WTI Crude Oil Historical Replay: 2018-08 to 2018-11
Replay 66 trading days of the WTI crude oil collapse from 67.86 to 50.42 between August and November 2018. You step through each daily bar, confront 12 decision points including 4 critical ones, and receive AI coach feedback in a simulated educational environment.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2018-08 to 2018-11 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 93 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 34.0% and a 13.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −34.0%
- Max run-up
- +13.1%
- Duration
- 93 days
- Largest single-day move
- −7.7%
- Bars
- 66 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
In the summer of 2018, crude oil stood near multi-year highs, yet beneath the surface, mounting pressures from emerging market stress and shifting supply dynamics were beginning to fracture the bullish consensus. The WTI market, typically driven by OPEC policy and inventory data, was absorbing cross-currents that would prove destabilizing over the coming months. This replay plunges you into 66 trading days of that unraveling, from late August through late November of the 2010s, where the price trajectory would deteriorate sharply.
The numbers tell a stark story. Over that 66-bar span, WTI collapsed from 67.86 to 50.42, a decline of -25.7%. The maximum drawdown hit 34.0%, meaning any peak-positioned participant endured a third of their capital erased before recovery. Volatility was punishing, with the largest single daily move reaching 7.7%, a magnitude that could devastate poorly hedged or overleveraged positions. Twelve decision points peppered this descent, four of them critical junctions where a wrong call compounded losses significantly.
This replay sharpens decision-making under pressure. You will experience how momentum shifts, how risk management must adapt when drawdowns exceed expectations, and how psychological anchors can blind you to deteriorating fundamentals. The goal is not to relive the trade, but to train a repeatable process that survives environments far worse than your models anticipated.