WTI Crude Oil Historical Replay: 2008-08 to 2008-11
Replay the 2008 oil crash across 68 daily bars as WTI plunged 56.4% from $114.53 to $49.93. You walk through each session, face decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated trades.
68 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2008-08 to 2008-11 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 94 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 59.1% and a 32.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −59.1%
- Max run-up
- +32.7%
- Duration
- 94 days
- Largest single-day move
- +15.7%
- Bars
- 68 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 12
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 begins in mid-August 2008, at what would prove to be the peak of an extraordinary commodities boom. WTI crude oil had reached historic highs, and the global economy was beginning to show serious strain as the financial crisis gathered momentum. For traders and risk managers, the months ahead would test every assumption about energy markets and the nature of systemic risk.
What followed was one of the most violent reversals in commodity market history. Over 68 trading sessions spanning from August 19 to November 21, WTI plummeted from $114.53 to $49.93, a decline of 56.4%. The maximum drawdown reached 59.1%, and individual sessions saw moves as large as 15.7% in a single day. By late autumn, a market that had defined the decade's commodity supercycle was in full collapse.
This replay offers a rigorous test of decision-making under extreme pressure. With 12 decision points and 4 critical junctures, participants must navigate not just the mechanics of position management but the psychology of capitulation. The scenario teaches that even well-established trends can reverse catastrophically, and that survival depends on process discipline, risk limits, and the willingness to question consensus assumptions. It is a historical laboratory for understanding how quickly conviction can become catastrophe.