S&P 600 SmallCap Uptrend Replay (2024-09-10 to 2024-11-25)
Replay an authentic 110-day S&P 600 SmallCap uptrend from July 31, 2024 to January 6, 2025, navigating four critical decision points amid a 9.7% drawdown. Walk through each session, make your calls, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated training environment.
110 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2024-07 to 2025-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 159 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 9.7% and a 18.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −9.7%
- Max run-up
- +18.3%
- Duration
- 159 days
- Largest single-day move
- +6.0%
- Bars
- 110 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 presents a compelling decision-training scenario spanning 2024-07-31 to 2025-01-06, covering 110 daily bars in the 2020s. This replay captures a nuanced uptrend interrupted by significant turbulence, placing participants at 11 decision points—4 of them critical—where directional conviction and risk calibration are tested against authentic price action. The task is not to predict a single outcome but to practice disciplined situational awareness across a complex market episode.
The period delivered a modest net result: the index closed at 116.22, down -1.8% from an opening of 118.34. Beneath this headline number lies a more volatile story, with a max drawdown of 9.7% testing the resolve of even cautious participants. The largest single-bar move of 6.0% underscores how quickly sentiment can shift in small-cap territory. Those who treated every session as an isolated decision point, rather than anchoring to initial expectations, had a better chance of navigating the full arc intact.
For decision training, this replay illustrates that process matters more than outcome. Participants learn to separate signal from noise when a 6.0% single-day swing arrives, to manage position sizing against a 9.7% drawdown backdrop, and to maintain psychological flexibility when the net result is a loss despite an uptrend narrative. The 4 critical decision points serve as crucibles for building these habits without financial risk.
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