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Crash · Jakarta Composite Index (1998)

StocksIDX CompositeIDPolicy1997-12 to 1998-07Difficulty 5/5FreeView charts

Replay 144 days of the Jakarta Composite Index from December 16, 1997, through a 29.8% peak drawdown during Indonesia's crisis. Step through daily decision points, test your policy-era judgment, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated training environment.

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144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 1997-12 to 1998-07 · Stocks

Key facts

This window spans 218 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 29.8% and a 61.6% run-up.

Max drawdown
−29.8%
Max run-up
+61.6%
Duration
218 days
Largest single-day move
+14.0%
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

How to play
  1. The market advances day by day. You only see candles up to the current day — as if you were really there.

  2. At key decision points choose Buy / Trim / Exit / Hold. Each decision advances the timeline by one day.

  3. 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 Jakarta Composite Index enters a 144-day replay window from December 16, 1997 through July 22, 1998, a period that straddles one of Southeast Asia's most turbulent economic moments. Indonesia, swept up in the regional financial contagion, faced simultaneous currency collapse, banking sector stress, and political uncertainty. For market participants operating in that era, navigating this environment meant confronting questions about liquidity, policy response credibility, and the limits of valuation frameworks when fundamentals were shifting daily.

The index closed the period at 483.05, up 35.5% from the 356.39 opening level. Yet this headline gain conceals a journey marked by severe intraday volatility, including a largest single-bar move of 14.0% and a maximum drawdown of 29.8% from peak. Those who entered the period looking only at directional bias would have missed the structural damage inflicted during the drawdown phase and the psychological strain of maintaining discipline when price action turned violent.

This replay places trainees at 25 decision points, 9 of them flagged as critical, across the 1990s era. The core training value lies not in calling the direction but in experiencing how volatility compounds decision fatigue, how drawdown psychology diverges from risk management logic, and how process must be separated from outcome. Surviving theJakarta scenario requires a rules-based framework tested against a market that offered no stable footing.