BEL 20 Uptrend Replay (2004-03-22 to 2004-04-23)
Replay a six-week slice of the BEL 20 covering 46 daily bars with an 8.0% max drawdown and 9 decision points, 3 marked critical. Step through each session, weigh the choices, then review your reasoning with the AI coach in a fully simulated training environment.
46 daily bars · 9 decision points · 2004-03 to 2004-05 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 67 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 8.0% and a 8.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −8.0%
- Max run-up
- +8.5%
- Duration
- 67 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.0%
- Bars
- 46 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 9
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
This replay drops you into a six-week slice of the Belgian equity market in early 2004, navigating the BEL 20 index through a turbulent period. The scenario spans from March 22 to April 23, 2004, with supporting data bracketing early March through mid-May. You are presented with 46 daily bars and asked to work through 9 decision points, 3 of which are flagged as critical inflection moments. The stakes are clear: this is a live training environment where every judgment is recorded, dissected, and used to sharpen your decision-making process under uncertainty.
What unfolded historically was a grinding decline. The BEL 20 fell from 2507.05 to 2337.92, a -6.7% retreat over the full dataset window. The journey was not smooth, with a maximum drawdown of 8.0% testing any position held through the pullback. Volatility surfaced in concentrated bursts, the largest single daily move reaching 3.0%. These numbers frame a market that did not collapse but eroded steadily, punishing passive positions and rewarding disciplined risk management.
For training purposes, this scenario isolates a core lesson: the cost of emotional decision-making in a declining market. You are forced to evaluate information as it arrived, without the benefit of hindsight. The three critical decision points demand that you commit to a process before the outcome is known. Success here is not measured by profitability in a simulated account but by the consistency and discipline of your reasoning under pressure.
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