Soybean Meal Historical Replay: 2021-03 to 2021-06
Replay 62 daily bars of soybean meal from March 24 to June 21, 2021, capturing a 19.8% drawdown and a sharp 6.3% single-day swing. Step through 11 decision points, four of them critical, and let the AI coach review your choices in a fully simulated historical replay.
62 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2021-03 to 2021-06 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 89 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 19.8% and a 14.2% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −19.8%
- Max run-up
- +14.2%
- Duration
- 89 days
- Largest single-day move
- +6.3%
- Bars
- 62 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
The scenario replays soybean meal futures trading from March 24 to June 21, 2021, spanning 62 daily bars. This was a period when commodity markets faced intense uncertainty, with agricultural futures at the center of shifting supply chains and macroeconomic pressures that tested traders across the decade.
The closing price declined from 401 to 373.1, a -7.0% move over the data span. Yet this headline figure masks the turbulence beneath: a maximum drawdown of 19.8% tested portfolio endurance, while the largest single-bar move of 6.3% highlighted the violent intraday swings that can materialize without warning. These sharp reversals created an environment where directional conviction alone was insufficient.
This replay sharpens decision training through 11 staged decision points, four of them critical junctures that demand careful position sizing and disciplined risk controls. Participants must navigate drawdown management, recognize when conviction overrides caution and when caution overrides conviction, and maintain psychological equilibrium through prolonged adverse price action. The scenario rewards process over prediction, reminding traders that surviving a -7.0% headline decline with a 19.8% drawdown requires the same rigor as capturing the next trending move.
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