WTI Crude Oil Historical Replay: 2023-04 to 2023-07
Replay 66 trading days of WTI crude oil from April to July 2023, when prices fell 7.2% amid a 19.4% drawdown. Step through each session, make your own calls at 12 decision points, and receive an AI coach review, all with simulated capital.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2023-04 to 2023-07 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 97 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 19.4% and a 11.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −19.4%
- Max run-up
- +11.5%
- Duration
- 97 days
- Largest single-day move
- −5.3%
- 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
The scene places you inside the WTI crude oil market from April 5 to July 11, 2023—a 66-day window when the energy sector faced mounting headwinds. The era was the 2020s, and oil traders were navigating a complex web of macroeconomic uncertainty, shifting demand signals, and heightened geopolitical tensions. This wasn't a sudden crash but a grinding pullback that tested conviction and risk discipline.
Prices drifted from 80.61 to 74.83, representing a -7.2% decline, yet the real story lay beneath the surface: a max drawdown of 19.4% and intraday swings reaching 5.3%. Against this backdrop, you encounter 12 decision points—4 of them critical moments where positioning and capital management could mean the difference between weathering the storm or compounding losses. The exercise strips away hindsight, forcing you to navigate uncertainty as it unfolded.
The market delivers a lesson in the gap between headline returns and actual trading reality. That 19.4% drawdown, nearly three times the final percentage loss, underscores how position sizing and risk limits define survival. The 5.3% single-bar moves demand conviction at the exact moments doubt peaks. This replay trains you to execute process over prediction—to manage risk mechanically when emotions scream otherwise, and to distinguish between temporary dislocation and fundamental change.