CAD/JPY Historical Replay: 2022-08 to 2023-01
CAD/JPY dropped 8.0% across 98 daily bars from August 2022 to January 2023, navigating a 12.3% drawdown amid Japanese intervention. Replay each session, make your own calls at 17 decision points (6 critical), and receive an AI coach review of your reasoning. Simulated capital only, for education.
98 daily bars · 17 decision points · 2022-08 to 2023-01 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 138 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 12.3% and a 4.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −12.3%
- Max run-up
- +4.9%
- Duration
- 138 days
- Largest single-day move
- −3.4%
- Bars
- 98 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 17
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 autumn of 2022, the Bank of Japan's ultra-loose policy diverged sharply from the hawkish turns of major central banks, creating a textbook case of currency misalignment. CAD/JPY, a cross-rate sensitive to both commodity cycles and interest rate differentials, became a vehicle for carry trades and directional speculation. The Japanese Ministry of Finance held the power to intervene—officially and dramatically—when yen weakness threatened domestic economic stability.
What unfolded across 98 daily bars from August 18, 2022 to January 3, 2023 was an 8.0% decline from 104.875 to 96.449, punctuated by a 12.3% peak-to-trough drawdown. The largest single session move of 3.4% signaled moments of acute market stress, likely around intervention announcements or unexpected policy signals. Navigating this volatility required traders to act at 17 decision points, with 6 critical junctures demanding the most disciplined risk management.
This replay trains traders to confront the psychology of intervention risk—sudden, politically-driven moves that can invalidate technical setups and fundamental analysis alike. Participants must practice sizing positions to survive drawdowns of 12.3% without emotional capitulation, and learn to distinguish between noise and structural shifts when single sessions swing 3.4%. The lesson is not prediction but preparation: disciplined process, strict risk controls, and emotional resilience are the tools that matter when central bank surprises rewrite the rules of engagement.
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