EUR/CHF Historical Replay: 2011-06 to 2011-12
Replay EUR/CHF across 122 daily bars from June to December 2011, when the pair swung 16.8% from peak drawdown during the US debt-downgrade flight to safety. Step through 21 decision points (7 critical) day by day, face branching choices, and receive an AI coach review — simulated capital, purely educational.
122 daily bars · 21 decision points · 2011-06 to 2011-12 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 172 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 16.8% and a 21.2% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −16.8%
- Max run-up
- +21.2%
- Duration
- 172 days
- Largest single-day move
- +9.2%
- Bars
- 122 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 21
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 summer of 2011 found currency markets caught between two anxieties: Europe's spreading sovereign debt crisis and America's first-ever credit rating downgrade. EUR/CHF became a strange beneficiary of this tension, as traders weighed eurozone troubles against the safe-haven appeal of the Swiss franc. This six-month replay spans 122 daily bars, placing you inside the decision-making that unfolded as markets tried to price an unprecedented political and fiscal collision.
The pair moved from 1.1957 to 1.2376, delivering a 3.5% return — yet this modest headline number conceals the turbulence beneath. A maximum drawdown of 16.8% tested anyone holding positions through the period, and the single largest daily move reached 9.2%. For traders, the real story was not direction but volatility: a market that could swing 9.2% in one session demanded constant recalibration of stops, sizing, and conviction.
This replay offers 21 decision points, 7 of them critical crossroads where the next move was genuinely uncertain. The training value lies not in predicting the outcome but in practicing the process: sizing positions against known drawdown scenarios, managing fear when a single bar erases a week's work, and building discipline to execute a plan when the news flow screams for panic. Historical crises teach humility — the market often surprises, and a repeatable process protects capital when certainty fails.
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