USD/RUB Historical Replay: 2022-01 to 2022-05
Replay the 2022 USD/RUB crash as Russia invaded Ukraine, with one single-day move of 28.1% still on the chart. Step through 13 decision points across 72 daily bars, weigh each choice, and receive an AI coach review of your simulated reasoning.
72 daily bars · 13 decision points · 2022-01 to 2022-05 · Forex
Key facts
This window spans 100 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 53.4% and a 86.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −53.4%
- Max run-up
- +86.0%
- Duration
- 100 days
- Largest single-day move
- +28.1%
- Bars
- 72 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 13
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 early 2022, the USD/RUB forex pair became ground zero for one of the most volatile currency crises in recent memory. As geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated toward outright invasion, traders faced a market where normal correlations broke down and central bank signals became unreliable. The replay spans 72 daily bars from 2022-01-28 to 2022-05-08, placing participants directly into a historic moment where every tick could mean sudden capital erosion.
What unfolded was extraordinary even by emerging-market standards. The pair ultimately closed the period down -11.7%, but that benign-looking figure conceals a harrowing journey: a maximum drawdown of 53.4% and a single-day move of 28.1% remain etched on the chart. Participants must navigate 13 decision points, 5 of them marked as critical moments where the path forward was far from obvious.
This scenario strips away the comfort of hindsight to test what traders actually do under pressure. The lesson is not about predicting geopolitical shocks but about process: maintaining position discipline when volatility explodes, sizing appropriately for tail risks, and recognizing when fundamental analysis must yield to pure price action. The 28.1% single-day move alone demands a reassessment of how one defines acceptable loss parameters in frontier currency markets.
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