Play the Travelers chart challenge

The shape of this chart

Travelers from September 16, 2008 to July 1, 2009 opens the session after the Lehman failure. The whole window is −15.8%, which hides the path: a −40.0% drop, a worst day of −18.2% on September 29, 2008, and the low on October 10, 2008, session 19. The first half is −16.9%. The second half gets back to +1.3%. A panic, then a partial repair.

What you trade

Buy and hold over these 200 sessions finishes at −15.8%, and the drop from a high inside the window reaches −40.0%. The low is session 19 (October 10, 2008). Beating that benchmark depends on how much of the decline you sit out or sell short, and on whether you get back in if the chart turns. The worst session is September 29, 2008, at −18.2%.

This page names Travelers because this challenge is that company. The daily puzzle and a random practice game keep the company hidden. Inside this round the chart still hides the name and the dates until you finish.

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A lesson that fits this chart

Bollinger Bands — How stretched the price is