Natural Gas Historical Replay: 2020-03 to 2020-06
Replay 62 daily bars from March 24 to June 19, 2020, as natural gas swung through a brutal 24.4% drawdown. You make decisions across 11 points (4 critical), then receive an AI coach review of your simulated trades.
62 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2020-03 to 2020-06 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 87 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 24.4% and a 37.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −24.4%
- Max run-up
- +37.4%
- Duration
- 87 days
- Largest single-day move
- +9.7%
- 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
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was crushing global energy demand, and natural gas found itself at the epicenter of that collapse. This replay spans 62 daily bars from March 24 to June 19, 2020, recreating a market where traders had to navigate unprecedented uncertainty. Participants faced the challenge of positioning themselves as demand destruction unfolded across the economy.
The period delivered a brutal 24.4% drawdown even as the final close registered just 1.2% gains (1.65 to 1.67). The most violent single session moved 9.7%, a reminder that the path matters more than the destination. Eleven decision points punctuated the replay, four of them critical junctures where directional conviction was essential. A trader who treated every day as routine would have been blindsided by the volatility.
This scenario trains the ability to act under pressure without the comfort of hindsight. The gap between peak drawdown and final outcome captures the psychological battle: holding positions through a 24.4% equity curve decline requires discipline that most training programs never test. Process, risk calibration, and emotional equilibrium become the real metrics of performance in a replay designed to strip away predictability.
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