Backtest
Test your strategy on past prices, then replay it candle by candle.
- Your chart file won't openHow to export a chart file from TradingView, NinjaTrader or MetaTrader, and what to do when the Indicator or Backtest can't use it.
- Backtest your strategyTest your own rules against history and see every trade they would have taken. Free on the practice chart; your own chart file needs the Backtest plan.
- Backtest on your own chart fileExport candles from your charting platform and test on them. The file stays on your device; Wildflower never receives your prices.
- Your backtest resultsWhat each figure on How your rules did means, how fees and slippage are counted, and why a result can differ from another platform's tester.
- Kinds of marketSay what a trend, a range or a quiet sideways market means to you. See how your rules did in each one, and choose when a strategy stays out.
- Pick examples on your chartDescribe a kind of market loosely, then tap the stretches of your own chart that look like it. The numbers are measured from your picks, on your device.
- Use a different strategy for each kind of marketA playbook picks one of your own strategies for each of your kinds of market, or stays out. Test the whole playbook in Backtest, then run it on an account.
- Forex and crypto in BacktestTest on a forex or crypto chart file: confirm the market, enter your broker's fees and trade size, and choose what happens at the weekend.
- Replay a backtestStep through a backtest candle by candle and watch each setup, entry, stop and target appear. Pick any candle and see why there was no trade there.
- Replay a strategy and trade it yourselfPlay past days candle by candle, take or skip each trade your rules find, place your own, and see your choices next to your rules.
- Go through your backtest's tradesMark each trade your rules took as one you'd take or stay out of, see how only your choices did after fees, and make what stands out a rule of your own.
- My backtests and comparing runsEvery backtest you've run, grouped by strategy, with pinning, and two runs side by side with what changed between them.
- See a backtest on a prop accountRun a result's trades through your prop firm's rules: evaluations passed and failed, funded accounts, and the payouts you would have taken.
- Forex and crypto: sizing in lots and coinsA forex or crypto trade is sized in your broker's own steps, such as 0.01 of a lot or 0.0001 of a coin, and never risks more than your maximum.
- Fix a problem with a backtestWhat to do when a chart file won't open, a test stops or is too long, there are no trades, Replay needs the file, a result is missing, or paying doesn't go through.
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