Forex Archive
Currency replays across G10 majors and emerging-market pairs — de-peggings, carry unwinds and policy-driven dislocations. FX compresses macro into price faster than any other market.
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2025 · Forex · US
June–September 2025: The Dollar Softens, EM Currencies Catch a Breath
A 66-trading-day window when the US dollar reversed course, testing EM discipline across 36 currency pairs from ARS to ZMW.
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July–October 2025: Inflation Signals and a Dollar in Three Speeds
Three months of FX data reveal how diverging inflation expectations reshaped G10 and EM currency trajectories from mid-July through late October 2025.
Read the file →2024 · Forex · US
October 2024: The Dollar's Policy-Driven Surge — How One Political Inflection Reshaped 49 Currency Pairs
October 2024 triggered a dollar surge that rippled across 49 currency pairs in three months. From orderly CNY depreciation to disorderly RUB moves, the divergence tells the full story.
Read the file →2024 · Forex · JP
2024 Spring: When Tokyo Drew the Line at 152 — Japan's Yen Defense in G10 Forex
Tokyo's spring 2024 stance at the 152 USD/JPY level shaped G10 crosses for three months. Seven currency pairs, 66 trading days of data, and a policy signal that market momentum ultimately overwhelmed.
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June–September 2024: The G10 Yen Carry Unwind and Seven-Cross Synchronous Decline
JPY carry unwind: seven G10 crosses fell 3-9% in 68 trading days, USD/JPY -8.6% (Jun–Sep 2024)
Read the file →2023 · Forex · US
2023-05-09: EM Currency Storm — How Dollar Stratification Rewrote Risk Across 49 Pairs
US debt-ceiling brinkmanship May–Aug 2023 fragmented EM FX into distinct strata, from Nigeria's 66% naira collapse to Albania's measured 5.6% decline. Yen weakness followed.
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2023 Spring: 66 Days That Shook Global Forex Through the SVB–Credit Suisse Crisis
From February 6 to May 7, 2023, the USD/CNY cross moved just 2.0% — yet 61 currency pairs endured extreme internal stress as the SVB and Credit Suisse crises reshaped global forex markets.
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March–July 2023: When SVB Shook the World — Currency Markets in the Banking Crisis
Silicon Valley Bank's March 2023 collapse triggered a global banking scare that rippled through 97 forex markets, from the Chinese yuan to the Turkish lira.
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November 2023: Red Sea Tensions Shook Global Forex — 79 Currency Pairs Under the Microscope
Geopolitical fault line meets currency markets: how Red Sea tensions from November 2023 reshaped 79 forex pairs across six months and 132 trading days.
Read the file →2022 · Forex · US
2022 Autumn: Three Forex Storms — Yen Intervention, UK Mini-Budget, Dollar Peak at 114
USD/JPY reversed after Japan's finance ministry intervened; GBP collapsed on the UK mini-budget crisis; DXY hit 114 in Q4 2022 — all within months.
Read the file →2022 · Forex · RU
2022 Early: Geopolitical War Shock and Global FX Repricing
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the ruble's 53% drawdown became the defining FX crisis — rippling through 87 emerging-market currencies from January through May.
Read the file →2022 · Forex · EU
2022: The Euro's Parity Crisis — G10 Forex Under Geopolitical Stress
ECB's 2022 rate hike amid war-driven energy shocks sent the euro toward dollar parity across G10 pairs, with drawdowns reaching 8.6%.
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February 2021: Commodity Shock Rattles Forex Markets
Six forex pairs in early 2021 reveal how commodity price volatility reshaped currency valuations across emerging and G10 markets.
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November 24, 2021: The Fed's Hawkish Pivot and How Emerging Market Currencies Fractured
The Fed signaled tighter policy on Nov. 24, 2021, sending the dollar higher across 42 EM currency pairs over 64 trading days.
Read the file →2020 · Forex · US
November 17, 2020: The Dollar Begins Its Post-Pandemic Turn — A Cluster of 47 Forex Replays
The dollar opened at 104.541 on November 17, 2020. Over the next six months, it weakened against every one of 47 emerging and G10 currency pairs, but the journey was far from smooth.
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Summer 2020: The Dollar Retreat and 101 Currency Markets
The mid-2020 global risk-asset rebound drove dollar weakness across 101 currency pairs, with drawdowns ranging from 0.2% to 10.1%.
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2020 Q4: The Dollar's Broad Retreat — 46 Currency Pairs in the Pandemic Era FX Shift
In late 2020 the US dollar weakened across 46 currency pairs over 84 trading days, as pandemic uncertainty met extraordinary monetary policy divergence.
