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US 20-City Composite Historical Replay: 2020-02 to 2022-07

PropertyCity IndexUSBoom2020-02 to 2022-07Difficulty 3/5FreeView charts

Replay 30 monthly bars of the US 20-city index from Feb 2020 to Jul 2022, capturing a 43.9% climb with a calm 0.8% max drawdown. You will make choices across 6 decision points and receive an AI coach review after each simulated session.

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30 monthly bars · 6 decision points · 2020-02 to 2022-07 · Property

Key facts

Peak-to-trough drawdown of 0.8% with a 45.0% run-up.

Max drawdown
−0.8%
Max run-up
+45.0%
Largest single-month move
+3.1%
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

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

This replay immerses you in the US 20-city composite property index across 30 monthly bars from February 2020 to July 2022, a period that coincided with pandemic disruption, historic low interest rates, and surging housing demand. Six decision points—including two flagged as critical—will challenge your ability to read evolving conditions in one of the most unusual real estate cycles in recent memory.

The index climbed steadily from 219.85 to 316.3, delivering a 43.9% cumulative return over the full window. This ascent occurred with remarkable calm: the maximum drawdown measured just 0.8%, and the largest single monthly move reached only 3.1%. Such low volatility is rare in any asset class, yet participants still faced moments requiring careful judgment about position sizing and timing.

This scenario teaches that a trending market demands as much discipline as a volatile one. The near-absence of meaningful pullbacks can breed complacency or excessive risk-taking, while the rare 3.1% monthly swings remind us that uncertainty never fully disappears. For decision training, the focus shifts to process over prediction: maintaining a sound framework when the market offers few obvious stress tests is arguably harder than reacting to obvious crises. Managing psychology—resisting the pull of early exits or overconfident sizing—becomes the true measure of readiness.