Russell 2000 Downtrend Replay (2000-09-07 to 2000-10-12)
Replay the Russell 2000 correction with 52 daily bars and a 14.7% max drawdown across late 2000. Step through each session, confront nine decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
52 daily bars · 9 decision points · 2000-08 to 2000-10 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 74 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 14.7% and a 5.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −14.7%
- Max run-up
- +5.8%
- Duration
- 74 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.8%
- Bars
- 52 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 9
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 late summer 2000, the Russell 2000 small-cap index entered a treacherous correction phase. The tech-sector collapse that had devastated the NASDAQ was spilling over into broader market sentiment, and small-cap stocks faced heightened selling pressure as investors rotated toward safety. The period from September through mid-October tested every participant's conviction and risk tolerance in a market where the old certainties were dissolving.
This replay captures 52 daily bars from August 17 through October 30, 2000, during which the index descended from 516.46 to 482.72, a decline of -6.5%. The maximum drawdown swelled to 14.7% at its worst, while the largest single session move reached 3.8%. Nine decision points are embedded across the dataset, three of them critical inflection moments where the path could have diverged significantly depending on your choices.
Navigating this correction demands disciplined risk management under psychological duress. You'll confront the challenge of holding positions as losses accumulate, deciding whether to average down or exit, and managing the emotional pull of loss aversion as drawdowns expand toward double digits. The scenario rewards those who apply consistent position sizing, adhere to pre-defined exit rules, and control fear-driven capitulation impulses that intensify with each declining bar. These skills transfer across decades and market conditions.