Build a stock trading strategy. Test it on historical daily prices. Understand the results.
CandleChasers is a stock strategy research and education website. Our strategy builder helps you turn entry rules, exit rules, and risk controls into a historical backtest, then explore the trades and performance in a shareable report.
What you can do on CandleChasers
Choose an available stock symbol, set your hypothetical starting capital, and build rules using supported daily indicators such as EMA, SMA, RSI, MACD, and volume. Add supported profit targets, stop losses, trailing stops, or holding limits, and review the interpreted rules before running the test.
Results include trade charts, an equity curve, a trade history with a CSV download, and performance measures such as return, drawdown, win rate, and profit factor. Explanations help you understand how the rules work and what the results do—and do not—show.
How the backtester works
The tester applies your selected rules to the historical daily price data available for that symbol. It calculates hypothetical trades using the execution assumptions described in each report. The starting capital is a simulation setting: no money is deposited or invested.
Our current tester uses a structured strategy builder. Backtest calculations are performed by the site’s calculation engine; AI interpretation is not part of the current public form. The tester does not connect to brokerage accounts or place trades.
A public collection of strategy research
Confirmed tests can create public results pages. Other visitors can explore those reports, share the links, and use the rules as a starting point for their own research. A published strategy is a historical experiment, not a recommendation or an endorsement of its performance.
Strategy rules, test settings, and results can be visible to other visitors and search engines. Please do not include personal, confidential, or proprietary information in a test. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Research with realistic expectations
A profitable backtest does not guarantee future profits. Results depend on the selected stock, dates, historical data, costs, and execution assumptions. Trying many variations can produce attractive results by chance. Compare different periods, examine drawdowns and losing trades, and read the assumptions before drawing conclusions.
Daily data cannot show every intraday price movement or reproduce real-world order fills. Unless a report says otherwise, results exclude taxes, dividends, and interest on uninvested cash; short-selling simulations also have limitations. Historical or hypothetical performance is not a reliable prediction of future results.
Our purpose
We aim to make strategy rules and their trade-offs easier to inspect. CandleChasers provides educational tools and information, not personalized financial advice, live trade signals, or a promise of investment success. You remain responsible for your investment decisions.
Build a strategy, browse our trading education articles, or contact us with a question or a report that needs correction. Please include the report link and the issue you noticed.
Last updated: September 30, 2026. Please also read our Terms of Service.