Better trading starts
with better research

Go beyond backtesting and journaling. Recording trades is the easy part. Our research tools help you turn them into better strategies.

  • Backtesting
  • Trading Journal
  • Strategies
  • Analytics
  • Research
500+Users researching
10K+Backtests created
20K+Trades journaled
2K+Strategies researched
  • Backtesting
  • Trading Journal
  • Strategies
  • Analytics
  • Research
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FEATURES THAT WORK TOGETHER

Tools to test, understand and improve your trading

01 · Backtesting

Test your edge

Replay the markets. Test your ideas across multiple variations, and analyze your strategy before you go live. ChartLooper supports Forex, Futures, and Stocks.

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02 · Trading Journal

Learn from the trades you take

Bring your trades, charts and notes together. Review your decisions, spot patterns, and take what you learn into the next session.

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ChartLooper Live Journal calendar for May 2026 with daily results in dollars, weekly totals, a month total of $3,619.50 over 28 trades and the selected day Friday, May 1 with its trade and day notes.
03 · Strategies

Give every trade a bigger picture

Connect your backtests and journal trades to a strategy. Review its trades, track performance, and compare approaches in one place.

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Explore your strategy variations: candidate variations ranked by P/L improvement — High momentum breakout (+47.20 R, 93 of 160 trades kept), both concepts combined (+13.19 R), Breakout aligned with a higher trend (+5.15 R) — with the Save strategy variation button and performance and drawdown curves against the original strategy.
Save as strategy variation: Parent strategy NY Open Range Breakout, variation requirement High momentum breakout at Clearly matches or stronger, strategy name NY Open Range Breakout - high momentum variation, and a short description.
04 · Research

Turn observations into better strategies

Study your trading concepts, compare the results, and explore promising variations. Find out which decisions make a difference across your backtests and journal trades.

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Create a new study, step 1 of 3: What do you want to investigate? Trading Concept, with Entry Variation and Exit Variation marked Coming soon.
05 · Analytics

Understand every number behind your results

Rich analytics across your backtests, live journal and Strategies. Filter by account, tag, instrument, direction, date or P/L, then compare any of them side by side to see where your results really come from.

Research comparison of three cohorts: Breakout aligned with a higher trend at Barely matches or stronger (63 trades, +20.05 R, profit factor 1.71), High momentum breakout at Clearly matches or stronger (51 trades, +27.00 R, profit factor 2.53), and both concepts at Textbook match (42 trades, +41.12 R, profit factor 6.77), with performance and drawdown curves.
Live Journal Performance tab for May 2026: net $3,619 over 28 trades, profit factor 1.35, trade win rate 57.14%, streaks, expectancy and drawdown statistics beside equity and drawdown curves.

THE IMPROVEMENT CYCLE

Test, trade, connect and improve

ChartLooper is designed to take you beyond collecting backtests and live trades. Connected research tools help you explore what works and what doesn’t, so you can build new strategies or improve existing ones.

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FAQ

A few things worth knowing

What sets ChartLooper apart from other backtesting and journaling software?

Most tools stop once your trades are recorded. ChartLooper starts there. On top of backtesting and live journaling sits a full process for building and improving strategies: connect your trades to a Strategy, research which Trading Concepts actually work, and save the better version as a new Strategy. You can even test new concepts without placing new trades. Then you do it again. Test, trade, research, improve, loop by loop.

Why backtest with ChartLooper?

Because you get through a backtest much faster. Every feature you'd expect is there, from multi-timeframe charts, rewinds and session jumps to Partial Exits and hotkeys, with fewer clicks, fewer drags, no lag and high-quality data. And you can trade several strategy variations in one backtest: analyze once, execute different ideas against the same price action, and compare the results side by side. Still not sure? Try the demo without signing up and get a feel for it.

Why journal with ChartLooper?

Because your journal doesn't just record your trades, it helps improve your strategy. Everything you'd expect is there, from broker sync and CSV import to a P/L calendar, daily plans, checklists and detailed analytics. On top of that, each account feeds a Strategy, so your live trades sit next to your backtests and go straight into Research.

What are Strategies?

A Strategy is the home for one trading approach. Set it up once, connect your backtesting sessions and journal accounts, and every new trade lands in it automatically. You see whether your backtest edge holds up live, and how the Strategy compares with your others. It is also where improvement starts: Research finds a better version, you save it as a new Strategy, then improve that one too. Loop by loop, your strategy gets better.

What does Research do?

Research shows which of your Trading Concepts actually carry your edge, without waiting weeks for new trades. Pick a concept you check at the entry, such as "Pullback into a fair value gap", and test it on the backtests and live trades you already have. You rate each trade before you see how it ended, so hindsight can't skew the result. It works for new ideas and for the concepts you already trade, showing whether, and how much, each one contributes. Then save the better version as a new Strategy and research that one too. Every loop makes your trading a little better.

Which instruments are supported?

ChartLooper currently supports Forex, Futures, and major Stocks.

What is the data source?

Historical market data comes from one of the largest and most reliable data providers. ChartLooper stores OHLCV bars across every timeframe, from 1 minute to monthly, so any resolution is ready to use.

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