USD/KRW Historical Replay: 2015-06 to 2015-12
From June to December 2015, USD/KRW climbed about 5.5% with a 6.7% drawdown as the 811 yuan reform reshaped Asian FX. Replay 116 daily bars, tackle 7 critical decision points, and receive an AI coach review in this simulated educational drill.
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 6.7% and a 7.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.7%
- Max run-up
- +7.5%
- Duration
- 162 days
- Largest single-day move
- +1.7%
- 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, a quiet but consequential shift in Chinese monetary policy sent tremors across Asian foreign-exchange markets. The August 811 yuan reform, which restructured how China manages its currency, altered regional capital-flow expectations and forced traders to reassess risk across the emerging-market FX complex. USD/KRW sat at the crossroads of that re-pricing, making it a useful case study for understanding how policy-driven shocks propagate through correlated currency pairs.
From June 30 to December 9, 2015, the pair climbed from 1117.5601 to 1178.59, a move of roughly 5.5% over 116 daily bars. The journey was far from straight: a 6.7% max drawdown and a 1.7% largest single-bar swing underscore the volatility that policy uncertainty can inject into FX markets. The depreciation unfolded in waves, with periods of sharp moves punctuated by reversals that tested any conviction built on the initial thesis.
The scenario places participants at 20 decision points, 7 of which are flagged as critical, demanding discipline in position sizing and risk management during a sustained depreciation trend. Navigating this historical episode teaches traders to separate signal from noise under uncertainty, manage exposure through whipsaw periods, and avoid common psychological pitfalls such as overtrading or averaging into a losing position. This is history as training ground, not a prediction.