Iron Ore Historical Replay: 2020-06 to 2020-09
Replay 66 turbulent daily bars as iron ore surged from 737 to 851.5, a 15.5% climb through a 10.6% drawdown. You step through each session, face 12 decision points, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated historical training.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2020-06 to 2020-09 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 95 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 10.6% and a 23.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −10.6%
- Max run-up
- +23.6%
- Duration
- 95 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.7%
- 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
Iron ore, the backbone of global steelmaking, entered a volatile chapter in mid-2020. As pandemic restrictions eased and Chinese infrastructure stimulus accelerated, the ferrous market faced a complex interplay of recovering demand and lingering supply anxieties. Market participants were forced to make high-stakes decisions under conditions of rapid change, where conviction and discipline were tested daily. This period offered a real-world laboratory for examining how traders navigate uncertainty when fundamentals are shifting beneath their feet.
Over 66 trading sessions from June 4 to September 7, 2020, iron ore climbed from 737 to 851.5, a 15.5% advance. Yet the trajectory was anything but linear, with a maximum drawdown of 10.6% shaking even confident positions. A single session delivered a 6.7% move, demanding constant recalibration. Twelve decision points punctuated this journey, four of them critical inflection moments where the margin between success and setback narrowed considerably.
This replay trains decision-makers to confront volatility without hindsight advantage. The 10.6% drawdown forces honest reckoning with position sizing and loss tolerance. The 6.7% single-bar swings expose how panic and greed distort judgment. Twelve decision points, distributed across uncertain terrain, cultivate pattern recognition and disciplined execution. Participants learn that surviving iron ore's 2020 surge required neither prophecy nor luck, but a repeatable process that manages risk methodically while maintaining psychological equilibrium under pressure.
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