Coking Coal Historical Replay: 2020-03 to 2020-06
Replay 58 turbulent days from March 25 to June 18, 2020, as coking coal fell 5.6% amid the pandemic sell-off with 17.9% peak drawdown. Step through each session, face 11 decision points including 4 critical ones, and review with your AI coach in a fully simulated, educational training environment.
58 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2020-03 to 2020-06 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 85 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 17.9% and a 15.2% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −17.9%
- Max run-up
- +15.2%
- Duration
- 85 days
- Largest single-day move
- −10.1%
- Bars
- 58 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 coking coal market faced unprecedented uncertainty in late March 2020 as the global pandemic disrupted industrial supply chains and hammered commodity demand. Over the 58 trading days from March 25 to June 18, traders navigated one of the most turbulent periods in recent memory, with economic indicators flashing warning signs across every major economy. For those in the ferrous commodities space, the question was not whether volatility would strike, but how to survive its full force.
What unfolded was a stark demonstration of pandemic-era market dynamics: coking coal closed the period at 1190.5, down 5.6% from its 1260.5 opening, despite the headline decline masking far wilder swings beneath the surface. The maximum drawdown reached 17.9%, revealing that intermediate practitioners faced losses far exceeding the net trend. The largest single trading day move hit 10.1%, underscoring the kind of tail-risk events that can devastate improperly positioned portfolios. Participants encountered 11 decision points, four of them critical inflection moments where the directional stakes were highest.
This replay distills the essential challenge of trading in chaotic conditions: discipline survives when conviction fails. The educational value lies not in predicting the next pandemic crash but in practicing position sizing, drawdown tolerance, and emotional control when markets move 10.1% in a single session. Trainees learn that process consistency and risk management matter more than directional accuracy during periods of maximum uncertainty.
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