FX Replay alternatives (2026): free backtesting with prop firm rules

FX Replay alternatives in 2026: Forex Tester, Soft4FX, TradingView and TradiBook, the only one with prop firm mode, unlimited sessions and free backtesting.

FX Replay made manual backtesting in the browser popular: you pick a symbol and a date, and you step through candles as if the market were open. It works well. The features you use every day are on paid plans, and funded traders miss what matters most to them: a session that behaves like the account they're about to buy.

Upfront disclosure: TradiBook is ours. Everything about the others comes from what they publish on their websites, and prices in this industry change every few months: check the current one before paying.

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The table

Why a normal backtest misleads funded traders

A typical backtest answers one question: does this strategy make money? The firm asks a different one: does it make money without touching the floor, without breaching the daily limit, without a single day weighing too much and within the time limit?

A strategy with a 1.6 profit factor and long losing streaks can produce a beautiful backtest and blow most challenges with intraday trailing. The backtest says it's fine. The account doesn't.

What you need to measure is how many times you would have passed the challenge, not just how much you would have made. If you're not sure how the floor moves, read EOD vs static drawdown first.

Prop firm mode

This is what sets TradiBook apart. When you create a session you choose the type: standard or prop firm. In prop firm mode you pick the account from the catalog, the same one you're going to buy (Apex, Topstep, FundedNext, Lucid, Tradeify and the rest), and the session loads its rulebook:

• Drawdown type: intraday trailing, EOD or static
• Max daily loss
• Consistency rule
• Minimum trading days
• Max contracts
• Time limit to pass

Profit counts open P&L, just like at the firm. Hit the target and the account passes; hit a limit and it's blown. Either way the session closes on its own and you can't go back in to undo the last trade, which is exactly what would happen with the real account. If you pass, you get a certificate with the firm's logo.

With that, the backtest stops answering "does it make money?" and answers what matters: out of ten challenges, how many would you have passed.

Why our backtesting is better

Five concrete things nobody else combines in one tool:

• Your firm's rules. A normal replay lets you trade to the end of the data even if you'd have blown the account in week two. Here the session stops where the firm would stop it.
• No cheating on retries. Blown or passed, the session closes. There's no "undo", so the result looks like the one you'll get with money.
• Each hour's volatility. In real time every minute moves the way it moved that day. You train the New York open at its real pace, not a flat speed.
• Real futures. Nasdaq 100, S&P 500 and gold use futures candles, which is what futures firms trade. If you practice on CFDs, the levels don't match the future you'll trade.
• Everything lands in your journal. You compare replay and live with the same analytics and see whether you fail on strategy or execution.

Everything else TradiBook brings

Unlimited sessions

Run as many backtesting sessions as you want, including on the free plan, with no card and no expiry. What the plan limits is how many you have open at once: on free, 3 at the same time with up to one year of data. When you finish one, delete it and open another. Paid plans raise the number of open sessions and years of history.

Real time with each hour's volatility

With Real time on, candles form tick by tick. At 1x they move with the clock and you can speed up to 240x. Each minute moves according to how volatile it was that day: the New York open or a news release are faster and jerkier; quiet hours, calmer.

Always training at 10x gets you used to a speed the market doesn't have. At 1x you feel the 11 am boredom, which is exactly when people force entries.

TradingView charts

The charts are TradingView's, with every timeframe, including 2, 3, 10 and 45 minutes and 2 and 3 hours. Nasdaq 100, S&P 500 and gold use futures candles; EUR/USD is complete and the rest of forex is in beta.

Everything ends up in the journal

Session trades go to the journal with their analytics, kept apart from live trades with the Live / Backtesting switch. That way you compare what you do in replay with what you do with money, and see whether the gap comes from the strategy or the execution.

Review of each alternative

FX Replay

The good: it's the benchmark for manual browser backtesting. Polished interface, many symbols, deep history and nothing to install.

The bad: the daily-use features are on paid plans, and its approach is backtesting in general, not a specific firm's rulebook with its trailing and consistency rules. Check what each plan includes on their site before paying.

Who it's for: traders who backtest a lot of forex and don't need the session tied to a funded account.

Forex Tester

The good: one of the veterans. Lots of history, lots of tools and per-session statistics.

The bad: the classic version is a paid Windows desktop app; on a Mac you'll need their online version or a virtual machine. Plans and prices on their site.

Who it's for: traders running long forex sessions on a Windows PC.

Soft4FX

The good: it runs inside MetaTrader, so you practice on the same platform you trade.

The bad: it depends on MetaTrader's strategy tester and Windows, has no prop firm rules or journal built in, and it's a paid license.

Who it's for: MetaTrader traders who want to practice without leaving their terminal.

TradingView (bar replay)

The good: you already have it if you use TradingView. For going over a couple of days on one symbol it's the fastest option.

The bad: on the free plan it's limited and fine intraday is on paid plans, according to their site. It doesn't save replay trades like a journal and knows nothing about your funded account: you track the rules by hand.

Who it's for: a quick review, not challenge training.

Which one to choose

• Train a challenge with its exact rules → TradiBook
• Unlimited, free sessions with no card → TradiBook
• General forex backtesting, no funding → FX Replay or Forex Tester
• Practice inside MetaTrader → Soft4FX
• A five-minute review → TradingView

If you pass challenges in replay and blow them live, compare both curves in the journal: the gap is usually in how you execute, and that's what how to pass a prop firm challenge is about.

Start free and create your first prop firm session with the account you plan to buy.

Prices and terms checked in November 2026. Tools in this industry change them every few months: confirm on their website before deciding.

TradiBook by

WHO WRITES THIS

Alejandro Santiago

Funded account trader and trading coach: he reviews other traders' trading and helps them stop blowing accounts. That's where TradiBook came from. He didn't build it to sell a product: he built it because he needed to track his own accounts and no tool measured what mattered to him. Building it for his case, it ended up fitting anyone who trades funded accounts, because the problems are the same: the floor that moves, the accounts lost along the way and the plan that isn't followed.