Dow Jones Ind. Downtrend Replay (2018-01-26 to 2018-02-08)
Replay the 2018 Dow Jones correction, a 30-bar slide erasing 10.4% in drawdown before partial recovery. Walk through seven decision points, three of them critical, and let the AI coach review your simulated trading choices day by day.
30 daily bars · 7 decision points · 2018-01 to 2018-02 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 43 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 10.4% and a 5.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −10.4%
- Max run-up
- +5.7%
- Duration
- 43 days
- Largest single-day move
- −4.6%
- Bars
- 30 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 7
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 Dow Jones Industrial Average in January 2018 represented the apex of a years-long bull run that defined the 2010s. After sustained advances, markets hovered near record highs, and the air of invincibility was thick. Yet beneath the surface, the stage was already set for a reckoning—a correction that would strip away complacency and test the discipline of every trader who had grown accustomed to easy gains.
From January 10 to February 22, 2018, the index traversed 30 daily bars of increasingly turbulent trading. The closing level slipped from 25369.13 to 24962.48, a headline decline of -1.6%. Yet this modest figure concealed the true violence: maximum drawdown hit 10.4%, while the largest single session moved 4.6%. The journey was far wilder than the destination suggested, with sharp reversals and panic selling punctuating the slide before a tentative recovery took hold.
Seven decision points emerged across this correction, three marked as critical. Each offered a stark choice: cut risk or ride the storm, trust the process or surrender to fear. This replay trains traders to confront the core tensions of crisis management—position sizing under duress, the psychology of watching paper losses expand, and the discipline to act on predefined rules rather than impulse. The 10.4% drawdown serves as a laboratory for understanding how real volatility feels, preparing participants for when historical scenes become live ones.