The Nasdaq has had two -10% corrections this year. Here is what actually happens when the Nasdaq drops 10% or more.
The Nasdaq had at least one -10% correction 70% of the time. A 10% drop is not a crash. It is a normal year.
Two corrections in one year?
That has happened 6 times: 1990, 1998, 2015, 2018, 2020, and now 2026.
Here is what happened in those years:
• 1998: Finished +85%
• 2020: Finished +48%
• 2015: Finished +10%
• 1990: Finished -8%
• 2018: Finished -1%
Four out of five finished positive. Two of them had massive rallies.
The only years that did NOT recover were the ones with 3+ corrections: 2000, 2002, and 2022. Those were real
structural crises. Dot-Com bubble and post-COVID rate shock.
2026 has had 2 corrections and is still up +10% YTD. We are not in crisis territory (yet). We are in normal territory.
The key signal to watch:
• $NVDA earnings (late August). If NVDA guides up, semis potentially bottom and the Nasdaq rips.
• If NVDA guides down, a 3rd correction is possible. That one stock is the swing factor for the entire index right now.