ADX Uptrend Replay (1987-12-04 to 1987-12-23)
Relive a 27.2% UAE ADX climb across 30 daily bars from late 1987 into early 1988. Step through each session, face 7 decision points including 3 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
30 daily bars · 7 decision points · 1987-11 to 1988-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 46 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 14.6% and a 47.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −14.6%
- Max run-up
- +47.3%
- Duration
- 46 days
- Largest single-day move
- +14.0%
- Bars
- 30 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 7
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
In the late autumn of 1987, the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) sat in the shadow of a global equity shock that had rattled nearly every major bourse only weeks earlier. Against that nervous backdrop, this scenario asks you to step into a UAE equities market that is just beginning to find its footing, with capital deployed in simulation only and the lesson centered entirely on how a participant behaves when fear is still fresh in memory. The settings are deliberately compact: a single national index, daily bars, and a thirty-session window that compresses mood swings, liquidity shifts, and macro second-guessing into a quick-fire training exercise rather than a leisurely historical read.
What unfolds across the 30 daily bars is a striking counter-trend recovery: the index closes the window at 2.15, up from 1.69, a 27.2% advance that is impossible to mistake for noise. Yet the path is far from smooth, as a 14.6% maximum drawdown and a 14.0% largest single-bar move remind you that even within an established uptrend, intraday and session-to-session volatility can briefly dominate the narrative. You are handed 7 decision points, 3 of them flagged as critical, which means the replay is engineered to force real choices at the moments when emotions and chart signals most often collide, rather than rewarding passive hindsight.
For decision training, the value lies less in whether you call the 27.2% advance and more in how you handle the drawdown phase, the violent single-bar move, and the temptation to either chase the breakout or freeze after a sharp reversal. Treat sizing, stop placement, and the discipline of writing a rationale before each of the 7 points as the real exam; the index trajectory is the teacher, but your process is the grade. The psychology rehearsal matters most: practicing the act of deciding under uncertainty, in a market with no commissions on emotions, is what translates into steadier behavior when real capital is later on the line.