Technology Sel SPDR Downtrend Replay (2025-10-29 to 2025-11-20)
Replay a tech sector ETF correction that slid 1.9% across 34 daily bars, carving a 10.5% drawdown. Step through the session day-by-day, face 7 decision points with 3 critical, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated training environment.
34 daily bars · 7 decision points · 2025-10 to 2025-12 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 48 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 10.5% and a 6.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −10.5%
- Max run-up
- +6.9%
- Duration
- 48 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.1%
- Bars
- 34 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 scenario recreates a correction in the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK), the large-cap tech proxy tracking the 2020s era of elevated valuations and sector concentration. The historical window spans October 16 to December 3, 2025, a period when tech equities faced headwinds from tightening financial conditions and sector rotation pressure. For trainees, this replay places you inside a drawdown environment where maintaining conviction while protecting capital becomes the central tension.
Over the 34 daily bars, price moved from 142.26 to 144.99, a net gain of 1.9% that conceals far wilder internal volatility. The maximum drawdown reached 10.5%, and the largest single-day move measured 3.1%, underscoring how corrections grind rather than fall linearly. Seven decision points peppered the replay, with three flagged as critical junctures where position sizing, stop discipline, or conviction calls were most consequential. The challenge was not predicting direction but navigating the psychological weight of sustained underperformance.
This replay trains the decision process under uncertainty: sizing decisions before drawdowns arrive, managing risk when the thesis remains intact but price disagrees, and calibrating conviction against evidence. The 10.5% peak-to-trough decline exposes how volatility erodes confidence even in flat-to-slightly-positive outcomes. Trainees learn that surviving corrections requires disciplined process, not prediction—reviewing this historical episode builds the muscle memory for when future drawdowns test your discipline.
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