ADX Uptrend Replay (1988-11-11 to 1989-01-04)
Replay 72 daily bars of the 1988–1989 ADX uptrend where the index climbed only 2.1% but suffered a 14.9% drawdown along the way. Step through each session, face 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated educational training environment.
72 daily bars · 11 decision points · 1988-10 to 1989-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 102 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 14.9% and a 28.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −14.9%
- Max run-up
- +28.5%
- Duration
- 102 days
- Largest single-day move
- +7.0%
- Bars
- 72 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 11
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
The Abu Dhabi Exchange (ADX) entered the final months of the 1980s with an uptrend scenario spanning 72 daily bars from October 17, 1988 to January 27, 1989. This boom-period replay challenges traders to navigate an index that nominally climbed but concealed substantial turbulence. Eleven decision points await, four of them marked as critical moments demanding precise judgment under pressure.
The ADX closed at 1.96 from an opening of 1.92, representing a modest 2.1% gain over the full period. Yet the journey proved far more volatile than the endpoint suggests. Maximum drawdown reached 14.9%, meaning participants who entered at highs faced nearly a fifth of their capital at risk before recovering. The largest single-bar move hit 7.0%, illustrating how quickly sentiment could shift within this supposedly steady ascent.
This scenario exposes how a positive trend can mask significant volatility, teaching traders to look beyond headline returns. Learners confront the psychological strain of enduring a 14.9% peak-to-trough decline while remaining committed to an ultimately correct directional bias. The 7.0% intrabar spike tests emotional discipline, forcing participants to distinguish between noise and genuine trend deterioration. By replaying these 1980s sessions, traders build the risk calibration and patience required to hold positions through deceptive drawdowns in any era.
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