Health Care Sel SPDR Downtrend Replay (2024-09-16 to 2024-12-19)
Replay a 13.3% drawdown in the US Health Care Select Sector ETF across 136 daily bars from July 2024 to February 2025. Step through each session, face 11 decision points including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review, all simulated for education only.
136 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2024-07 to 2025-02 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 199 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 13.3% and a 8.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −13.3%
- Max run-up
- +8.9%
- Duration
- 199 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.7%
- Bars
- 136 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 11
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 US Health Care Select Sector SPDR (XLV) entered a sustained correction phase between July 2024 and February 2025, spanning 136 daily bars in the 2020s. This period tested investors navigating a sector facing shifting regulatory signals, evolving policy debates, and broader market rotation pressures. Participants faced the challenge of maintaining discipline through a prolonged downturn.
The ETF closed at 149.96 and ultimately settled at 146.3, representing a modest -2.4% net decline over the full data span. Yet this headline figure obscures a more turbulent internal journey—the fund endured a maximum drawdown of 13.3%, with individual sessions swinging as much as 2.7% in a single day. Across the replay, traders encountered 11 decision points, 4 of which were deemed critical junctions where positioning choices carried heightened consequence.
This replay underscores the gap between surface-level price movements and the psychological strain of sustained volatility. Participants learned that drawdowns can far exceed final percentage changes, that outsized single-bar moves demand emotional regulation, and that disciplined decision-making at key inflection points determines whether a strategy survives a correction intact.
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