Coffee Historical Replay: 2001-11 to 2002-05
Relive 120 days of coffee market history from November 2001, navigating a 20.4% drawdown and a 10.8% single-day shock. You make the calls at 21 decision points, with AI coach feedback after each session. Simulated capital, educational replay only.
120 daily bars · 21 decision points · 2001-11 to 2002-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 182 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 20.4% and a 43.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −20.4%
- Max run-up
- +43.3%
- Duration
- 182 days
- Largest single-day move
- +10.8%
- 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
Coffee prices drifted higher over 120 trading days from November 2001 to May 2002, but not in a straight line. The market navigated the early 2000s dollar bear market environment while grappling with inflation concerns in soft commodities. Participants faced 21 decision points, including 7 critical junctures, as they managed exposure through a period marked by significant uncertainty. What was at stake was not merely directional conviction but the ability to survive and adapt through sustained volatility.
The net outcome was a modest 3.4% price appreciation, with coffee closing at 47.3 from an opening of 45.75. Yet this surface calm concealed a turbulent reality: the period featured a maximum drawdown of 20.4% and a largest single-day shock of 10.8%. These figures underscore that the path between entry and exit was anything but smooth, demanding resilience from anyone holding positions through the turbulence.
For decision training, this replay illustrates how drawdowns and shock events test both process and psychology. Managing through a 20.4% drawdown requires disciplined risk controls and the emotional capacity to maintain perspective. The 7 critical decision points serve as focal moments where judgment under pressure becomes the difference between compounding losses or preserving capital. This scenario is a laboratory for building the habits that matter when markets are neither calm nor predictable.
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