USD/KRW Historical Replay: 2022-01 to 2022-05
Replay 88 days of USD/KRW trading through the 2022 war shock, with the pair drifting just 4.2% from 1200.63 to 1251.59 while volatility spiked. You step through each session, tackle 15 decision points, and receive an AI coach review in a simulated educational setting.
88 daily bars · 15 decision points · 2022-01 to 2022-05 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 122 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 3.0% and a 8.2% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −3.0%
- Max run-up
- +8.2%
- Duration
- 122 days
- Largest single-day move
- −1.5%
- Bars
- 88 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 15
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/KRW pair entered early 2022 facing a new geopolitical reality. As tensions escalated into open conflict, emerging-market currencies came under scrutiny, with traders weighing how severely supply disruptions, sanctions, and risk-off flows might hit Asian exports and capital markets. This 88-day replay spans January 27 through May 29, placing participants inside each session as the war shock evolved, with 15 decision points—5 marked as critical—testing their ability to read the tape under pressure.
What unfolded defied the scale of the headlines. The dollar rose from 1200.63 to 1251.59, a modest 4.2% appreciation over the full period. The largest single-bar move registered just 1.5%, and peak drawdown stayed contained at 3.0%. In other words, the initial spike quickly gave way to a grinding, range-bound drift that rewarded patience and punished reactive positioning.
The episode is a textbook case for decision training. Process matters more than prophecy: no one could reliably forecast the political outcome, but disciplined risk management—sizing positions to survive the largest expected drawdown—kept capital intact. Psychology proved equally decisive. The temptation to over-hedge or abandon the thesis after the first headlines was real; those who held to a pre-defined framework avoided the costly whipsaws. For trainees, the lesson is clear: in geopolitical shocks, the market's reaction is often more instructive than the news itself.
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