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August 5, 2019: RMB Breaks 7 — the Chain Reaction That Shook EM Forex
August 5, 2019 — the USD/CNY pair crosses 7 for the first time in years, igniting a shockwave across emerging-market currencies and G10 forex. 2019, forex, US and CN.
Read the file →2019 · Forex · CN
August 2019: Renminbi Crosses 7, EM Forex Caught in the Trade-War Crossfire
When the renminbi broke through 7 in August 2019, Indonesia's rupiah and five other ASEAN currencies faced a cascade of spillover pressure — the full 66-day window and its trading lessons.
Read the file →2018 · Forex · TR
August–November 2018: How Turkey and Argentina Shook the World's Currencies
The 2018 Turkish lira and Argentine peso collapses triggered a cascade through emerging-market FX, with max drawdowns ranging from 1.2% on USD/CNY to 23.0% on EUR/TRY across 66 trading days.
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2018 Spring: The Turkish Lira Crisis and EM Currency Contagion
How a diplomatic spat between Turkey and the US triggered a cascading EM currency crisis across four continents in 66 trading days.
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Summer 2018: Trade War and EM Currency Crisis Collide Across 76 FX Replays
Trade-war depreciation of the yuan and the Turkey-Argentina crisis tested global FX in summer 2018 across 76 currency-pair scenarios.
Read the file →2018 · Forex · JP
October 23, 2018: USD/CNY Enters the Trade-War Vortex, Reshaping Emerging-Market Forex
When USD/CNY broke key levels in late 2018, trade-war fears and a Fed pivot sent EM currencies into a four-month tailspin across 104 market slices.
Read the file →2015 · Forex · EU
March 2015: ECB QE Launch and the Euro's Divergent Paths Across G10 Markets
When the ECB unveiled quantitative easing in March 2015, EUR crosses told five different stories—from EUR/JPY's 6.8% rally to EUR/GBP's 5.0% drawdown, all within 64 trading days.
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December 2015: The Federal Reserve Hikes—and Emerging-Market Currencies Fracture
When the Fed finally lifted rates in December 2015, emerging-market forex had already begun fracturing. A forensic look at how policy divergence triggered currency crises across the developing world.
Read the file →2014 · Forex · US
2014: The Dollar's Broad Surge and the EM Forex Reckoning
2014: Dollar's surge reshaped global currency markets. Fed-ECB divergence drove EM/G10 FX across two waves, July–Jan.
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June 8, 2014: The Dollar's Tentative Recovery and the FX Divide it Exposed
On June 8, 2014 the dollar surged against most currencies, revealing the chasm between managed rates and free-floating EM volatility — a 66-day window for decision training.
Read the file →2014 · Forex · CH
2015-01-15: SNB Ends Euro Peg, CHF Pairs Experience Largest Single-Day Moves in Decades
On Jan 15, 2015 the SNB abandoned its 3-year EUR/CHF floor, triggering extreme CHF volatility across G10 FX. All figures from FinFable's scenario data confirm the scale.
Read the file →2013 · Forex · JP
January–May 2013: Abenomics Unleashes Yen Weakness Across G10 Forex
When Japan's new government launched massive monetary stimulus in 2013, every G10 cross against the yen broke higher — but the paths were anything but straight.
Read the file →2012 · Forex · EU
Summer 2012: The Euro Under Pressure — Five Currency Pairs, One Crisis
The summer of 2012 found the euro under severe stress as the European sovereign debt crisis unfolded across the continent, with five major G10 currency pairs diverging sharply.
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July 2012: EUR/CHF Floor and the Divergent Fortunes of G10 Currency Pairs
The SNB's 11-month-old floor against the euro framed a summer of divergent G10 currency moves as the ECB pivoted toward aggressive easing.
Read the file →2011 · Forex · US
2011 Summer: The US Credit Downgrade and Global Forex Stress Test
August 2011's unprecedented US sovereign credit downgrade sent shockwaves through forex markets, creating a 122-trading-day stress test across emerging and G10 currency pairs from June to December.
Read the file →2010 · Forex · EU
August 2010: Euro Under Fire — Five Currency Pairs and the First European Sovereign Debt Stress Test
The euro faced its first systemic test of the decade in summer 2010 as Greek debt concerns rippled across G10 forex markets, producing divergent but interconnected moves in five currency pairs.
