Consumer Disc SPDR Downtrend Replay (2006-05-10 to 2006-07-21)
Replay a 9.9% drawdown stretch on the Consumer Discretionary SPDR from 2006, with four critical decision points guiding each session. Step through the daily bars, make choices, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated decision-making.
102 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2006-04 to 2006-08 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 144 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 9.9% and a 5.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −9.9%
- Max run-up
- +5.6%
- Duration
- 144 days
- Largest single-day move
- +2.2%
- Bars
- 102 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
In the spring of 2006, the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR entered a sustained pullback phase that tested the resolve of market participants. The replay period from May 10 to July 21, 2006 captured a 102-bar journey through a textbook correction in consumer discretionary stocks. This was a moment when momentum was unwinding and volatility was rising—exactly the conditions that expose gaps in any trader's risk framework.
The numbers tell the story: the ETF fell from 16.77 to 16.12, a net decline of -3.9%, while drawing down as much as 9.9% at its worst point. The largest single-day move reached 2.2%, underscoring how concentrated selling pressure can deliver sharp intraday reversals. Across the full data span from April 3 to August 25, participants faced 11 decision points—4 of them critical inflection moments where a single choice could mean the difference between compounding losses or preserving capital.
This replay teaches that drawdowns of 9.9% are not anomalies but learning opportunities. The scenario forces you to confront position sizing, conviction weighting, and the discipline to act when your thesis is being tested. Four critical moments strip away the comfort of hindsight and demand real-time judgment. Whether you reduced risk early, held through volatility, or added selectively, the AI coach review surfaces the reasoning beneath each decision. These correction environments are where skill is forged—not in the comfort of uptrends, but in the pressure of sustained downside.
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