Technology Sel SPDR Uptrend Replay (2001-01-08 to 2001-01-24)
Replay a 15.7% uptrend in the Technology Select Sector SPDR across 30 daily bars in early 2001, featuring a 9.9% drawdown. Step through authentic decision points and receive an AI coach review of your choices in a simulated, educational market-replay exercise.
30 daily bars · 7 decision points · 2000-12 to 2001-02 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 46 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 9.9% and a 30.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −9.9%
- Max run-up
- +30.4%
- Duration
- 46 days
- Largest single-day move
- +16.1%
- 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
The Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK) entered early 2001 navigating one of the most treacherous periods in market history. The dot-com collapse was still unfolding, technology valuations remained under intense pressure, and investor sentiment swung between fear and fragile hope. The replay window stretches from late December 2000 through early February 2001, placing participants directly inside 30 daily bars of authentic price action during a moment when the sector's direction was genuinely uncertain and the stakes for disciplined decision-making were high.
Over this roughly six-week span, XLK managed a net advance of 15.7%, climbing from 15.31 to 17.71. Yet the journey was anything but linear. Any participant following the trend would have endured a maximum drawdown of 9.9% along the way and confronted a single-bar move of 16.1%—moments that test conviction in real time. The replay embeds 7 decision points across this window, with 3 flagged as critical junctions where directional bets and risk management choices carry amplified consequences.
This scenario distills enduring lessons in trend-following under uncertainty. Trainees confront the challenge of distinguishing normal volatility from actionable signals, managing exposure through sharp reversals, and resisting the psychological temptation to abandon a position precisely when stress peaks. The educational value lies not in predicting direction but in building the discipline, risk calibration, and emotional equilibrium required to execute a coherent process across 30 bars of authentic market noise. Navigating those 7 decision points—particularly the 3 critical ones—offers concrete material for reviewing and refining one's approach to volatile uptrends.