Practice rare setups fast
Replay dozens of historical examples of a setup in the time it would take to see a handful of them live.
Free chart replay, no login required
Trading replay : rewind any chart and practice on real history.
Pick a past date range and the chart rewinds using real historical candles. Step forward bar by bar, or play at up to 10x speed, and make your decisions with the future hidden. Orders still use the live price, so record your replay decisions in your notes or journal.
- Real historical candles, not a simulated approximation.
- Step candle by candle or play at up to 10x speed.
- Try it directly on the chart, free, no account required.
Full drawing tools during replay
Use the same indicators and drawing toolbar while replaying history as you would trading live.
Free, unlimited use
Replay a chart as many times as you like, as far back as its price history goes.
What trading replay is
Trading replay rewinds a chart to a past date and reveals it one candle at a time, so you see only what a trader saw at that moment. A finished chart makes every move look obvious. Hiding the next candle removes that hindsight and gives you experience much faster than waiting for setups to appear live.
How to use it
- Open the chart and choose a market and timeframe. You don’t need an account to try this.
- Click Replay in the bar below the chart.
- Pick a From and To date, then click Start replay.
- Step forward candle by candle, or play at speeds from 0.5× to 10×. Step back rewinds, and you can jump to a date.
- Click Exit to return to the live chart.
A real example
At this point the chart looks strong. If you stop here and decide what you’d do, you’re making the same decision a trader faced that day. Then step forward: Bitcoin closed that day at $77,992 and reached $76,326 the next, as reports spread that about $6.3 billion had been stolen from the Binance exchange. A stop 2% below that candle’s close would have limited the damage to a planned amount. Without one, you’d have been down about 6%.
The point isn’t predicting the news, because nobody could from that chart. The point is seeing what your risk plan does when the unexpected happens, and you can repeat it as often as you like.
What replay does and doesn’t do
| It does | It doesn’t |
|---|---|
| Use real historical candles | Generate a performance report |
| Hide later candles until you step forward | Fill orders at replay prices |
| Let you draw and mark levels as you go | Recreate the pressure of a live candle |
| Work without an account | Stop you remembering famous dates |
The order ticket always uses the live price, including during replay, so it’s not a way of placing trades in the past. Write your decisions down, or record them with New entry in the journal.
What to practise
- One setup: find 20 examples, and count how many worked.
- Stop placement: for each entry, note where a sensible stop goes and how often noise would hit it.
- Patience: go through a whole week and take only your best one or two trades.
- Fast markets: replay days with big moves to test your plan under stress.
Keeping it honest
- Choose dates before you look at them, and pick periods you don’t remember.
- Write each decision before you step forward.
- If you accidentally see what’s coming, exit and choose another period.
- Don’t rewind to fix a bad decision. Use step back only to study the move afterwards.
For a longer walkthrough, see our guide to using market replay on the blog. The dates and prices here are real, and the examples are hypothetical. This is educational and isn’t financial advice.