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CHF/JPY Historical Replay: 2020-05 to 2020-08

ForexG10 MajorsUSBoom2020-05 to 2020-08Difficulty 2/5FreeView charts

Replay the CHF/JPY 2020 risk-on recovery across 68 daily bars and a 6.5% climb, navigating four critical decision points and a 1.8% drawdown. Make your calls bar-by-bar as the AI coach reviews each simulated move for educational insight.

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68 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2020-05 to 2020-08 · Forex

Key facts

This window spans 95 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 1.8% and a 6.8% run-up.

Max drawdown
−1.8%
Max run-up
+6.8%
Duration
95 days
Largest single-day move
+1.1%
Bars
68 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

How to play
  1. The market advances day by day. You only see candles up to the current day — as if you were really there.

  2. At key decision points choose Buy / Trim / Exit / Hold. Each decision advances the timeline by one day.

  3. 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 scenario captures CHF/JPY during the early recovery phase of the pandemic era, spanning from May 6, 2020 to August 9, 2020 across 68 daily bars. This period represented a critical inflection point in global markets as economies began tentatively reopening and risk appetite returned to currency markets. The Swiss franc and Japanese yen, both traditionally sought during uncertainty, faced fresh dynamics as investors rotated toward higher-yielding assets.

The pair climbed 6.5% from 108.878 to 115.962 over the period. The journey was not monotonic—traders navigated a maximum drawdown of 1.8% and confronted the largest single-bar move of 1.1%. Twelve decision points punctuated the replay, four of which were marked as critical, demanding careful assessment of momentum shifts and risk management.

This replay teaches that trend-following in recovering markets requires discipline against premature exits during normal pullbacks. The modest 1.8% drawdown reminds us that even favorable directional moves contain friction. Critical decision points test whether traders can distinguish noise from genuine reversals—a skill honed only through deliberate practice against history rather than live capital.