Gold Historical Replay: 2022-01 to 2022-06
Replay 92 daily bars of gold from January through June 2022, when the largest single-bar move hit 2.7% amid escalating war-driven volatility. Make decisions at 16 branching points, including 6 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated capital allocations.
92 daily bars · 16 decision points · 2022-01 to 2022-06 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 132 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 11.4% and a 14.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −11.4%
- Max run-up
- +14.3%
- Duration
- 132 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.7%
- Bars
- 92 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 16
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
Gold faced a volatile test from January through June 2022, a period when geopolitical tensions reshaped safe-haven demand across global markets. Over 92 daily bars spanning from January 20 to June 1, traders navigated an environment where war-driven uncertainty created sharp intraday swings. The decade of the 2020s had already shown how quickly sentiment could shift, and this half-year stretch placed portfolios under considerable strain.
The price action proved deceptive in its apparent stability: gold closed at 1842.5 and ended at 1843.3, a seemingly flat 0.0% move over the full period. Yet this masked a maximum drawdown of 11.4%, revealing how deeply prices retreated at their worst before recovering. The largest single-bar move of 2.7% captured moments when headlines triggered rapid repricing, demanding split-second responses from participants.
This replay challenges traders to manage 16 decision points, with 6 critical junctures where positioning could mean the difference between weathering volatility or amplifying losses. The scenario tests not just analytical skill but emotional discipline—recognizing when to act decisively and when to preserve capital. AI coach reviews simulate how decisions compound across the 92-bar journey, reinforcing that survival in volatile markets depends on process over prediction.
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