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Commodity Shock · Nikkei 225 Index (2011)

StocksNikkei 225JPPolicy2010-11 to 2011-06Difficulty 2/5FreeView charts

Replay 144 turbulent Nikkei 225 sessions from 2010-11 to 2011-06, spanning a 20.7% drawdown after a 10.6% single-day shock. Step through authentic daily bars, make your calls at 25 decision points, and receive AI coach review in this simulated training exercise.

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144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2010-11 to 2011-06 · Stocks

Key facts

This window spans 214 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 20.7% and a 16.3% run-up.

Max drawdown
−20.7%
Max run-up
+16.3%
Duration
214 days
Largest single-day move
−10.6%
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

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

The Nikkei 225 entered the final months of 2010 in an environment of renewed optimism, but commodity prices were beginning to signal mounting pressures on Japanese manufacturers and energy importers. From November 2010 through mid-June 2011, the index confronted a period of intensifying supply-chain strain and energy cost volatility that would test even seasoned investors. With 25 decision points embedded across 144 authentic trading sessions, participants face a scenario where policy responses, commodity markets, and broader risk sentiment interact in real time.

Authentic price data reveals the brutal arithmetic of this episode. The index closed the period at 9514.44, a modest -2.2% decline from the 9732.92 opening, yet this headline figure obscures far greater turbulence beneath the surface. A maximum drawdown of 20.7% materialized at some point during the window, and a single session delivered a 10.6% swing—the kind of violent candle that destroys positions and reshapes sentiment overnight. Nine of the twenty-five decision moments are flagged as critical, demanding calibrated responses under acute uncertainty.

This replay sharpens the skills that separate disciplined managers from reactive ones. Navigating a 20.7% drawdown without abandoning a sound process, recognizing when a 10.6% single-bar move signals regime change rather than noise, and working through nine critical inflection points all reinforce the habits that matter most: position sizing, emotional detachment, and outcome-independent adherence to method. The 2010s Nikkei offers a classroom where the lesson is not prediction but preparation.