Consumer Disc SPDR Downtrend Replay (2011-07-07 to 2011-08-08)
Replay a 7.3% Consumer Discretionary ETF downtrend across 46 daily bars with three critical decision points. Work through each session day by day, weigh your choices, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated market-training environment.
46 daily bars · 9 decision points · 2011-06 to 2011-08 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 64 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 18.2% and a 8.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −18.2%
- Max run-up
- +8.8%
- Duration
- 64 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.3%
- Bars
- 46 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 9
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
Consumer Discretionary SPDR (XLY) entered a correction phase in mid-2011 as markets grappled with mounting sovereign debt concerns in Europe and soft U.S. economic data. The replay spans from early July through early August, a period when investor sentiment shifted from cautious optimism to defensive positioning. This 46-bar daily dataset captures the ETF's struggle to maintain footing during a broad risk-off rotation.
The close price fell from 19.13 to 17.74, representing a -7.3% decline over the data window. The maximum drawdown reached 18.2%, meaning interim losses exceeded the final settlement by a wide margin. The largest single-bar move of 6.3% demonstrates how quickly sentiment could reverse intraday. Nine decision points are embedded across the period, with three flagged as critical junctures where directional bias was most severely tested.
This replay sharpens recognition of how drawdowns can outpace headline losses, forcing traders to confront position sizing and stop-discipline decisions in real time. It also highlights the psychological strain of holding through a sustained downtrend where every rally looks like a potential reversal. Trainees practice distinguishing between noise-driven bars and genuine trend changes, building the composure needed when a position moves sharply against them. The 2010s correction environment provides a structured laboratory for rehearsing risk-first decision processes without real capital at stake.