War · Straits Times Index (2023)
Replay 144 trading days of the Straits Times Index from 2023-06-13 to 2024-01-08, navigating a 9.5% drawdown amid Middle East conflict escalation. You make 25 decision points in this simulated market replay, with an AI coach reviewing your choices.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2023-06 to 2024-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 209 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 9.5% and a 7.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −9.5%
- Max run-up
- +7.5%
- Duration
- 209 days
- Largest single-day move
- +2.0%
- 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 faced a turbulent test from mid-2023 into early 2024 as Middle East conflict escalation sent ripples across global markets. You step into a 144-day replay spanning June 13, 2023 to January 8, 2024, navigating one of the decade's most complex geopolitical pressures on Singapore's benchmark equity index. The scenario places you at the decision table when headlines shift sentiment overnight, asking what conviction looks like when uncertainty is the only constant.
The headline number tells a narrow story: the STI closed virtually flat, drifting from 3189.4 to 3187.02, a mere -0.1% move over the full period. Yet this calm surface concealed a wilder reality. A maximum drawdown of 9.5% tested portfolio resilience at various points, while the largest single-bar move of 2.0% reminded participants that volatility clusters unpredictably. Across 25 decision points—9 of them critical—you confronted moments where the gap between analysis and action could define your simulated outcomes.
This replay trains the mind as much as the method. The disconnect between modest final returns and significant intermediate pain is the central lesson: outcome orientation blinds traders to process quality. Geopolitical shocks punish conviction unless tempered by position sizing discipline and pre-defined exit logic. Nine critical nodes force you to practice sitting with ambiguity, distinguishing signal from noise, and resisting the hindsight trap. The STI's war-era journey becomes a laboratory for building the emotional architecture that separates disciplined decision-makers from reactive ones.