CAD/CHF Historical Replay: 2018-08 to 2018-11
Replay 66 turbulent daily bars of CAD/CHF from August to November 2018, when emerging-market stress rippled through G10 FX. Step through each session, weigh critical decisions, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated judgment.
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 2.9% and a 4.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −2.9%
- Max run-up
- +4.9%
- Duration
- 92 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
The CAD/CHF pair during August to November 2018 represents a classic case study in how emerging-market crises radiate outward to affect even the most stable G10 currencies. During this period, Turkey faced a currency crisis while Argentina struggled with its own financial turmoil, creating ripples of uncertainty across global markets. The Swiss franc, traditionally a safe-haven currency, and the Canadian dollar, closely tied to commodity markets and US economic dynamics, found themselves in a complex interplay during this 66-day window. What made this period particularly valuable for training was the tension between the flight-to-safety flows favoring CHF and the broader risk-off sentiment affecting commodity currencies like CAD.
The replay covers 66 daily bars from August 22 to November 22, 2018. The pair ultimately closed at 0.7512, down 0.6% from its opening level of 0.7558. Yet this modest headline figure obscures the turbulence beneath the surface: a maximum drawdown of 2.9% and a largest single-bar move of 2.0% demonstrate that traders navigating this period faced genuine volatility spikes. The scenario presents 12 decision points, of which 4 are marked as critical, requiring participants to demonstrate sound judgment under pressure at moments when the market's direction was most uncertain.
This replay teaches the importance of distinguishing between noise and signal in volatile periods. The small overall decline could lure a participant into complacency, while the embedded drawdown and single-bar swings reveal the real risk management challenges. Practicing through this scenario helps develop the psychological resilience needed to hold positions through adverse moves, exit at appropriate times, and resist overtrading when volatility increases. It is a training ground for disciplined decision-making under the kind of uncertainty that characterized late-summer and autumn 2018.
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