Scrolling back through a chart shows you where price went, and that makes almost any setup look good. TradeMai replays the day forward instead, so you only see what you would have seen at the time and every decision counts.
Pick a market and a day, press play and trade it the way you would live: market or pending orders, a stop and a target, and the trade managed as it develops. Buys fill at the ask and sells at the bid, so the spread is part of the result.
What you can measure
Every trade is logged the moment it closes, so the numbers build up without a spreadsheet.
Win rate and average R per trade
Expectancy: what one trade is worth on average
Maximum drawdown and the worst losing streak
Results by day and an equity curve
A full trade list you can export to CSV
A backtesting routine that holds up
A backtest is only as honest as the way it is run. A simple routine keeps it that way:
Write your entry, stop, target and risk rules down before you start
Choose a mix of days: trending, ranging and news-driven
Trade every valid setup; skipping the uncomfortable ones flatters the result
Review the numbers only after a meaningful sample of trades
Change one rule at a time, then test again
Test across different market conditions
A setup that works in a trending week can fall apart in a quiet range. Replay Forex pairs, Gold, stock indices, energy and crypto on the kinds of days that matter to your strategy, including the ones around big economic releases.
Backtesting questions
Backtesting means applying a trading strategy to past market data to see how it would have performed. Done without hindsight, it tells you whether a set of rules has an edge before you risk money on it.
Automated backtesting runs coded rules over data. Manual backtesting, which TradeMai is built for, has you make each decision yourself as the market replays, so it also trains your execution and discipline.
Enough to cover different market conditions. A handful of trades says very little; many traders aim for at least a hundred trades before drawing conclusions.
Yes. Gold is one of the markets you can replay, alongside Forex pairs, stock indices, energy and crypto.