Cocoa Historical Replay: 2020-02 to 2020-05
Replay the 2020 cocoa pandemic slide across 64 daily bars, where prices fell 14.7% to 2381 and a single day swung 6.4%. You step through each session, face 11 decision points including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review, simulated capital only for educational use.
64 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2020-02 to 2020-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 91 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 26.2% and a 10.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −26.2%
- Max run-up
- +10.3%
- Duration
- 91 days
- Largest single-day move
- +6.4%
- Bars
- 64 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 11
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
Cocoa futures on US markets entered February 2020 as a soft commodity navigating the early shock waves of a global pandemic. The replay spans 64 daily bars from 2020-02-05 to 2020-05-06, a period when supply chains froze, demand reordered, and prices lurched through uncharted territory. Players step into a market defined by mounting uncertainty and the absence of reliable precedent.
Prices retreated from 2790 to 2381, a decline of -14.7% that unfolded against a maximum drawdown of 26.2%. The single most violent session moved 6.4%, a reminder that directional momentum can overwhelm fundamentals in either direction. The journey was not a straight line but a grinding slide with intermittent reversals, testing the resolve of anyone holding positions through the turbulence.
Eleven decision points, four deemed critical, force players to act without the comfort of hindsight. The session trains the ability to size positions, honor stop levels, and resist the twin impulses of panic selling and premature averaging down. Surviving the full scenario means internalizing that process discipline matters more than calling the exact bottom in a pandemic-driven collapse.
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