Commodity Shock · FTSE 100 Index (2008)
The FTSE 100 plunged from 5999.5 to 4880 over 144 trading days ending September 2008, carving out a 23.5% drawdown. Replay each session step by step, navigate 25 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2008-02 to 2008-09 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 206 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 23.5% and a 17.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −23.5%
- Max run-up
- +17.8%
- Duration
- 206 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.9%
- Bars
- 144 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 25
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 early 2008 the FTSE 100 was navigating the tail end of a commodity-driven bull market, as surging raw material costs pressured corporate margins and stoked inflation fears across the global economy. Investors faced mounting uncertainty over central bank policy responses and the durability of earnings growth in a climate of tightening credit conditions and slowing consumer demand.
The index declined from 5999.5 to 4880 over 144 trading days ending September 2008, a loss of -18.7% with a maximum drawdown of 23.5%. The turbulence was underscored by single-day moves as large as 3.9%, creating treacherous conditions for position sizing and stop-loss discipline. Participants confronted 25 decision points, of which 9 were classified as critical junctions demanding clear-headed risk assessment under rapidly shifting conditions.
This replay scenario functions as a decision laboratory, placing traders inside a sustained downtrend where process discipline is tested and emotional reactions are exposed. The lesson is not to predict turning points but to build systematic responses to uncertainty, manage exposure through volatility, and maintain psychological composure when the trend continues against initial expectations. Navigating 25 points of choice—without hindsight—develops the judgment that separates planned action from reactive impulse.
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