In the entire world of forex, this was the best trade in 2015

Only a handful of currencies were stronger than the US dollar

USD was the top performing major, narrowly beating on the Swiss franc and Japanese yen but there is an entire world of thinly-traded currencies out there.

I have no idea what happened in Somalia in 2015 but they can wave the flag about the Somali shilling as it was the world's best performer, gaining 17.3% vs USD.

The bottom of the list is flush with heavy losers but note of them were worse than the Azerbaijani manat, which was nearly halved in 2015.

By some miracle, I was able to dig up a chart of AZN/SOS and it seems two big ANZ devaluations or SOS revaluations were the culprit.

You guys were all short, right?