WTI Crude Oil Historical Replay: 2024-07 to 2025-01
Replay 126 daily bars of WTI crude from July 2024 to January 2025, capturing a 20.6% drawdown and a 6.1% single-bar swing. You walk through each trading day, make your own calls at 22 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of every choice.
126 daily bars · 22 decision points · 2024-07 to 2025-01 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 181 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 20.6% and a 21.7% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −20.6%
- Max run-up
- +21.7%
- Duration
- 181 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.1%
- Bars
- 126 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 22
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 replay drops you into WTI crude oil from July 2024, a moment when Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations were reshaping dollar dynamics and energy markets alike. Across 126 trading days stretching to January 2025, you confront the tension between macroeconomic policy signals and oil's supply-demand fundamentals. The stage is set for navigating an era defined by monetary policy pivots.
The price journey proves deceptively mild on the surface: the close moved from 82.82 to 80.04, a modest -3.4% net decline over the full span. Yet beneath that thin overall loss lies genuine turbulence—a maximum drawdown of 20.6% tested portfolios severely, while the largest single-bar move of 6.1% revealed how quickly sentiment could shift on policy headlines or inventory data.
You face 22 decision points across this period, with 8 flagged as critical junctures where directional calls carried amplified consequence. This scenario sharpens your process discipline under uncertainty, forces honest assessment of risk tolerance, and exposes the psychological traps that accompany extended drawdowns. The goal is not prediction—it is building the decision-making framework that survives when prices move against you.