Trading practice, built on discipline
Drill your strategy on real history — and learn to trade less, better.
TradeDrill is a market replay terminal and trading journal in one. Replay real market days bar by bar, rehearse prop firm challenges against their actual rules, tag every trade with its setup and how you felt, and review it later. The discipline score rewards the trades you planned — and the ones you sat out.
What you can do with it
- Replay the market bar by bar. Real historical candles on a chart that hides everything after the cursor, so you practise the decision you actually face instead of one you can already see the answer to. Play, pause, step a bar at a time, or run at up to 16×.
- Switch timeframes without losing the moment. 1-minute to daily, with a higher timeframe alongside the one you're trading, so context and entry stay on screen together.
- Rehearse a prop firm challenge. Preset programmes from FTMO, FundingPips, The5ers, FundedNext, E8, Alpha Capital, Topstep and Apex, scored live against their real profit targets, daily loss limits and maximum drawdown — including whether the drawdown is static or trails your peak.
- Journal every trade as you take it. Setup, grade, emotion, the rule you kept or broke, and a note — recorded in the moment rather than reconstructed from memory a week later.
- See which setups actually pay. Win rate, expectancy and R-multiples broken down by setup, session and timeframe, so you can cut the ones that lose money quietly.
- Draw on the chart and keep it. Trend lines, zones, Fibonacci and measured moves, saved with the session and still there when you come back.
Why replay beats scrolling back
Scrolling back through a chart shows you where price went. Your eye lands on the move, and the entry looks obvious because the outcome is already on the screen. Replay hides the future: you see the bar forming, you decide with the information you'd really have had, and you find out afterwards whether you were right. That gap — between how a setup looks in hindsight and how it feels in real time — is most of the distance between a backtest and a live account.
Guides
- How to stop overtrading: a system that doesn’t rely on willpower — Overtrading is a process problem, not a character flaw. A daily cap, a written plan per trade and a cooldown after a loss do more than willpower ever will.
- How to keep a trading journal you’ll actually keep — Most trading journals die within a week. Keep it to a few fields you can fill in under a minute — setup, emotion, rule kept or broken, one lesson — and review it weekly.
- Revenge trading: what it is and how to break the loop — Revenge trading is the urge to win back a loss immediately. Recognise the signs, pre-commit to a pause, and make the next trade earn its place.
- Bar-by-bar replay vs backtesting: why hindsight flatters you — Scrolling back through a chart shows you where the move went. Replaying it bar by bar hides the future, so you practise the decision you actually face.
- The prop firm challenge rules that fail most traders — Most funded-account challenges are failed on the risk rules, not the profit target. What daily loss, maximum drawdown and consistency rules mean, and how to rehearse them.
- Trade less, trade better: scoring discipline instead of profit — P/L is a noisy score for a single day. Scoring the process — plan written, rules kept, sat out when nothing fit — builds the habit that makes results possible.
Questions
Is TradeDrill free?
Yes. Replay, journalling and the core analytics are free, with no card needed. Premium adds unlimited saved sessions, the full history archive, deeper analytics and the AI review, at $15 a month or $100 a year.
What is bar-by-bar replay?
Replay plays real historical price data forward one candle at a time while hiding everything after the cursor. You trade it as though it were live, so you practise entries, stops and exits without knowing the outcome — and without risking money.
Which markets and timeframes does it cover?
Gold (XAUUSD) and major FX pairs, on 1-minute, 5-minute, 15-minute, 1-hour and daily candles, with years of history you can download and cache for offline practice.
Can I practise a prop firm challenge?
Yes. Pick a preset for FTMO, FundingPips, The5ers, FundedNext, E8, Alpha Capital, Topstep or Apex, or enter your own numbers. Your run is scored live against that programme's profit target, daily loss limit and maximum drawdown, and it fails you the moment a rule breaks — exactly as the real one would.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser. Your sessions, notes and trades are yours, and you can export them whenever you like.
Is this a broker, or financial advice?
Neither. TradeDrill is practice and record-keeping software. No real money is ever traded through it, and nothing in it is advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
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