USD/CNY Historical Replay: 2018-06 to 2018-09
USD/CNY slid 5.4% across 66 trading days as trade-war tensions flared in mid-2018. Replay the historical sessions day by day, navigate 12 decision points, and review your choices with an AI coach in a simulated educational environment.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2018-06 to 2018-09 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 91 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 1.9% and a 6.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −1.9%
- Max run-up
- +6.6%
- Duration
- 91 days
- Largest single-day move
- −1.1%
- Bars
- 66 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 12
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 USD/CNY exchange rate became a focal point of global market attention in the summer of 2018 as trade-war tensions between the United States and China intensified. This replay scenario spans 66 trading days from June 24 to September 23, 2018, placing participants in the role of a currency trader navigating one of the most consequential periods for the Chinese yuan in the 2010s. With 12 decision points—four of them critical—the scenario demands both strategic timing and disciplined risk management amid a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape.
Across the replay period, the yuan weakened from 6.5043 to 6.8567, representing a 5.4% depreciation. The market was not uniformly turbulent; the largest single-day move reached 1.1%, while the maximum drawdown measured 1.9%. These figures illustrate that even during a clear directional trend, volatility arrived in concentrated bursts, rewarding traders who maintained position discipline and penalizing those who over-leveraged on short-term fluctuations.
This scenario distills essential lessons in decision training: distinguishing signal from noise in a geopolitically charged environment, managing risk when macro drivers can overwhelm technical patterns, and controlling psychology when drawdowns test conviction. Participants learn to ask not only "what is the trend?" but also "when does uncertainty become my enemy?"—a question that transcends any single market or era.
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