Soybean Historical Replay: 2023-05 to 2023-08
Replay 60 daily soybean bars from 2023-05-24 to 2023-08-18 and navigate an authentic 15.3% drawdown through 11 decision points. Step through each historical session, weigh the 4 critical forks, then receive an AI coach review. Simulated capital, purely educational.
60 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2023-05 to 2023-08 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 86 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 15.3% and a 20.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −15.3%
- Max run-up
- +20.5%
- Duration
- 86 days
- Largest single-day move
- +5.0%
- Bars
- 60 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 soybeans market in the summer of 2023 presented traders with a masterclass in navigating uncertainty. As the US Congress grappled with debt ceiling negotiations, currency markets whipsawed and commodity flows shifted, creating a volatile backdrop for grain traders. This 60-day replay from May 24 to August 18 places you inside that pressure cooker, where every daily bar carried the weight of macro forces beyond the pits.
What unfolded was a study in deceptive quiet: prices closed the period up a modest 2.9%, moving from 1324.5 to 1362.75, yet the journey was anything but smooth. The market endured a 15.3% peak-to-trough drawdown and suffered a single-day shock of 5.0%, punishing positions that lacked adequate buffers. Across eleven decision points, four emerged as critical forks where direction shifted decisively, demanding traders either adapt their thesis or cut losses.
The scenario strips away hindsight and forces traders to confront the psychological trial of holding through a 15.3% drawdown while macro headlines scream for action. Navigating the four critical forks requires discipline to follow process over prediction, to size positions so the 5.0% intraday shock does not force an exit, and to accept that the outcome of a 2.9% net gain does not tell the full story of how decisions were made under pressure. This is the enduring lesson: surviving the drawdown teaches more about risk management than celebrating the final close.