Crisis · Jakarta Composite Index (1998)
Replay 144 volatile trading days through Indonesia's 1998 crisis as the Jakarta Composite plunged 36.6% from 513.49 to 325.56. Step through each session, tackle 25 decision points with 9 critical forks, and receive an AI coach review after every simulated choice.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 1998-02 to 1998-09 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 211 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 39.9% and a 25.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −39.9%
- Max run-up
- +25.7%
- Duration
- 211 days
- Largest single-day move
- −9.3%
- 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 1998, Indonesia faced its gravest economic crisis since independence. The Jakarta Composite Index, then the barometer of Southeast Asia's largest economy, traded amid unprecedented political turmoil as President Suharto's three-decade rule faced mounting pressure. Foreign capital fled, banks collapsed, and the rupiah plummeted against the dollar. The nation stood at a crossroads between financial meltdown and structural transformation.
From February 5 to September 4, 1998, the Jakarta Composite plummeted 36.6%, falling from 513.49 to 325.56. The 144 trading days that followed were marked by extreme volatility, with a maximum drawdown of 39.9% and a largest single-bar move of 9.3%. Participants faced 25 decision points across this period, including 9 critical junctures where outcomes diverged sharply depending on choices made.
This replay tests the ability to maintain discipline when markets offer no safe harbor. The scenario teaches that process matters more than prediction, that position sizing can mean the difference between survival and ruin, and that psychological resilience often outweighs analytical edge during systemic crises. For decision-training purposes, the 1998 Jakarta Composite offers a stark classroom in risk management under conditions where conventional wisdom fails and survival itself becomes the goal.