Silver Historical Replay: 2017-11 to 2018-05
Replay 120 daily bars of silver from 2017-11-15 to 2018-05-10, navigating a 10.3% max drawdown and a 3.4% single-day move. Make decisions across 21 branching points and receive an AI coach review in this simulated educational market replay.
120 daily bars · 21 decision points · 2017-11 to 2018-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 176 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 10.3% and a 12.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −10.3%
- Max run-up
- +12.6%
- Duration
- 176 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.4%
- Bars
- 120 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 21
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
Silver navigated a demanding landscape in the late 2010s, balancing currency pressures, shifting industrial demand, and periodic safe-haven flows. This replay immerses participants in 120 daily bars from 2017-11-15 to 2018-05-10, a stretch where the metal tested both technical levels and trader psychology across a complex macro backdrop.
The closing price moved from 16.95 to 16.68, a modest net decline of -1.6% over the full span. Yet this headline figure concealed the turbulence beneath—silver experienced a max drawdown of 10.3% and endured a largest single-bar move of 3.4%, creating moments where positions were stretched and conviction challenged.
The scenario presents 21 decision points, 7 of them critical junctions, forcing participants to choose between holding through volatility, adjusting exposure, or stepping aside. Training value lies in confronting drawdown discipline, sizing conviction appropriately when a single session can swing 3.4%, and maintaining psychological steadiness when the directional narrative remains murky. This replay is not about predicting silver's next move but about sharpening the process, risk calibration, and emotional resilience that survive any market condition.