Frequently asked questions about realbacktesting

realbacktesting builds systematic, multi-strategy trading systems for prop-firm traders, sold as cBots on the cTrader Store. The premise: the published 5-year backtest can be reproduced in your own cTrader on real spread, commission, slippage and swap — proof over promises, not a screenshot of a green line.

cTrader is a professional trading platform built by Spotware and offered by many regulated brokers worldwide — known for transparent pricing, advanced charting and built-in algorithmic trading. Its Store (cTrader Automate) is the platform's official marketplace for trading bots. So each system runs inside a platform you and your regulated broker already trust, and you buy it through cTrader's own Store — not as a loose download from us. (MetaTrader 5 support is on the roadmap.)

The research engine that produced the published numbers and the portable C# engine that ships inside the cBot agree on 100% of entry and exit signals — measured cell-by-cell across every strategy and 5 years (worst strategy 100%). It is engine-to-engine signal agreement; the independent cTrader-native run (m1, spread 0) is published for all three systems.

No. Every figure here is a backtest or a Monte-Carlo model on 2021–2026 data. Trading involves risk and past performance does not guarantee future results. The cTrader-native run is published so you can reproduce it yourself, but no backtest — ours or cTrader's — is a promise of future returns.

An FTMO Swing account — or any cTrader broker or prop-firm account that allows holding positions over the weekend and trading through news. A Standard account that force-closes before the weekend and restricts news trading would cripple these systems.

Real per-symbol spread and commission (FX, indices, crypto and metals priced separately), 1 basis point of slippage and overnight swap, with additive percent-risk sizing on an 80,000 EUR base. A 30% out-of-sample hold-out is reserved, and the drawdown ceiling is enforced at the 95th percentile of a Monte-Carlo.

Not yet on these specific systems — and we won't pretend otherwise. What you get today is a validated 5-year backtest on real costs with 30% held out-of-sample, plus 100% signal parity and the cTrader-native run published for all three, so you can reproduce the result in your own cTrader before risking a cent. Live results don't exist yet; they get published as they happen — verifiable, not promised.

Every system is bought through the cTrader Store, which applies a 14-day money-back period to all paid products. Within that window you can load it into your own cTrader and backtest it on m1 bars with spread 0 to confirm it reproduces the cTrader-native numbers before the window closes. To be clear: that 14-day period is the cTrader Store's standard money-back policy — it is not a performance guarantee, and we don't promise returns.

On the cTrader Store, where each system runs as a compiled cBot (the listing is launching). We also build custom trading systems around your instruments, risk limits and prop-firm rules — backtested the same verifiable way.

FTMO permits commercial EAs from the cTrader Store. Every account runs an independent variant — its own entry-timing offset plus balance-based sizing — so two accounts never place the same trade at the same instant. It isn't a guarantee, and we don't claim one; it's the most that can be done without touching the edge. Always read your prop firm's own EA and trading-practices policy first.

FTMO is one of the largest and longest-running prop firms — operating since 2015, with hundreds of thousands of traders and a strong independent review record. We are not affiliated with FTMO; verify it yourself with third-party reviews.

No. There is no master account, no shared signal feed and no copier. Each account independently computes the same edge and offsets its own entries, so there are no identical, simultaneous trades across accounts.

FTMO caps the total capital it will allocate to one trader across funded accounts (commonly cited around 400,000 USD). It's a funding-side limit on how much you can be allocated — it doesn't change how the bot trades. The exact figure and scaling rules are FTMO's; check their current FAQ.

The uniqueness layer (a short entry-timing offset + a lot sized to your balance) plus your broker's real costs. The differences are small and expectancy-neutral: the edge — entry/exit logic, stop, target — is identical; only when and how much you enter changes. Headline numbers are the design target; in live you land a few points around them.

An FTMO Swing account — NOT a Standard one. These systems hold positions over the weekend and trade through news; a Standard account force-closes before the weekend and restricts trading around high-impact news, which would cripple them. Swing leverage is up to 1:30 (vs 1:100 on Standard) and varies by market — lower for indices, metals, commodities and crypto than forex; the exact per-instrument figure is in your cTrader instrument specification.

Yes. cTrader's free cloud runs a cBot 24/7 with no PC and no VPS — it keeps trading with your device switched off. Because the cloud can't verify a paid licence, your Store purchase runs locally by default, and we hand verified buyers a dedicated cloud-ready build on request (cloud builds sit outside the 14-day Store refund window). Prefer to keep it on your own machine? Just leave cTrader open, or use a small VPS.

Yes, it's Swing by design — it holds over the weekend and trades through news, with no news filter and no Friday force-close. Swing accounts use lower base leverage (up to 1:30) than a Standard account.