S&P 600 SmallCap Uptrend Replay (2022-09-26 to 2022-12-02)
Replay a 2022 S&P 600 SmallCap uptrend across 98 daily bars with a 16.3% drawdown. Walk through each session, weigh 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
98 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2022-08 to 2023-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 143 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 16.3% and a 17.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −16.3%
- Max run-up
- +17.3%
- Duration
- 143 days
- Largest single-day move
- +5.9%
- Bars
- 98 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 offers a window into the more volatile, domestically focused segment of the U.S. equity market. This replay spans 98 daily bars from mid-August 2022 through early January 2023, with the core training window focused on September 26 to December 2, 2022. During this period, small-cap stocks navigated headwinds from aggressive Federal Reserve rate hikes, persistent inflation pressures, and broader market uncertainty—creating an environment where every trading decision carried significant consequence for portfolio positioning and risk management.
The index closed the replay period at 97.03, representing a -6.7% decline from an opening level of 104.04. The journey between these points proved far more turbulent than the headline number suggests, with a maximum drawdown of 16.3% testing the resolve of participants. The largest single-bar move of 5.9% underscores the volatility spikes that characterized this small-cap environment, where liquidity is thinner and sentiment shifts more abrupt than in large-cap counterparts.
This scenario trains participants to manage positions through environments where direction is clear but conviction is frequently challenged. With 11 decision points—including 4 critical junctures—traders must practice calibrating position size, respecting drawdown thresholds, and maintaining process discipline when the market offers no easy answers. The lesson is not about predicting the next move but about building the psychological resilience and systematic approach needed to survive and adapt when volatility strikes.