TA-35 Downtrend Replay (2008-08-25 to 2008-09-18)
Replay the 2008 TA-35 correction as the index fell 21.4% from 1014.7 to 797.92 across 32 volatile sessions. Step through each daily bar, make timed decisions at seven checkpoints, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated judgment.
32 daily bars · 7 decision points · 2008-08 to 2008-10 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 61 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 26.1% and a 7.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −26.1%
- Max run-up
- +7.7%
- Duration
- 61 days
- Largest single-day move
- −9.4%
- Bars
- 32 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 Tel Aviv 35 index entered August 2008 in the crosshairs of a global credit crisis that had already destabilized financial markets worldwide. The TA-35 sat at 1014.7 at the opening of this replay window, poised against mounting economic uncertainty. The dataset spans 32 daily bars from August 7 to October 7, 2008, capturing the market's deterioration during a period when confidence in financial institutions was eroding rapidly and contagion fears were spreading across global equities.
The 32 trading days that followed saw the index tumble to 797.92, a decline of -21.4%. The journey was brutal: maximum drawdown reached 26.1% and the largest single session delivered a 9.4% swing, creating a landscape where seven decision points punctuated the move—three of them critical inflection moments. This wasn't a steady erosion but a series of sharp drops and volatile bounces that tested any investor's conviction.
This replay strips away hindsight and forces real-time judgment under pressure. Trainees learn to recognize deteriorating conditions without the comfort of knowing the bottom, manage risk when drawdowns exceed comfortable thresholds, and maintain emotional discipline when daily moves become erratic. The three critical decision points provide concrete moments to practice position sizing, stop discipline, and the psychology of holding through losses. The lesson isn't about calling the exact bottom—it is about building a repeatable process that survives extreme volatility.