Boston Historical Replay: 1996-03 to 1998-08
Replay a 30-month Boston property boom from March 1996 to August 1998, when prices climbed 22.4% with just a 0.5% drawdown. Step through each monthly bar, face six decision points including two critical ones, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
30 monthly bars · 6 decision points · 1996-03 to 1998-08 · Property
Key facts
Peak-to-trough drawdown of 0.5% with a 22.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −0.5%
- Max run-up
- +22.4%
- Largest single-month move
- +1.9%
- Bars
- 30 Monthly bars
- Decision points
- 6
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 scene places you in Boston's property market during a sustained 1990s upswing. Between March 1996 and August 1998, the market was climbing steadily, rewarding those who held positions through the quiet appreciation. Six decision points are woven into the 30 monthly bars, with two marked as critical moments where your choices could meaningfully shift simulated outcomes. What was at stake was not dramatic windfalls but the discipline to stay aligned with a trend that moved slowly and calmly.
Over the full 30-month span, Boston property prices advanced from 70.57 to 86.4, delivering a 22.4% return. The market's character was remarkably tranquil: maximum drawdown held at just 0.5%, and the largest single monthly move reached only 1.9%. There were no crashes, no parabolic surges—just a patient grind upward that rewarded consistency over cleverness.
For decision training, this replay teaches that not all profitable periods are dramatic. The challenge here is psychological: staying engaged and making deliberate choices when the market offers few obvious inflection points. The 0.5% drawdown reminds participants that even gentle trends carry minor reversals worth managing. The two critical decision points train the habit of reassessing conviction when the macro backdrop is favorable but micro-signals are ambiguous. Process discipline, not market timing, determines performance in environments like this one.