S&P 400 MidCap Uptrend Replay (2022-09-30 to 2022-11-30)
Replay 86 daily bars of the S&P 400 MidCap from 2022-08-30 to 2022-12-30, navigating a 12.7% drawdown before stabilizing. Make decisions at 11 key points and receive an AI coach review of your simulated trades in this educational market-replay training.
86 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2022-08 to 2022-12 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 122 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 12.7% and a 17.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −12.7%
- Max run-up
- +17.0%
- Duration
- 122 days
- Largest single-day move
- +5.8%
- Bars
- 86 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 offers traders a nuanced training ground for understanding market resilience and volatility navigation. During the final months of 2022, this mid-cap benchmark traversed a particularly demanding stretch, with participants confronting a 12.7% drawdown before attempting stabilization. The period from late August through year-end presented an environment where maintaining discipline while managing exposure required constant recalibration, making it an ideal scenario for developing decision-making under pressure.
The market behavior during these 86 daily bars revealed significant turbulence beneath a seemingly flat outcome. The index closed at essentially unchanged levels, with a marginal decline of -0.7% from 2448.36 to 2430.38, yet this deceptively calm headline number masked substantial intraday volatility. A single session saw movement of 5.8%, while the cumulative peak-to-trough decline reached 12.7%, illustrating how extended drawdowns can develop before any recovery materializes. Participants encountered 11 decision points throughout this span, with 4 identified as critical junctures where positioning choices carried heightened consequence.
This replay emphasizes that disciplined process outweighs reactive decision-making when markets become unpredictable. Navigating an environment where single-day swings can reach 5.8% tests both risk management frameworks and psychological resilience. The scenario demonstrates that managing through extended drawdowns of 12.7% requires predefined rules and emotional equilibrium rather than impulsive adjustments. For training purposes, the value lies in confronting these historical conditions and learning that survival through volatility depends on systematic evaluation at each of the 11 decision points, not on predicting the precise bottom or peak.