Trade Replay Software for Stocks, Options, Futures and Forex
Replay real journaled trades second-by-second on the original price action, test alternate exits without risk, review every decision with MFE/MAE and R-multiple analytics, and feed every replay session straight back into your trading journal.
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Replay any trade in your journal on the original tape, your real entries, exits, scale-ins and stop moves rendered exactly where they fired.
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Two replay modes: review-only for honest decision audits, or replay-with-trading to test alternate exits and re-entries on the same setup.
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Replay historical sessions across 30,000+ symbols, stocks, futures, forex, and options chains, with second-level precision and 100x fast-forward.
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Every replay produces the same analytics as a live trade: MFE/MAE, R-multiple, holding time, best-exit price, slippage vs ideal exit.
What is trade replay?
Trade replay is the ability to reload a chart at a specific historical date and time and step the price action forward exactly as it happened, bar-by-bar, second-by-second, with your indicators, your trendlines, and (if you choose) your real fills already plotted.
Reading a static chart after the fact is hindsight. Replay is the closest you can get to the moment of decision: you see the same wick forming, the same pause, the same fakeout that made you click. That is what makes replay the single most underused review tool for active traders.
TradesViz pairs replay with the rest of your journal, so the chart you are replaying isn't an anonymous symbol. It's your trade, with your entries, your stops and your exits drawn in, alongside MFE/MAE markers and the best-possible-exit price you could have hit.
Trade replay vs trading simulator vs backtesting
All three live in TradesViz. They solve different problems and the words are constantly confused, so here is the plain-English split.
| Tool | What it answers | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trade replay | "What did the chart actually look like when I made this decision?" | A real journaled trade or a historical date | Decision audit + optional alternate-exit trades |
| Trading simulator | "Can I trade this setup live, in size, without losing money?" | A symbol + a starting date | New practice trades, journaled with full analytics |
| Backtesting | "Does this rule-based strategy have an edge across history?" | A coded or configured rule set | Aggregated performance stats across many trades |
Most traders need replay first, to fix bad decisions on real setups they already trade, before scaling up to simulation or building backtests.
How TradesViz replay works
Pick a trade from your journal or any historical date. The chart loads at the start of that session with your indicators applied. Press play, the tape rolls forward at the speed you choose. Pause anywhere. Step bar-by-bar. Fast-forward dead zones at up to 100x. Your real fills are drawn on the chart at the exact second they executed.
Replay without trading (review mode)
The honest decision audit. Manual order entry is disabled, you can't accidentally rewrite history. The replay reproduces the exact tape and overlays your real entries, exits, scale-ins, and stop moves.
Use this when: you lost money on a trade and need to know if the setup was wrong or the execution was wrong; when a great trade looks lucky and you need to see whether the structure actually justified the entry; when you want to coach yourself on a stop placement that got tagged.
Internally this is the default replay mode, clicking the buy/sell buttons during a replay shows: "Manual trading is disabled during replay mode."
Replay with trading (Persist Replay Trades)
Toggle Persist Replay Trades in account settings. Now you can place new market, limit, stop and bracket orders during the replay. The tape still moves at your chosen speed and your simulated trades are journaled alongside the original.
Use this when: you want to test what would have happened if you had held longer, sized smaller, used a wider stop, scaled out at the first 1R, or re-entered after the first stop-out. The original trade and the alternate trade sit side-by-side in your journal, same setup, different decisions, measurable difference in P&L.
This is where the actual learning compounds: replay isn't theatre, it's a controlled experiment.
Replay your real journaled trades
Every trade in your TradesViz journal is replay-ready, whether it was auto-imported from one of 200+ supported brokers, synced via API (IBKR, Tradier, Tastytrade, Tradovate, Schwab and more), or added by hand.
Open the trade. Hit "Replay this trade." The chart re-loads to a few minutes before your first entry, your indicators apply, your fills appear at the exact tick they fired, and the tape starts rolling.
This works for single-leg stocks, futures contracts, forex pairs and options trades. Multi-leg options spreads route to the dedicated options execution simulator.
Replay any historical market session
No real trade required. Pick a symbol, pick a date, hit play. Useful for the days you wish you had been at the screen. FOMC, CPI, earnings, the 2020 bottom, the August 2024 yen unwind.
