Soybean Meal Historical Replay: 2020-02 to 2020-05
Replay 64 daily bars of soybean meal from February to May 2020, a pandemic-era grain market that fell -1.5% with a 15.5% drawdown. Step through each authentic trading day, tackle 11 decision points including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review on your simulated choices.
64 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2020-02 to 2020-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 91 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 15.5% and a 16.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −15.5%
- Max run-up
- +16.6%
- Duration
- 91 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.6%
- Bars
- 64 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
In early 2020, soybean meal—a key protein feed ingredient traded on U.S. exchanges—faced the full force of a global pandemic. The period from February 5 to May 6, 2020 comprised 64 daily bars of authentic price action, with supply chains, livestock demand, and export expectations all thrown into uncertainty. What was at stake was not just a trading account balance but the ability to make sound decisions under the most chaotic conditions agricultural markets had seen in years.
Over the course of the replay, soybean meal ultimately closed at 283.1, a decline of -1.5% from the 287.4 starting level—modest in aggregate but misleading given the turbulence underneath. The maximum drawdown reached 15.5%, and the largest single-bar move hit 3.6%, revealing spikes of panic and recovery embedded within the overall trend. Participants faced 11 decision points, of which 4 were marked as critical, demanding precise entries, exits, or position adjustments under rapidly shifting conditions.
This replay is a classroom for three lessons: process discipline, because following a pre-defined plan matters more than predicting the pandemic; risk management, because surviving a 15.5% drawdown requires sizing and stops rather than hope; and psychology, because the gap between a -1.5% decline and a catastrophic loss often comes down to emotional reactions at critical nodes. Stepping through each day trains the habits that separate measured responses from reactive ones.
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