Health Care Sel SPDR Downtrend Replay (2001-01-17 to 2001-03-22)
Replay the Health Care SPDR correction from 2000-12-11 to 2001-04-24, watching the ETF slide through a 15.8% drawdown. Make choices at 11 decision points and receive an AI coach review of your reasoning—simulated capital only, purely educational.
92 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2000-12 to 2001-04 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 134 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 15.8% and a 14.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −15.8%
- Max run-up
- +14.9%
- Duration
- 134 days
- Largest single-day move
- +7.9%
- Bars
- 92 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 scene takes us to the Health Care Select Sector SPDR in late 2000 and early 2001, a period when the post-dot-com fallout was still rippling through equity markets. The XLV ETF tracked a sector often considered a defensive haven, yet even healthcare was not immune to the broad uncertainty. Players face the challenge of navigating 11 decision points across 92 trading days, with 4 marked as critical inflection moments, all while managing simulated capital through a genuine historical correction. The core tension: a sector often seen as stable suddenly confronting downward pressure.
By the end of the period, the ETF barely budged—closing at 28.39 from 28.44, a net decline of just -0.2%. Yet this deceptively mild final number obscures the turbulence within: a maximum drawdown of 15.8% tested positions at various points, and the largest single daily move reached 7.9%. For anyone tracking the path rather than just the endpoint, these figures reveal a market environment far more volatile than the headline outcome suggests.
This replay emphasizes why process and discipline matter more than outcome. The 4 critical decision points demand clear reasoning—holding through volatility, cutting losses, or rotating capital all carry merit depending on one's stated thesis and risk tolerance. The 15.8% drawdown serves as a stress test, while the 7.9% single-bar swing reminds us that markets can gap aggressively against positions. The educational value lies in confronting these pressures without real capital at stake, building the psychological resilience needed when real money is on the line.