USD/CNY Historical Replay: 2015-06 to 2015-12
Replay 116 daily bars from June to December 2015 as the USD/CNY moved from 6.191 to 6.4072, a 3.5% shift. Work through 20 decision points with simulated capital and receive an AI coach review of your choices.
116 daily bars · 20 decision points · 2015-06 to 2015-12 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 162 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 1.5% and a 3.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −1.5%
- Max run-up
- +3.5%
- Duration
- 162 days
- Largest single-day move
- +1.9%
- Bars
- 116 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 20
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
In the summer of 2015, the People's Bank of China faced mounting pressure as the yuan traded near historic highs against a strengthening US dollar. The period from June to December that year would prove pivotal for the world's second-largest economy and its currency regime. The 811 reform on August 11, 2015 marked a watershed moment when the PBOC surprised markets by devaluing the yuan, effectively ending its peg-like management against the dollar and moving toward a more market-driven mechanism. For traders and analysts, this episode represented a collision between centrally managed policy and market forces.
The USD/CNY pair moved from 6.191 to 6.4072 over the 116 daily bars, a 3.5% depreciation that masked violent intraday swings. The largest single-bar move reached 1.9%, while maximum drawdown hit 1.5%, creating treacherous conditions for position management. With 20 decision points scattered across the six-month span, including 7 critical high-difficulty checkpoints, the environment demanded constant recalibration of risk exposure and precise execution under uncertainty.
This historical replay trains participants to navigate the treacherous intersection of policy risk and market volatility. Decision-makers learn to recognize the signals preceding central bank intervention, manage positions through sudden regime changes, and maintain psychological resilience when conventional models fail. The scenario strips away hindsight bias, forcing genuine engagement with incomplete information as it unfolded in real time. Mastering these dynamics builds the judgment essential for surviving any market shock where policy and economics collide.