War · NASDAQ Composite Index (2023)
From May 26 to December 20, 2023, the NASDAQ Composite climbed 13.9% through a turbulent 144 trading days marked by Middle East conflict and policy uncertainty. Replay the period day by day, navigate 25 decision points including 9 critical moments, and receive an AI coach review of your choices in a simulated environment.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2023-05 to 2023-12 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 208 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 12.3% and a 19.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −12.3%
- Max run-up
- +19.1%
- Duration
- 208 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.4%
- Bars
- 144 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 25
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
From late May through December 2023, the NASDAQ Composite found itself caught between competing forces: escalating Middle East tensions and an unresolved Federal Reserve policy path. For traders and investors, this 144-day stretch posed a stark question—how do you make sound decisions when geopolitics can override fundamentals overnight? The stakes extended beyond individual portfolios to the broader challenge of maintaining discipline when headlines arrive before logic.
Over the replay period the index climbed from 12975.69 to 14777.94, delivering a 13.9% return. Yet raw percentage gains obscure the journey: the market experienced a maximum drawdown of 12.3% and navigated single-day swings as large as 2.4%. Those numbers capture genuine intraday turbulence that tested every participant's conviction and risk tolerance in real time.
This replay offers a laboratory for examining decision processes under pressure. With 25 decision points including 9 critical junctures, participants confront the gap between analytical confidence and emotional resilience. The lessons center not on predicting outcomes but on executing a disciplined process regardless of external noise—a skill that transfers across market environments and time horizons.