S&P/BMV IPC Downtrend Replay (2019-04-17 to 2019-08-15)
Replay a 15.3% drawdown across 150 daily bars of the 2019 Mexican IPC correction. Step through each session, make decisions at 11 branching points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
150 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2019-02 to 2019-10 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 216 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 15.3% and a 12.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −15.3%
- Max run-up
- +12.9%
- Duration
- 216 days
- Largest single-day move
- +2.4%
- Bars
- 150 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 Mexican IPC index entered a correction phase between April and August 2019, a period that tested investor resolve across the 2010s bull market cycle. Spanning 150 daily bars from late February through early October that year, this replay immerses participants in the mechanics of a sustained downtrend. The scenario presents 11 decision points—four of them critical junctures—where participants must choose how to position, reduce exposure, or stand firm as the market deteriorates. What was at stake was not merely capital preservation but the development of disciplined responses to prolonged volatility.
The numbers tell the story of a correction that looked worse than it finished: the index closed the period at 42937.16 from 43311.18, a net decline of just 0.9%. Yet this modest endpoint masked a 15.3% maximum drawdown along the way—the true measure of intraday and week-to-week pain. The largest single-bar move reached 2.4%, underscoring that individual sessions could deliver sharp shocks even within a gradual decline. Participants navigating this terrain faced the psychological trap of reacting to temporary spikes rather than maintaining strategic perspective across the full data span.
This replay trains participants to separate outcome from process. A 0.9% net loss sounds benign, but surviving a 15.3% drawdown without panic or overexposure requires deliberate risk management and emotional control. The 11 decision points force repeated calibration between staying invested and adjusting positions, while the four critical moments isolate the highest-stakes inflection calls. For decision-training purposes, the correction offers a compressed laboratory for practicing discipline under pressure—skills that transfer to any market environment where volatility tests conviction.