So recently, my subscription to TradingView expired, and I can no longer look at chart history that far back to backtest different trading setups. Even with my basic subscription, I can’t look back further than 3 months, which is also the reason why I didn’t continue the subscription (I backtest on the 5-minute chart). Do you know any way to look back at charts on the 5-minute time frame, like 12 months back, to manually backtest? A free or low-cost way would work. I also use MT4, but I’m not good with the technical aspects, and the chart always scrolls back to the most recent market movement, which makes things hard.
Sorry for being so blunt but I honestly don’t know why you need more than 3 months of data for a 5 minute chart.
Free resources could include
TradingView
MT4
MT5
CTrader
All of these you should be able to download demo version to test your ideas.
Well, I suppose you might if (for example) the market on which you’re testing - one of the indices, say - had mostly been trending for the last 3 months and you wanted to see how robust your system is over the long-term, including non-trending periods?
There are certainly a lot of people backtesting from a decade’s tick-data, to see what proportion of the last 120 months were profitable and by how much. Hedge-funds certainly do this (at least), but some serious retail traders do, also. I’ve done it myself, in the past.
I don’t know a free way of doing it, though.
Hey Bad14214, no need to apologize. Thanks for your blunt feedback. I only trade for about 2-3 hours per day. Some days, there are no setups to gather data from. That’s why, over a 3-month period, I can gather data from roughly 50-120 trades, depending on the market. I think that’s not enough to determine the accuracy of the trading system based on this number of trades. That’s why I need data from further back in history. Maybe I’m just a slow learner and need to be more careful. Thanks for your recommendation too.
Hey Heteroskedasticity!
What paid resources you used for backtesting? Is TradingView the best in your opinion?
I think TradingView is “A Good Thing” overall, for sure, but I haven’t actually used it for backtesting, sorry!
At one time, I used to use a thing called ForexTester, which was amazingly good and came with (as I remember) at least a decade’s data included, for testing. This was a long time ago! I think I paid about $150 for it, though. There have been newer updated releases of it, ever since (probably costs more, now, too!).
Sorry, maybe not a very helpful answer. 
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