Stock market crash simulator: relive real Indian market crashes
Time Travel replays real market crashes day by day. Drag a slider through each one and watch the same ₹1,00,000 portfolio split in two: one investor who held, and one who panic-sold on day three. Each replay comes with narration of what was happening at the time. The three curated replays below need no account.
COVID-19 Crash
Feb 19, 2020 to Nov 9, 2020
The pandemic crash. The Nifty 50 fell 37% in 33 days, then took until November 2020 to climb back.
Global Financial Crisis
Jan 8, 2008 to Oct 27, 2008
The Lehman-era crash. The Nifty 50 lost 60% between January and October 2008: the replay where selling early really did win.
Demonetisation Shock
Nov 8, 2016 to Feb 28, 2017
The overnight note ban. The Nifty 50 slipped 7% over seven weeks and was back above its 8 November level by late January 2017.
Featured replays and your own
Featured replays cover more of Indian market history: the Harshad Mehta scam of 1992, the dot-com crash of 2000, the 2008 financial crisis, the Satyam scandal of 2009, the IL&FS collapse of 2018, the DHFL crisis of 2019, the YES Bank moratorium and the COVID-19 crash of 2020, the Paytm IPO of 2021 and the Adani–Hindenburg report of 2023. They are built from real price data with AI-written narration, and you can type almost any other market event to generate a replay of your own.
Why replay a crash?
A crash is when beginners make their most expensive decision: selling near the bottom. Watching the held and panic-sold portfolios separate, and seeing the rare case where selling looked right for a while, is the closest thing to living through one without losing money. Your StockSaathi report card awards a Time Traveler badge for completing a replay.