FTSE 250 Uptrend Replay (2022-07-05 to 2022-08-15)
Step into a 60-bar replay of an FTSE 250 window stretching from June to September 2022, where price slid -2.8% despite a sharp 9.3% drawdown. You move day by day through 11 decision points, defend your calls under coach review, and learn with simulated capital only.
60 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2022-06 to 2022-09 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 84 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 9.3% and a 11.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −9.3%
- Max run-up
- +11.3%
- Duration
- 84 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.0%
- Bars
- 60 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 FTSE 250, London's benchmark for mid-cap equities, entered a critical 60-trading-day window from mid-June to early September 2022. This period, spanning the summer months of the 2020s, presented traders with a landscape complicated by lingering post-pandemic volatility, shifting monetary expectations, and persistent macroeconomic uncertainty. The stage was set for a replay that would test disciplined decision-making under ambiguous conditions.
The market's trajectory from 19160.2 to 18629.7 delivered a modest -2.8% decline, yet this headline number concealed a rougher journey. A max drawdown of 9.3% tested portfolio endurance, while the largest single-bar move of 3.0% highlighted sudden sentiment shifts. Participants navigated 11 decision points, four of which were flagged as critical, requiring defensible calls under coach review. The gap between headline loss and intra-period turbulence became the central learning ground.
This replay sharpens process over prediction. The 9.3% drawdown reminds traders that max pain is a statistical reality, not an anomaly to ignore. The 3.0% single-session swing reinforces that volatility clusters unpredictably, demanding position sizing that survives drawdown spikes. Psychologically, the modest -2.8% close could tempt second-guessing of sound risk management, making emotional discipline as vital as analytical skill. Each decision point becomes a rehearsal for staying systematic when the outcome has already been written.