USD/MAD Historical Replay: 2017-11 to 2018-05
Step through 130 daily bars of the USD/MAD emerging-market forex pair from 2017-11-15 to 2018-05-14, navigating 8 critical decisions. Replay each authentic trading day, weigh your choices at 23 decision points, and receive an AI coach review — all in a simulated, educational environment.
130 daily bars · 23 decision points · 2017-11 to 2018-05 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 180 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 5.3% and a 4.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −5.3%
- Max run-up
- +4.9%
- Duration
- 180 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.5%
- Bars
- 130 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 23
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
During the final months of 2017 and into early 2018, the US dollar faced uncertainty against emerging market currencies as global growth accelerated synchronously. The USD/MAD pair offered a window into this volatility, pitting the world's reserve currency against the Moroccan dirham across 130 daily bars. Participants entering this replay stepped into a period where emerging market resilience was being tested against dollar dynamics, with 23 decision points embedded across the dataset. The scenario framed around the 2018-01 global growth narrative set the stage for navigating an EM forex pair with its own structural drivers and sensitivities.
The pair closed the period at 9.3409, representing a modest 1.8% move from the opening 9.1787 level. Yet this headline number concealed significant turbulence: a maximum drawdown of 5.3% tested positions and patience alike, while the largest single-bar move of 3.5% demonstrated how quickly sentiment could shift. Eight critical decision points punctuated the journey, forcing traders to respond to developments rather than simply ride a directional trend. The range of outcomes embedded in these bars made passive holding a perilous strategy.
For decision training, this scenario excels at teaching risk calibration in illiquid, sensitive markets. The 5.3% drawdown arriving without a clean directional precedent challenges confirmation bias. The 3.5% single-bar volatility reminds participants that tail moves in EM forex can materialize overnight or on thin volume. Process discipline—sticking to rules at decision points rather than reacting to noise—proves more valuable than predicting the next day's close. The psychological dimension centers on managing the gap between the small net result and the larger intermediate swings, a lesson applicable far beyond this particular currency pair.