Copper Historical Replay: 2023-03 to 2023-06
Replay 64 daily bars of copper from March to June 2023, when the metal slid 4.4% amid a 14.5% drawdown. Step through each session, face 11 decision points including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
64 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2023-03 to 2023-06 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 92 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 14.5% and a 10.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −14.5%
- Max run-up
- +10.1%
- Duration
- 92 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.4%
- Bars
- 64 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 2023, base metals traders confronted one of the decade's most abrupt banking crises. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the emergency rescue of Credit Suisse rattled global confidence, casting doubt on industrial demand just as markets were attempting to normalize post-pandemic. Copper, the economic bellwether, sat at the crossroads of these forces—awaiting direction from both monetary policy signals and the health of the broader financial system.
The replay spans 64 daily bars from March 22 to June 22, 2023, tracking copper's descent from a close of $4.07 to $3.89, a decline of -4.4%. The journey proved more volatile than the net result suggests: the market endured a maximum drawdown of 14.5%, with the largest single session moving 3.4%. Traders navigating this stretch faced 11 decision points, four of which the scenario designates as critical junctures where positioning and risk management carried heightened consequence.
This environment tests the fundamentals of disciplined trading. Participants must calibrate position size against a 14.5% drawdown capacity, resist the urge to react to headline noise during a 3.4% single-day swing, and distinguish between structural trend shifts and temporary liquidity-driven dislocations. The crisis framing adds psychological pressure—emotional responses to banking headlines can override systematic analysis. By replaying these sessions, traders sharpen the habit of anchoring decisions to price action rather than narrative, building resilience for periods when uncertainty is the only constant.