// Manual backtesting for serious traders
Train beforeyou trade.
Replay clean market data bar by bar and trade it like it's live. Professional analytics show you what worked. One plan, everything included.
See which prop firm challenges your trading would pass →
- AUD/CAD
- AUD/CHF
- AUD/JPY
- AUD/NZD
- AUD/USD
- CAD/JPY
- CHF/JPY
- EUR/AUD
- EUR/CAD
- EUR/CHF
- EUR/GBP
- EUR/JPY
- EUR/NZD
- EUR/SEK
- EUR/TRY
- EUR/USD
- GBP/AUD
- GBP/CHF
- GBP/JPY
- GBP/NZD
- GBP/USD
- NZD/CAD
- NZD/CHF
- NZD/JPY
- NZD/USD
- USD/CAD
- USD/CHF
- USD/CNH
- USD/HKD
- USD/JPY
- USD/MXN
- USD/NOK
- USD/PLN
- USD/SEK
- USD/TRY
- USD/ZAR
- ASX 200
- China A50
- US Dollar Index
- Euro Stoxx 50
- CAC 40
- DAX 40
- Hang Seng
- FTSE MIB
- Nikkei 225
- Nasdaq 100
- AEX 25
- WIG20
- S&P 500
- IBEX 35
- SMI 20
- FTSE 100
- Russell 2000
- Dow Jones
- VIX
- Cardano
- Basic Attention Token
- Bitcoin Cash
- Bitcoin
- Dash
- Ethereum
- Chainlink
- Litecoin
- TRON
- Uniswap
- Stellar Lumens
- Copper
- Silver
- Gold
- Palladium
- Platinum
- Brent Crude
- Natural Gas
- WTI Crude
// How we see it
Backtesting is training. No one becomes a professional athlete from the couch. No one becomes a profitable trader without putting in the hours. This is where you put them in.
// Your first session
From sign-up to your first trade.
No code, no setup.
If you can trade live, you already know how to use ChartLabs. The whole point is that it feels the same.
Tell us how you trade
Four quick questions, all optional. Your first chart, timeframe and symbol list follow your answers.
Take the guided tour
A short tour shows you around the chart and sets up a demo strategy you can explore before you build your own.
Trade the chart, bar by bar
Replay at the speed you want. Place orders, set your stop and target, and manage the position as you would live.
Review, then verify
Every session feeds your stats. When an edge holds up, test it again on a locked date range you set aside.
// Six things we got right
Every feature has to earn its place.
We use ChartLabs ourselves, with real money on the line. If a feature does not add value, it does not ship.
CLEAN DATA
1-minute data, scrubbed in-house.
Price data from a regulated Swiss bank, cleaned to remove anomalies before you ever see a candle. Your backtest reflects the market, not data artifacts.
EXECUTION
Manual orders, real decisions.
Market orders, plus limit and stop orders placed on the chart, with stop loss, take profit and risk/reward built in. Size each trade by risk percent, a dollar amount or lots.
MULTI-CHART
Your screens, your layout.
Put up to four charts in one window, each with its own symbol and timeframe, and their crosshairs move together. Or open charts in their own windows and spread them across your monitors.
JOURNAL + TAGS
Every trade keeps its story.
Your drawings are saved with every trade you enter, so you can reopen it and see the chart as you marked it. Add a note on why you took it, tag it, and filter your stats by tag.
RISK FIRST
Risk gets its own numbers.
Profit Lock Rate, Average Initial Risk and Breakeven Rate sit next to your P&L. Commission and slippage are set per symbol, so results show what trading would have cost.
NO GAMES
Zero gamification.
No leaderboards, badges, streaks or points. The psychology that keeps people glued to their phones is the one that blows up accounts. This is a tool, not a toy.
// Prop firms
Pass the challenge, not your savings.
Most traders fail a prop firm evaluation because they walk in undertrained. ChartLabs scores your backtested trades against real firm challenges (profit target, drawdown, daily loss, consistency, trading days) and shows which ones your trading would pass. Then it shows how to size your risk to pass more.
- Scored on your verification trades: the out-of-sample record you set aside for testing.
- Checks drawdown and daily loss intraday, the way a firm actually would, not just on closed trades.
- Each verdict names the rule that held you back, and a risk slider shows which challenges you would also pass at a smaller size.
A month of unlimited practice costs less than a single failed evaluation fee. Earn the Pass here first.
// On the chart
Live-trading tools, on real history.
A chart you already know how to use: the layout, drawing tools and shortcuts work the way you expect. Everything below is in the one plan and runs in your browser.
160+ built-in indicators
Moving averages, bands, volume and volatility tools, plus volume profiles, previous day, week and month levels, opening range and pivots.
