Copper Historical Replay: 2019-11 to 2020-05
Replay copper across a 26.4% drawdown as the early 2020 shock unfolds across 124 daily bars. Step into 21 decision points, manage each bar move, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated trades.
124 daily bars · 21 decision points · 2019-11 to 2020-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 181 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 26.4% and a 13.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −26.4%
- Max run-up
- +13.7%
- Duration
- 181 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.9%
- Bars
- 124 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 21
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
Copper is the metal that whispers the pulse of global industry—used in everything from wiring to transportation, it reacts sharply to economic uncertainty. This replay covers 124 daily bars from 2019-11-14 to 2020-05-13, a period that began with routine industrial demand and descended into the disorienting shock of a pandemic. What was at stake was not merely a commodity price but a measure of worldwide economic confidence during a once-in-a-generation disruption.
Over those five months, copper closed at 2.62 and fell to 2.35, a -10.3% decline that dramatically understates the real journey. The max drawdown reached 26.4%, with the largest single-bar move hitting 6.9%—moments when positions could be wiped out or rescued in a single session. Traders faced 21 decision points, of which 7 were critical inflection moments demanding clear judgment under mounting pressure. The market did not move in a straight line; it churned, bounced, and punished hesitation.
For decision training, this replay teaches that process matters more than prediction. Managing a 26.4% drawdown requires pre-defined position sizing, disciplined stop-loss thinking, and emotional equilibrium when accounts shrink. The 6.9% single-bar volatility exposes the danger of over-leveraging, while the 21 decision points train traders to act consistently whether facing gains or losses. The psychological lesson is stark: survival in a crisis depends on following your method when instinct screams to abandon it.
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