ADX Uptrend Replay (1987-07-01 to 1987-08-07)
Replay a 54-bar ADX uptrend from June to August 1987, capturing a 14.5% drawdown within a 5.3% net climb. Walk through 10 decision points, including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review of each simulated choice.
54 daily bars · 10 decision points · 1987-06 to 1987-08 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 76 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 14.5% and a 22.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −14.5%
- Max run-up
- +22.1%
- Duration
- 76 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.4%
- Bars
- 54 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 10
Every figure above is computed programmatically from this replay’s own candle series — no editorial input, no LLM. Methodology: Methodology
The market advances day by day. You only see candles up to the current day — as if you were really there.
At key decision points choose Buy / Trim / Exit / Hold. Each decision advances the timeline by one day.
After settlement you get a six-dimension score and an AI coach review. Your result enters the scenario leaderboard.
Event Replay
What happened — and what it teaches
Between mid-June and late August 1987, the UAE's ADX index traced a 54-bar daily sequence that reads more like a test of nerve than a textbook rally. Coming out of a quiet regional tape, the market began climbing with intent, but the surrounding geopolitical and global-equity backdrop meant every uptick arrived freighted with uncertainty. The premise of this replay is straightforward yet punishing: an underlying uptrend whose reward was modest enough to tempt complacency, while the drawdowns along the way were deep enough to punish it.
The scoreboard tells the disciplined story. From a 3.42 open to a 3.6 close across the window, the index netted only a 5.3% advance, yet the path contained a 14.5% peak-to-trough drawdown and a single-session swing of 6.4%. In other words, nearly three times the final gain was surrendered mid-trend before the tape reclaimed its footing. Ten decision points punctuate the sequence, four of them flagged as critical — the moments where sizing, holding, or stepping aside defined the difference between a clean training record and a bruised one. The replay asks you to commit a choice at each marker before the bar resolves.
The lesson is not about catching a 5.3% move. It is about living through a 14.5% drawdown on the way to it. Trainees should treat the cohort of decision points as a syllabus for process: pre-commit entry and exit rules so volatility does not dictate them in the moment, size positions so a 6.4% one-day shock cannot cripple the ledger, and keep a written rationale for every critical call. Above all, the psychology of a slow grind that periodically threatens to reverse is the real curriculum — patience, calibration, and the willingness to accept that an uptrend is defined less by its endpoint than by what it costs to ride.
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