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Bar replay + trading journal · NQ, ES & forex

Backtest like it's live. Pass the evaluation in practice first.

Replay NQ, ES or EURUSD one candle at a time, with the future hidden and realistic fills. Practise a prop-firm evaluation under its target, max loss and daily loss, with no going back. Every trade lands in your journal with its chart. It runs on your own PC, so it's fast and your data stays yours.

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From $15 a month. Prop-firm mode is on Pro. Cancel anytime. For Windows 10 and 11.

Fri 2024-08-02 09:30 New York
NQ-style demo · 5m candlesRight of the line: hidden until you step
Replaybook's replay screen in the Nebula look: the trading day's line across the top of the chart, a candle chart with a trade and its stop and target, and the plan card with each ticked rule lit as a gold star.
The replay screen in the Nebula look, one of four: each rule you tick lights up as a gold star. Screenshots use synthetic demo data, not real market prices.
  • Replay1m to weekly, every timeframe built from the same 1-minute data
  • FillsSlippage in ticks, spread, gaps, partial targets
  • Prop-firm mode · ProTarget, max loss, daily loss, minimum days
  • JournalEvery trade logged with its chart, stats in $ or R

Why Replaybook

Four reasons to give it 7 days.

Many traders replay on a chart platform, then copy their trades into a separate journal by hand. That's slow, and slow practice is hard to keep up. Replaybook puts the replay, the prop-firm practice, the journal and a daily habit in one app.

01 · Practise like it's live

The chart can't give the answer away

Every timeframe is built from the same 1-minute candles, and the future stays hidden on all of them. News numbers appear at the release time, not before. Pick a random day with the date hidden, so you can't remember what happened next.

How the replay works
02 · Prop-firm practice Pro

Try the evaluation before you pay for one

Set the profit target, max loss, daily loss and minimum days, or start from a preset copied from a firm's published rules. Every limit is checked as price moves, and time only moves forward, like the real thing.

How prop-firm mode works
03 · Journal with no extra work

Every trade is logged for you

Entry, exits, stop moves, R and a chart picture go into the journal by themselves. Your stats, in dollars or in R, show which days, sessions and hours actually pay.

See the journal and stats
04 · Habits that stick

It rewards the plan, never the profit

A Daily challenge that's the same day for everyone, a practice streak, and ranks for the days you practise. With Pro, a checklist before every trade. A loss that followed your plan still counts.

See how practice adds up

01 · Practise like it's live

Replay the session one candle at a time, with nothing to peek at.

Every timeframe is built from the same 1-minute candles, so the candle that's still forming is exact on 5m, 1H or daily, and nothing jumps when you switch. It runs on your own PC, so candles load from your disk, not from a website.

Trade it as if it were happening now

Step one candle or one minute, step back to try again, or press play at the speed you like. Jump to the Asia, London or New York open, the next day or the next red-folder news, and let the replay pause when your order fills or just before the news.

  • Market, limit and stop orders, a stop and several targets, and stop to breakeven after the first target
  • Slippage in ticks for futures, spread for forex, and a stop the market gaps past fills at the open
  • NQ and ES on the CME day from 18:00 New York, RTH or full session, roll dates marked
  • News on the chart, with the actual number hidden until the release
  • Up to 4 charts side by side, synced to the replay time Pro
Two synced charts: a lower timeframe and a higher timeframe of the same market at the same replay time.

Days you can't remember

If you know how the day ended, it isn't practice. The New backtest window asks what kind of practice you want, step by step, and remembers your choices, so next time it's Next, Next, Create.

  • Tick the weekdays you trade, and the replay skips the rest
  • Random day jumps to a day of this backtest you haven't replayed yet
  • Hide the date on the clock, the time axis, the news and the chart pictures
  • NormalYou pick the market and the day.
  • RandomReplaybook picks a market from the ones you tick, and a day with enough history before it.
  • BlindA random day, and the date stays hidden while you trade.
  • Chart onlyLook and draw without trading, to mark up your levels.
  • Prop-firm challenge ProAn evaluation under its limits, until you pass or fail.

02 · Prop-firm challenge mode · Pro

Practise the evaluation under its real limits.

Set the rules of the evaluation you're preparing for and trade it day by day in replay. Replaybook checks every limit along every candle, the same way it checks your stops. Break a rule here and it costs you nothing.

