USD/TND Historical Replay: 2018-07 to 2018-10
Replay USD/TND across 64 trading days from July to October 2018, when the pair climbed 8.1% amid emerging-market turmoil. Make 11 decisions through 4 critical moments, receive an AI coach review of your reasoning. Simulated capital, historical data only.
64 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2018-07 to 2018-10 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 87 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 1.6% and a 8.2% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −1.6%
- Max run-up
- +8.2%
- Duration
- 87 days
- Largest single-day move
- +1.7%
- Bars
- 64 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 11
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/TND pair during July to October 2018 captured a moment of acute stress in emerging-market currencies. The Tunisian dinar faced mounting pressure as contagion fears spread from Turkey and Argentina to other exposed economies. This replay spans 64 trading days from July 9 to October 4, 2018, inviting participants to navigate uncertainty while managing exposure in a currency pair that was moving against most baseline expectations during a period of broad emerging-market turbulence.
The pair closed the period at 2.8164, rising from an opening of 2.6048—an 8.1% appreciation in the dollar against the dinar. Despite the clear directional trend, volatility remained relatively contained: the maximum drawdown reached just 1.6%, and the largest single-day move was only 1.7%. The steady climb in a quiet range presented its own challenge—maintaining conviction through a slow grind while avoiding the temptation to scale back too early.
This scenario tests decision-making under sustained directional pressure. Participants must manage position sizing against a backdrop of modest drawdowns, avoiding overconfidence when moves appear orderly. The four critical decision points demand evaluation of whether to add, reduce, or hold as the trend extends. The psychological lesson centers on calibrating patience with discipline—recognizing that a trend can persist far longer than intuition suggests while remaining vigilant to the structural risks that such environments conceal.
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