Pandemic · Straits Times Index (2022)
Replay 144 trading days from September 2021 through April 2022 as the Straits Times Index navigated 8.5% drawdowns and sharp 3.4% swings. You will make 25 decision points, then receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2021-09 to 2022-04 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 204 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 8.5% and a 13.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −8.5%
- Max run-up
- +13.3%
- Duration
- 204 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.4%
- Bars
- 144 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 25
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 Straits Times Index entered September 2021 in a market transformed by the pandemic. Over the next 144 trading days, extending through April 2022, investors navigated a landscape shaped by evolving public health policy, shifting global sentiment, and persistent uncertainty about the virus trajectory. The STI's 3,058.61 starting level represented a market attempting to price in an endemic future while remaining vulnerable to unexpected developments.
The period delivered both resilience and turbulence. The index ultimately closed at 3,404.23, translating to an 11.3% gain over the full span. Yet the journey was far from smooth, as the market endured an 8.5% maximum drawdown along the way. The largest single-bar move of 3.4% underscored how quickly sentiment could shift on policy announcements or variant news. Navigating these sharp reversals tested every participant's ability to maintain composure through extreme short-term swings.
This replay offers 25 decision points, 9 of them critical, for trainees to practice managing risk amid genuine uncertainty. The scenario illustrates that volatility itself is not the enemy of returns; rather, poorly planned reactions to volatility are. Participants learn to separate the signal of fundamental policy shifts from the noise of daily price chaos, developing the psychological resilience needed when the next 3.4% swing arrives without warning.