Replay-with-trading is the natural fit here: trade the session as if you were live, then compare your simulated decisions to what the tape actually rewarded.
- 30,000+ symbols across US, IN, CA, AU markets and global indices
- Bar sizes from 5 seconds to 60 minutes
- 70+ indicators applied live during the replay
- Multiple charts side-by-side for context (HTF + execution timeframe)
Review entries, exits, MFE/MAE, R-multiple and holding time
Replay without analytics is just nostalgia. Every TradesViz replay session feeds back into the same 600+ metric engine that powers your live journal.
MFE / MAE
Maximum favorable and adverse excursion drawn directly on the replay chart. See exactly how much you left on the table, or how close you came to disaster.
Best-exit price
The single best fill you could have hit between your entry and the close. Replay lets you watch the bar where it printed.
R-multiple
Result expressed in units of risk. Test in replay-with-trading whether widening the stop by 0.25R would have changed the outcome.
Holding time
Bucketed against your historical edge. If your wins average 12 minutes and you held 2 hours, the replay shows the exact bar where the thesis broke.
Time-of-day buckets
Replay the entry against your own time-of-day stats, you'll see immediately whether the trade fell inside or outside your edge window.
Original vs alternate
In replay-with-trading mode, the simulated alternate trades are tagged and shown next to the original. P&L delta is calculated automatically.
Use replay for prop firm practice
Most evaluation failures aren't because the trader can't read price action. They're because nobody rehearsed the rules. Replay-with-trading on TradesViz combines with Challenge Mode to enforce real prop-firm constraints, daily loss limits, max drawdown, profit targets, consistency rules, while you replay historical futures or forex sessions.
Pick a known nasty session (CPI day, an FOMC reversal, a Sunday gap) and run an Apex 50K, TopStep 50K or FTMO challenge against it. If you blow the daily loss limit, you see it before you've paid the evaluation fee.
Two flows we see traders use the most:
- Worst-case rehearsal: replay the 5 ugliest historical sessions of the last year against the rules you'll trade under. If you survive all 5, the live evaluation is just another session.
- Failed-evaluation autopsy: import the trades from a busted challenge, then replay each one with the constraint enabled. The bar where the rule actually broke is usually 30 minutes before the loss showed up on the P&L.
Replay across every asset class you trade
Stocks
30,000+ US, IN, CA and AU symbols. Replay your scalps on SPY, your gap-and-go on small caps, your earnings holds, all with second-level precision and percent-or-dollar based stops.
Futures
ES, NQ, CL, GC, RTY, YM and the full set of micros. Tick value, point value and bracket orders are pre-configured per contract, replay matches what you'd see in your prop-firm platform.
Forex
Majors, minors and exotics with pip-based stops and per-pair lot sizing. Replay the London open, the New York fix, or any session where your model predicts edge.
Options
Single-leg options replay alongside the underlying. For multi-leg spreads, verticals, condors, straddles, calendars, route to the options execution simulator to step the chain second-by-second with real historical contract data.
Why we built trade replay
A note from PK, Founder of TradesViz
Most replay tools I tried as a trader were either disconnected from my journal (so I had to manually rebuild the trade by eyeballing a chart) or so locked-down that I couldn't test alternate exits. Both miss the point. Replay should be a controlled experiment on a real decision, not a video player.
So in TradesViz, replay sits inside the journal. The trade you're replaying is the trade you actually took. Your fills are drawn at the second they fired. And if you want to ask 'what if I'd held one more bar?', you flip a switch and the simulator lets you place that alternate exit while the tape keeps rolling. That's the version of replay I always wanted, and that's what we built.
- PK, Founder of TradesViz
See it in motion
Trade Replay FAQ
What is trade replay?
Trade replay reloads a historical chart and steps it forward bar-by-bar, second-by-second, exactly as the market moved. In TradesViz you can replay either a real journaled trade (with your original fills drawn on the chart) or any historical session for a clean review.
How is trade replay different from a trading simulator and from backtesting?
A trading simulator is for placing new practice orders on past data. Backtesting is rule-based across history. Trade replay is review-first: it reproduces the exact tape so you can audit a real decision, and (optionally) test alternate exits without risk.
Can I replay my own real trades?
