BEL 20 Uptrend Replay (2000-04-28 to 2000-08-14)
Replay a Belgian BEL 20 uptrend that lifted the index 13.2% across 146 daily bars from March to October 2000. You step through each trading day, face 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
146 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2000-03 to 2000-10 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 211 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 7.4% and a 26.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −7.4%
- Max run-up
- +26.0%
- Duration
- 211 days
- Largest single-day move
- +6.8%
- Bars
- 146 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 BEL 20 navigated one of the most volatile chapters of the early dot-com era, a period when the market could swing dramatically on a single piece of news. From early March through early October 2000, Belgian equities were caught between lingering tech enthusiasm and mounting uncertainty about global growth. For anyone replaying this era, the central tension was clear: commit to an uptrend that might reverse at any moment, or stay sidelined and miss a meaningful rally. Every decision carried weight.
Across 146 daily bars, the index rose from 2733.43 to 3094.86, delivering a 13.2% gain. Yet the journey was far from smooth. A maximum drawdown of 7.4% tested any position built during the advance, and the largest single-bar move of 6.8% showed how quickly sentiment could shift. Participants faced 11 decision points, four of them critical moments where the next move was far from obvious.
This replay teaches that a profitable outcome requires more than recognizing a trend. The 7.4% drawdown reminds us that temporary setbacks are inevitable even in successful trades. The 6.8% single-day spike underscores the importance of not overreacting to short-term volatility. For decision training, the lesson is procedural and psychological: build a framework that survives drawdowns, stick to it through noise, and let process carry you through the moments when direction is genuinely unclear.