Coking Coal Historical Replay: 2020-11 to 2021-05
Replay the coking coal surge from 1321 to 1922, a 45.5% climb across 116 historical trading days. Walk through 20 decision points including 7 critical moments, receive an AI coach review of every simulated trade.
116 daily bars · 20 decision points · 2020-11 to 2021-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 175 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 21.3% and a 59.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −21.3%
- Max run-up
- +59.8%
- Duration
- 175 days
- Largest single-day move
- +7.8%
- Bars
- 116 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 20
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 recreates the European coking coal market during a pivotal five-month window from late 2020 into spring 2021. As an essential input for steelmaking, coking coal sat at the intersection of industrial demand recovery and energy transition pressures. This 116-day historical period presented traders with a market reshaped by post-pandemic supply disruptions, shifting monetary policy expectations, and geopolitical tensions affecting global commodity flows. Every position taken during this span carried significant consequences as the decade's early commodity cycle began to accelerate.
The price trajectory from 1321 to 1922 captures a 45.5% surge across those 116 trading days. Yet the climb proved anything but straightforward—a max drawdown of 21.3% periodically eroded confidence and tested risk management discipline, while a largest single-bar move of 7.8% demonstrated the market's capacity for sudden directional impulse. This combination of sustained appreciation punctuated by sharp pullbacks created a demanding execution environment where both trend-followers and counter-trend traders faced rigorous challenges.
This replay offers a structured laboratory for training systematic decision-making under uncertainty. With 20 decision points including 7 critical moments, participants must navigate entry timing, position sizing, and exit strategy without the benefit of hindsight. The scenario teaches that profiting from an obvious directional move requires surviving drawdowns, maintaining conviction through volatile periods, and executing consistently. Commodity boom environments ultimately test psychology as much as analysis, making disciplined process the cornerstone of sustainable performance.