Getting Started

This is a practice environment for prop firm evaluations. It replays historical sessions candle-by-candle so you can rehearse reading price action and take simulated trades against it, exactly as if you were live on an evaluation account — without risking a real one. You can also run a mock challenge: a funded-style simulator with a profit target, drawdown limit, and a fixed number of trading days.

#First login

On your very first login the app tries to detect your timezone automatically from your browser and saves it — no popup. If detection fails, you'll see a one-time Set your timezone prompt instead. You can change it later at any time from account settings.

#The feature tour

The first time you land in the app, a short walkthrough highlights the main controls. It only shows once per account — dismiss it any time with the × and it won't come back.

Sessions & Timezone

A session is one trading day's worth of candles, running from the New York open through to the Asia close, shown in New York time. Changing your display timezone only changes how times are labeled on the axis and tooltips; it never changes which candles belong to which session.

#Calendar navigation

The session picker opens as a small popover calendar rather than a long scrolling list, so you can jump straight to any day without losing your place.

#Ways to use it

• Find your best/worst days. Colored day cells make win/loss days visually obvious at a glance across a whole month.
• Spot trends before diving in. Switch to month view first to see which months were strongest, then zoom into a specific month to see which days drove it.
• Filter by strategy. Apply a strategy filter and the calendar's day/month P&L figures update to reflect only trades tagged with that strategy — useful for judging whether a specific setup is actually working over time.
• Review a single day in depth. Hover any day for a quick trade-by-trade tooltip before opening it, so you're not blindly clicking into days one at a time.
• Export for record-keeping. Download the currently filtered trades as CSV or JSON — handy for keeping an external log of an evaluation attempt, or importing into a spreadsheet for deeper analysis.

Chart Basics

#Timeframe & Candle Count

Each pane has its own timeframe and candle count, independent of any other open pane.

#Show All vs. Replay

#Hide After

Caps how much of the session is ever revealed, even in Show All mode. Defaults to the opening range end, but you can set any time-of-day cutoff.

Replay Mode

Replay reveals candles one at a time, built from an animated sequence of their underlying sub-candles — so a 5-minute candle visibly forms rather than popping in instantly.

Single & Split Layout

Switch between one chart and two side-by-side charts. In Split view, one pane is always Main — it's the one with the Buy/Sell panel, and it's the one that drives replay stepping. Click Set Main on the other pane to hand control over to it.

The non-Main pane isn't idle — it follows Main's position by wall-clock time. So if Main is a 5-minute chart and you step it forward one candle, a 1-minute Sub pane reveals the matching five 1-minute candles automatically.

Zones & Levels

Toggle any combination of reference price lines from the Zones menu:

Indicators

Drawing Tools

Draw trend lines, boxes, and horizontal rays directly on the chart. Hold Shift while drawing a line to snap it to the nearest 45° angle. Select any drawing to recolor it or drag it to move it, and press Delete/Backspace to remove it. Drawings are saved per session and persist across visits.

Volume Profile

Trade Simulation

Practice trading against replayed history with a lightweight paper-trade flow:

#Multiple SL / TP levels

You're not limited to one stop and one target. Each trade can carry any number of SL and TP levels, and each level closes its own contract count — so you can scale out at multiple targets. Levels placed as a linked bracket cancel their opposite automatically when one side is hit.

#Partial closes

Close part of a position without closing the whole trade. The parent trade stays open with its remaining size reduced, and a separate closed "slice" row is recorded — so your history and stats always add up.

#How P&L is calculated

Every trade's profit or loss comes from the same underlying formula, whether it's the live number on an open position or the realized figure after closing:

Three optional settings shape the result, and default to a plain 1-point-per-dollar, no-cost calculation unless you set them:

Point value

how many dollars one point of price movement is worth per contract. Defaults to 1.

Spread

a flat per-contract cost subtracted regardless of direction, modeling the bid/ask spread. Defaults to 0.

Commission

a flat per-contract fee subtracted on top of spread. Defaults to 0.

Set your own defaults for point value, spread, and commission from the trade panel's settings icon — they'll pre-fill every new trade, though you can still override any of the three per trade before opening it.

While a trade is still open, the same formula runs continuously against the latest visible price to show an unrealized (live) P&L — it becomes the realized figure the moment you close the trade. Risk:reward is calculated separately, as the distance from entry to your take-profit divided by the distance from entry to your stop-loss.

Strategies

Tag trades with a strategy to track performance by setup type. Filter both the chart and Trade History by strategy at any time. Create, rename, recolor, or delete strategies from the manage dialog — the last-used strategy is remembered for your next trade.

Trade History

Filter by outcome (win/loss) or strategy, click any trade to jump the chart to it (the replay auto-reveals to the trade's exit), and hide or show trade markers on the chart with a single toggle. Each trade card shows entry/exit, size, R-multiple, and P&L.

Analytics

The analytics dashboard turns your closed trades into a full performance breakdown. Scope it to a specific month or all time, or filter to one strategy.

Export the currently displayed closed trades as a CSV at any time from the dashboard header.

Mock Challenges

Mock challenges are a funded-style simulator built on the same replay engine. You start with a virtual account, a profit target, and a drawdown limit — and your goal is to pass the challenge by growing the account to the target before breaching the drawdown.

#Creating a challenge

The form shows you the live $target and $max loss as you type, then generates a synthetic calendar month from real historical session days — so every challenge day has candle data.

#How a challenge works

The challenge page shows your account, balance, net P&L, peak, max drawdown, target, day counter, and status — with progress-to-target and drawdown-used bars that shift from gold to red as you approach a limit. Each challenge has its own analytics page too, scoped to that challenge only.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Account & Settings

Change your display timezone at any time from the top bar — it only affects labels, never which candles belong to a session. Account settings also let you manage your profile (username, email, password) and log out, which clears locally-saved chart preferences on that device.

#Settings sync across devices

Your chart and layout preferences are synced to your account, so switching devices keeps your setup. Logging out clears the local copy.

#Feedback

Use the Feedback option in the user menu to report bugs, request features, or leave a suggestion — it's categorized and sent straight to the app team.

FAQ

Release Notes

Track app updates, improvements, fixes and documentation changes for Practice Propfirm Trading.