Copper Historical Replay: 2024-10 to 2025-01
Replay 62 trading days of copper from 2024-10-10 to 2025-01-08, navigating a 10.3% max drawdown across 11 decision points. Step through each session, tackle critical policy-driven moments, and receive AI coach feedback in a simulated educational environment.
62 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2024-10 to 2025-01 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 90 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 10.3% and a 6.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −10.3%
- Max run-up
- +6.0%
- Duration
- 90 days
- Largest single-day move
- −5.2%
- Bars
- 62 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
Copper entered a turbulent 62-day window from 2024-10-10 to 2025-01-08, a period defined by policy uncertainty and macro crosscurrents within the broader 2020s commodity cycle. The November political outcome—Trump's election victory—triggered sharp dollar strength, directly pressuring dollar-denominated copper. For participants, the challenge was threading through policy-driven volatility without losing perspective on risk management.
The settlement told a cautionary tale: copper closed at 4.23, down from 4.39, a -3.6% net decline across 62 daily bars. Beneath that headline number lay a rockier reality—a 10.3% max drawdown tested portfolio resilience, while a largest single-bar move of 5.2% demonstrated how quickly policy headlines could spike intraday volatility. Traders confronted 11 decision points, including 4 critical junctures where reactions to policy developments likely determined whether they added risk or reduced exposure.
This replay cultivates decision-making discipline under sustained pressure. Surviving a 10.3% drawdown while executing through 11 evaluation points forces traders to confront both their risk limits and their psychological resilience. The 5.2% single-bar episode underscores that policy surprises can outpace technical analysis, making process fidelity essential. The core lesson: outcomes are less important than consistently applying a reasoned framework across every session, especially when macro forces dominate price discovery.
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