AUD/USD Historical Replay: 2018-02 to 2018-08
Replay the 2018-02 to 2018-08 AUD/USD slide from 0.7861 to 0.7268, a 7.5% decline, day by day. Make 23 decisions, hit 8 critical forks, and receive an AI coach review on your simulated choices.
130 daily bars · 23 decision points · 2018-02 to 2018-08 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 180 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 8.5% and a 2.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −8.5%
- Max run-up
- +2.9%
- Duration
- 180 days
- Largest single-day move
- −1.4%
- Bars
- 130 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 23
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 Australian dollar versus US dollar pair entered early 2018 as global currency markets absorbed the implications of a strengthening American economy. Between mid-February and mid-August 2018, traders and analysts watched as the Reserve Bank of Australia faced a fundamentally different policy environment from the Federal Reserve. The central bank divergence that had defined much of the 2010s was sharpening, creating sustained directional pressure on the AUD that demanded careful position management.
Across the 130 daily bars spanning this period, the AUD/USD rate declined from 0.7861 to 0.7268, a movement representing a 7.5% loss for Australian dollar holders. The journey was not smooth; the scenario recorded a maximum drawdown of 8.5%, with the largest single trading day seeing a 1.4% swing. Those navigating this replay faced a market that repeatedly challenged stop-loss discipline and forced repeated reassessment of support levels as the downtrend carved through technical barriers.
This scenario places participants at 23 decision points, eight of which represent critical forks where directional conviction was most severely tested. The historical replay emphasizes process over prediction, asking traders to manage risk within a known outcome framework. Trainees must confront the psychological difficulty of maintaining discipline during a steady erosion of value, practicing position sizing and emotional control rather than forecasting the exact bottom of a policy-driven move.