Regulation · S&P/TSX Composite Index (2023)
Replay the S&P/TSX Composite from January to August 2023, when the index rose just 1.1% amid a 6.7% drawdown. Walk through every daily decision point and receive an AI coach review of your simulated policy-era trades.
144 daily bars · 25 decision points · 2023-01 to 2023-08 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 205 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 6.7% and a 6.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.7%
- Max run-up
- +6.8%
- Duration
- 205 days
- Largest single-day move
- +1.8%
- 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
The S&P/TSX Composite Index stands as Canada's premier equity benchmark, and from January 11 to August 4, 2023, it navigated a policy-driven environment that tested the mettle of every market participant. Over these 144 trading days, investors faced the dual challenge of regulatory uncertainty and shifting monetary conditions, with the index oscillating between competing forces. This period offered a real-time laboratory for examining how policy cycles shape market behavior in one of North America's most important financial markets.
The closing price moved from 20025.1 to 20236, yielding a net gain of merely 1.1% over the full seven months. Beneath this flat headline figure lurked meaningful turbulence: the index experienced a maximum drawdown of 6.7%, and the largest single-day move reached 1.8%. Across the data span, traders and strategists encountered 25 decision points, with 9 classified as critical junctures where positioning choices carried heightened consequence.
For decision training purposes, this scenario illuminates several hard truths about policy-era investing. First, process discipline matters more than outcome prediction: surviving a 6.7% drawdown without knowing the eventual outcome demands sound position sizing and pre-defined risk parameters. Second, the psychology of limited progress tests patience as severely as dramatic crashes do. Finally, the data reminds us that sideways markets with elevated volatility can be as demanding as trending ones, rewarding those who approach each of the 25 decision points with structured analysis rather than reactive impulses.