6. Bar Replay

Bar replay reveals history one bar at a time, so you can study how price developed as if you were watching it live. It is ideal for practicing reads and reviewing setups without hindsight.

Starting a replay

Open replay from the toolbar, then pick a start bar on the chart. Replay reveals bars from that point forward, hiding everything after the cursor so you only see what would have been known at the time.

If you do not choose a start, replay begins from a sensible default partway through the loaded history.

Playback controls

• Play / pause — toggle automatic playback (keyboard: Space).
• Step — advance one bar at a time.
• Speed — choose the playback rate:

How multi-pane replay stays in sync

Replay drives all panes from a single time cursor. The timeline is built from the fastest timeframe among your panes, and slower panes are aggregated from that finer data as the cursor advances — so a 1H pane and a 5M pane stay consistent on the same replayed moment. Bars at or before the cursor are shown; bars after it are withheld.

Replay and other tools

Replay pairs naturally with Backtesting: replay builds intuition by hand, while the strategy tester evaluates rules systematically over the same history.

Next steps

Layer in the events that moved price.

Next: Event & Session Overlays