Copper Historical Replay: 2025-02 to 2025-08
Replay copper's 2025 swing from 4.77 to 4.42, a 25.3% drawdown across 124 trading days. Step through each session, tackle 21 decision points, and receive an AI coach review—simulated capital, purely educational.
124 daily bars · 21 decision points · 2025-02 to 2025-08 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 179 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 25.3% and a 40.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −25.3%
- Max run-up
- +40.4%
- Duration
- 179 days
- Largest single-day move
- −22.3%
- 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
The replay immerses traders in the base-metals complex during a period when copper became a flashpoint for global trade tensions. Between February and August 2025, escalating tariff rhetoric created whiplash conditions for industrial commodities, with copper at the center of geopolitical pressure. Participants face 21 decision points across 124 trading sessions, seven of which are classified as critical junctures where directional conviction and risk calibration are simultaneously tested. The educational design positions traders to experience firsthand how macro headwinds can override traditional supply-demand dynamics in commodity markets.
The price trajectory tells a story of sustained pressure: copper opened at 4.77 and closed at 4.42, a decline of -7.3% over the period. Yet the headline figure obscures the turbulence beneath: a maximum drawdown of 25.3% reveals how sharply the market moved against positions during the journey, and a largest single-bar move of 22.3% captures the kind of intraday shock that separates disciplined traders from reactive ones. The 124 trading days between 2025-02-13 and 2025-08-11 delivered episodic violence rather than a steady drift, rewarding those who had pre-planned for dislocation.
The scenario distills hard lessons in process, risk, and psychology. Confronting 21 decision points means participants cannot simply set a direction and forget; they must repeatedly reassess conviction against evolving price action. The 25.3% drawdown underscores that position sizing is existential in volatile commodities, and the 22.3% single-bar move tests emotional regulation under sudden stress. For educational purposes, the core takeaway is that surviving extended drawdowns requires both a verifiable edge and the psychological resilience to execute a plan when capital is eroding. This replay trains traders to separate the evaluation of market conditions from the management of their own decision-making under pressure.