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.
01 / 05Pick a market & date Crypto, US stocks, metals and energy. Any date since 2020 — or let Backcandle pick one at random.
02 / 05Advance bar by bar Step with → or auto-play up to 10×. The right edge of the chart stays dark until you get there.
03 / 05Trade with real orders Leverage, long or short, stop-loss and take-profit — filled from the real historical candles.
04 / 05Play it blind Hide the ticker and the date, replay the wildest market days, take on challenges.
05 / 05Get scored Every trade journaled, a report card with a discipline score, and analytics across sessions.
The crashes and breakouts everyone quotes, replayed bar by bar exactly as they happened — future hidden, real fills. Market replay on the days that actually taught people something. No account needed to start.
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 32 instruments across crypto perps, US stocks, metals and energy. Jump to any date in their history 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×–100×. 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 your notes beside it.
Crypto perps, US stocks, metals. Up to 6 years of history.
Jump between 5m 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: equity curve, max drawdown, R distribution, long-vs-short and exit-reason breakdowns. On Premium, export a CSV 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: you stop waiting for data points and start getting them.
Forty replay sessions over two weekends is more setups than most traders see in a quarter of live screen time. The bar-by-bar constraint is the whole trick — you cannot peek ahead, so the decision is the same one you would make in real time.
The analytics tab puts your profit factor per setup in front of you, whether or not you want to see it. A number you thought was fine turning out to be 0.8 is the point — you can test a fix over a weekend instead of waiting a quarter to find out.
Space to play, B/S to fire, arrows to step. A full session without touching the mouse, because reaching for it is exactly the friction that makes you skip the rep you should have taken.
The free tier is real — 10 sessions a day on BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, AAPL and gold, no credit card. Pro unlocks unlimited crypto practice with full journaling. Premium adds US stocks, metals, 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.