War · DAX Index (2003)
Replay 144 trading days across the 2002-12 to 2003-07 DAX window, navigating a 30.2% drawdown and a 7.3% single-day shock. Walk through 25 decision points day by day, then receive an AI coach review of every simulated call.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2002-12 to 2003-07 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 211 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 30.2% and a 54.2% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −30.2%
- Max run-up
- +54.2%
- Duration
- 211 days
- Largest single-day move
- +7.3%
- Bars
- 144 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 25
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 DAX index entered late 2002 with investors already battered by two years of global equity losses. As traders moved into the 2002-12 to 2003-07 window, the looming Iraq War cast a long shadow over European markets. Geopolitical tension merged with economic fragility, creating an environment where a single news headline could shift sentiment violently. This 144-day replay places you inside that uncertainty, requiring navigation through 25 decision points where conviction and discipline were tested constantly.
The numbers reveal a turbulent journey. The index opened at 2961.41 and closed at 3366.71, delivering a net gain of 13.7% — yet that simple headline obscures the chaos beneath. A maximum drawdown of 30.2% meant portfolios could be devastated mid-run, while a largest single-day swing of 7.3% demonstrated how quickly sentiment could reverse. Nine of the 25 decision points were flagged as critical, marking moments where positioning choices carried outsized consequences. The path from start to finish was anything but straight.
This scenario trains the habit of separating outcome from process. A 13.7% net gain looks attractive in hindsight, but enduring a 30.2% drawdown requires ironclad risk management and emotional resilience. The 7.3% single-day shocks remind us that volatility clusters and that survival during drawdowns is prerequisite to capturing eventual recovery. For decision training, the focus is not on predicting geopolitical events but on building systematic responses — position sizing, pre-defined exit levels, and the psychological discipline to avoid abandoning a sound process when the market screams panic.