Backcandle replays real market history bar by bar — future hidden, orders executed, journal automatic. Compress months of paper-trading into focused sessions without risking a dollar.
Scrolling back on a chart, every setup looks obvious — because you can see the outcome. Real trading happens at the right edge, where the future is blank. That's the muscle Backcandle trains.
When the next candle is visible, your brain quietly filters out the losers. You remember the wins and call it a strategy.
One trading day per day. Twenty real setups a month if you're lucky. Statistical significance arrives sometime next year.
Manual journaling dies by Wednesday. Without logged fills and outcomes, every review session is guesswork.
Four steps, zero setup. Pick an instrument, seek to any date, and trade forward. Every bar revealed is a bar you haven't seen yet. Close the session and your journal and analytics are already written.
Choose from 38 instruments across futures and crypto perp. Jump to any date in the last 8 years or let Backcandle pick a random day to remove confirmation bias.
Manual step with →, or auto-play at up to 10×. The right side of the chart is strictly hidden. You feel the tape, not the outcome.
Market, Limit, Stop. Leverage 1×–50×. TP/SL, partial fills, margin, liquidation — the engine prices everything from actual historical candles.
Every fill, move, close and PnL update is logged. The analytics view rolls it into win-rate, profit factor, max drawdown, and equity curves across all sessions.
No social feed, no "AI signals", no algo marketplace. Backcandle is a single purpose-built terminal: keyboard, chart, order book, ticket, journal. Every feature earns its place.
Built for traders who never touch the mouse.
The engine strictly refuses to render a candle you haven't paid for.
Every fill, move and close logged with tags.
Crypto perps, CME futures, FX, metals. 8 years of history.
Jump between 1m and 1d at the same session time — playhead stays anchored.
Win rate, profit factor, avg R, max DD — across every session.
Isolated margin up to 50×, real liquidation price, partial fills.
A month of price action in an afternoon, smooth even on an old laptop.
After each session, Backcandle rolls your trades into a full analytics dashboard: cumulative PnL, drawdown curve, R-distribution, per-symbol breakdown, tag filters. Export CSV or JSON to pipe into any external tool.
Same month of price action. Same strategy. One is live paper-trading; the other is Backcandle at 10×. One will still be running in six weeks. The other is done by Sunday night — reviewed, journaled, improved.
Prop traders, discretionary retail traders, quants prototyping overlays. The common thread: they stopped waiting for data points and started getting them.
I ran 40 sessions over two weekends — more data than I'd collected in three months of live paper trading. My win rate on opening-range breakouts went from 38% to 51%. The bar-by-bar constraint is the whole trick.
The analytics tab forced me to face my profit factor on breakout trades. It was 0.8 — I thought it was fine. I spent a weekend adjusting my TP and got it to 1.6. Couldn't have done that live without waiting months.
Space to play, B/S to fire, arrows to step. I never touch the mouse during a session. The keyboard-first design is rare and it's correct. Would pay double for a DOM ladder.
The free tier is real — 10 sessions a day on BTC, no credit card. Pro unlocks unlimited crypto practice with full journaling. Premium adds stocks, FX, commodities, advanced analytics and 10 parallel sessions.
The things traders ask before their first session — order matching, data coverage, export, sharing, API.
requestAnimationFrame-batched writes, so playback stays smooth even at full speed.Free to start. No credit card. First session in under a minute.