Commodity Shock · KOSPI Index (2008)
Replay 150 days of KOSPI turbulence from March to October 2008 as the index fell 24.1% amid commodity-driven shocks. Step through each daily bar, tackle 9 critical decision points, and review your choices with an AI coach in a simulated, educational setting.
150 daily bars · 26 decision points · 2008-03 to 2008-10 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 221 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 34.3% and a 20.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −34.3%
- Max run-up
- +20.0%
- Duration
- 221 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.1%
- Bars
- 150 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 26
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 KOSPI Index entered a turbulent phase from March to October 2008, navigating 150 daily bars of escalating market stress driven by global commodity price shocks. This scenario spans the volatile months of the 2000s when investors faced mounting uncertainty across Asian equity markets, with the index hovering near key psychological levels while commodity prices surged and macroeconomic signals painted a increasingly grim picture. The replay drops participants into this environment and asks them to make sense of rapidly shifting conditions.
The numbers tell the story of a sustained decline: the index fell from 1697.44 to 1288.53, a loss of -24.1% over the data span. The damage extended to a maximum drawdown of 34.3%, meaning anyone holding through the worst periods experienced significantly deeper losses than the headline figure suggests. Volatility manifested in a largest single-bar move of 6.1%, underscoring how quickly sentiment could reverse. Traders faced 26 decision points across the replay, with 9 critical junctures demanding decisive action under uncertainty.
This replay trains participants to confront several core challenges: maintaining disciplined process when prices move against positions, sizing exposure appropriately given drawdown risk, and managing the psychological pressure of compounding losses. The absence of a clean V-shaped recovery in this period teaches that environments can persist longer than expected, making mechanical rules and clear pre-commitment more valuable than intuition alone. Each session becomes a case study in staying rational when the broader market narrative grows increasingly pessimistic.
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