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Boom · Bovespa Index (2016)

StocksIbovespaBRPolicy2015-11 to 2016-06Difficulty 3/5FreeView charts

Replay 144 daily bars of Brazil's Bovespa from November 2015 to June 2016, a span marked by a 22.3% drawdown and a 6.6% single-session surge. Step through 25 decision points, navigate each critical choice, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated market reasoning.

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144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2015-11 to 2016-06 · Stocks

Key facts

This window spans 216 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 22.3% and a 45.3% run-up.

Max drawdown
−22.3%
Max run-up
+45.3%
Duration
216 days
Largest single-day move
+6.6%
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

How to play
  1. The market advances day by day. You only see candles up to the current day — as if you were really there.

  2. At key decision points choose Buy / Trim / Exit / Hold. Each decision advances the timeline by one day.

  3. 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

Brazil's Bovespa Index entered a turbulent phase in late 2015 as the country navigated a profound political crisis culminating in a presidential impeachment process. The 144 trading days from November 2015 through June 2016 placed investors in the crosscurrents of institutional uncertainty, with policy signals swinging between hope and fear. This replay scenario drops participants directly into that charged environment, asking them to process political headlines, assess risk tolerance, and make allocations while the nation's economic direction remained contested.

Over the full period the index advanced from 47,710 to 50,488, delivering a net gain of 5.8%, yet this modest headline number conceals a wild internal journey. The maximum drawdown reached 22.3%, meaning investors who mistimed their entries could have watched substantial portions of their simulated capital erode. Compounding the challenge, a single session surge of 6.6% demonstrated how quickly sentiment could reverse when favorable policy news arrived. Navigating 25 decision points, of which 9 were flagged as critical, demanded not just analytical skill but the discipline to avoid overreacting to political noise between those inflection moments.

This replay trains participants to hold process steady when headlines scream urgency. The lesson is not that one should have predicted the impeachment outcome but that a sound framework for sizing positions, managing drawdown, and staying flexible through volatility serves traders better than reactive guessing. Psychological resilience—the ability to endure a 22.3% setback without abandoning a reasoned plan—proves as vital as any fundamental analysis in periods of structural political change.