S&P 400 MidCap Uptrend Replay (2014-10-13 to 2015-06-23)
Replay 150 daily bars of the S&P 400 MidCap from October 2014 to June 2015, watching the index climb 8.9% through 11 decision points. Step into each session, choose your trades, and receive an AI coach review of the simulated historical path.
150 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2014-10 to 2015-06 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 218 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 4.5% and a 11.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −4.5%
- Max run-up
- +11.1%
- Duration
- 218 days
- Largest single-day move
- +2.3%
- 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
The S&P 400 MidCap Index entered the spotlight of the 2010s bull market in late October 2014. With 150 daily bars stretching from late October 2014 through early June 2015, traders faced a market quietly climbing, with 11 decision points—four of them critical—scattered across the session. The environment was characteristic of a sustained mid-cap equity uptrend: steady appreciation, occasional volatility spikes, and the psychological test of staying disciplined when momentum is modest but persistent. Understanding how to read such a phase, with its subtle shifts between conviction and caution, is a core skill for equity traders at any level.
Over the 150-bar span the index advanced from 1397.73 to 1521.44, delivering an 8.9% gain. The journey was far from a straight line: a maximum drawdown of 4.5% reminded participants that even gentle uptrends pull back, and the largest single-bar move of 2.3% introduced sudden intraday intensity that could unsettle position sizing and stop discipline. Each of the 11 decision points offered a live test—entries, exits, scale-ups, or hold decisions—against a backdrop of compounding small gains punctuated by brief reversals.
This replay teaches that in a modest but consistent uptrend, process discipline outweighs heroics. The 4.5% max drawdown illustrates how even favorable trends exact temporary pain, making it essential to predefine risk before each session. The 2.3% single-bar spikes highlight the danger of over-leveraging on apparent momentum. With four critical decision points embedded in the run, the scenario trains traders to distinguish between noise and genuine inflection, building the mental habits—patience, position awareness, and pre-commitment—that define long-term edge in equity markets.