Read the file →2009 · Forex · US
2009 Q2: Dollar Rotation and the Drawdown Gap — How a Broad EM Forex Boom Tested Process Over Prediction
April–July 2009: the dollar retreated broadly against EM currencies as risk appetite returned, but max drawdowns of 10–17% on 4–14% realized moves tested every trader's discipline.
Read the file →2009 · Forex · US
February–May 2009: The Global Forex Boom That Followed the Financial Crisis
Crisis aftermath turned bullish—60 forex pairs rallied as risk appetite returned amid QE1 and fiscal stimulus. A decision-training archive for traders.
Read the file →2008 · Forex · US
2008-07-29: The Global Forex Crisis — When Emerging-Market Currencies Met the Liquidity Abyss
Lehman collapse triggered a global dollar scramble that crushed EM currencies across six months. AUD/JPY dropped 41%, USD/UAH surged 16.2% in a single session.
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2008-10-07: How Emerging-Market FX Markets Fractured After Lehman
When Lehman fell, capital fled EM currencies indiscriminately. Across 108 pairs, the real story lived in the gap between final prices and the drawdowns endured getting there.
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February–July 2008: Bear Stearns and the First Wave of Global FX Stress
How Bear Stearns' March 2008 collapse exposed structural fault lines across 61 currency pairs, creating divergent crises in EM and G10 FX markets.
Read the file →2008 · Forex · EU
Summer 2008: EUR Crosses and the Anatomy of a G10 Forex Boom
In summer 2008, EUR crosses revealed how a calm surface conceals internal turbulence. Four replays, 88 trading days of EUR/GBP alone, show the anatomy of drawdown risk.
Read the file →2007 · Forex · US
July–October 2007: Subprime Tremors Move Through 52 Forex Pairs
When US mortgage stress metastasized into global forex volatility — a 52-pair window revealing how contagion reshaped currency markets.
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August–November 2007: Subprime Shock Ripples Through 62 Emerging-Market Currency Pairs
When BNP Paribas froze funds on August 9, 2007, few anticipated the three-month cascade through emerging FX. This archive reconstructs the contagion from USD/UGX to USD/ZAR across 66 trading days.
Read the file →2007 · Forex · EU
Autumn 2007: EUR Crosses Navigate the G10 Forex Boom
A deep dive into four EUR cross-rate trajectories during the volatile autumn of 2007, when G10 forex offered sharp trends and sudden reversals.
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November 2007: The Euro Cross Turbulence — When FX Noise Buried the Signal
Sixty-eight trading days across five EUR pairs reveal how end-2007 FX volatility created drawdowns far exceeding the net price changes that survived.
Read the file →2006 · Forex · JP
December 18, 2006: The Carry Trade Unwind and 60 Currency Pairs Under Pressure
On December 18, 2006, global carry trades began unwinding rapidly, crushing positions across G10 and emerging market currencies for six months.
Read the file →2006 · Forex · CN
Mid-2006: CNY Revaluation and the G10 Forex Boom — When Direction Deceived
May–Aug 2006: CNY's gradual appreciation reshaped G10 FX flows; AUD/USD, AUD/JPY carry, and EM crosses revealed how micro-direction masked macro volatility.
Read the file →2006 · Forex · JP
2006 Global Carry Trade Bubble: Anatomy of a 130-Day Forex Unwind
On February 15, 2006, the global carry trade era began unraveling. This article traces the mechanics, spread, and impact across 56 currency pairs over six months.
Read the file →2006 · Forex · CN
2006 Spring: Asia Forex Volatility — G10 Crosses in the Post-Boom Window
G10 forex crosses navigated a volatile spring-summer 2006 as Asia currencies absorbed shifting capital flows and commodity cycles. Max drawdowns up to 5.9% in EM pairs.
Read the file →2005 · Forex · JP
2005–2006: The Global Carry Trade Unwind and Its FX Aftermath
In late 2005, a coordinated unwinding of yen-funded carry trades shook forex markets across G10 and EM pairs — a pattern now studied for decision-training.
Read the file →2004 · Forex · US
2004-10: The Dollar Reversal — Fed Tightening and 37 Currency Markets
The Federal Reserve's mid-2004 tightening cycle triggered a broad dollar reversal, reshaping forex markets across G10 and emerging economies through April 2005.
Read the file →2004 · Forex · JP
2004-07-21: The USD/BRL Reversal — Brazil's Real and the Carry Trade Unwind
Brazilian real's 29% appreciation from July 2004 to August 2006 exposed the fragility of carry-funded EM positions when global liquidity conditions shift.
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