Boom · DAX Index (2003)
Replay 150 daily bars from June 2003 to January 2004 as the DAX climbed 28.0% from 3241.22 to 4150.24. Work through 26 decision points day by day, get an AI coach review, and learn how a major index repaired after a deep bear market, all simulated.
150 daily bars · 26 decision points · 2003-06 to 2004-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 216 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 11.2% and a 31.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −11.2%
- Max run-up
- +31.9%
- Duration
- 216 days
- Largest single-day move
- +4.3%
- Bars
- 150 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 26
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
In mid-2003, the German DAX index found itself in the unfamiliar position of climber rather than faller. After years of grinding losses that followed the dot-com collapse, European blue chips were quietly rebuilding. The market was navigating a complex transition: valuations had compressed severely, economic indicators flickered with tentative recovery signals, and central bank messaging carried unusual weight on sentiment. For investors who had endured the prior bear phase, the central question was whether this represented genuine healing or another bear-market trap.
The replay captures 150 daily bars from June 26, 2003 to January 28, 2004, during which the DAX climbed 28.0%, moving from 3241.22 to 4150.24. Yet the journey was far from straight. The maximum drawdown reached 11.2%, and the largest single-bar move was 4.3%, reminding practitioners that even strong directional trends contain turbulence. Participants in this scenario face 26 decision points—9 of them flagged as critical—requiring them to navigate the tension between established positions and emerging signals without the benefit of hindsight.
This replay excels as a decision-training vehicle because it forces engagement with incomplete information. The 28.0% total return sounds straightforward until one confronts the embedded volatility: following trends requires conviction, but managing through drawdowns demands discipline. The 9 critical decision points strip away the abstraction of historical percentages and ask practitioners to act when stakes are real and outcomes uncertain. The lesson is not that recovery trades are easy, but that repeatable process during uncertain recoveries is a learnable skill that separates adaptive market participants from those frozen by recent memory.
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