FTSE 250 Downtrend Replay (1990-06-13 to 1990-09-24)
Replay a 1990 FTSE 250 crash spanning 146 daily bars, with the index falling -14.5% and a peak drawdown of 23.0%. You step through each session, face four critical decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
146 daily bars · 11 decision points · 1990-04 to 1990-11 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 208 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 23.0% and a 11.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −23.0%
- Max run-up
- +11.5%
- Duration
- 208 days
- Largest single-day move
- +5.6%
- Bars
- 146 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
In the summer of 1990, the FTSE 250 entered a period of intense pressure as the British economy confronted recessionary headwinds, elevated interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty surrounding the Gulf crisis. From June 13 to September 24, 1990, investors faced a market environment where deteriorating fundamentals and shifting sentiment created a sustained downtrend, placing portfolios at significant risk and demanding careful navigation of each trading session.
The replay captures this decline across 146 daily bars, with the index falling from 2374.6 to 2030.1, an overall drop of -14.5%. The journey proved more treacherous than the headline figure suggests, as maximum drawdown reached 23.0%—meaning portfolios entered bear-market territory. Compounding the challenge, individual sessions recorded moves of up to 5.6%, introducing sharp reversals and false recovery signals that tested every entry and exit decision.
This scenario sharpens decision-making under stress by placing participants at eleven inflection points, four of which are critical. Managing a -14.5% decline while avoiding the deeper 23.0% drawdown requires disciplined position sizing, clear stop-loss logic, and psychological resilience against the compounding effects of loss aversion. The volatile single-session moves of 5.6% reinforce the importance of distinguishing temporary dislocation from structural breakdown—teaching participants to act on process rather than react to noise.
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