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Backtest a strategy on historical candles

Test your playbook's rules on past price data with realistic fills and costs.

Updated 1 min readPro Needs Pro or EliteAlso available in Português, Español, Français, Deutsch, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia
  1. 1Open Backtester and pick a playbook or a preset.
  2. 2Build the rules: entries (EMA cross, price vs EMA, RSI, breakouts), filters (session, weekdays) and exits (ATR, % or swing stop, R target, time limit). Or describe them in words and let the AI convert them for you to review.
  3. 3Choose the exchange, symbol, timeframe and date range, then risk per trade, fees and slippage.
  4. 4Press Run. Every run is saved, and the last 30 are kept.

How fills work

  • Signals are read on a closed candle and filled at the next candle's open, plus slippage. No lookahead.
  • One position at a time. If a candle touches both stop and target, the stop counts.
  • A gap through the stop fills at the open. Fees are charged on both sides.

Results include net R and %, win rate, expectancy, profit factor, max drawdown, an equity curve, a monthly table and the trade list, plus your live results with that playbook for comparison.

Backtests are hypothetical. Past results don't guarantee future ones.

Limits: 40 runs and 10 AI rule conversions a day, up to 20,000 candles per run.

Questions

Which exchanges have price history?
The exchanges listed in the exchange picker. Each run pages through their public candle history.

Still stuck?

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