Manual Backtest

Two years of experience. In one week.

Don't wait months trading live to know if your setup has edge. Replay the market at 100× speed, open trades like they're real, and at the end you have Sharpe, Profit Factor and Expectancy calculated on your own execution — not on code that automates something you'd never actually do.

Manual backtest replay with open Trade Bar and closed trade
Live demo

12 candles. One real decision.

Trade Bar to open, BUY/SL/TP markers on the chart, dock with your open and closed trades, replay with adjustable speed. Hit play and play — it's not a video, it's the real engine.

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Pre-cached data of NQ (Nasdaq 100 Futures) during FOMC week, Dec 8–12, 2025. Hit play, open trades, watch SL/TP trigger in real time. In the real app you also get: 8 timeframes, indicators, drag&drop levels, Limit/Stop orders, real commission and swap.

What you get

Replay with a real engine. Zero decorative GIFs.

Runs on the same engine as the algorithmic backtest. Same metrics. Finally you can compare your manual execution against an automated system on equal terms.

Replay 1× to 100×

Adjust speed for the timeframe you want to practice. A week of M5 in 8 minutes. A month of H1 in 15. You're in control.

Floating Trade Bar

Long/Short, lots or % risk, Market/Limit/Stop, SL and TP. Draggable levels on the chart. One UI, no broker terminals open.

Native multi-timeframe

Switch between M1, M5, M15, M30, H1, H4, D1 and W1 without losing progress. Useful for validating setups that depend on higher-TF context.

Metrics identical to production

Sharpe López de Prado, Profit Factor, Expectancy, Max Drawdown, Win Rate, Recovery Factor — calculated with the same formula as live trading. No lying to the ego.

Import your MT5 history

Already traded demo or live and want to analyze it? Upload the HTML or CSV statement and get the full report without touching a single candle.

Real commission and swap

Final numbers include the cost of the broker you select. Your demo Sharpe isn't the same as your live Sharpe with $7 commission per lot — and here you see it first.

Four steps. From opening the app to having your real metrics.

1

Create the session

Pick instrument (EUR/USD, BTC, NQ, whatever), date range, starting balance. The session is saved — pause and resume whenever.

2

Replay bar by bar

Hit play. The engine replays the market at your chosen speed. When you see a setup, open the trade from the Trade Bar. SL and TP set in one move. Advance, observe, decide.

3

Close whenever

Click the open trade → Close. Or let SL/TP do it for you. The session saves every decision with timestamp and exact price. Balance updates live.

4

Read your statistical report

At the end (or anytime) open the report with every metric: equity curve, drawdown, Sharpe, Profit Factor, return distribution, max streak, expectancy per setup.

What this actually solves

If this sounds like "just a simulator" to you, you haven't used one properly. This is the lever that compresses your learning curve — without burning capital learning what you could have already known.

Validate a new setup in hours

Before committing capital to an idea, test it on 200 past trades. If your Profit Factor comes out below 1.3, you already know it wasn't gold.

Practice prop firm evaluation

Set balance $50K, daily loss 3%, drawdown 8% and trade the session like it's real. If you pass — buy the challenge. If not — keep practicing free.

Compress your learning curve

A trader takes 2 years to make 500 real trades. Here you do them in a week. More feedback, faster — without paying for it with your account.

Audit your past trading

Upload the HTML statement of your last 6 months trading live. Without touching anything by hand, you see where your PF falls apart, which setup bleeds your account and which session pays.

Compare two systems

Session A with your classic system, session B with the new variant. Same market, same dates. The report tells you which delivers better risk-adjusted Expectancy.

Kill the stage fright

If your system works in manual backtest, the next step is live demo. Then real. No leaps of faith — scaling with data.

Your sessions. Your history. Your evolution.

Every saved session is ready to continue. Switch instrument, close it, come back tomorrow. The state persists — open trades, exact candle where you left off, everything.

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The distance between your setup and your live account is crossed by practicing.

FREE plan includes manual backtest with limited sessions. For unlimited and heavy multi-timeframe, PRO plan ($49).

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Available from FREE planSaved sessionsMetrics identical to live account