Yes. Any trade in your TradesViz journal, auto-imported, API-synced, or manual, can be replayed on the original second-by-second price action with your real entries, exits, scale-ins and stop moves rendered on the chart.
What are the two replay modes in TradesViz?
Replay-without-trading (review mode) reproduces the original tape and your real fills; manual orders are disabled. Replay-with-trading (Persist Replay Trades) lets you place new simulated orders during the replay to test alternate exits, earlier entries, or wider stops, and journals those simulated trades alongside the original.
Which assets does the replay support?
Stocks (30,000+ US, IN, CA, AU symbols), futures (ES, NQ, CL, GC, micros and majors), forex (all majors, minors and exotics) and options (single legs, plus multi-leg via the options execution simulator).
Can I use replay for prop firm practice?
Yes. Combine replay with Challenge Mode to rehearse evaluation rules, daily loss limits, max drawdown, profit targets, on real historical sessions from prop firms like Apex, TopStep and FTMO before risking the evaluation fee.
What metrics do I get after a replay?
The same analytics as a live trade: MFE/MAE, R-multiple, holding time, best-exit price, slippage vs ideal exit, time-of-day buckets, and side-by-side comparison between original fills and alternate exits you tested in replay-with-trading mode.
Is the trade replay tool included in the free trial?
Yes. Trade replay is part of the simulator suite and is available on the free trial. No credit card required.
How fast can I replay?
Pause, step bar-by-bar, or fast-forward up to 100x. Compress a full session into a few minutes or slow down around the entry to inspect every tick.
Stop reviewing trades from screenshots.
Replay them on the original tape, with your fills, your indicators, and the option to test what you should have done instead.
All-in-One Platform for All Traders
TradesViz is designed to be used by traders just starting out all the way to professional traders. The level of customizability and versatility is unmatched by any similar platform.
Replay, Simulate and Backtest Trades
You can simulate Stocks, forex, futures and even options on TradesViz. On top of this, you can even replay your trade second-by-second and backtest options using options executions simulator.
Trade Plans & Mistakes Analysis
Add trade plans to each trade and trading day to see what rules you break and how they affect your trading. Zoom in on your trading behaviour from a data-driven perspective.
Charting customizability
Add multiple static image charts, setup custom TradingView charts with your executions, MFE/MAE targets and more automatically plotted for all your imported trades!
Unlimited Reports and Analytics with AI
Gone are the days of fixed charts you cannot Customize. With AI Q&A, you can now ask any question about your data and get charts, tables and even add them as custom widgets to your dashboard!
Dedicated Note Taking + AI
Write notes, tag your notes, search your notes and even ask the AI to generate trade summaries as notes for your trades. TradesViz has a dedicated note tab for all notes management.
Advanced Statistics
MFE/MAE, R/R ratios, Best/EOD Exit, Multi-Timeframe exit, Market-TA-Comparison, Running PnL analytics, Options greeks analysis and more - all of these on top of existing PnL charts make ~600+ charts on TradesViz.
Not just another journal. We pushed the boundaries of journaling.
With a team of data scientists, researchers and veteran traders TradesViz is built with a singular focus of improving trading performance in a data-driven way.
160+ Blog Posts of In-depth Journaling Guides + Always-on Support
We didn't skip the most important part out: Education. We update and launch new educational blog posts every few weeks + Post plenty of tips, tricks, trading news/info and journaling knowledge on our Twitter/X feed!
Dashboard Overview
Trade Management
Group Apply
Trade Explore Tab
Day Explore Tab
Equity Curve & Account Balance
Calendar Tab
Custom Dashboard & AI Widgets
Trades Table
Filters & Toggles
Trade/Day Plans & Analysis
Artificial Intelligence Q&A and Custom Widgets
How to setup Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Flex Query for Auto-sync
Not just a trading journal -
A Trading Partner for all markets!
TradesViz is a unified trading analysis platform that offers not just the world's best trade journaling capabilities, but also other tools that are tightly integrated to provide a 360 degree support (via tools) to traders looking forward to mastering the market.
- Trading Simulator & Multi-Chart Simulator
- Options Flow & Screener
- Technical Analysis Backtester
- Fundamental Analysis/SEC13F Visualization
- Seasonality Analysis
- Side-by-Side Strategy Comparison
Value worth of $300+ per month is available to all traders of TradesViz at less than 1/10th the cost.
