to return to the prior peak. This analysis is purely informational and does not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy at any level.