Coking Coal Historical Replay: 2018-08 to 2018-11
Replay 54 turbulent daily bars from the 2018 ferrous crisis as close rose 8.6% amid 5.8% drawdowns. You navigate ten decision points day by day, then receive an AI coach review of each simulated call.
54 daily bars · 10 decision points · 2018-08 to 2018-11 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 83 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 5.8% and a 15.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −5.8%
- Max run-up
- +15.6%
- Duration
- 83 days
- Largest single-day move
- +4.5%
- Bars
- 54 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 10
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 the autumn of 2018, the ferrous complex faced mounting headwinds as emerging market contagion rippled across global commodity flows. Coking coal, a critical input for steelmaking, navigated a period of elevated uncertainty spanning from late August through mid-November. For traders replaying this era, the stakes were clear: understanding how this industrial raw material behaves when broader market stress intersects with sector-specific volatility.
Over the 54 daily bars that comprise this replay, coking coal rose from 1273 to 1383, delivering an 8.6% return. Yet the journey was anything but linear—participants faced a 5.8% max drawdown and the psychological pressure of a 4.5% single-session swing. Ten decision points punctuated this journey, with four emerging as critical junctures that separated well-calibrated responses from reactive ones.
This replay sharpens several core competencies: the discipline to maintain directional conviction through intermittent losses, the humility to size positions appropriately when volatility spikes, and the emotional steadiness required to act on analysis rather than react to noise. It illustrates how even a modest trending outcome demands robust process and psychological resilience.