Highest value per dollar on the market
At TradesViz we focus on value and utility provided to traders. That's why we're still #1 when it comes to the value and features offered on an online trading journal.
Our guarantee: You will not find a better, more versatile, constantly up-to-date trading journal even at 2x or 3x our price. View Full Pricing.
Basic
For beginner traders to get started with journaling.
- Import 3000 executions/ month
- 50+ Performance Visualizations
- Basic auto-generated charts
- All basic trade management features and trade charts
Pro
All asset type import + 100s of charts & powerful grid features.
- Unlimited imports + All asset type support
- 400+ Performance Visualizations
- Multiple auto-generated + Interactive stock charts
- Multiple trading accounts
- Artificial Intelligence Question & Answer
- Artificial Intelligence Trade Summary
Platinum
All-in-one journaling, simulation and advanced analysis platform.
- Every feature in Pro
- Real-time Screener
- Unlimited Custom Dashboards
- Advanced Options flow analysis + Options flow scanner + Options Payoff Charts
- Multi-Timeframe/EOD/Best Exit Analysis charts
- Trading Simulator (Stock + Options + Futures + Forex + Prop Firm)
- Pivot/Grid Charting (Most powerful analytics feature online)
- Trade/Day Plans & Checklist analysis
- Backtesting (70+ Indicators/Any Symbol)
- Dividend Tracker
What Trading Experts Say
TradesViz is the only trading journal in the world to be recognized internationallyby the popular Benzinga FinTech Awards Competition as a
Finalist in Best Data Analysis tool and Best Portfolio Tracker categories!
TradesViz is the most useful trading journal on the market for finding and quantifying your edge. An all in one trading journal tool for traders.
Trader, Author, and founder of NewTraderU.com
PK and the whole team at TradesViz.com have put together an outstanding product with exceptional features. PK provides the most excellent support in the chat help. And if something really isn't working quite right or as expected, they get busy to make it better. I originally signed up for TradesViz to have the simulator function which also gave me the statistical analysis I could use to improve my trading. I had been using a simulator which had almost no analysis. When TradesViz added the simulator function I gave it a try. At first I had a hard time making it work, but with patient explanation from PK and with some tweaking on functionality from the coders on the backend, they have delivered a super trading simulator. The trade analysis part of TradesViz is second to none. I've gained the insight into my trading weaknesses and strengths to be able to trade much better in my live account. This is the service you need!
I definitely recommend Tradesviz especially for new traders the way it tracks your stats is no short of amazing especially for me personally by best exit and and of the stats that tell you how long you usually are in drawdown and you are usually in profit. If you want to build confidence in your strategy and edge this journal is the way to go for sure!
TradesViz has made a huge difference in my trading and has positively impacted my trading for the better in psychology and profit.
I use it DAILY and have noticed the vast improvements being made, not only in profit but also in my mental approach to trading.
This is a must-have tool and is more important than any indicator you could ever use.
I've subscribed, at different times, to various reporting programs, and trialed several others.
Yours is night and day over them all. I particularly appreciate the degree of available customization and your quick, ever-patient response to support requests.
I have a small trading account. Thank you for offering such a sophisticated program at an affordable price.
TradesViz is a true leader in Trade Journaling Software. They offer extensive statistical data at an amazing price that almost seems too good to be true. You have access to an amazing support team that seems to be active at all hours of the day. My support agent helped me through a complex import issue and had it solved within 24 hours. I can't tell you how blown away I am with their software and their service. I'm more than happy with my experience and so excited to see what new features they bring to the table as they continue to grow their business. If you're on the fence, I encourage you to jump right over and take it for a spin with their risk-free trial. Thanks to all the TradesViz team members who continue to make my Trade Journaling efficient and effective.
Day Trader
GREAT PRODUCT AND EVEN BETTER CUSTOMER SUPPORT!
I have been using TradesViz for a few months and it is a fantastic tool. Prior to subscribing, I was spending hours on xls trying different tables and layouts and only getting frustrated (or overcomplicating things!). Now I have everything in one place (I have multiple trading accounts), and I have probably only explored 10% of the tools and data analytics!
