USD/MAD Historical Replay: 2011-06 to 2011-12
Replay the USD/MAD market across 122 daily bars from June to December 2011, a period that delivered a 6.3% close-to-close swing. Step through each session, navigate 21 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
122 daily bars · 21 decision points · 2011-06 to 2011-12 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 172 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 5.7% and a 10.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −5.7%
- Max run-up
- +10.9%
- Duration
- 172 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.9%
- Bars
- 122 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 21
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/MAD market in mid-2011 presented emerging-market traders with a genuine stress test. The Moroccan dirham, a currency known for its managed float regime, faced crosscurrents from a global confidence crisis triggered by the US sovereign debt downgrade in August. With the decade of the 2010s already showing cracks in the post-crisis recovery, participants in this replay step into a world where the rules of safe-haven flows were being rewritten and the line between orderly adjustment and disorderly capitulation remained dangerously thin across 122 daily bars.
What unfolded over this six-month span tested both fundamentals and nerve. The pair moved from a close of 7.7327 to 8.2193, delivering a 6.3% cumulative swing. The journey was not linear: a maximum drawdown of 5.7% reminded traders that the cost of being wrong could compound silently before opportunity appeared. Most striking for tactical decision-makers was a largest single-bar move of 3.9%, an intraday jolt that could erase a position's weekly profit in minutes. Navigating 21 decision points, including 7 critical junctions, demanded constant recalibration of exposure and conviction.
For decision training purposes, this replay offers a clinic in managing volatility under uncertainty. The combination of a moderate trending move with sudden spikes teaches the difference between holding through noise and reacting to signal. Traders confront the psychological temptation to average down into a drawdown or to exit prematurely at the first sign of recovery. The 2011 USD/MAD episode remains a disciplined classroom for those seeking to sharpen their process, risk calibration, and emotional regulation in an emerging-market context where fundamentals and sentiment diverge sharply.
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