Stress-test your edge
before you trade live

Manual backtesting is the process of personally replaying historical market data and placing trades as if in real time — without automation or scripting. Instead of writing code to test rules algorithmically, you make every decision yourself: reading the chart, identifying setups, entering and exiting trades. This type of backtesting is especially valuable for discretionary traders because it also trains your execution habits, decision-making speed, and emotional discipline alongside strategy validation.

FX Replay uses real historical tick data rather than synthetic or interpolated price data, which makes replay conditions as close to live market conditions as possible. Spreads, commissions, and execution are configurable to match your actual trading setup. The platform also supports seconds-level data (Pro plan), giving scalpers and intraday traders the granularity needed for precise replay. No backtest eliminates forward-testing uncertainty, but FX Replay's data quality is the highest available for manual backtesting.

Historical data on FX Replay goes back to 2003 for major Forex pairs including EURUSD, GBPUSD, and USDJPY. Other assets have varying start dates depending on when reliable data became available. Timeframes range from 5-second candles to monthly charts, giving traders access to multiple decades of market cycles, volatile periods, and trending conditions to stress-test their strategies.

Backtesting uses historical data to test a strategy against the past — you know the data is real and the market conditions already happened. Paper trading simulates trades in real time on a live market feed but without real money. Both are valuable: backtesting builds evidence-based confidence in a strategy, while paper trading tests execution in live conditions. FX Replay focuses on backtesting because it lets you run hundreds of trade scenarios in hours rather than waiting months for live conditions to unfold.

Yes. FX Replay supports multi-chart and multi-timeframe layouts, powered by TradingView charting. You can run simultaneous chart views at different timeframes on the same asset during a replay session — useful for top-down analysis workflows where higher timeframe bias informs lower timeframe entry timing.

Yes. FX Replay includes a built-in economic calendar that displays historical news events during your replay session. This lets you backtest your strategy's behavior around high-impact news — NFP, CPI, rate decisions — and define rules for how you'll handle those conditions before encountering them live.