RBOB Gasoline Historical Replay: 2020-08 to 2020-12
Replay 84 days of US RBOB gasoline across the 2020 pandemic stretch, where prices swung within an 18.0% drawdown. Walk through each decision point day by day and receive an AI coach review of your simulated calls.
84 daily bars · 15 decision points · 2020-08 to 2020-12 · Commodities
Key facts
This window spans 120 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 18.0% and a 33.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −18.0%
- Max run-up
- +33.3%
- Duration
- 120 days
- Largest single-day move
- +7.4%
- 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
The US RBOB gasoline market entered the fall of 2020 in the midst of an extraordinary global disruption. Between August 31 and December 29, 2020—84 trading days across the 2020s—participants faced a commodity market reshaped by pandemic-era demand shifts, supply chain adjustments, and heightened uncertainty. Energy markets, sensitive to both macroeconomic forces and seasonal patterns, offered a particularly demanding training ground where every decision carried weight in an environment stripped of normalcy.
Over this stretch, RBOB gasoline closed at 1.28 and ultimately reached 1.39, delivering an 8.6% net gain. Beneath that seemingly modest return lay considerable turbulence: the market experienced an 18.0% maximum drawdown and absorbed moves as large as 7.4% in a single session. Navigating 15 decision points—5 of them critical inflection moments—required traders to absorb price information, manage risk, and maintain composure across a landscape where intraday swings could easily overwhelm position sizing assumptions.
This replay extracts enduring lessons in process discipline and psychological resilience. The gap between the headline return and actual drawdown underscores how outcome statistics obscure the lived experience of holding risk through volatility. Decision training here centers on recognizing that survival through large single-bar moves is prerequisite to capturing any net gain. The 2020s vintage, still fresh in memory, offers a calibration tool for assessing how one responds when market structure breaks down and conventional references no longer apply.