Gold Historical Replay: 2015-11 to 2016-04
Replay 100 trading days of gold from November 2015 to April 2016, when prices climbed 12.0% amid a major U.S. policy shift. Step through each session, tackle 17 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
100 daily bars · 17 decision points · 2015-11 to 2016-04 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 147 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 4.2% and a 21.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −4.2%
- Max run-up
- +21.1%
- Duration
- 147 days
- Largest single-day move
- +4.5%
- Bars
- 100 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 17
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 final months of 2015 found gold traders at a crossroads. The Federal Reserve was telegraphing a historic policy pivot—the first potential U.S. rate increase in nearly a decade was on the horizon. Commodity markets were recalibrating across the board, and gold, as the premier safe-haven asset, was absorbing the full weight of shifting monetary expectations. This replay challenges you to navigate the full arc of that uncertainty, day by day, across 100 trading sessions.
Gold closed the period at 1218, climbing from an opening of 1087.9—a 12.0% advance over approximately five months. The journey was neither smooth nor linear; the scenario's largest single session saw a 4.5% swing, while peak drawdown reached 4.2%. Across the span, you face 17 decision points, six of which the system flags as critical moments where positioning and conviction were truly tested.
This episode is a masterclass in trading around policy uncertainty. The lesson is not that one outcome was inevitable, but that navigating ambiguity requires a repeatable process. The 4.2% drawdown reminds us that even correct directional calls involve periods where positions work against you. Managing risk means accepting that volatility itself is information. The psychology here is equally important: staying disciplined when headlines and sentiment swing sharply, and resisting the urge to overcorrect based on short-term price action.
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