Cocoa Historical Replay: 2000-01 to 2000-06
Cocoa drifted from 830 to 820 across 126 daily bars from January to June 2000, enduring a 16.8% drawdown. Replay each trading day, tackle 22 decision points, and receive an AI coach review in this educational simulation.
126 daily bars · 22 decision points · 2000-01 to 2000-06 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 179 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 16.8% and a 23.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −16.8%
- Max run-up
- +23.0%
- Duration
- 179 days
- Largest single-day move
- −8.6%
- Bars
- 126 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 22
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 first half of 2000 found cocoa traders navigating a quiet storm. While the internet bubble dominated headlines and the dollar strengthened globally, the cocoa market drifted in a narrow band that demanded patience over spectacle. This six-month replay from January 3 to June 30, 2000 places you inside 126 daily bars where the real challenge was not catching a big move but surviving a relentless sideways grind without losing your edge.
What unfolded was deceptively subtle: the close drifted from 830 to just 820, a mere -1.2% loss over the period. Yet this masks the true test of nerve, as the market carved through a 16.8% maximum drawdown and experienced an 8.6% single-bar shock. Across the span, 22 decision points emerged, with 8 demanding critical choices that could mean the difference between staying in the game or being forced out. The mathematics of small losses compounding over time proved as dangerous as any dramatic crash.
The session ultimately measures your ability to maintain discipline when nothing spectacular happens. Managing risk through a 16.8% drawdown without abandoning your process, recognizing when an 8.6% intrabar spike signals opportunity versus danger, and executing decisions at the 8 critical moments without letting frustration erode judgment all become the real tests. In markets that go nowhere, survival itself becomes the victory.