The limits, live on screen

While you trade you see the target, the max loss left, today's room before the daily limit and your trading days so far. Hover a part for a plain-English explanation.

  • Break a limit and your trades close at that price, like a market order, and waiting orders are cancelled
  • No going back: time only moves forward, like a real evaluation (tick practice mode if you want it)
  • Pass, and keep going in the same backtest as a funded account, or start the next phase of a two-step evaluation
  • Fail, and start a new attempt from the moment it ended
A prop-firm challenge in replay with the limits bar: profit toward the target, the max loss left, today's room before the daily limit and the trading days so far.

The rules you can set

Target and minimum days

Pass when your closed profit reaches the target on enough trading days, with an optional best-day (consistency) rule.

Max loss, three ways

Static, end-of-day trailing or intraday trailing, and the level where a trailing max loss stops rising.

Daily loss limit

A fixed amount or a % of the day's start. Reaching it pauses you until the next day, or fails the challenge.

Max contracts

Open trades and waiting orders count together, and micros (MNQ, MES) have their own limit.

Closing time and time limit

Trades close at the firm's daily closing time, and a time limit can end the attempt.

Your rules or a preset

Type them in, or start from a preset that copies a firm's published rules, with the date they were checked and a link to the firm's page.

Results are simulated and don't guarantee a pass. Some firm rules, such as payouts and news-trading restrictions, aren't simulated, and firms change their rules, so check your firm's current rules. Replaybook is not affiliated with any prop firm.

03 · Journal and stats

A journal and stats with no extra work.

You trade. Replaybook writes it down: every entry, exit and stop move, with a picture of the chart. You only add the thinking.

A journal that fills itself

A calendar of your days, colored by result, or by rules followed once you use the Pro checklist. Each day holds your pre-market plan, your review and a rating, and every trade keeps its chart.

  • A picture of each trade, saved when it closes and framed on that trade (wider candles on bigger timeframes), stamped with the symbol, timeframe and times. Add it in any of your timeframes with one click
  • Pictures for days without trades too
  • Tags for your mistakes and for what you did right
  • Notes with bold, colors and lists, and templates for your daily routine
  • Export every trade to a CSV file for Excel or Google Sheets
Journal view with a monthly calendar of days, a day's plan and review notes, and the day's trade with its chart.

Stats that answer real questions

Win rate, profit factor, expectancy, average R, drawdown and your equity curve. Switch to R and NQ, ES and forex compare fairly, whatever the position size.

  • Results by setup, weekday, hour, market session and long or short
  • What each mistake cost you, and what each "done right" earned
  • One backtest, or all of them together
  • Filters for setup, session, weekday, long or short, rules followed and dates Pro
Analytics page with net P&L, win rate, profit factor and expectancy, an equity curve and a daily P&L chart.

04 · Habits that stick

Practice you'll actually keep up.

Replaybook counts your practice: days replayed, trades that followed your rules, reviews written and Daily challenges finished. Profit never earns anything, so a loss that followed the plan still counts.

A checklist before every trade Pro

Write each setup and its rules once in the Playbook. Before every trade, pick the setup in the Trade panel and tick its rules. In Studio, Quest and Nebula the order button stays grey, and says how many rules are left, until every rule is ticked. You can still place the order, but only a trade with every rule ticked counts as following the plan.

  • When a trade closes, you see its result and whether it followed the plan, win or loss
  • Each setup shows its win rate, net P&L and average R, with all rules followed vs broke a rule side by side
  • Optional confluences, like "HTF trend agrees" or "In a killzone": tick the ones that are there, and the Playbook shows whether trades with more of them did better. They never block an order and never count as a broken rule
Playbook page with two setups, their rules and optional confluences, each setup's trades, win rate, net P&L and rules followed, and a Conviction block with results by the number of confluences ticked.

The Daily challenge

Every day there's one trading day from the past, the same for everyone. Pick your market and press Start: NQ or ES if you have their data, or a free forex or index market that downloads by itself.

  • The date stays hidden until the day is over
  • 07:00 to 16:00 New York, one trade at a time, every trade risks 1% with a stop
  • No going back, like trading live
  • Then your result, the real date and your day streak, with Copy result to share it in Discord
  • One attempt a day, on both plans, and it doesn't count toward the Replay plan's 3 backtests
The Daily challenge result card: the hidden day revealed, the rules kept, the simulated result and the day streak.

