EUR/USD Historical Replay: 2018-04 to 2018-07
Replay 66 turbulent days from April to July 2018 as the euro slid 4.2% against the dollar. Step through each daily bar, make decisions at 12 branching points, and receive an AI coach review of your crisis-era choices in a fully simulated environment.
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 6.8% and a 2.3% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.8%
- Max run-up
- +2.3%
- Duration
- 91 days
- Largest single-day move
- −2.0%
- 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
In the spring of 2018, EUR/USD traders faced a tense three-month test as the G10 pair encountered heightened turbulence amid the Turkish lira crisis. The market presented 12 branching decision points, four of them critical, demanding traders navigate directional uncertainty across 66 daily bars without the comfort of hindsight. The stakes were clear: manage exposure to a currency pair whose volatility was spiking without clear consensus on the magnitude or duration of the move.
What unfolded was a steady erosion that nonetheless punished careless risk management. The pair closed the 2018-04-08 to 2018-07-08 data span at 1.1752, sliding from 1.2271 for a net decline of -4.2%. Beneath that headline figure lay sharper intraday violence: the largest single-bar move hit 2.0%, and peak-to-trough drawdown reached 6.8%. Those numbers meant that a trader caught flat-footed on any of the four critical nodes could have seen a substantial portion of capital consumed before the period concluded.
The episode offers a clinic in crisis-era process. Position sizing must be calibrated to the realistic maximum drawdown, not the expected decline. The largest single-bar move reminded participants that stop-losses set too tightly could be gapped through during news-driven spikes. Psychologically, a -4.2% headline move can feel manageable, but the path to get there—featuring a 6.8% trough—tests discipline and forces honest self-assessment of whether decisions were made from analysis or from the uncomfortable sensation of watching unrealized losses mount.
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