BEL 20 Uptrend Replay (1997-03-20 to 1997-07-28)
Replay the 1997 BEL 20 boom across 150 daily bars as the index climbed 15.1% from 2053.6 to 2363.8. Walk through every decision point day-by-day, face critical calls, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated educational training session.
150 daily bars · 11 decision points · 1997-02 to 1997-09 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 218 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 11.7% and a 27.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −11.7%
- Max run-up
- +27.7%
- Duration
- 218 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.4%
- Bars
- 150 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
Between February and September 1997, the Belgian BEL 20 navigated a demanding stretch of European equities, a phase marked by the run-up to European Monetary Union and uneven global risk appetite. Across 150 daily bars, the index traced a steady climb from 2053.6 to 2363.8, a 15.1% advance that rewarded patience but also tested discipline. Eleven decision points, four of them flagged as critical, frame the path from the opening print to the late-summer peak, asking trainees to weigh conviction against caution at every juncture.
The move itself was orderly rather than explosive: a 15.1% gain distributed over 150 sessions implies a gentle trend, yet the underlying volatility was anything but gentle. A maximum drawdown of 11.7% reminds learners that an uptrend can still inflict meaningful pain on poorly timed positions, and the largest single-bar swing of 3.4% shows that even calm regimes produce shocks capable of triggering stops. The contrast between the serene headline trajectory and the choppy interior is the core pattern to internalise.
For decision training, the lesson is process over prediction. Trainees learn to size positions so that an 11.7% drawdown remains survivable, to distinguish between trend continuation and short-term noise around moves like the 3.4% spike, and to manage the psychological pull of an apparently smooth 15.1% climb. Critical decision points reward those who pre-write their rules, while the long tail of routine bars teaches that most of performance is earned in the unglamorous middle, not at the dramatic turns.
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