The Backtester replays a past trading day one candle at a time and lets you place paper trades against it. Open it from the Backtester item in the left rail of QuantLab HQ. It is built for a wide screen, and the chart still works on a phone.
- Choose a market and timeframe on the chart. The symbol list includes the micro and full-size equity index futures (MNQ, NQ, MES, ES, MYM, YM, M2K, RTY), gold, silver and crude oil, Bitcoin and Ether contracts, and a set of stocks and FX pairs.
- Press Replay in the chart header. A strip appears under the chart with a Select bar prompt. Click the candle you want to start from, or open the date button and press Start from date. Press Escape to cancel.
- The chart hides everything after that bar. Step or play forward to reveal the next candle.
- Place paper trades with the order ticket as the day unfolds.
Starting from a link works too. A link can carry an indicator, a prop account selection, a saved session or a challenge, and the terminal opens with those already set.
Signed in and signed out
A signed-in session is saved and appears on the Sessions page. Locked challenge rooms are the exception, since the tape is shared and the result is a score.