Copper Historical Replay: 2015-06 to 2015-12
Replay 116 daily bars of copper's 2015 slide, watching price fall 21.6% from 2.64 to 2.07 amid a 23.5% drawdown. Walk through 20 decision points day-by-day in simulated capital, face 7 critical choices, and receive AI coach review of your reasoning.
116 daily bars · 20 decision points · 2015-06 to 2015-12 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 164 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 23.5% and a 9.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −23.5%
- Max run-up
- +9.3%
- Duration
- 164 days
- Largest single-day move
- +5.2%
- Bars
- 116 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 20
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 drops you into the copper market at the midpoint of 2015, a moment when China’s economic slowdown was reverberating through global commodity chains. Copper, a bellwether for industrial demand, faced mounting pressure as the world’s largest consumer signaled weakness. The August 2015 RMB devaluation intensified these concerns, creating a charged environment where every data release and policy statement carried outsized weight. This is the crucible: 116 days of trading data stretching from late June to early December, demanding disciplined analysis under mounting uncertainty.
Over that data span, copper prices collapsed from 2.64 to 2.07, a decline of 21.6%. The market’s maximum drawdown reached 23.5%, and the largest single-day move hit 5.2%—sudden lurches that would test any position. Twenty decision points punctuate the replay, seven of them critical moments where the path forward was far from obvious. You navigate this yourself with simulated capital, watching positions bleed or stabilize as each new bar arrives, never knowing whether the worst is behind or still ahead.
What makes this replay valuable is the process it demands: sizing positions before volatility spikes, managing margin under drawdown, and staying mentally composed when a 5.2% single-day move threatens a portfolio. The experience builds the discipline to follow a systematic approach when headlines scream panic, and the judgment to recognize when market structure is shifting. It is not about predicting the bottom, but about surviving the journey there with your methodology intact.