Energy Sel SPDR Downtrend Replay (2025-01-17 to 2025-01-31)
Replay two weeks of a 6.7% drawdown in the US Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF across 30 daily bars. You step through each session, face seven decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
30 daily bars · 7 decision points · 2024-12 to 2025-02 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 44 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 6.7% and a 9.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.7%
- Max run-up
- +9.7%
- Duration
- 44 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.8%
- Bars
- 30 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 7
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 opening weeks of 2025, the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF found itself navigating a correction phase across a 30-bar daily dataset spanning December 2024 to mid-February 2025. This replay places you inside that drawdown environment, confronting seven decision points—three flagged as critical—during a period when energy equities faced headwinds and sector leadership shifted beneath the surface.
The replay data tells a nuanced story: while the ETF ultimately closed the dataset period at 44.85, up from 42.83 (a 4.7% net gain), the journey was anything but smooth. A maximum drawdown of 6.7% tested portfolio discipline, punctuated by a largest single-bar move of 2.8% that could have triggered panic among unprepared participants. That gap between headline return and intraperiod pain is the core tension this replay is built to explore.
Working through seven decision points in this simulated environment sharpens several skills simultaneously: calibrating position sizing against a known drawdown ceiling, resisting the impulse to act on the largest single-day moves, and maintaining a process-driven mindset when headlines are ambiguous. The educational value lies not in predicting the next energy sector move, but in building the habits that survive a 6.7% drawdown without abandoning a sound strategy.
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