Backcandle is a bar-by-bar trading simulator for futures and crypto markets, built to eliminate hindsight bias from your practice. Every session hides the right side of the chart, forces you to execute under real psychological pressure, and rolls your performance into a trade journal and analytics dashboard automatically — no spreadsheets, no manual logging.
The standard practice loop for retail traders is broken. Scrolling back on TradingView gives you hindsight. Live paper trading is real-time but molasses slow — validating a single edge takes months. Neither approach builds the pattern recognition or execution discipline you need.
Backcandle splits the difference: you trade on real historical data, bar-by-bar, with the future strictly hidden. You feel the tape. You manage the trade. The journal writes itself. A week of focused sessions compresses what would otherwise take months of live screen time.
Pick an instrument, drop your cursor anywhere in history, and the chart resets to that moment with the rest of the timeline hidden. From there it's a real session: place orders, set stops and targets, manage the position bar by bar — at 1× to feel the tape, or up to 50× when you want to compress a week of price action into an evening.
Behind the scenes every fill, exit, and adjustment is captured into your trade journal automatically. You don't write a single line — the journal writes itself. When the session ends, your analytics page already has the win rate, R-multiples, drawdown curves, and exit-reason breakdowns waiting.
The candle archive covers 38 instruments across crypto perpetuals, CME futures, FX majors and metals. Timeframes range from 1-minute to daily. Data is sourced from exchange public feeds and vendor historical APIs, normalized to OHLCV format and indexed by instrument + timeframe + timestamp.
Backcandle is an independent project. For questions, bug reports, or partnership inquiries, reach out via the contact page or email hello@backcandle.com.
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