AUD/USD Historical Replay: 2015-11 to 2016-04
Replay AUD/USD across 108 daily bars from November 2015 to April 2016, a stretch that delivered a 6.3% climb in close. Walk through 19 decision points, seven of them critical, with an AI coach reviewing every choice you make.
108 daily bars · 19 decision points · 2015-11 to 2016-04 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 150 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 6.6% and a 11.8% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.6%
- Max run-up
- +11.8%
- Duration
- 150 days
- Largest single-day move
- −1.9%
- Bars
- 108 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 19
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 replay transports you to a defining moment in modern monetary history: the months surrounding the Federal Reserve's first policy rate hike in nearly a decade. AUD/USD was caught between a commodity-linked currency grappling with China's slowdown and a US dollar poised to strengthen on tightening expectations. The 108 daily bars spanning November 2015 through April 2016 capture this tension in real time.
The closing rate climbed from 0.7148 to 0.76, delivering a 6.3% return for the long side. Yet this aggregate gain obscures the turbulence underneath. The pair endured a maximum drawdown of 6.6%, and individual bars pushed as far as 1.9% in either direction. Navigating this required absorbing 19 decision points, seven of them flagged as critical junctures where the market's direction hung in the balance.
This scenario excels as a training ground for managing directional bets amid policy uncertainty. The drawdown figure reminds us that even correct macro theses require survival through interim setbacks. The 1.9% single-bar volatility underscores how announcements can generate violent intraday swings that test stop discipline. The abundance of critical decision points forces participants to confront the psychological cost of conviction versus flexibility, making it a rich case study for developing process-driven risk management.
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