BUT, what has really impressed me is the support: I have NEVER in the last 10 years had such instant, professional support from a company at (almost) anytime of the day or night!
Clearly this is a team that is passionate about their product and that will always translates into innovation and better experience & value to the customer.
Well done to the team!!
After only a short time of using TradesViz, I can confirm that this platform is exactly what I have been looking for. It takes the chore out of journaling – the number of stats, data, and information available on my trades is a complete game-changer. The importing process via MT4 file is extremely easy and the automated charts with entries are amazing. The whole process is extremely easy and helps to keep me accountable for my trading by having a professional system to manage my business. The platform is very comprehensive and takes a bit of time to get used to, but they have many videos on their YouTube to help with this as well as their support team.
Their support is exemplary and gets back to all my queries in well under 30 minutes with comprehensive answers and solutions to my questions.
This platform is absolutely essential for any trader and I would highly recommend it to any of my trader friends looking for a journal. If you don’t have this platform, you are seriously missing a trick here…
Thanks, PK from TradesViz for being extremely helpful and patient in resolving my syncing issue. Certainly one of the best online support I have ever experienced. Even though it took a while for me to get my settings right, I never felt rushed...I appreciate that. Hope to stay with you guys for a long time. Certainly would like to learn how to utilize most of the features on TradeViz.
In my opinion, the TradesViz platform is truly the Ferrari of journaling software available today. Once you are under the hood, you begin to realize that in fact what sets it so far apart is all the advanced analysis at your fingertips. Such as the ability to combine multiple portfolios, live charting, and much more. Their support is world-class, in my case personally, I needed integration with Trend Spider’s backtesting engine. What I imagined might take weeks was literally accomplished overnight. Factor in rock bottom prices and you have all you need for whatever you're searching for. Newer traders will find that one of the most basic recipes for success is meticulous record keeping, simply observing your account profit and loss go up, or just down as the case may be, is the first step on the road to ruin if your serious about trading.
Trader
I'm writing this testimonial as appreciation for this surprisingly pleasant
conversation.
Upon my initial support request, TradesViz's support was impressively swift. A response appeared every single time as soon as I closed my email tab. Not only did I receive incredibly helpful information about features I wasn't aware of, but the team was also genuinely enthusiastic about discussing my feature requests and ideas about the industry. Truly awesome people!
In terms of raw analytics, comparison, and filtering capabilities, there is no match for TradesViz. I also don't know of any other trading journals that offer so much for the price, their free version has pretty much everything you would need if you trade stocks and offer so many of the paid features that are on other websites for free. They have templates for almost every broker and if it's not there, their support team is only 1 email or message away and will work with you to include your broker on their platform. By far the best support I have gotten from any trading journal as they are open to feedback and feature requests and are very active on their chat for any questions. A trading journal built by traders, for traders.
Professional Futures Day Trader
I wish I had TradesViz when I started to trade ten years ago. I had to learn the hard way. It provides everything you need to maximize your wins and minimize your losses.
There’s a learning curve but once you get past that your trading will surely be taken to the next level.
Founder of ChartLearning.com
As a full-time trader, the first pivot point in my trading results came after I started to learn from Mark Minervini - this is when I stopped losing $$$. The second pivot point came after I started to analyze my results - this is when I started to be consistently profitable $$$.
I love that TradesViz works for Options, Stocks, Crypto! It has automated and manual uploads. It has all the important metrics and analysis that you will need and it is fully customizable.
I have tried pretty much most of the products out there, and TradesViz wins by a mile - highly recommend it! Thanks to PK and the team!
Thanks, @MightySoldiers for turning me on to @tradesviz. I'm loving the customized dashboard. The level of detail and ability to really dig deep on metrics is unparalleled. This tool has helped me so much in defining my trading strategy and where my edge is.
Trader
I was looking for a solution to journal my trades on multiple platforms to keep track of my PNL. I stumbled upon TradesViz and I have nothing but positive to say about their service. Not only does their product make it so easy to see how you are doing on your trades with the various graphs and filtering options, getting your account synced is super intuitive. Best of all their customer service is top-notch. Every time I have asked a question, they have responded within a few hours with a solution, and sometimes that involved programming custom solutions for me to make my life easier. It's a no-brainer for me to pay for the yearly service. Do it, you won't regret it.
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