ChartLabs: Manual Backtesting Is Live
ChartLabs is available now: a manual backtesting platform for forex, indices, crypto, and commodities.
What Is ChartLabs?
ChartLabs is a backtesting platform designed for traders who want to practice and validate their strategies on real historical data before risking real money.
Unlike automated backtesting tools that run strategies for you, ChartLabs puts you in the driver's seat. You step through historical data candle by candle, place trades manually, and build the pattern recognition, discipline, and confidence that automated tools can't teach.
The platform was built by a full-time forex trader with 5 years of experience in the markets who couldn't find a backtesting tool that combined clean data, a simple interface, and fair pricing.
What's Included
ChartLabs includes the full platform:
Charting & Execution. A custom-built charting interface designed specifically for backtesting. Multi-screen support across multiple monitors, a feature unique to ChartLabs. Common drawing tools and indicators included. Timeframes down to 1 minute. Market, limit, and stop orders with stop loss and target.
Historical Data. Clean data sourced from Dukascopy, processed through a systematic tick data cleaning pipeline, and converted to reliable 1-minute candles. Depth is per symbol rather than one number for the whole platform: the oldest forex pairs reach back around 22 years, and other instruments start later, simply because the instrument or its data started later.
Analytics & Statistics. Comprehensive analytics suite including equity curve, trade statistics, risk-adjusted returns (Sharpe, Sortino, Calmar ratios), Monte Carlo simulation, timing insights by hour and day of week, stats calendar, and strategy correlation. Trade tagging with full filtering support.
Trade Review With Your Markup. Place a trade while you have drawings on the chart and ChartLabs saves those drawings alongside it. Open the Closed tab in the Orders panel and toggle a trade back on, and the chart jumps to that moment with your markup restored, so you can review exactly what you were looking at when you made the decision.
Pricing
One plan. $20/month or $200/year. Everything included. 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
No tiered pricing. No feature gates. No psychological pricing tricks.
Why Manual Backtesting?
Automated backtesting tells you whether a strategy has a statistical edge. Manual backtesting teaches you what it feels like to trade that strategy.
The difference matters. Most traders don't fail because their strategy is bad, they fail because they can't execute it under pressure. Three losing trades in a row and they abandon ship. A normal drawdown feels catastrophic because they've never experienced one before.
Manual backtesting builds the muscle memory, pattern recognition, and emotional resilience that keep traders in the game when things get uncomfortable. It's practice, the same kind of practice that athletes, musicians, and surgeons rely on before performing under pressure.
Why No Gamification?
ChartLabs has zero gamification. No leaderboards, no achievements, no streaks, no badges.
This is a deliberate choice. Gamification in backtesting tools rewards the wrong behavior: it encourages logging in, not improving. The psychology that makes gamification effective is the same psychology that makes traders overtrade and blow up accounts.
ChartLabs is a tool. You open it to do focused work. When the work is done, you close it.
Help Shape the Product
The core platform is live and fully functional, and we are actively building based on user feedback. Feature requests, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome and encouraged.
Join the ChartLabs Discord to share feedback directly with the team: https://chartlabs.io/discord
Try It Free
7-day free trial. No credit card required. Full access to everything.
Sign up at https://chartlabs.io.