Manual Backtest Helper is a cTrader plugin that lets you record, score, and analyze your strategies directly on the chart — no spreadsheets, no external tools, no exporting data.

You draw your trades visually, and the plugin instantly calculates your win rate, profit factor, net P&L, max drawdown, expectancy, and more. Everything updates in real time as you add or edit trades.

It is built for:

• Discretionary traders who want to backtest a strategy manually on historical price data
• Developing traders building a track record of their setups before going live
• Strategy reviewers who want to replay past trades and measure edge objectively
• Anyone who wants to answer the question: “Does my strategy actually have an edge?”

--------------- ATTENTION: This plugin does not work well on macOS at the moment ---------------

Key Features

📊 Two Recording Modes

• Manual Mode — Draw a win or loss as a simple trendline between two price points. Direction (BUY/SELL) is inferred automatically from the line angle
• Sim Mode (⚡) — Click to place a full trade setup with entry, take profit target, and stop loss. The plugin scans forward through candles and auto-resolves the outcome as a win or loss

🎯 Automatic Trade Resolution (Sim Mode)

• Scans candle by candle to determine whether the target or stop loss was hit first
• Flags trades as Ambiguous when both levels are touched on the same candle
• Ambiguous trades can be manually overridden to Win or Loss directly from the inspector

💰 Three Risk Modes

• Fixed Lots — enter a specific lot size directly
• Balance % — enter a percentage of starting balance to risk; lot size is calculated automatically from SL pips
• Monetary Amount — enter a fixed currency amount to risk; lot size is calculated automatically from SL pips

📐 Lot Size Calculation Engine

• Automatically back-calculates the correct lot size from risk amount and SL pips
• Snaps to the symbol’s minimum volume step
• Clamps to the symbol’s minimum and maximum allowed volume

🔢 Configurable Inputs

• Starting Balance — manually typed or synced from the live account with one click
• Spread — manually typed or copied from the live chart symbol with one click
• SL Pips — the stop loss distance used for lot size calculation and Sim trade drawing
• Easy ▲ / ▼ spinner buttons for quick incremental adjustments

📈 Live KPI Tiles

Three always-visible headline metrics that update in real time as trades are added or edited:

• NET P&L — total profit/loss across all trades after commission
• WIN RATE — percentage of trades that were wins
• NET PF — Net Profit Factor
• Balance — Balance after backtesting

📋 Win / Loss Stats Table

Side-by-side breakdown of wins and losses across five columns:

• Total Pips
• Pips % of total pips moved
• Trade Count
• Count % of total trades
• Gross monetary value

🔍 Per-Trade Inspector

Click any trade on the chart to see its full detail:

• Type (e.g. BUY WIN, SELL LOSS, BUY AMBIG)
• Lot size
• Pips gained or lost
• Gross P&L
• Entry and close price
• Open and close timestamp
• Commission
• Net P&L (after commission)
• Balance before the selected trade
• Balance after the selected trade

📑 Trades Summary Section

Chart-level statistics across all recorded trades:

• Total trade count
• Gross P&L
• Total commission
• Net P&L
• Maximum drawdown (currency)
• Maximum drawdown percentage
• Return % on starting balance
• Expectancy (average net monetary return per trade)

🏷️ On-Chart Labels

• Toggle trade labels on or off directly from the Trades Summary header

🗑️ Clear All with Confirmation

• ✖ Clear All button removes all recorded trades
• Requires a ✓ Confirm step before executing, preventing accidental deletion
• ✗ Cancel aborts the action

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

• Configurable shortcut keys for Win Line, Loss Line, and Trade drawing actions
• Shortcut labels are displayed directly on the action buttons

💾 Persistent State

• All trades, settings, and UI values are saved automatically
• Fully restored the next time the chart or platform is opened

🎨 Theme-Aware UI

• Panel colours, button states, and status text adapt to the active theme
• Toggled buttons highlight to show active drawing mode