Streaks, ranks and levels

In Studio, Quest and Nebula, your practice streak counts the days in a row you practised, and a weekend off never breaks it. When a replay day with trades ends, a Day done card shows its trades, the rules kept and the R, with a button to write your review.

  • Studio: a calendar of your last 20 weeks and a practice rank, from Newcomer to Master
  • Nebula: your practice as a sky of stars, and six ranks from Stardust to Cosmos
  • Quest: a trader level with XP, today's quests and achievements
  • Milestones along the way, each celebrated once

Your practice record is a small file in your Replaybook folder, on your PC.

Nebula's ranks window: six rank emblems along an orbit, from Stardust to Cosmos, marking where you are, with your milestones as named stars.

Chart tools

The drawing tools you already use, and a few you'll wish you had.

If you draw on a chart platform today, the tools, keys and right-click menus will feel familiar.

The chart with a small floating bar of starred drawing tools, and a long position box selected with its size picker: Risk %, Risk $ or Contracts.
Your starred tools in a bar you can drag anywhere on the chart, and a position box with its own size.

Long and short positions

Drag out stop and target, see R:R and dollars, size the box by risk %, risk $ or contracts (lots for forex), and place the order in one click.

Close from the chart

Every open trade and waiting order has a chip at its price with a ✕ to close or cancel it.

Your tools on the chart

Star the tools you use most. They float in a small bar that you can drag anywhere on the chart.

Fibonacci, your way

A color and fill for every level, CC lines between chosen levels, and templates that remember all of it.

Zones with a middle line

Rectangles for order blocks and gaps, with the 50% line (CE) and your own label.

Alert lines Pro

An alert line pauses the replay when price reaches it, so you never skip past your level.

Measure anything

Hold Shift to measure points, ticks, percent, dollars per contract, candles and time.

Sessions and indicators

Asia, London and New York boxes, session VWAP, EMAs and SMAs, previous day high and low.

Red-folder news

Import the calendar once. News shows as lines on the chart, numbers only after the release. Jump to the next release, or pause before it.

Draw freely

Text, arrows, up and down marks, a brush and a see-through highlighter. They stay on the right candles when you change timeframe.

Templates and magnet

Save a style once and reuse it. The magnet snaps to highs, lows, opens and closes.

Your chart, your way

Candles, hollow candles, bars or a line. Ctrl+Z undoes any drawing change, and L locks the chart so a click can't move it.

Four looks

Pick the look you'll want to open every day.

Studio, Quest and Nebula are separate designs, each with its own Home, replay screen, journal and result screens. Classic keeps the original screens. Switch any time: your backtests are saved first and nothing is lost.

Replaybook's Home screen in the Studio look: warm dark cards with amber highlights, today's Daily challenge with its round start button, a calendar of practice days, the practice rank and the list of backtests.

Studio the default

Warm dark with an amber accent and soft cards. Home opens with today's Daily challenge, your practice calendar, your rank and your backtests.

Home screen in the Quest look: violet on deep ink, a level crest and XP bar at the top, today's quests and the list of backtests.

Quest

Deep ink and violet, chunky buttons, and a level crest with an XP rail on every screen. Home lists today's quests; in a prop-firm challenge the limits show as health bars.

Home screen in the Nebula look: deep space with ion blue and gold stars, the Daily challenge start button on its orbit, and Your sky, practice days shown as stars.

Nebula

Deep space with ion blue and gold stars. Your practice shows as a sky of stars, days in a row join into constellations, and your rules light up as stars while you trade.

Home screen in the Classic look, the original Replaybook design, with the Daily challenge card and the list of backtests.

Classic

The original Replaybook screens: plain, dense and still, for anyone who likes them that way.

Accent colors

Amber, violet, blue, teal, rose or ion, or keep the style's own. A chart you never changed follows the look.

Animations: Full or Calm

Small moments when an order fills or a trade follows the plan. Calm keeps the screens still, and follows your computer's reduce-motion setting.

Sounds

Off, Quiet, Normal or Loud: a tick for each rule, a chime when all are ticked, fills, targets and stops. One click on the replay screen mutes them.

