CHF/JPY Historical Replay: 2024-06 to 2024-09
Replay 68 daily bars of CHF/JPY from June 5 to September 8, 2024, capturing a 6.1% drawdown as yen carry trades unwind. Step through 12 decision points, including 4 critical ones, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated choices.
68 daily bars · 12 decision points · 2024-06 to 2024-09 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 95 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 6.1% and a 2.9% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −6.1%
- Max run-up
- +2.9%
- Duration
- 95 days
- Largest single-day move
- −1.8%
- 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
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 summer of 2024 brought a quiet but significant shift in one of foreign exchange's most watched cross pairs. CHF/JPY, a staple of yen carry trading where investors borrow cheaply in Japanese yen to hunt for higher returns elsewhere, entered a period of stress as sentiment toward the carry trade began to sour. Between June 5 and September 8, 2024, 68 daily bars of authentic price action are replayed here, placing traders at the center of an unfolding unwind that would test both their conviction and their risk discipline.
The numbers tell the story of a grinding decline rather than a dramatic collapse. The pair fell from 174.6776 to 168.8208, a modest -3.4% that nonetheless contained sharper moves within it. The maximum drawdown reached 6.1%, with individual daily bars producing moves as large as 1.8%—movements that, while not catastrophic, were large enough to challenge position sizing and stop-loss discipline for anyone caught on the wrong side. The slow bleed forced traders to confront a difficult question: is this noise or the beginning of a larger reversal?
Navigating this market demanded disciplined decision-making at every turn. The replay places traders at 12 distinct decision points, 4 of which are particularly critical, requiring them to actively manage exposure as the carry trade unwind progressed. This scenario strips away hindsight bias, demanding that participants commit to choices in real-time—testing their ability to balance risk management with conviction about directional momentum. The psychological dimension proves as vital as technical skill: staying disciplined through a 6.1% drawdown while managing the emotional temptation to abandon a thesis under pressure is where the deepest lessons emerge.
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