Boom · S&P/ASX 200 Index (2023)
Replay the S&P/ASX 200's 6.3% climb across 144 daily bars from August 2023, navigating a 7.5% drawdown and 25 policy-driven decision points. Step through each trading day, make your calls, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated decisions.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2023-08 to 2024-03 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 205 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 7.5% and a 14.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −7.5%
- Max run-up
- +14.6%
- Duration
- 205 days
- Largest single-day move
- +1.7%
- Bars
- 144 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 25
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 S&P/ASX 200 entered August 2023 in a policy-sensitive phase, where central bank signals and fiscal announcements regularly moved markets. The replay spans 144 trading days through early March 2024, placing participants in the shoes of investors who had to act—or refrain from acting—each time a new policy cue arrived. The central question was whether the market would achieve the "soft landing" that policymakers were targeting.
The index ultimately rose 6.3%, from 7305 to 7763.7, yet the path was anything but straight. A maximum drawdown of 7.5% tested conviction, while the largest single-day swing of 1.7% reminded participants how quickly sentiment can reverse. Across 25 decision points—nine deemed critical—each choice accumulated into the final outcome.
This scenario teaches that in policy-driven markets, timing and conviction matter more than direction. A correct overall thesis can still be ruined by poor entry and exit decisions. The drawdown demonstrates that even a winning strategy requires discipline during inevitable pullbacks. The volatility, including that 1.7% single-bar move, becomes a teacher about emotional control and the danger of acting on short-term market moves rather than adhering to process. For decision training, the lesson is clear: survival through turbulence defines whether theoretical gains ever become real ones.