Studio, Quest and Nebula also get Focus (the chart takes the whole width), the order button that lights up once every rule is ticked, and your streak, rank or level and milestones on Home. Classic keeps its original screens, without animations, and its sounds start off.

How it works

From install to your first replayed trade in minutes.

  1. Install and sign in

    Run the installer on Windows 10 or 11. Sign in with the email you started your trial with: we email you a 6-digit code, no password. After that, Replaybook keeps itself up to date.

  2. Get the data

    Forex, gold, index CFD and bitcoin candles download for free inside the app. For CME futures, connect your own Databento account: the app shows the price before it downloads and never downloads a month twice. Or import your own 1-minute CSV.

  3. Start a backtest

    The New backtest window walks you through it: Normal, Random, Blind, Chart only or Prop-firm challenge (Pro), then the market, the start date, the days you trade and the balance. A short tour shows you around the replay screen.

  4. Review and go again

    Write your review, look at the day's chart, and check your stats in $ or R. Then replay the next day, or take today's Daily challenge.

Compare

Less than the usual two-tool setup.

Many traders pay for a chart platform to replay and a separate journal to log trades. Replaybook does both in one app, with prop-firm practice on Pro.

The usual setup

$29–159 / month

  • A chart platform plan with intraday replay
  • A separate journal subscription
  • Trades copied or imported by hand

Replaybook

$15–30 / month

  • Replay and journal in one app
  • Every replayed trade logged with its chart
  • A Daily challenge and practice streaks included
  • Yearly plans from $130
ReplaybookChart platform replayJournal appsWeb replay tools
Replay the market candle by candleYesYes, history depends on the planSomeYes
Replayed trades logged in a journal automaticallyYes, with chartNoImports trades from your brokerSome
Practise a prop-firm evaluation with its limitsYes (Pro)NoNoSome
Futures P&L in ticks and $ per contractYesYesYesSome, futures often cost extra
Setup rules checklist before each tradeYes (Pro)NoSomeVaries
Runs on your PC, data stays with youYesCloudCloudCloud
Typical price per month$15–30$13–60$16–99$13–35

Based on the public plans and list prices of popular tools in each category, checked September 2026. Features and prices of other products change; check their websites.

Pricing

Simple plans. 7 days free.

Your card is needed to start the trial. Cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing.

Replay

To practise and journal
$15/ month

Billed monthly

Founding 100: your first month is $5.

  • Bar replay on every timeframe, 1m to weekly
  • Realistic fills for futures and forex
  • Random and Blind days, with the date hidden
  • Drawing tools, templates and the position tool
  • Trading journal, calendar and screenshots
  • Economic calendar on the chart
  • Stats and equity curve, in $ or R, and CSV export
  • The Daily challenge, streaks and ranks
  • All four looks
  • 1 chart at a time
  • Up to 3 backtests (the Daily challenge doesn't count)
  • 1 live account journaled and analysed (MetaTrader 5, cTrader or a file)
  • Live charts from your own data source
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Pro

Most complete
$30/ month

Billed monthly

Founding 100: your first month is $5.

  • Everything in Replay, plus
  • Prop-firm challenge mode: live limits, pass or fail, then carry on as a funded account
  • Playbook with a rule checklist before every trade
  • Unlimited backtests
  • Up to 3 live accounts
  • Up to 4 synced charts (e.g. NQ and ES side by side)
  • Analytics filters by setup, session, weekday and rules
  • Alert lines that pause the replay
  • Priority support
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Prices in US dollars; VAT or sales tax is added at checkout where it applies. The Founding 100 offer applies to monthly plans: the first 100 members pay $5 for their first month after the free trial, then the normal price. One subscription works on 2 PCs. Futures data from Databento is paid to Databento directly; forex data is free.

All payments are final: there are no refunds, so use the free trial to decide. By starting a trial you agree to the Terms and Refund policy, and ask for your license key to be delivered right away.

For trading creators

60%

of every payment, for 12 months.

Teach futures or forex on YouTube, TikTok or Discord? Share Replaybook with your audience and earn 60% of every payment each person you refer makes in their first 12 months.

  • Your own link, tracked automatically
  • Paid out twice a month
  • A free Pro account to film with, plus screenshots and demo clips

Example

Pro monthly$30.00
Your share60% = $18.00
Per month, for 12 months$720

An example, not a promise: what you earn depends on how many people subscribe and stay. Launch-offer months pay 60% of $5.

