I will use my judgement to determine the existence of the bubble. Artificial Intelligence (LLMs) doesn't count because we're already on the path.
Some criteria I'll use:
The valuation of the biggest companies in the bubble being 3x standard deviation above the 10 year average in the relevant metric (P/E, EV/S, EV/EBITDA...)
Significant wave of IPOs of the bubble theme
Companies' stocks are soaring 20%+ a day because they announced something related to the theme of the bubble
There are decacorns related to the bubble
The specialized press reports that venture capitalists or private equity are hiring bubble-theme focused specialists and/or making dedicated bubble-themed funds
There are famous investors and market commentators calling a bubble
There is a Wikipedia article on the bubble theme
The bubble must have started at most June 2022, even if it isn't already fully recognized by myself or the public at large. This criteria will require significant judgement. I'll try to use some sort of big bang event to define the start date (e.g.: for AI, it would be ChatGPT launch)
The bubble can be considered speculative
Of course, not all elements need to be satisfied.
The mere crash of a sector (e.g.: U.S. Commercial Real Estate or Polish Equities) doesn't mean there was a bubble there, it can mean that it faced an external shock.
The bubble needs to have some financial significance, at around $2T dollars of value.
If more than one bubble happens, I'll try to decide based on the start date. Some themes here already had a bubble related with the theme in the past, in which case, I'll make sure it's a distinct bubble than the one that happened in the past. If nonetheless it's impossible to resolve (say a Superconductor bubble based in China that causes China as a whole to bubble), I'll resolve proportionally. But if I become sure that there is a bubble in one theme while being suspicious that there is a bubble on another unrelated theme, I'll resolve only to the theme I become certain first.
When mentioning a country or region, I'll mainly talking about the country's equities, but also its debt and FX markets.
This market will resolve to NO BUBBLE on December 31st 2029 if it is still open.
Finally, I'll have a slightly higher hurdle to resolve to the Other Bubble, requiring significant evidence that there is more than $2T of expeculative value.
I won't bet.
@MP Fair enough — it's just that I think i'd find an ostensive definition more useful than an intensional definition here. So of the following things (each of which some people call bubbles), which do you consider speculative bubbles?
Internet technology ≈2000
US housing/real estate ≈2006
Canadian housing/real estate ≈2016
Australian housing/real estate ≈2022
Cryptocurrency ≈2021
Uranium ≈2007
Commodities, ≈2008–≈2014
Virtual/augmented reality ≈1990
Virtual/augmented reality ≈2023
(to be clear I'm not asking you to answer all of them if that would take too much time)