ISEQ Uptrend Replay (1999-10-28 to 2000-01-18)
Replay the Irish ISEQ index from 1999-09-20 to 2000-02-24, capturing a 7.9% rise across 110 daily bars. Make decisions at 11 points through a historical uptrend with 7.5% drawdown, then receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
110 daily bars · 11 decision points · 1999-09 to 2000-02 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 157 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 7.5% and a 13.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −7.5%
- Max run-up
- +13.9%
- Duration
- 157 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.4%
- Bars
- 110 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 Irish Stock Exchange's ISEQ index provides the stage for this historical replay, set against the late 1990s tech boom. This scenario spans from late October 1999 through mid-January 2000, a period when global markets rode high on dot-com enthusiasm while harboring underlying anxieties about valuation excesses. Participants navigate 11 decision points—including 4 critical moments—within a 110-day window that captures the index's trajectory from one decade into the next.
The index moved from 4683.79 to 5054.66, delivering a 7.9% return over the replay period. A 7.5% peak-to-trough drawdown tested conviction during the advance, while the largest single-day swing of 2.4% reminded traders that momentum rarely travels in straight lines. This combination of modest overall gains, meaningful retracements, and sudden intraday reversals creates a realistic training ground where directional bias contends with volatility spikes.
This replay sharpens the ability to read trend continuation versus exhaustion, as participants decide whether to hold through drawdowns or reduce exposure. The tension between riding a documented uptrend and managing a 7.5% pullback cultivates discipline around position sizing and stop-loss logic. When a single session can swing 2.4%, emotional control becomes as vital as technical analysis. The 4 critical decision points serve as stress tests, revealing whether a trader's process holds under pressure.