Coffee Historical Replay: 2024-02 to 2024-05
Replay a 62-day coffee futures window with a 19.1% max drawdown and decide how you would react. You walk through each session, confront 4 critical decision points, and receive an AI coach review of every choice, all in a simulated educational environment.
62 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2024-02 to 2024-05 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 89 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 19.1% and a 36.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −19.1%
- Max run-up
- +36.3%
- Duration
- 89 days
- Largest single-day move
- −5.5%
- Bars
- 62 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
Coffee is one of the world's most traded soft commodities, and the early 2020s brought a wave of supply-side disruptions that made the market especially volatile. This replay immerses you in a 62-day window of BR coffee futures from February 7 to May 6, 2024, a period when weather concerns and supply uncertainty created a textbook commodity shock environment. You step into the role of a trader navigating this landscape, knowing that each session could shift the risk calculus overnight.
Over the course of those 62 daily bars, coffee futures moved from a close of 190.7 to 200.7, representing a net gain of 5.2%. That headline figure, however, conceals a far wilder journey: the market experienced a maximum drawdown of 19.1% and was rocked by a single-session move of as much as 5.5%. Eleven distinct decision points punctuated the period, four of which the replay designates as critical junctures where your choices could mean the difference between preserving capital and compounding losses.
This scenario is a laboratory for training decision processes under uncertainty. You will encounter moments that test your risk tolerance, your willingness to follow a pre-defined plan, and your emotional resilience when positions move against you. The goal is not to predict the next coffee rally but to build the habits and self-awareness that allow you to act consistently and rationally regardless of market noise.
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