USD/THB Historical Replay: 2018-10 to 2019-01
Replay USD/THB from October 2018 as it slid 3.1% to 31.75 across 64 daily bars marked by EM volatility. You step through each trading day, tackle 11 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your choices in a simulated, educational setting.
64 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2018-10 to 2019-01 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 90 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 4.9% and a 1.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −4.9%
- Max run-up
- +1.5%
- Duration
- 90 days
- Largest single-day move
- −1.0%
- 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 replay centers on USD/THB as emerging market currencies faced renewed pressure in late 2018. The data span runs from 2018-10-23 to 2019-01-21, capturing 64 daily bars of action during a period when regional currencies wavered under shifting global risk appetite. Eleven decision points, four of them critical, await each participant stepping through this historical stretch.
The pair declined 3.1% from 32.78 to 31.75, with a maximum drawdown of 4.9% and a largest single-bar move of 1.0%. This modest-looking total move unfolded through intermittent pockets of turbulence, rewarding those who could distinguish signal from noise rather than simply following the directional trend.
The scenario offers a classroom in process discipline. Trading through 11 decision points forces participants to confront the gap between knowing a general direction and executing well under uncertainty. The 4.9% max drawdown anchors realistic position-sizing conversations, while the 1.0% intraday spikes test emotional control when positions briefly move against you. The 2010s context reminds us that emerging market volatility is episodic, not permanent, and that patience combined with defined risk parameters often matters more than directional conviction.
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