Copper Historical Replay: 2023-07 to 2023-10
Replay 64 days of the 2023 copper market as it fell from 3.84 to 3.54, a 7.8% slide shaped by shifting China recovery expectations. Step through each trading day, face 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
64 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2023-07 to 2023-10 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 88 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 11.3% and a 4.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −11.3%
- Max run-up
- +4.4%
- Duration
- 88 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.7%
- 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
The replay transports you to mid-2023, when copper sat at 3.84 amid intense debate over China's economic recovery. Market participants were parsing every signal from Beijing for clues about infrastructure spending and industrial demand. Over the following months, that optimistic narrative would be tested daily, with copper serving as a proxy for broader emerging-market sentiment.
The 64 trading days from July 24 to October 20 delivered a clear verdict: copper closed at 3.54, a decline of 7.8%. But the journey mattered as much as the destination. The market experienced an 11.3% maximum drawdown along the way, with individual sessions swinging up to 2.7%. Navigating this turbulence required traders to process information under uncertainty, adjusting positions as the China recovery story gradually lost conviction.
This scenario sharpens decision-making through exposure to slow-burning trend reversals. You encounter 11 decision points, four of them critical junctures where directional conviction was tested. The lesson is not about predicting China policy but about managing risk when a dominant narrative unravels gradually. Psychology matters here: the temptation to average down or hold conviction too long can amplify losses. Practicing in this simulated environment helps build the discipline to reassess premises and adapt before drawdowns compound.