FTSE 250 Uptrend Replay (1988-09-09 to 1988-11-01)
Replay 76 days of the 1988 FTSE 250 market from August through November, featuring 4 critical decision points across a 7.9% max drawdown. Step through each authentic trading day, weigh your choices at branching decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated decisions.
76 daily bars · 11 decision points · 1988-08 to 1988-11 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 106 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 7.9% and a 9.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −7.9%
- Max run-up
- +9.6%
- Duration
- 106 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.7%
- Bars
- 76 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 11
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 summer of 1988 brought FTSE 250 traders a period of compressed challenge. Over 76 trading days spanning August through November, the index moved from 2284.2 to 2220.3—a modest -2.8% decline that concealed more turbulent underlying action. This was not a quiet bear market but a volatile sideways grind where participants faced 11 distinct decision points, including 4 that the replay marks as critical junctures where directional conviction truly mattered.
The headline number masks the journey. A 7.9% maximum drawdown tested risk management discipline, while the largest single-day swing of 2.7% served as a reminder that intraday volatility can overwhelm position sizing. Traders navigating this stretch needed to distinguish between temporary dislocations and genuine trend shifts, making the difference between weathering the storm and compounding losses.
For decision training purposes, this replay offers a clean laboratory for studying process over prediction. The challenge was not identifying a grand directional bet but managing a series of smaller choices under uncertainty. The psychological test—staying disciplined when every recovery rally might reverse—remains one of the hardest skills to develop. This historical scenario strips away modern noise and forces engagement with the timeless tension between patience and action.
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