Boom · Nikkei 225 Index (2024)
Across 144 trading days in 2024, the Nikkei 225 absorbed a 25.5% drawdown before recovering to close up just 1.2%. Step into the decision points day by day, face each critical branch with simulated capital, and receive an AI coach review of your choices.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2024-03 to 2024-10 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 211 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 25.5% and a 26.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −25.5%
- Max run-up
- +26.6%
- Duration
- 211 days
- Largest single-day move
- −12.4%
- 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
In the spring of 2024, Japan's flagship equity index entered a turbulent chapter as the Bank of Japan began signaling a shift away from its longstanding ultra-loose monetary stance. The prospect of higher rates rippled through global markets, compressing the valuation premiums that had supported Japanese equities during the low-rate era. Participants faced a fundamental question: how to navigate a market repricing itself around a new rate regime, with limited precedent for the pace and magnitude of potential adjustments.
The 144 trading days from March 12 to October 9, 2024 tested that question brutally. The Nikkei 225 opened at 38797.51 and closed at 39277.96, a net gain of just 1.2% that masks the true violence of the journey. The index endured a maximum drawdown of 25.5%, with single sessions moving as much as 12.4%. Across 25 decision points—9 of them critical branches where different choices led to divergent outcomes—participants confronted the challenge of maintaining discipline through extreme volatility rather than merely identifying direction.
This replay teaches that survival precedes returns. The gap between a 25.5% drawdown and a 1.2% gain is not a failure of forecasting but a test of process and psychology. Effective decision training here means practicing conviction under pressure, calibrating position sizing against realistic drawdown scenarios, and building the emotional resilience to avoid catastrophic decisions at market extremes.