EUR/CHF Historical Replay: 2018-08 to 2018-11
Replay 66 daily bars of EUR/CHF from 2018-08-22 to 2018-11-22, watching a 2.1% max drawdown unfold during emerging-market turmoil. Step through 12 decision points, four of them critical, and receive AI coach feedback on each call — simulated capital, educational use only.
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 2.1% and a 2.5% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −2.1%
- Max run-up
- +2.5%
- Duration
- 92 days
- Largest single-day move
- +0.9%
- 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 replay transports you to the autumn of 2018, when the Turkish lira and Argentine peso imploded, sending shockwaves through global markets. EUR/CHF, typically one of the G10's quieter pairs, was suddenly thrust into the spotlight as traders gauged whether safe-haven demand for the franc would override everything else. The scenario runs 66 daily bars across three months, giving you the full texture of a prolonged uncertainty episode rather than a single flash crash.
Over this span, EUR/CHF closed at 1.1391 and ended at 1.1322, a modest -0.6% decline that looks almost tame in isolation. The real story was in the turbulence underneath: a max drawdown of 2.1% and a largest single-bar move of 0.9% meant the path was far rougher than the endpoint suggests. Twelve decision points are embedded in the data, four of them flagged as critical — moments where the emerging-market contagion narrative could have shifted the franc either way. Every tick of price action tests your ability to separate signal from noise in a market that refused to trend cleanly.
This replay sharpens three skills that are hard to practice elsewhere. First, process discipline: with no clean directional bias, you must define entry and exit rules before the market tells you what it wants. Second, risk calibration: a 2.1% drawdown on a supposedly stable pair should recalibrate your position sizing assumptions. Third, psychological resilience: the four critical nodes force you to commit under uncertainty and then evaluate honestly whether your reasoning held. Simulated capital lets you fail and iterate without consequence — that is the real edge this replay offers.
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