By Mayank Saini — Founder of Tradexis, prop firm trader, and finance major at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Most backtesting tools let you replay price action. None of them tell you whether the setup you're about to take has actually worked for you in that specific context before. That's the gap this guide addresses.
ICT methodology is built on context: the session (London open, NY kill zone), the higher-timeframe narrative (are we drawing to BSL or SSL?), the order block that was mitigated, the fair value gap that confirmed displacement. A backtester that just shows you a chart and a P&L number misses all of it.
The real edge in ICT is not the pattern — it's knowing which instance of the pattern to take. That requires correlating your entries against variables like liquidity sweep direction, BOS confirmation, volatility regime, and your own session-time win rate. Traditional backtesting tools don't record this. Tradexis does.
Tradexis replays real institutional-grade market data with deep intraday history (5m, 15m, 30m, 1H, 1D). You pick a date, pick an asset — NAS100, SPX500, gold, Forex pairs — and the real market replays from that open, bar by bar.
You control the replay speed. Drawing tools let you mark FVGs, order blocks, BOS lines, and liquidity levels directly on the chart. When you hover over BUY or SELL, the Pre-Trade Mirror fires — comparing your current setup fingerprint against your trade history to surface your actual win rate in that context.
After 20 trades, verdicts reach the full-confidence GREEN / YELLOW / RED tier — a Pro feature — each backed by a minimum sample of similar setups from your own history. You're not trading against generic statistics — you're trading against your own edge.
Every closed position stores a fingerprint with the following variables:
| Trend direction | Bullish / Bearish / Ranging based on last 50 candles |
| FVG present | Was there an unmitigated FVG near entry? |
| BOS confirmed | Did structure break in trade direction before entry? |
| Liquidity sweep | Was there a sweep of BSL/SSL within last 20 candles? |
| Session bucket | Asia / London / NY / Overlap |
| Volatility regime | Low / Normal / High based on ATR percentile |
| Direction | LONG or SHORT |
| Outcome | WIN / LOSS + R-multiple |
While you're backtesting, the AI Coach is available for mid-session questions: “I've taken 3 consecutive losses — should I continue?” or “Is this FVG clean enough?” It responds using your actual trade data for that session, not generic advice.
After each session, Tradexis Scan runs a behavioral scan across your last 30 days of data — surfacing patterns like session-time divergence, revenge trading signals, and setup-specific regression. It's the equivalent of having a coach review your tape after every practice.
The 14-day trial includes everything: unlimited backtesting sessions across all markets (indices, forex, commodities and stocks), full drawing tools, the AI Coach, and full GREEN / YELLOW / RED Pre-Trade Mirror verdicts. A card is required to start the trial and you are not charged until it ends. If you're also running a prop challenge, the Prop Tracker is included too.
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