USD/JPY Historical Replay: 2011-06 to 2011-12
Replay 122 daily bars of USD/JPY from 2011-06-23 to 2011-12-12, watching the pair fall from 80.44 to 77.612. Make your own calls at 21 decision points and receive an AI coach review in this simulated, educational market-replay experience.
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 6.8% and a 3.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.8%
- Max run-up
- +3.4%
- Duration
- 172 days
- Largest single-day move
- +3.4%
- 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 mid-2011, USD/JPY traders faced a market shaped by the aftermath of the US credit rating downgrade. The replay spans 122 daily bars from 2011-06-23 to 2011-12-12, a period when safe-haven flows dominated forex. The central tension: the yen strengthening against the dollar as investors fled risk assets globally. Participants must navigate this environment at 21 decision points, 7 of which are marked as critical, testing their ability to read shifting sentiment.
The pair moved from 80.44 to 77.612 over the replay period, a decline of -3.5%. The journey was not linear: the market experienced a maximum drawdown of 6.8% and produced a largest single-bar move of 3.4%. These figures illustrate how sustained pressure on the dollar combined with sudden risk-off spikes to create a volatile trading environment. Each decision point represents a moment where positioning and risk management decisions could amplify or mitigate exposure to these moves.
This scenario trains traders to manage positions through a prolonged risk-off episode. The key lessons involve calibrating position size against a 6.8% drawdown environment, recognizing that 3.4% single-bar spikes can test stop-loss discipline, and maintaining emotional balance when the trend grinds steadily against initial assumptions. Process over prediction drives effective performance here.
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