USD/CNY Historical Replay: 2014-08 to 2015-01
Relive a pivotal stretch as USD/CNY drifted just 1.0% across 106 daily bars from 2014-08-25 to 2015-01-20. Replay each session, navigate 19 decision points, and receive AI coach feedback through fully simulated market training.
106 daily bars · 19 decision points · 2014-08 to 2015-01 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 148 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 0.7% and a 1.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −0.7%
- Max run-up
- +1.9%
- Duration
- 148 days
- Largest single-day move
- +0.4%
- Bars
- 106 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 19
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 replay drops you into USD/CNY during a quiet yet pivotal stretch of the 2010s. From 2014-08-25 to 2015-01-20, 106 daily bars capture a market held in check as global forces—notably the ECB hovering near QE—pulled the dollar in competing directions. For a trainee, the challenge was not about dramatic entries but about reading subtle shifts in a pair that seemed to drift yet concealed real directional risk.
The numbers tell a story of restrained volatility. The pair closed at 6.1444 and ended at 6.208, a net move of just 1.0% across the entire period. The maximum drawdown was a modest 0.7%, yet the largest single-bar move reached 0.4%—enough to catch a position off-guard. Scattered across these months were 19 decision points, 7 of them critical, each asking you to commit or stand aside with incomplete information.
The teaching here is process over prediction. In a market drifting just 1.0% over months, the temptation is to dismiss risk. Yet max drawdown of 0.7% and sharp 0.4% bars remind traders that even quiet markets punish complacency. The 19 decision points become a training ground for calibrating position size, respecting stop discipline, and managing the psychological urge to overtrade when movement seems sparse. Success is not calling the direction but surviving the drift with your methodology intact.
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