WTI Crude Oil Historical Replay: 2019-08 to 2020-01
Relive 108 daily bars of WTI crude oil from August 2019 through January 2020, a span that included a 16.6% peak drawdown. You replay each session, make decisions at 19 checkpoints, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated training environment.
108 daily bars · 19 decision points · 2019-08 to 2020-01 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 155 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 16.6% and a 23.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −16.6%
- Max run-up
- +23.8%
- Duration
- 155 days
- Largest single-day move
- +14.7%
- Bars
- 108 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 19
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
WTI crude oil traded through a volatile six-month window from August 2019 to January 2020, spanning 108 daily bars that bridged the 2010s and 2020s. Geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East made this a high-stakes training ground for understanding how supply-shock risks materialize in commodity markets. Participants faced the challenge of navigating a market where sentiment could shift rapidly between risk-on and risk-off postures, with energy sector fundamentals competing against headline-driven price action.
The closing price advanced from 53.63 to 59.61, delivering an 11.2% gain over the full period. Beneath this steady appreciation lay substantial turbulence: the portfolio experienced a 16.6% peak drawdown, and the largest single session move reached 14.7%. The scenario presented traders with 19 decision checkpoints, of which 7 were flagged as critical turning points requiring disciplined position management under pressure.
This replay trains the mental habits that separate calculated traders from reactive ones. The 14.7% single-bar volatility exposes how quickly a position can move against you, forcing students to pre-define loss limits before entry. The 16.6% drawdown teaches that surviving drawdowns requires both sound sizing and emotional resilience. With 7 critical nodes demanding real-time judgment, the scenario cultivates the discipline of following a tested process rather than chasing outcomes, building the psychological infrastructure essential for sustained market participation.