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Cocoa Historical Replay: 2022-07 to 2023-01

CommoditiesSoft CommoditiesUSBoom2022-07 to 2023-01Difficulty 3/5FreeView charts

Replay 126 daily bars of cocoa's 12.5% climb from 2347 to 2641, with a 7.7% drawdown testing every assumption. Step through each trading day, make decisions at 22 checkpoints including 8 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review — all simulated capital, all educational.

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126 daily bars · 22 decision points · 2022-07 to 2023-01 · Commodities

Key facts

This window spans 182 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 7.7% and a 19.9% run-up.

Max drawdown
−7.7%
Max run-up
+19.9%
Duration
182 days
Largest single-day move
+4.4%
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

How to play
  1. The market advances day by day. You only see candles up to the current day — as if you were really there.

  2. At key decision points choose Buy / Trim / Exit / Hold. Each decision advances the timeline by one day.

  3. 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 traded as a soft commodity during a turbulent stretch of the 2020s. The replay covers 126 daily bars from 2022-07-19 to 2023-01-17, a period when raw material markets navigated shifting dollar dynamics and persistent supply uncertainty. Participants enter this scenario to confront the specific challenge of tracking a market prone to sharp reversals and testing conviction under incomplete information.

The replay captures cocoa's climb from 2347 to 2641, a 12.5% advance over the six-month window. A 7.7% drawdown punctuated the trajectory, while the largest single-bar swing reached 4.4%, underscoring the volatility embedded in this soft market. These numbers come directly from the historical record, providing an authentic canvas for participants to navigate price fluctuations as they actually unfolded.

Eight critical decision points demand traders test their frameworks against market reality, with 22 total checkpoints forcing engagement with risk management under pressure. The experience cultivates discipline around position sizing, the ability to hold conviction through a 7.7% retracement, and the humility to reassess when a 4.4% single-day move challenges assumptions. This replay trains decision-making process rather than predicting outcomes.