Crisis · Nikkei 225 Index (2020)
Replay 144 turbulent Nikkei 225 sessions and feel the 31.3% drawdown reshape every chart. Step through each day, make 25 decision points with simulated capital only, and receive an AI coach review of your crisis-era choices.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2019-10 to 2020-05 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 219 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 31.3% and a 24.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −31.3%
- Max run-up
- +24.4%
- Duration
- 219 days
- Largest single-day move
- +8.0%
- 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 Nikkei 225 faced one of its most turbulent periods spanning from October 2019 through May 2020. This era captured the transition from the late 2010s into the unprecedented uncertainty of the early 2020s. Investors and traders entering this market replay would have confronted a landscape defined by geopolitical tensions, early policy responses, and ultimately a global health crisis that would reshape economic assumptions. The stakes were nothing less than understanding how crisis-era volatility reshapes every chart and every portfolio assumption.
Over 144 daily trading sessions, the index moved from 22207.21 to 20552.31, representing an overall decline of -7.5%. However, this headline figure masks the true severity of the journey. The market experienced a maximum drawdown of 31.3%, with individual sessions seeing moves as large as 8.0%. Navigating this environment required traders to make 25 strategic decisions, with 9 of those being critical inflection points where positioning could mean the difference between preservation and significant capital erosion.
This replay teaches that crisis-era trading demands more than technical analysis. The disconnect between headline returns and actual trading experience reveals why process discipline matters more than predictions. Participants learn to separate noise from signal, understanding that survival in extreme volatility requires both analytical rigor and psychological resilience. The scenario demonstrates that managing through drawdowns is as much about emotional control as it is about position sizing.