Cocoa Historical Replay: 2020-07 to 2020-10
Replay 84 days of cocoa markets during the pandemic era, where prices climbed 7.6% from 2209 to 2376. Make daily decisions across 15 decision points and receive an AI coach review in this educational, simulated-capital training scenario.
84 daily bars · 15 decision points · 2020-07 to 2020-10 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 119 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 15.3% and a 28.1% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −15.3%
- Max run-up
- +28.1%
- Duration
- 119 days
- Largest single-day move
- −5.9%
- 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
This scenario replays 84 days of cocoa markets during the pandemic era, spanning July 1, 2020 to October 28, 2020. As a soft commodity market navigating unprecedented global disruption, cocoa faced shifting demand dynamics and supply uncertainties. Participants confront 15 decision points across this daily-granularity replay, with 5 critical moments that could decisively shape outcomes. The decade context—the 2020s—places this exercise within a period defined by elevated market volatility and structural uncertainty.
Cocoa prices climbed from 2209 to 2376, delivering a 7.6% gain over the 84-day window. Yet the trajectory was anything but linear. The market endured a maximum drawdown of 15.3%, punishing early positions before the eventual recovery. A single trading session produced a 5.9% move, demonstrating how quickly sentiment can swing and testing the resolve of anyone holding exposure. The upward close masks this turbulent internal journey.
This replay sharpens decision-process training under conditions where the trend is positive but the path is jagged. Managing through a 15.3% drawdown while maintaining conviction requires disciplined risk sizing and clear pre-planned thresholds. Handling the 5.9% single-bar volatility demands emotional detachment rather than reactive adjustments. The educational value lies in recognizing that surviving drawdowns and adhering to process matters more than capturing every upside move, building psychology resilient enough to execute consistently across genuine market turbulence.