BEL 20 Downtrend Replay (2017-05-10 to 2017-06-30)
Replay the BEL 20's 6.1% drawdown across 76 daily bars from April to July 2017 to feel real corrective volatility. You will step through each session, face 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your choices in simulated capital.
76 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2017-04 to 2017-07 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 110 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 6.1% and a 7.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.1%
- Max run-up
- +7.9%
- Duration
- 110 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.1%
- Bars
- 76 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 Belgian equity market entered spring 2017 in an environment of modest optimism. The BEL 20, Belgium's benchmark index tracking the country's largest listed companies, had been grinding higher through the early months of the year. Investors were navigating a landscape of modest European growth, accommodating monetary policy, and steady corporate earnings — yet beneath the surface calm, the conditions for a correction were forming. This replay places you in the driver's seat across the May to June 2017 window, asking you to manage risk through 11 decision points as the index tested its resolve.
What unfolded over the 76 trading days from April 7 to July 26, 2017 was a textbook pullback. The BEL 20 fell as much as 6.1% from recent highs, with a single session delivering a 3.1% swing — the largest intraday move in this dataset. Despite the turbulence, the index ultimately closed the period at 3952.7, up 3.5% from its starting point of 3819.44. The drawdown was real and uncomfortable, but the recovery was equally instructive: it showed how quickly sentiment can shift when underlying conditions remain supportive.
This scenario sharpens your ability to think clearly when portfolios drift into the red. The 6.1% peak-to-trough decline illustrates how corrections feel worse than they measure, especially when concentrated into volatile single-bar moves. Managing through the four critical decision points teaches position sizing, conviction calibration, and the discipline to distinguish temporary weakness from structural breakdown. For traders and investors alike, this replay demonstrates that surviving a drawdown requires neither prophecy nor heroics — just a repeatable process and the psychological resilience to execute it when it matters most.