CAD/CHF Historical Replay: 2018-04 to 2018-07
Replay 66 turbulent daily bars of CAD/CHF from April to July 2018, when a 5.5% drawdown tested every risk plan. Step through each decision point and let the AI coach review your choices in this simulated, educational scenario.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2018-04 to 2018-07 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 91 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 5.5% and a 4.6% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −5.5%
- Max run-up
- +4.6%
- Duration
- 91 days
- Largest single-day move
- +1.2%
- Bars
- 66 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 12
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 CAD/CHF pair entered a turbulent chapter in April 2018, when G10 forex markets faced mounting pressure from emerging-market contagion fears. Over 66 trading days from April 8 to July 8, traders navigated a period where a single currency pair could expose every weakness in a risk framework. The stakes were clear: sudden capital-flow reversals and shifting central-bank expectations demanded split-second judgment calls in a market that could reverse without warning.
What unfolded was a grinding test of endurance. The pair closed the period at 0.7554 from 0.7505—a modest 0.7% net gain—but the journey was anything but smooth. A maximum drawdown of 5.5% and the largest single daily swing of 1.2% meant that any position taken without robust risk controls would have been tested severely. Twelve decision points punctuated the period, with four marked as critical, demanding that participants reassess their assumptions constantly.
For decision training, this replay isolates three core pressures: maintaining process discipline when daily noise creates doubt, sizing positions against documented drawdown capacity rather than conviction, and preserving psychological equilibrium when a 1.2% intraday move triggers panic. The gap between the 0.7% final outcome and the 5.5% interim loss is where most traders abandon discipline—making this scenario a rigorous test of whether education translates into execution under real market stress.
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