Forward Testing: the safety check between a backtest and a live account
A backtest shows what a strategy did on the past it was built on. A forward test shows what it does on data it has never seen, before any money is at risk.
Forward tests: 2 on Solo Trader, 4 on Professional, 6 on Institutional, each pool refilled 48 hours after its last credit is used; extra tests £10 each, excluding VAT. A free account's first credit can pay for one.
Start a test and get a webhook URL that belongs to it alone. Point TradingView alerts, or any bot that can post JSON, at it.
Each signal is booked as a paper trade at its price. The stop, the daily loss cap and the drawdown kill switch are applied on every price seen, and the running result sits beside the backtest it came from.
One secret token per test, stored only as a hash and rotatable at any time; a signature option for platforms that can sign; no exchange or broker API key is ever asked for.
Nothing is sent to a broker. When the live result drifts away from the backtest, you have your answer before money is involved.
QDoes Forward Testing place real trades?
No. It is paper trading only; nothing is sent to a broker.
QWhich platforms can send signals?
TradingView (webhooks are on its paid plans) and any bot or script that can post JSON.
Seven AI agents read your research papers, strategy code, folders and trading videos, turn each idea into testable rules, test every variant on history it never saw, and record why the failures failed.
An AI market analyst, quant and news desk in one. It works the formula with your numbers, draws charts, reads your PDFs, CSVs and screenshots, and cites a dated source for every fact. No buy or sell calls.
Backtest eight templates or your own Python, Pine Script, MQL or C# strategy, walk it forward over data it never saw, test FX and crude oil on real daily prices, and download it as Python, Pine Script or a cTrader cBot.
Currencies, yields, crude oil and crypto, central-bank releases and world news on one screen, every figure with its source and how old it is. Ask Speak Financially about anything on it.
Paste a trading strategy or drop the whole project in. Kill switch, stops, leverage, market-abuse patterns and hard-coded credentials are checked against UK rules, with the fixes, the code that closes the gap and an evidence pack PDF.
All six tools come in one account. World Markets is free with every account, and your first compliance check, backtest, forward test or Research Floor run is free, with no card needed. Plans and prices (all prices exclude VAT) · the five-minute film.