Consumer Disc SPDR Downtrend Replay (2007-12-10 to 2008-01-18)
Step into 56 daily bars of a Consumer Discretionary ETF correction that ended at 15.88, a 6.6% slide from 17. You replay each session, weigh 10 decision points, and receive an AI coach review for purely simulated, educational practice.
56 daily bars · 10 decision points · 2007-11 to 2008-02 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 83 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 15.5% and a 11.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −15.5%
- Max run-up
- +11.3%
- Duration
- 83 days
- Largest single-day move
- +4.2%
- Bars
- 56 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 scenario opens on a Consumer Discretionary sector ETF trading at 17, set against the volatile backdrop of late 2007. The 56 daily bars span from 2007-11-16 to 2008-02-07, capturing a period when uncertainty was building in equity markets. Ten decision points await, four of them marked as critical moments where the path forward was far from clear. This is a purely educational replay using simulated capital—no real positions, just the pressure of historical price action.
The closing price descended from 17 to 15.88, representing a -6.6% correction over the full span. During this pullback, the maximum drawdown reached 15.5%, testing the resilience of any strategy holding exposure through the decline. The most violent single session moved 4.2%, a reminder that sudden spikes can shatter assumptions about orderly reversals. Each day's bar carried the weight of evolving sentiment across the sector.
For decision training, this correction exposes the gap between reacting to price and adhering to process. When drawdowns exceed expectations, emotional discipline becomes the deciding factor between holding conviction or abandoning the plan. Participants encounter the challenge of interpreting volatility signals—distinguishing noise from structural shifts in the market. These ten decision points function as controlled stress tests, each one revealing whether your approach prioritizes systematic thinking over short-term reactions.