Copper Historical Replay: 2023-05 to 2023-08
Replay 60 daily bars of copper from 2023-05-24 to 2023-08-18, navigating a peak drawdown of 8.5% during a debt-ceiling driven commodities volatility phase. Walk through 11 decision points, including 4 critical ones, with day-by-day AI coach review in a simulated educational environment.
60 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2023-05 to 2023-08 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 86 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 8.5% and a 12.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −8.5%
- Max run-up
- +12.4%
- Duration
- 86 days
- Largest single-day move
- +2.5%
- Bars
- 60 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
The scenario replays copper futures through a debt-ceiling driven commodities volatility phase in the summer of 2023. From May to August, political brinkmanship over the US borrowing limit created persistent uncertainty across raw material markets, leaving industrial metals caught between supply concerns and macro-driven risk-off sentiment. This 60-bar historical window challenges participants to make decisions under the kind of sustained ambiguity that defined that period.
Over the data span from 2023-05-24 to 2023-08-18, copper settled at 3.7, up 4.2% from an opening 3.55. That headline figure obscures considerable turbulence: the market endured an 8.5% maximum drawdown and was tested by a largest single-bar move of 2.5%. Navigating these swings required more than directional conviction; it demanded constant recalibration of exposure as the debt-ceiling saga unfolded day by day.
Participants face 11 decision points across this replay, with 4 flagged as critical. The educational value lies not in predicting the outcome but in refining the process: sizing positions to survive drawdowns, compartmentalizing anxiety during sharp intrabar spikes, and resisting the trap of reactive exits. This scenario sharpens the psychological muscle that separates disciplined simulation practice from reckless real-money gambling.