AUD/CHF Historical Replay: 2018-08 to 2018-11
Replay 66 turbulent daily bars of AUD/CHF across the 2018 emerging-market crisis, where the pair moved within a 4.6% drawdown. Step into each session, face 12 decision points, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
66 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2018-08 to 2018-11 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 92 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 4.6% and a 6.4% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −4.6%
- Max run-up
- +6.4%
- Duration
- 92 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
In the late summer and autumn of 2018, the global foreign exchange markets faced a turbulent stretch as the Turkish lira and Argentine peso collapsed, sparking risk-off waves across G10 currencies. AUD/CHF found itself in the crossfire: the Australian dollar, sensitive to commodity cycles and Chinese demand, confronted the Swiss franc's traditional safe-haven bid. Over the 66 trading days from August 22 to November 22, traders navigated a period where confidence in emerging-market assets frayed and capital flows shifted abruptly.
The pair ultimately closed virtually flat, moving from 0.721 to 0.7217—a mere 0.1% gain—yet this masks the journey. The maximum drawdown reached 4.6%, and the most volatile single session produced a 1.2% swing, underscoring how much ground was covered and reclaimed during this span. Participants encountered 12 decision points, four of which the replay identifies as critical junctures where positioning and risk management were severely tested.
This replay distills the experience into a decision-training exercise. Navigating AUD/CHF through an emerging-market crisis requires disciplined position sizing, clear pre-commitment to loss thresholds, and emotional equilibrium when a 1.2% single-bar move threatens portfolio stability. The 4.6% drawdown serves as a concrete reminder that even pairs ending near their starting levels can demand significant psychological resilience and sound process to survive intermediate turbulence.
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