Bubble · NASDAQ Composite Index (2024)
Reignite the AI capital expenditure narrative across a 12.7% NASDAQ Composite climb and a 13.1% drawdown, with daily bars through August 2024. Step through 25 decision points, face 9 critical forks, and let the AI coach score your simulated choices.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2024-01 to 2024-08 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 206 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 13.1% and a 23.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −13.1%
- Max run-up
- +23.0%
- Duration
- 206 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.6%
- 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
The NASDAQ Composite Index in early 2024 was a theater dominated by the AI capital expenditure narrative. Between January 29 and August 22, 144 daily bars capture a market oscillating between AI optimism and the sober arithmetic of technology spending. Participants faced the challenge of distinguishing genuine structural shifts from speculative froth during a period when AI promised to reshape entire industries. The 2020s decade setting grounds this scenario in contemporary market dynamics where algorithms, retail participation, and macro uncertainty intersect.
The index climbed from 15628.04 to 17619.35, a 12.7% advance that masked considerable turbulence beneath the surface. A 13.1% max drawdown reminded everyone that progress is rarely linear, while the largest single-bar move of 3.6% highlighted how quickly sentiment could reverse on a single data point or Fed signal. Within this 144-bar journey, learners encounter 25 decision points, including 9 critical forks where conviction and positioning were tested against sudden shifts in the AI narrative. The net result tells only part of the story; the emotional and tactical path matters equally.
This scenario excels as a decision-training ground because it forces participants to act under conditions of narrative ambiguity. The 9 critical moments teach that process discipline outweighs directional conviction—cutting losers, sizing positions, and managing psychology are skills the 13.1% drawdown makes unavoidable. The 3.6% single-bar moves underscore that volatility is information, not noise, and that surviving drawdowns is prerequisite to benefiting from the subsequent 12.7% climb. AI coaches score simulated choices not on outcomes but on the quality of reasoning applied at each of the 25 decision points.