CAD/CHF Historical Replay: 2018-07 to 2018-10
Replay 64 daily bars of CAD/CHF from July to October 2018, a 1.5% climb set against a 4.2% drawdown during emerging-market turmoil. Step through the 11 decision points and receive an AI coach review of each choice in a simulated, educational environment.
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 4.2% and a 4.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −4.2%
- Max run-up
- +4.9%
- Duration
- 87 days
- Largest single-day move
- +2.0%
- 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
The summer of 2018 brought a quiet but instructive test for G10 currency traders. CAD/CHF, a pair that rarely commands headlines, moved through sixty-four daily bars from July 9 to October 4 against a backdrop of cascading emerging-market stress—Turkey's lira collapse and Argentina's peso crisis rattled confidence in risk assets globally. For participants navigating this replay, the challenge was not identifying the macro theme but surviving its volatility while keeping a coherent risk framework intact.
What unfolded over those three months was modest in net terms yet turbulent in execution. The pair climbed from 0.7561 to 0.7672, a net gain of 1.5%, yet the journey included a maximum drawdown of 4.2% and a single-bar swing of 2.0% that could unsettle even seasoned practitioners. Eleven decision points—four marked as critical—punctuated the period, each demanding a choice that would either compound or contain the damage. The math of small gains and large intraday ranges tested every trader's discipline.
This replay distills a core truth: process survives chaos where predictions fail. The ability to hold a position through a 4.2% adverse move, or to act decisively at a critical node without panic, separates trained decision-makers from reactive ones. By confronting this episode in a simulated environment, learners can examine their risk tolerance and refine their triage of which market signals warrant action and which merit patience.
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