FAQ

Questions traders ask

Which markets can I replay?

CME futures such as NQ, ES, MNQ, MES, YM, RTY, CL and GC through your own Databento account (continuous contracts, with the roll dates marked); forex pairs, gold, silver, index CFDs and bitcoin through Dukascopy's free data; or any market you have 1-minute candles for as a CSV file.

Do I need to buy data?

Forex and CFD data is free and downloads inside the app. Futures data comes from your own Databento account, which charges per download (new Databento accounts get free credit to start); the app shows the price first and keeps everything you download, so you pay for each month only once.

Does it show live prices or connect to my broker?

No. Replaybook replays past 1-minute candles so you can practise and review. It doesn't show live prices, place real orders, or connect to a broker or a prop-firm account. Every fill is simulated, and the smallest timeframe is 1 minute.

How are fills simulated?

Futures data is traded prices: market orders, stop entries, stop losses and manual closes fill your slippage setting worse (1 tick by default); limit orders and targets fill at their price. Forex data is bid prices, so buys fill at the ask (the bid plus your spread). Inside each 1-minute candle, price is assumed to go open → low → high → close on a green candle and open → high → low → close on a red one, so when a stop and a target are in the same minute you always know which fills first. A stop the market gaps past fills at the open.

Can I practise a prop-firm evaluation?

Yes, with Pro. Pick Prop-firm challenge in the New backtest window and set the rules: profit target, max loss (static or trailing), daily loss, minimum days, consistency, max contracts and more. Or start from a preset that copies a firm's published rules, with the date they were checked and a link to the firm's own page. Time only moves forward, like a real evaluation, and the limits stay on screen. Firms change their rules, so compare with your firm's current rules. Results are simulated and don't guarantee a pass, and Replaybook is not affiliated with any prop firm.

What is the Daily challenge?

One trading day from the past, the same for everyone that day; a new one starts at 00:00 UTC. The date stays hidden, you trade 07:00 to 16:00 New York with one trade at a time and 1% risk, and there's no going back. At the end you see the real date, your result and your streak. It's on both plans, one attempt a day, and it doesn't count toward the Replay plan's 3 backtests.

How do the free trial and the $5 month work?

Start a plan and use everything free for 7 days. If you keep it, you're charged the plan price at the end of the trial; the first 100 members on a monthly plan pay $5 for that first month instead. Cancel anytime from your account page.

Can I switch plans or cancel?

Yes, anytime, from Account → Manage subscription in the app or the link in your receipt. Switching from Replay to Pro takes effect right away. When you cancel, you keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for.

What happens to my journal if I cancel?

Nothing is deleted. Your backtests, charts, journal, notes and pictures stay on your PC and still open. The replay stops where you left off until you subscribe again.

Can I get a refund?

No. All payments are final, including unused time, which is why every plan starts with 7 days free. Cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing. If you were charged by mistake, email us and we'll fix it. See the Refund policy.

What do I need to run it?

A Windows 10 or 11 PC (64-bit). The installer sets Replaybook up for your Windows user, no admin password needed. Until our installer is code-signed, Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" the first time: click More info, then Run anyway.

Does it run on Mac?

Replaybook is a Windows app first. A Mac version is planned; tell us if you want it and we'll let you know when it's ready.

Does it work offline?

Yes. The app, your data and your journal are on your PC. It checks your subscription online once a day and keeps working for 7 days without internet.

On how many PCs can I use it?

Two, for example a desktop and a laptop. Sign in with the email you paid with and a 6-digit code we email you; there's no password. On a third PC you can sign out one of the other two right there, once every 30 days.

How do updates work?

Replaybook updates itself. It downloads a new version in the background and shows Restart to update; your backtest is saved first. Updates are included while your subscription is active.

Can I turn off the animations and sounds?

Yes. In Appearance → Feel, choose Calm to keep the screens still (it also follows your computer's reduce-motion setting), and set sounds to Off, Quiet, Normal or Loud. The Classic look has no animations, and its sounds start off.

Is this financial advice?

No. Replaybook is a practice and journaling tool. Results in replay, in the Daily challenge and in prop-firm challenge mode are simulated and don't guarantee results in live trading or in a real evaluation.

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