Test The Trade is a free tool for building, testing and running trading bots for stocks and crypto, with practice money.
Trading can lose money. Test The Trade is software, not a broker. Your money stays in your own brokerage account.
Every bot is tested on the same practice data, so it's fair. These are test results, not real profits.
Pick how you want to start. You can switch any time.
Describe what you want to catch. The app tests a few hundred setups across about 2.5 years of real prices, picks the most reliable one, then checks it on recent data it never used.
Stack simple blocks. Drag the sliders. Results update instantly.
green arrow = bot bought red arrow = bot sold
If it had run on this chart:
Tries small changes on older prices and keeps one only if it also does better on recent prices.
One chart can be luck. This checks 3 markets, old and new prices, and compares against 200 random traders.
It checks once a day after the daily candle closes and trades for you: in your practice account, or your broker if connected. Watch its trades live in Portfolio and stop it any time.
In TradingView: open Pine Editor, paste, then Add to chart.
Edit the exact rules
Buy when these are true
Sell when any of these is true
Your practice account starts with $10,000 of pretend money and uses real live prices. Nothing real is at risk.
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Get API keys from your Alpaca dashboard. We encrypt them and only use them for trades you ask for.
Bots can lose money fast, including everything you give them. Past results don't predict the future. Bugs and outages happen. You're responsible for every trade. Read the full risk disclosure
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Test The Trade is software and education, not investment advice. Trades are handled by your broker.
Turn a trading idea into a bot in 3 steps.