Soybean Meal Historical Replay: 2024-08 to 2024-12
Replay 86 daily soybean meal bars from August to December 2024 as prices fell 20.4% through a high-volatility boom era. Step through each session, face 15 decision points with five critical, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated historical choices.
86 daily bars · 15 decision points · 2024-08 to 2024-12 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 123 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 21.6% and a 15.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −21.6%
- Max run-up
- +15.4%
- Duration
- 123 days
- Largest single-day move
- +6.0%
- Bars
- 86 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 15
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 immerses participants in the Chinese soybean meal futures market across August to December 2024, a period when grain commodities faced shifting policy signals and seasonal supply pressures. This 86-day replay captures a high-volatility environment where rapid momentum shifts tested every trader's framework. The stakes were clear: navigate a complex commodity cycle without letting volatility erode discipline or capital.
Prices fell from 355.9 to 283.4 over the replay period, a -20.4% decline that unfolded unevenly across 86 daily bars. The market endured a maximum drawdown of 21.6% and experienced its largest single-bar move of 6.0%, underscoring the kind of intraday spikes that can unsettle even prepared traders. Participants confronted 15 decision points throughout, with 5 deemed critical junctures where directional conviction and position management faced their toughest scrutiny.
This replay sharpens decision-making under uncertainty by placing process over prediction. Navigating a -20.4% decline with a 21.6% drawdown ceiling demands disciplined risk calibration and emotional regulation when 6.0% bars flash on screen. The five critical decision points serve as training crucibles where participants must balance conviction with flexibility, reinforcing that surviving volatile commodity cycles requires a repeatable methodology rather than reactive guesswork.