Smart Money and ICT tools
Killzones, Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks, Market Structure with BOS and CHoCH, Liquidity, and Premium and Discount zones.
Bring your own Pine Script
Paste in your v5 or v6 indicators, or write new ones in the built-in editor, and run them on your charts. The editor flags anything it cannot run yet.
Range bars
Bars that close on price movement instead of the clock, with fills at the tick that crossed your level. On NAS100 today.
Replay at your pace
Speeds from 0.1x to 10x, one bar at a time, or a jump straight to the London open, the Silver Bullet hours or the next news event.
34 drawing tools
Trend lines, Fibonacci, Gann box, harmonic and wave patterns, risk/reward boxes and text notes, with keyboard shortcuts and saved styles.
Economic calendar
High-impact events show on your chart, so you can see the news coming before you trade into it.
Your timezone
Set it once. Charts, trade times and every analytics breakdown follow it.
// Our real edge
Most platforms feed you dirty data.
Raw data straight from the source includes price spikes and anomalies that would not happen in real trading. Test on it and your backtest is testing a fiction. We clean ours before you see a candle, so you can trust what you see.
- 01Source tick-level data from a regulated Swiss bank, where it is available
- 02Clean it to remove anomalies
- 03Convert it to 1-minute candles, the lowest timeframe
- 04Where the source has no data, show none. We never fill it in.
// Analytics
The metrics fund managers actually use.
Profit factor, Sharpe, Sortino and Calmar, risk management and trading costs, Monte Carlo simulation, correlations, timing by hour and weekday, and a calendar of your results. The full picture of your strategy, not vanity stats.
// Train, then verify
Prove it on data you have not seen.
Train on one period, then verify on another. Verification locks the date range and verifies each symbol only once, so a green chart reflects out-of-sample performance, not overfitting.
// Why we built it
Built by a trader who got fed up.
One plan. $20 a month. No games.
ChartLabs started because our founder, a full-time trader since 2020, couldn't find a backtesting tool that just worked. Clean data, simple interface, fair price. Every tool he tried was missing at least one.
Most platforms are bloated with features nobody asked for, or they gamify everything so you stay logged in instead of actually getting better. And the ones that do work? They lock the good stuff behind a "Pro" tier that costs more than some people's trading accounts.
We trade with real money too. If the data is bad or the tools are slow, we feel it. So we built what we actually need and left out the rest.
NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED
// Pricing
One plan. Everything a trader needs.
Every trader deserves professional tools, not just the ones who can afford the top tier. One plan, a free trial, no credit card. Every feature we build is in it. Nothing held back behind a higher tier.
NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED
- Unlimited strategies
- Unlimited backtests
- Unlimited chart windows
- Unlimited data retention
- Complete analytics suite
- All available symbols
- Economic events
- Custom indicators
// FAQ
Questions, straight answers.
01What makes ChartLabs different?
Three things. We are built for manual backtesting, so you practice candle by candle and build real pattern recognition. Our historical data is cleaned before it reaches you. And there is one plan at $20 a month with everything included. No tiers, no games.
02Is the data actually clean?
Yes. Our data comes from Dukascopy, a regulated Swiss bank, tick-level where it is available. We clean it to remove anomalies and convert it to 1-minute candles. Most platforms skip the cleaning. We do not.
03What can I backtest?
Forex, indices, crypto and commodities, on charts from 1 minute up to daily. History goes back up to around 22 years on the oldest forex pairs, with other instruments starting later.
04Do you have ICT and Smart Money tools?
Yes. Killzones, Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks, Market Structure, Liquidity and Premium and Discount zones are built-in indicators, and replay can jump straight to the Silver Bullet hours.
05Can I use it to prepare for a prop firm challenge?
Yes. Many of our traders do exactly that. Backtest on the markets your firm allows, then score your trades against real prop firm challenges to see which ones you would have passed, and how to size your risk to pass more, before you pay another evaluation fee.
06Do I need to code?
No. You trade the chart yourself, and every built-in tool works without code. If you want your own indicators, you can write them in Pine Script.
07Can I run my Pine Script indicators?
Yes, Pine Script v5 and v6 indicators run on your charts from the built-in editor. Strategy scripts do not place trades, and the editor tells you when a script uses something it cannot run yet.
08Can I try it first?
Yes. The free trial gives you full access to everything, with no credit card required. After that it is $20 a month, or $200 a year with two months free. Cancel anytime.
09What happens when my trial ends?
You can still sign in and see your strategies, trades and analytics. Charts and new backtests need a plan, and you can pick one whenever you are ready.
Put in the hours.
Before they cost you.
Try everything free. No credit card. Then $20 a month if you want to keep going.