AUD/USD Historical Replay: 2018-07 to 2018-10
Replay 64 daily bars of AUD/USD from July to October 2018 as it fell 5.2% amid emerging-market turmoil. Step through each session, make your own calls at 11 decision points, then receive an AI coach review of your simulated trading decisions.
64 daily bars · 11 decision points · 2018-07 to 2018-10 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 87 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 5.2% and a 2.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −5.2%
- Max run-up
- +2.5%
- Duration
- 87 days
- Largest single-day move
- +1.4%
- Bars
- 64 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 11
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 summer of 2018, the Australian dollar faced mounting pressure as a wave of emerging-market crises—particularly in Turkey and Argentina—rippled through global currency markets. As a G10 currency highly sensitive to risk sentiment and commodity flows, the AUD/USD pair sat at a crossroads: traders had to weigh aussie exposure against the broader flight to safety. The scenario spans 64 daily bars from July 9 to early October 2018, placing participants directly into one of the decade's most volatile FX periods.
What unfolded was a steady depreciation: the pair fell from 0.747 to 0.7081, representing a 5.2% decline over roughly three months. The maximum drawdown matched that figure at 5.2%, and intraday swings reached 1.4% on the most volatile sessions—enough to test any trader's discipline. With 11 decision points embedded across the replay, including 4 marked as critical, the scenario forced participants to act repeatedly under uncertainty rather than simply observe the outcome in hindsight.
For decision training, the session illuminates several core principles: the danger of standing still when macro headwinds accelerate; the importance of sizing positions so that a 1.4% single-bar move does not derail a portfolio; and the psychological challenge of acting at preset decision points instead of reacting to headlines. Experiencing the replay—even with simulated capital—builds the habitual muscles of process-driven trading rather than outcome-driven hindsight.
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