Inflation · Nikkei 225 Index (2021)
Replay 144 daily bars of the Nikkei 225 from June 2021 through January 2022 as a 10.2% drawdown reshapes global inflation trades. Step through 25 decision points, navigate 9 critical turns, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated training environment.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2021-06 to 2022-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 215 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 10.2% and a 13.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −10.2%
- Max run-up
- +13.5%
- Duration
- 215 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.3%
- 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 entered June 2021 at the epicenter of a global reflation trade that was reshaping capital markets from Tokyo to New York. With central banks navigating the delicate balance between sustaining post-pandemic recovery and taming rising inflation, Japanese equities absorbed cross-currents from domestic policy signals, currency dynamics, and shifting risk sentiment across the Pacific. The period posed a fundamental question for market participants: how to position when reflation expectations collide with policy uncertainty and valuations that had already run hard.
Between June 10, 2021 and January 11, 2022, the index slipped from 28958.56 to 28222.48, a modest -2.5% decline that obscures a more turbulent underlying journey. The Nikkei weathered a maximum drawdown of 10.2% during this stretch, with the largest single-day move reaching 3.3%, moments that tested conviction and risk discipline. Across the 144 trading days, 25 decision points materialized, of which 9 were critical junctures where directional conviction was most severely challenged.
This replay sharpens the ability to manage risk under regime shifts, where macroeconomic themes override company-specific fundamentals. Participants learn that surviving a 10.2% drawdown requires not just position sizing but emotional calibration when the narrative pivots. The nine critical decision points become classrooms for practicing pattern recognition amid policy noise, building the psychological resilience that distinguishes disciplined participants from reactive ones.