Boston Historical Replay: 2002-08 to 2005-01
Between August 2002 and January 2005, Boston property climbed 20.7% across 30 monthly bars with only a 1.0% drawdown. In this educational replay, you walk the timeline bar by bar, navigate six decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your choices.
30 monthly bars · 6 decision points · 2002-08 to 2005-01 · Property
Key facts
Peak-to-trough drawdown of 1.0% with a 21.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −1.0%
- Max run-up
- +21.1%
- Largest single-month move
- +2.0%
- 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 scenario opens on a Boston property market navigating the early years of the 2000s housing boom. Between August 2002 and January 2005, real estate was entering a period of sustained appreciation that would eventually define the decade. Six decision points await, two of them critical junctions where conviction and timing diverge. This is a market learning to climb with unusual steadiness—small drawdowns testing conviction while prices grind higher.
What unfolded over these 30 monthly bars was a steady climb: the close moved from 143.66 to 173.43, delivering a 20.7% return. The path was remarkably smooth, with a maximum drawdown of just 1.0% and the largest single monthly move reaching only 2.0%. For a market often associated with dramatic swings, this stretch offered something different—a quiet, grinding advance where patience was rewarded and panic had no obvious trigger.
For decision training, this replay exposes a different kind of difficulty: the patience required to hold positions through low volatility environments. The 1.0% drawdown tests conviction without dramatic losses to justify action. The 2.0% ceiling on monthly moves means expectations must calibrate to steady, unspectacular gains. Participants learn that risk management in calm markets requires different tools than risk management in turbulent ones—and that "doing nothing" can be the correct decision when the evidence supports holding.