WTI Crude Oil Historical Replay: 2020-05 to 2020-08
Replay 66 trading days of WTI crude oil from May 21 to August 24, 2020, when prices climbed 25.6% off the lows. Work through 12 decision points (4 critical) with day-by-day market replay and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2020-05 to 2020-08 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 95 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 8.4% and a 30.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −8.4%
- Max run-up
- +30.8%
- Duration
- 95 days
- Largest single-day move
- −8.2%
- 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
This scenario recreates 66 trading days of WTI crude oil from May 21 to August 24, 2020, as the market attempted to recover from historic dislocation. Energy traders entering this period faced a sector in transition, where demand signals remained ambiguous while supply dynamics were rapidly adjusting to new realities. The decade at stake was the 2020s, a period that would test commodity investors with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Participants must understand the unique pressures facing energy markets during a global recovery.
Over the 66 daily bars, prices climbed 25.6%, moving from 33.92 to 42.62. The trajectory was neither smooth nor predictable. The market experienced an 8.4% maximum drawdown, testing conviction during adverse moments. Perhaps most instructive was the largest single-bar move of 8.2%, illustrating how quickly sentiment could shift in either direction. Traders navigated 12 decision points, with 4 critical junctures demanding particularly careful judgment. Each decision carried forward consequences in the replay.
This replay sharpens decision-making under uncertainty, a core competency for any market participant. The 8.4% drawdown teaches position management and the importance of sizing when volatility spikes. The 8.2% single-bar move demonstrates why stops and risk limits matter, not as predictions but as process safeguards. The 12 decision points, especially the 4 critical ones, reveal how a handful of key choices can define outcomes more than the majority of routine actions. Emotionally, participants confront the psychology of conviction during a boom, practicing the discipline required to execute a plan consistently when prices move favorably but unevenly.
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