USD/THB Historical Replay: 2011-06 to 2011-12
Replay 122 daily bars of USD/THB from 2011-06-23 to 2011-12-12, when the pair closed up just 0.3% despite a 6.1% drawdown. You step through the period day-by-day, make calls at 21 decision points, and receive AI coach feedback in a simulated training environment.
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 6.1% and a 7.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.1%
- Max run-up
- +7.8%
- Duration
- 172 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.4%
- 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
In the summer of 2011, the foreign exchange market faced one of its most turbulent periods of the decade. The US credit rating downgrade in August sent shockwaves through global markets, forcing traders to reassess risk across asset classes. For those watching the Thai baht, the USD/THB pair represented a window into how emerging market currencies behave when safe-haven flows reverse and regional fundamentals compete with global sentiment. The stakes were high: understanding whether moves were noise or signal, and whether to hold, adjust, or exit.
The replay spans 122 daily bars from 2011-06-23 to 2011-12-12. The pair opened at 30.311 and closed at 30.405, an apparent flatness of just 0.3%. Yet this masks a more turbulent journey: the maximum drawdown reached 6.1%, and the largest single-bar move hit 3.4%. In other words, the round-trip cost was enormous despite the negligible endpoint change. Navigating such false calm requires distinguishing between temporary disruptions and durable trends.
This scenario offers 21 decision points, 7 of them critical, to train that distinction. Participants practice holding conviction during sharp reversals, sizing positions relative to a 6.1% expected range, and resisting the urge to exit at local lows. The AI coach provides feedback on process rather than outcome, reinforcing that survival in volatile EM fx is less about predicting direction than about maintaining discipline when the data screams in both directions.
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