S&P 400 MidCap Uptrend Replay (2016-02-11 to 2016-06-08)
Replay the S&P 400 MidCap uptrend across 150 daily bars, where the index climbed 12.3% from 1383.93 to 1554.71 between 2015-12-21 and 2016-07-26. Walk through each session, tackle 11 decision points including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI review of your choices in this simulated training environment.
150 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2015-12 to 2016-07 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 218 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 13.0% and a 25.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −13.0%
- Max run-up
- +25.5%
- Duration
- 218 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.9%
- 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
By late 2015, the S&P 400 MidCap index was entering a phase that would test investors' ability to navigate mid-cap momentum. Over the next seven months—December 2015 through July 2016—participants faced 11 decision points, 4 of which were deemed critical to capturing or missing the move. The scenario recreates this stretch to examine how traders manage conviction, risk, and timing in an environment where smaller companies can lead the market higher but also expose portfolios to sharper swings.
The index climbed 12.3% from 1383.93 to 1554.71 across 150 daily bars. Yet the journey was anything but straight. A maximum drawdown of 13.0% tested investor conviction, and the largest single-bar move of 3.9% demanded real-time judgment on whether spikes represented opportunity or exhaustion. Navigating these fluctuations while preserving capital required disciplined process rather than passive holding.
This replay sharpens decision-training by placing traders inside the actual volatility. Every choice—to add, reduce, or hold—reveals how well one balances capturing the 12.3% gain against the psychological cost of the 13.0% pullback. The educational takeaway centers on building a repeatable process that survives market noise, rather than predicting direction. Completing the scenario offers concrete feedback on personal risk tolerance and decision consistency under uncertainty.