Hi Scott,
Simulation Mode is designed to help you forward test a strategy, so you can watch things unfold as the time progresses. If you want to backtest a strategy, then use the Strategy Backtester and Strategy Optimizer instead:
Hi Jason,
Unfortunately that is of little help to me because the strategy I want to test is based on price action, key levels and other confluence and not indicators. It just takes a very long time waiting for the daily candle to finish to test a daily strategy.
Scott
I understand now. Since Simulation Mode doesnât let you skip full days, I have shared your request for that functionality with our software developers. Perhaps it can be included in a future version.
Jason while you are talking to the developers can you get them to program in the following:
- Rewind.
- Step forward or backwards a candle at a time. I dont feel like watching a candle complete tick by tick, sometimes I just want to move through a sequence by having each candle appear.
- Jump to a specific date and time.
That would be awesome!
Thanks for these additional suggestions, Grant. Iâll share them with our developers as well. 
Hi,
Iâve been trying to use the simulation mode to no avail, just canât get it working. It says that itâs running and pausing and resuming doesnât do anything, increasing the speed doesnât do anything as well, chart just remains the same and doesnât move.
(Edit - simulation started working, no idea why as I have been trying the whole week to use it and never worked until now)
If I could add one suggestion as well, I love using the trading station but if we could get an option to pick a color for the outline/wick(shadows) of candlesticks that would be amazing.
Hi Orgun,
Iâm glad Simulation Mode is now working for you. In the future, if you ever face tech issues, you can reach out to our live customer support for real time help on the phone or live chat.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have shared it with our software development team. In the meantime, I want to make sure you already know you can change the candlestick colors and the entire Color Scheme of charts. If you havenât already tried this in might make the candlesticks easier for you to see:
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Is there any news on skipping a day per time in simulation mode? I think a lot of us would really appreciate that as for traders on the daily timeframe it takes way too long for the new candle to form at the moment.
Thanks!
Just like GoodspeedF2, Grantx and jurjenbalster I have the same issue atm with the simulator. It would be super useful for backtesting my trading style but without stepping forward one bar each time it is useless for now. Waiting for the daily bar to close takes quite some time. Just a ânext barâ âprevious barâ option would make it great!
Jason,
Myfxbook.
Can this site be trusted? I had to download âTrading_Station_Publisher.exeâ and its asking for my login credentials in order to keep a track of my trades on their website.
Edit:
Woops, sorry I posted this in the wrong place.
Hi Grantx,
While I canât vouch for any third-party website, I can say I know many FXCM clients use the Trading Station Publisher to view their trading stats on Myfxbook. However, as an alternative, you may want to consider FXCMâs free Trading Analytics site which was developed in-house.
I use both fxcm and I use myfxbook never had an issue but I cant say they cant be hacked and your account info stolen. One thing I can say though is FXCM will only send your funds back to the credit card you used to open the account so it would be very hard for a hacker to get your funds unless they also have acess to your bank account to
While I have shared this request with our developers, I donât have an ETA for you regarding when such an enhancement to the Simulation Mode can be added to Trading Station Desktop. My guess is that it would not be sooner than the next full-fledged update to the platform. I will let you know if I get more news regarding this.
Skipping candles one at a time would be a fantastic edition to the Simulator to make it able for me to use. It is currently the only reason i canât use the program. I miss too many entries and itâs very very frustrating.
Thanks for your feedback, and welcome to the forum!
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Hi Everyone,
I have good news and bad news:
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[li]The good news is you can now skip entire candles in Simulation Mode! Itâs simply a matter of hitting the right arrow key on your keyboard.
[/li][li]The bad news is this functionality was always available since Simulation Mode was introduced. It was my error in thinking it wasnât.
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I only learned this today, when I followed up with our developers again regarding your earlier requests for this functionality. 
Wait you mean Jason isnt the all knowing when it comes to FXCM software. I am very disappointed :o