Crash · S&P/TSX Composite Index (2008)
Replay the 144-day slide that drove the S&P/TSX Composite down 36.8% from 14,602 to 9,221 between June 2008 and January 2009, with a peak drawdown of 48.8%. You step through every daily bar, face 9 critical decision points, and receive an AI coach review—simulated capital, purely educational.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2008-06 to 2009-01 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 210 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 48.8% and a 22.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −48.8%
- Max run-up
- +22.6%
- Duration
- 210 days
- Largest single-day move
- +9.8%
- 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
In the summer of 2008, the S&P/TSX Composite Index held near 14,602 points, a level built on a decade of easy credit and rising commodity prices. By January 2009, the index had collapsed to 9,221—a loss of 36.8% measured across 144 daily bars. The drawdown from peak to trough reached 48.8%, with a single day delivering a 9.8% move. This was the 2008 financial crisis, and Canadian equities were not immune. You enter the replay facing 25 decision points, 9 of them critical junctures where the pressure was highest.
The 2000s decade had trained investors to buy dips in a secular bull market. That conditioning was about to be punished. Every bar that printed lower tested conviction, risk tolerance, and process. The scenario forces you to confront a market that gave no obvious floor, no reliable bounce, and no early warning of recovery. The gap between theoretical knowledge of a crash and living through it bar by bar is the core tension of this replay.
The lesson is not about calling the bottom. It is about what you do before the bottom arrives: sizing, stops, and emotional control. Nine critical decision points mean nine moments where your process either held or broke. The replay strips away hindsight and leaves you with the same incomplete information traders faced then, making it a pure test of decision-making under uncertainty.
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