San Diego Historical Replay: 2015-11 to 2018-04
Replay 30 monthly bars from late 2015 through April 2018 as San Diego property data closes up 18.1%. Work through 6 decision points, including 2 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
30 monthly bars · 6 decision points · 2015-11 to 2018-04 · Property
Key facts
Peak-to-trough drawdown of 0.3% with a 18.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −0.3%
- Max run-up
- +18.1%
- Largest single-month move
- +1.1%
- 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 replay transports participants to San Diego's residential property market at a pivotal inflection point. As 2015 drew to a close, the Federal Reserve moved to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, injecting uncertainty into real estate valuations across American cities. Against this backdrop, the scenario spans 30 monthly bars from November 2015 through April 2018, placing decision-makers at the controls of a market navigating post-crisis normalization and shifting monetary policy. Six decision points await, including two critical junctures where positioning choices carry heightened consequence.
The numbers reveal a market that rewarded measured patience over dramatic repositioning. San Diego property closed the period at 255.59, rising from an opening of 216.34 for an 18.1% appreciation over those roughly two and a half years. The journey was anything but smooth on a month-to-month basis, yet the max drawdown held to just 0.3%, and the largest single monthly swing measured only 1.1%. These figures underscore a market characterized by steady underlying demand and contained volatility, where the absence of extreme drawdowns presented its own decision-making challenge: how to remain engaged without overacting to modest fluctuations.
For training purposes, this replay emphasizes the discipline of staying oriented within a slow-building trend. The modest individual bar movements and shallow drawdowns resist the urgency that traders often impose upon themselves. Participants must practice distinguishing between meaningful structural shifts and normal market noise, while managing the psychological temptation to force action in an environment that rewards restraint. The two critical decision points serve as crucibles for testing whether a systematic approach can hold when the market offers no dramatic catalyst to justify dramatic response.
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