S&P 600 SmallCap Uptrend Replay (2010-02-08 to 2010-04-23)
Replay the S&P 600 SmallCap uptrend through 106 daily bars ending June 2010, navigating 11 decision points including 4 critical ones after a 12.9% drawdown. Make your calls bar by bar, then receive an AI coach review of your simulated, educational decision-making.
106 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2009-12 to 2010-06 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 154 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 12.9% and a 26.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −12.9%
- Max run-up
- +26.5%
- Duration
- 154 days
- Largest single-day move
- +5.3%
- Bars
- 106 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
The S&P 600 SmallCap index offered traders a complex uptrend replay spanning 106 daily bars from late December 2009 into June 2010, a period of post-financial-crisis recovery when small-cap momentum could shift rapidly. Navigating 11 decision points—four deemed critical—participants had to contend with genuine market uncertainty after a substantial 12.9% pullback tested conviction across the period.
The index closed the data window at 28.35, having opened at 27.78 for a net gain of 2.1%. Yet the journey proved far more turbulent than the modest headline return suggests. A maximum drawdown of 12.9% tested position management discipline, while the largest single-bar move of 5.3% underscored the volatility environment that small-cap traders inhabit. These figures illustrate how compressed timeframes can mask significant internal turbulence.
This replay emphasizes that surviving drawdowns while capturing genuine trends requires separating outcome from process. Participants learn to evaluate decisions against available information at each bar, rather than judging calls by eventual price alone. The 11 decision points—including the four critical junctures—train traders to act decisively when market structure shifts, manage position size against known volatility, and maintain psychological equilibrium when interim losses accumulate. Success here is measured by decision quality, not simply by the 2.1% return.
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