Russell 2000 Uptrend Replay (2017-08-21 to 2018-01-23)
Replay the Russell 2000's 2017–2018 climb: a 6.1% advance across 150 daily bars, with a 9.1% drawdown testing your timing. Walk through 11 decision points, four of them critical, and receive an AI coach review of each call. Simulated capital only.
150 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2017-07 to 2018-02 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 217 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 9.1% and a 18.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −9.1%
- Max run-up
- +18.7%
- Duration
- 217 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.6%
- Bars
- 150 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 11
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 late summer of 2017, the Russell 2000 entered a steady ascent that would carry through the first weeks of 2018. This was the landscape of American small-cap equities: an index trying to carve out direction amid mixed economic signals, shifting Fed expectations, and a market that had already delivered years of gains. For participants replaying this period, the challenge was to find footing in a market that offered no easy narrative—only price, and the obligation to act on it.
Across the 150 trading days from 2017-08-21 to 2018-01-23, the Russell 2000 rose from 1442.35 to 1529.99, a modest 6.1% advance that belied the journey within. The index endured a 9.1% drawdown along the way, and individual sessions could swing as much as 3.6%—enough to test any position. Eleven decision points peppered this stretch, four of them critical moments where the market's direction hung in the balance. Navigating these inflection points, rather than simply capturing the net gain, defined the quality of decisions made.
This replay sharpens three skills essential to market participation. First, process: following a consistent framework matters more than predicting outcome. Second, risk: a 9.1% drawdown can arrive without warning, and position sizing determines whether it is survivable. Third, psychology: the index's grinding, non-linear advance punished both premature conviction and second-guessed exits. Participants learn that the goal is not to call every turn but to build a repeatable decision process and evaluate each call honestly against the evidence available at the time.