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Merval Uptrend Replay (2015-06-01 to 2015-07-16)

StocksMERVALARRally2015-05 to 2015-08Difficulty 3/5FreeView charts

Argentina's Merval index swung through a 14.9% drawdown over 66 daily bars ending -8.0% on 2015-08-07. Replay the rally day-by-day, face 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.

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66 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2015-05 to 2015-08 · Stocks

Key facts

This window spans 93 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 14.9% and a 15.6% run-up.

Max drawdown
−14.9%
Max run-up
+15.6%
Duration
93 days
Largest single-day move
+6.8%
Bars
66 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

How to play
  1. The market advances day by day. You only see candles up to the current day — as if you were really there.

  2. At key decision points choose Buy / Trim / Exit / Hold. Each decision advances the timeline by one day.

  3. 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

Argentina's Merval index, the country's flagship equity benchmark, became a crucible for risk management training during the summer of 2015. The period from early May through early August placed traders inside 66 daily bars of authentic market data, confronting them with the mechanics of a volatile, loss-making trend. What was at stake was not merely directional conviction but the capacity to navigate sustained pressure, manage exposure during a prolonged decline, and make decisions under uncertainty without the benefit of hindsight.

The index opened at 12135 and ultimately closed at 11168, representing an overall decline of -8.0%. The journey was anything but smooth: a maximum drawdown of 14.9% tested any initial optimism, while the largest single-bar move of 6.8% underscored moments of acute volatility that could have derailed poorly-positioned strategies. Traders faced 11 decision points, including 4 critical junctures where the trajectory could have diverged significantly based on the choices made.

This replay strips away the comfort of hindsight to expose the psychological and procedural challenges of sustained adversity. The 11 decision points function as a diagnostic framework, asking participants to examine their risk tolerance, position sizing, and emotional discipline when markets move against them. The -8.0% final outcome becomes a learning instrument rather than a verdict, revealing how process quality matters more than direction when historical volatility is reproduced faithfully. Success here is measured not by avoiding losses but by developing the decision-making consistency that transfers to any market environment.