ISEQ Downtrend Replay (2024-05-08 to 2024-07-02)
Replay an authentic ISEQ downtrend spanning 80 daily bars from April to July 2024, including a maximum drawdown of 8.4%. Step through each market day, face 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
80 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2024-04 to 2024-07 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 115 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 8.4% and a 5.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −8.4%
- Max run-up
- +5.3%
- Duration
- 115 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.5%
- Bars
- 80 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 Overall Index (ISEQ) entered a meaningful correction phase between April and July 2024. This 80-bar daily dataset captures a period when European equity markets faced headwinds from monetary policy uncertainty and slowing economic signals. Investors navigating this environment confronted the classic challenge of distinguishing between temporary volatility and the early stages of a sustained downturn.
The numbers tell a story of grinding pressure: the ISEQ declined 5.1% from 10050.54 to 9536.03, with a maximum intraday drawdown of 8.4%. What made this period particularly demanding was not a single catastrophic event but rather sustained erosion punctuated by a largest single-day move of 3.5%. The correction unfolded over approximately three months, testing the resolve of participants at 11 defined decision points, four of which represented critical inflection moments requiring clear strategic responses.
This replay scenario distills the experience of managing capital through an authentic downtrend without the benefit of hindsight. Participants must grapple with position sizing, stop-loss discipline, and the psychological pull of averaging down or exiting prematurely. The educational value lies not in predicting the bottom but in developing a repeatable process that survives volatility while maintaining risk within predetermined bounds.