Coking Coal Historical Replay: 2025-02 to 2025-08
Replay 120 daily bars of coking coal's 2025 tariff storm, where prices swung 12.7% amid a bruising 36.4% drawdown. Step through each decision point, make your call, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated training environment.
120 daily bars · 21 decision points · 2025-02 to 2025-08 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 172 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 36.4% and a 75.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −36.4%
- Max run-up
- +75.1%
- Duration
- 172 days
- Largest single-day move
- −12.6%
- Bars
- 120 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 21
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 found itself at the epicenter of a sweeping tariff storm during the first half of 2025, as trade policy reshaped the landscape for industrial commodities. From mid-February through early August, 120 daily trading bars captured a market under siege, where supply chains, pricing mechanisms, and geopolitical risk premiums were in constant flux. The scenario immerses traders in this high-stakes environment, placing them at decision points that mirror the real pressures faced by market participants navigating an escalating trade conflict.
The numbers tell a story of violent oscillation. Coking coal closed the period at 1227, rising 12.7% from its starting level of 1089, yet this modest net gain obscures a brutal journey. The maximum drawdown reached 36.4%, meaning traders who entered at the wrong moment endured steep unrealized losses. The largest single-bar move of 12.6% in a single session underscores the whipsaw conditions that could quickly turn prudent positions into painful ones. With 21 decision points, including 7 deemed critical, the replay demands disciplined risk management at every turn.
This scenario distills three enduring lessons for decision training. First, process matters more than outcome: surviving a 36.4% drawdown requires rules, not hope. Second, risk management is survival—position sizing and stop discipline become the difference between staying in the game and being forced out. Third, psychology is the final frontier; a 12.6% intraday swing tests emotional composure as much as analytical skill. The tariff storm is a classroom where resilience, not prediction, determines who emerges intact.