March 9, 2020, is destined to be recorded in the annals of financial history.
After the U.S. stock market encountered "Black Monday" in 1987, the circuit breaker mechanism was born. In the following decades, this mechanism was only activated for the first time on October 27, 1997, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 7.18%, the largest single-day drop since 1915.
However, on March 9, 2020, under the impact of multiple factors such as the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. presidential primary elections, and the plummeting oil prices, the U.S. stock market crashed again, triggering the second circuit breaker in history and causing turmoil in global stock markets.
At the same time, the cryptocurrency market was not spared either. Bitcoin, known as "digital gold," saw a decline of nearly 20% in just two days, dropping from $9,170 to $7,680, consecutively breaking through the two key support levels of $8,000 and $7,800. The liquidation amount of contract trades on several major exchanges reached nearly $700 million.