RBOB Gasoline Historical Replay: 2021-04 to 2021-07
Replay 62 daily bars of RBOB gasoline from April to July 2021, capturing a 12.8% close climb from 1.96 to 2.21. You will step through each session, face 4 critical decision points out of 11, and receive an AI coach review of your choices on simulated capital only.
62 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2021-04 to 2021-07 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 89 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 5.1% and a 17.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −5.1%
- Max run-up
- +17.3%
- Duration
- 89 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.0%
- 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
The spring of 2021 found energy markets in flux as global economic reopening collided with lingering supply disruptions. RBOB gasoline futures sat at the center of this pressure cooker, with demand rebounding sharply while inventories remained constrained. Over the 62 trading days from April 9 to July 7, participants faced a market that offered both opportunity and treacherous reversals—a classic environment for testing disciplined decision-making under uncertainty.
The period delivered a net advance of 12.8%, pushing prices from 1.96 to 2.21. Yet the journey was far from linear; a maximum drawdown of 5.1% tested conviction, and individual sessions saw moves as large as 3.0%. Across the data span, traders encountered 11 distinct decision points, with 4 of these representing inflection moments where directional conviction was most severely examined.
This replay exposes the gap between knowing market direction and executing under pressure. The 5.1% peak-to-trough decline reminds us that even correct directional bets require survival mechanisms. The 3.0% single-session volatility forces acknowledgment that outcomes remain unpredictable regardless of preparation. Eleven decision nodes create space to practice entry timing, position sizing, and emotional regulation without financial consequences, building habits that might transfer to future market challenges.
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