MSCI ACWI Downtrend Replay (2018-02-26 to 2018-03-23)
Replay a real MSCI ACWI correction spanning 40 daily bars with a 6.3% peak drawdown. You step through each session, face seven decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
40 daily bars · 7 decision points · 2018-02 to 2018-04 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 57 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 6.3% and a 7.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.3%
- Max run-up
- +7.1%
- Duration
- 57 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.4%
- Bars
- 40 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 7
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
In early 2018, the MSCI ACWI index entered a defined correction phase that offered investors a concentrated study in navigating broad equity volatility. The replay spans 40 daily bars from February 8 to April 6, capturing a significant downtrend embedded within the broader 2010s bull market. Participants faced seven decision points, three of which were critical inflection moments, requiring disciplined risk assessment and clear strategic responses to shifting conditions. What was at stake was not just capital preservation but the development of decision-making habits under pressure.
The index moved from 69.83 to 70.82 by period end, recording a modest 1.4% net gain that obscures the journey. The maximum drawdown of 6.3% tested portfolio resilience across multiple sessions, while the largest single-bar move of 2.4% created acute intraday volatility. Navigating these sharp reversals required participants to confront their positioning and risk tolerance repeatedly throughout the scenario.
This correction replay sharpens skills in process discipline, risk calibration, and psychological management. Seven decision points, particularly the three critical ones, force participants to practice responding to market stress with structure rather than impulse. The scenario teaches that surviving drawdowns requires pre-defined frameworks, emotional equilibrium, and the ability to distinguish between signal and noise when markets move violently against positions.