USD/COP Historical Replay: 2023-02 to 2023-05
Replay 66 daily bars of USD/COP from February to May 2023, navigating an 11.2% drawdown as global banking stress shook emerging markets. Step through each trading day, make your calls at 12 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated performance.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2023-02 to 2023-05 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 90 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 11.2% and a 8.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −11.2%
- Max run-up
- +8.4%
- Duration
- 90 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.4%
- Bars
- 66 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 12
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 scene opens with the US dollar trading at 4583.4604 Colombian pesos in early February 2023. Over the following 66 trading days, participants navigate a period defined by global banking stress as the SVB and Credit Suisse crises unfolded. The USD/COP pair became a testbed for emerging market resilience, with Colombian assets particularly exposed to shifts in global risk appetite and dollar funding conditions. What was at stake extended beyond a currency pair—traders faced questions about crisis contagion, policy responses, and the credibility of central bank commitments in an environment of sudden financial instability.
The data reveals a complex journey: the pair ultimately closed at 4525.2998, representing a modest -1.3% decline over the full period. However, this headline figure obscures significant turbulence. The maximum drawdown reached 11.2%, a stark reminder that trending markets often mask violent interim reversals. The largest single-bar move of 3.4% occurred during peak uncertainty, when headlines could reverse sentiment within hours. Twelve decision points punctuated the replay—four of them critical junctures where positioning and conviction were tested to the fullest.
For decision training, this scenario exposes the gap between knowing a macro theme and executing under pressure. Process discipline matters: maintaining position sizing discipline during a double-digit drawdown separates systematic traders from reactive ones. Risk management becomes existential when 3.4% single-day swings threaten portfolio stability. Psychologically, the lesson is about managing the lag between market reality and perception—early movers faced drawdowns before the trend confirmed their thesis. This replay teaches that crisis environments reward preparation over prediction, and that survival through volatility is a prerequisite for capturing whatever opportunity emerges on the other side.
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