Palladium Historical Replay: 2020-08 to 2020-12
Replay 84 trading days across the 2020 pandemic stretch as palladium drifted just 3.8% despite a 10.7% drawdown. Step through each session, tackle 15 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
84 daily bars · 15 decision points · 2020-08 to 2020-12 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 120 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 10.7% and a 13.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −10.7%
- Max run-up
- +13.9%
- Duration
- 120 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.3%
- Bars
- 84 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 replay immerses you in the palladium market during the peak of pandemic uncertainty. Across 84 trading days from late August to late December 2020, you navigate one of the most volatile stretches for industrial precious metals. The scenario places you in the seat of a trader managing positions while global supply chains convulsed and demand signals contradicted each other. Fifteen decision points are embedded across this period, five of them critical moments where a single choice could define your outcome.
The numbers reveal the deceptive nature of this market: palladium drifted just 3.8% over the entire period, closing at 2331.5 from an opening of 2245.4. Yet this benign net change concealed a 10.7% drawdown and a largest single-bar swing of 6.3%. The price did not trend cleanly—it oscillated, testing conviction and discipline. You experience the gap between headline return and lived experience of holding through volatility.
This scenario sharpens decision-making under contradictory information. The pandemic created genuine uncertainty about industrial demand, yet the net outcome was modest. You learn to separate signal from noise, manage risk when headlines scream crisis, and maintain discipline when the largest single-bar move of 6.3% tests your resolve. The five critical decision points force you to act without hindsight, building the psychological resilience that distinguishes experienced practitioners from novices.