One-bar replay
Move through a historical chart gradually and practice making a decision with the information available at that point.
A web app for chart practice
Practice trading decisions repeatedly with historical charts.
Before making decisions in real trades, practice your own buy, sell, and stay-out decisions on historical charts one bar at a time. Review the reasoning behind each choice and what you would revisit next.
You can try the main features without signing in, using fictional sample instruments.
What is Chart Playback?
Turn what you have learned into practice for real trading decisions.
Learning to read charts and trading rules is different from making your own decisions as prices unfold. Chart Playback lets you replay historical charts one bar at a time without seeing what happens next. Practice deciding whether to buy, sell, or stay out as preparation for making your own decisions in actual trading.
Why practice?
Use your review to prepare for real-world decisions.
Look back at decisions and chart annotations to identify where you hesitated and what informed each choice. Test those observations in another practice session as you prepare to make independent decisions in actual trading. Practice does not guarantee trading results.
Four steps to practice
Open a chart
Start with a fictional sample instrument in the guest demo.
Make a decision
Consider buying, selling, or staying out based on the chart shown.
Advance one bar
Reveal the next movement and repeat the decision-making process.
Review your practice
Look back at practice trades and notes or drawings on the chart.
What you can do
Practice both buying and selling, then review your decisions.
Practice both buy-first and sell-first trades, including closing positions. Advance historical charts one bar at a time, consider staying out as well, and review orders, positions, profit and loss, and trade logs afterward.
Buy and sell practice
Practice buy-first and sell-first trades, including opening and closing positions, and review profit and loss in one place.
Drawing and notes
Leave lines and notes on a chart, then review how you were reading it later.
Guest demo
Try it without signing in first.
The guest demo lets you practice without signing in using fictional sample instruments. All instrument names and price data shown in the guest demo are fictional samples, not real companies, securities, or market data.
Try the fictional sample instruments