Health Care Sel SPDR Downtrend Replay (2015-07-20 to 2015-08-25)
Replay a five-week Health Care Sel SPDR correction that drew down 12.0% across 54 daily bars. Step through each authentic trading day, decide at 10 decision points including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review on your simulated choices.
54 daily bars · 10 decision points · 2015-06 to 2015-09 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 77 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 12.0% and a 6.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −12.0%
- Max run-up
- +6.3%
- Duration
- 77 days
- Largest single-day move
- −4.3%
- Bars
- 54 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 10
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 summer of 2015 found Health Care Select Sector SPDR navigating a notable correction within a broader bull market. This replay spans 54 daily bars from late June through mid-September, with the core five-week window running from July 20 to August 25, 2015. Participants enter a sector ETF that had recently peaked, facing the challenge of managing risk through a sustained pullback in one of the market's defensive sectors.
The numbers reveal a -5.0% closing decline from 74.13 to 70.41, but the true test was the journey: a maximum drawdown of 12.0% tested positions throughout the period, with the largest single-bar move of 4.3% capturing the kind of intraday volatility that can unsettle even disciplined traders. Ten decision points punctuate the replay, four of them critical junctures where directional conviction and risk management intersect.
This scenario distills the core tensions of active management during corrections: distinguishing between noise and signal, knowing when to add versus when to exit, and maintaining psychological equilibrium when drawdowns approach double digits. The multi-decade perspective of the 2010s reinforces that such periods, while uncomfortable, are routine features of equity markets. Trainees emerge with sharper instincts for position sizing, stop discipline, and the emotional regulation required to execute a plan when portfolio value is under pressure.