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Coffee Historical Replay: 2022-07 to 2023-01

CommoditiesSoft CommoditiesUSBoom2022-07 to 2023-01Difficulty 4/5FreeView charts

Replay the 2022 coffee slide from 220.4 to 151.1 over 126 daily bars and watch a 40.9% drawdown unfold. Step through 22 decision points, make your own calls, and receive an AI coach review of each simulated choice.

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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 40.9% and a 17.8% run-up.

Max drawdown
−40.9%
Max run-up
+17.8%
Duration
182 days
Largest single-day move
−5.7%
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

The coffee market entered the second half of 2022 against a backdrop of currency turbulence and shifting global demand patterns. This replay covers 126 daily bars from 2022-07-19 to 2023-01-17, placing traders inside one of the soft commodity sector's most consequential slides of the 2020s. Participants must navigate sustained downward pressure while managing exposure to a market prone to sharp intraday reversals.

What unfolded was a 31.4% decline from 220.4 to 151.1, but the journey proved far more turbulent than the headline figure suggests. The maximum drawdown of 40.9% reveals how deeply positions could be tested before any meaningful recovery materialized. A single session could deliver 5.7% of adverse movement, punishing those without disciplined sizing or exit discipline. The distance between peak and trough exposed the psychological cost of staying invested through a prolonged downtrend.

This scenario excels as a training ground because it demands players confront losses without the benefit of knowing when they will end. With 22 decision points and 8 critical junctures, each step forces a choice: hold, reduce, or adapt. The lesson is not about calling tops or bottoms but about building the emotional endurance and risk frameworks necessary to survive volatility. Replay participants learn to separate process from outcome, a distinction that separates disciplined practitioners from reactive ones.