New York Historical Replay: 2008-12 to 2011-05
Replay 30 monthly bars of New York City property collapse from December 2008, watching prices fall -10.0% to a fresh drawdown. You step through six decision points, including two critical moments, and receive an AI coach review of each simulated choice.
30 monthly bars · 6 decision points · 2008-12 to 2011-05 · Property
Key facts
Peak-to-trough drawdown of 11.5% with a 3.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −11.5%
- Max run-up
- +3.7%
- Largest single-month move
- −2.4%
- 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
New York City property entered December 2008 amid the wreckage of the global financial crisis. The 30-month replay spanning to May 2011 captures a city in painful price discovery, where collapsing valuations threatened household wealth, banking solvency and urban economic vitality. What was at stake extended beyond any single transaction: it was the question of whether the market could find a floor.
The market fell from 183.45 to 165.09, a total decline of -10.0% across those 30 monthly bars. Maximum drawdown hit 11.5%, and the largest single-month move reached 2.4%—a figure that sounds modest until one remembers these are monthly closings, not intraday ticks. Six decision points were embedded in the replay, two of them flagged as critical inflection moments where directional conviction mattered most.
For decision training, the scenario excels at exposing the gap between intellectual preparation and emotional execution. The -10.0% decline arrived not as a straight line but as a volatile grind, punishing both passive holders and reactive sellers. The 11.5% drawdown teaches that peak-to-trough pain arrives faster than most anticipate, while the 2.4% monthly shock size drills the discipline needed to avoid panic exits. Six decision points force repeated commitment under uncertainty, and the two critical nodes ask whether a participant can hold process when the market offers no clean signals.
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