Frequently asked questions about realbacktesting

realbacktesting is a trading-software studio for cTrader — for you, traders. We mine and validate systematic edges, then ship them across four lines: prop-firm cBots (the Get Funded line — Guardian, Balanced and Edge), no-repaint indicators, desktop plugins, and bespoke custom builds. One principle runs through all of it: nothing ships unless you can verify it yourself — every published cBot number is a cTrader-native backtest you reproduce in your own cTrader, and every indicator and plugin is no-repaint.

All of them, in four lines. Get Funded: systematic, multi-strategy prop-firm cBots (Guardian, Balanced, Edge) built to pass FTMO and pay out, plus the strategy-mining and validation pipeline behind them. Indicators: cTrader indicators that map structure, sessions and strength — Sessions + Killzones + ORB, and Liquidity & Structure (SMC) — Free and Pro, no repaint. Plugins: desktop tools beside your charts — Prop Firm Control (a read-only risk cockpit) and FX Strength Pulse (live currency-strength) — Free and paid editions. Custom builds: bespoke cBots and indicators to your spec.

No. Our indicators never repaint — what you see on the chart is exactly what fired in real time, with no hindsight and no moving the goalposts. Prop Firm Control is read-only (AccessRights.None): it reads your account and renders the numbers, and physically cannot place, modify or close a trade.

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.)

Every strategy was proven in research, and the portable C# code that ships inside the cBot reproduces those exact entry and exit signals — 100% of them, measured cell-by-cell across every strategy and 5 years (worst strategy 100%). The published headline is the cBot's own cTrader-native backtest, the run you re-run in your own cTrader.

No. Every figure here is a backtest on 2021–2026 data. Trading involves risk and past performance does not guarantee future results. The headline is the cTrader-native run you reproduce yourself, but no backtest 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.

The published headline is the cBot's own cTrader-native backtest, run on m1 bars from the broker's server with real commission and overnight swap, sized with additive percent-risk on an 80,000 EUR base. You re-run it in your own cTrader; the drawdown shown is the floating-equity low — exactly what FTMO's drawdown rule measures. Each strategy was also validated in research on real per-symbol spread, commission and slippage, with a 30% out-of-sample hold-out reserved.

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 headline run published for all three — the number you reproduce 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 reproduce the exact run behind the cTrader-native numbers on m1 bars — a faithful re-run lands right on them, confirming the same low-drawdown conclusion 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. Every product — the cBots, the indicators and the plugins — installs from the platform's official Store, the one your regulated broker already runs, and many ship with a Free edition you can try first. We also build custom cBots and indicators around your instruments, risk limits and prop-firm rules — backtested the same verifiable way.

Email [email protected] — tell us your question and the exact product it's about, and our support team will help however we can. For paid (Pro / Premium) products we reply within 1–2 business days; for Free products, 2–5 business days. Need something bespoke? That's the Custom builds line — same address.

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.