Coking Coal Historical Replay: 2021-01 to 2021-05
Coking coal surged 34.9% across 66 daily bars from January to May 2021, with a 12.8% drawdown testing traders mid-run. Replay the session day by day, face 12 decision points, and get an AI coach review in this simulated historical scenario.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2021-01 to 2021-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 104 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 12.8% and a 50.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −12.8%
- Max run-up
- +50.6%
- Duration
- 104 days
- Largest single-day move
- +7.8%
- 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
Coking coal entered 2021 as a pivotal commodity, and the January-to-May period would test anyone trading this space. Across 66 daily bars from January 28 to May 12, participants faced a sustained 34.9% rally that required conviction and discipline to capture. Twelve decision points punctuated this stretch—four marked as critical moments—demanding traders navigate both direction and volatility in a historically significant decade for commodity markets.
The price trajectory from 1565.5 to 2111.5 tells only part of the story. A 12.8% drawdown midway through tested risk management protocols, while a 7.8% single-bar swing demonstrated that volatility arrives suddenly. The challenge was not merely capturing a directional move but enduring the psychological toll of meaningful pullbacks within a larger trend.
This replay teaches traders to build robust processes for managing through drawdowns, maintain emotional discipline during volatile stretches, and develop clarity around critical junctures. Participants learn to distinguish between noise and signal, calibrate position sizing under pressure, and rehearse the mental stamina required to stay the course when the market challenges conviction. The 66-bar journey transforms raw market history into structured decision training.
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