EUR/USD Historical Replay: 2011-06 to 2011-12
Replay EUR/USD across 122 trading days in 2011, a period when the pair fell 6.3% from 1.427 to 1.3372 amid escalating sovereign-debt fears. Walk through every daily decision point, receive an AI coach review, and learn risk management in a fully simulated environment.
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 9.3% and a 7.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −9.3%
- Max run-up
- +7.4%
- Duration
- 172 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.2%
- 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
In the summer of 2011, the foreign-exchange world faced a pivotal test as the European sovereign-debt crisis deepened and credit-rating agencies turned cautious on major economies. EUR/USD, the world's most liquid pair, became the battlefield where traders weighed fiscal divergence against safe-haven flows. Over 122 trading days from June 23 to December 12, students replay this era to understand how political headlines translate into price action and why timing matters in a crisis.
The replay captures a -6.3% decline from 1.427 to 1.3372, but the journey was far from linear. A max drawdown of 9.3% and a largest single-bar move of 2.2% reveal sudden sentiment shifts that pure directional trades would miss. Navigating 21 decision points—7 deemed critical—trainers learn that volatility itself becomes a risk factor, not just a signal.
This scenario sharpens decision training by demanding discipline through extreme uncertainty. Students confront the psychological pull of loss aversion when a pair falls steadily, practice sizing positions around a 9.3% adverse move, and rehearse the composure needed to act on a 2.2% intraday spike without panic. The goal is not to predict the next crisis but to build repeatable processes that survive it.
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