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Bar Replay hides the future and walks a chart forward one candle at a time. It is the cheapest screen time you will ever get.
Keyboard shortcut: with replay active, the right arrow steps forward one bar.
Stepping bars without a process is just watching TV. Do this instead:
The log is the point. Thirty recorded decisions tell you more about your edge than a year of casual chart watching.
Bar Replay → tests your judgement, one decision at a time.
Strategy Tester → tests mechanical rules over thousands of bars.
Paper trading → tests execution and discipline in real time.You want all three, in that order. Judgement first, rules second, execution last.
Yes, on daily and higher timeframes. Intraday bar replay requires a paid TradingView plan.
Yes. Indicators recalculate as bars are revealed, which is a good way to see whether a script repaints — if signals appear on candles that already passed, it does.
No. It advances the chart only. Pair it with TradingView's paper trading account if you want simulated fills and a running P&L.
Aim for a written log of at least 30-50 replayed trades before judging a setup. Fewer than that is noise.
If you want to replay a setup, it helps if the setup is fixed rather than improvised. SimpleAlgo's entry signals are non-repainting, so they appear during replay at the exact candle they would have fired live — which makes replay a fair test rather than a flattering one. Access starts from $5.77/week on the annual plan, with a 7-day money-back guarantee. See the signals.
Use the Strategy Tester properly — commissions, slippage, sample size and the settings that turn an impressive backtest into an honest one.
The full day trading setup on TradingView — chart layout, timeframes, indicators, hotkeys, alerts and a repeatable session routine.
Next steps on this topic from the rest of the SimpleAlgo library.