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Backtest Manager Batch & Parallel MT5 Backtesting
Backtest Manager runs MetaTrader 5’s own Strategy Tester at scale. Queue hundreds of backtests and optimizations, let them run side by side, and compare every result in one place. It is the tool we use to test our own robots and to publish the backtests you see on this site.
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- Backtests run
- 14,000+
- Run with Backtest Manager for our own research and for the backtests on this site.
- Guaranteed slots
- 10
- With Backtest Manager Cloud, ten tests run at once on our servers, besides those on your PC.
- Plans
- 3
- Free, Pro at €29 a month and Cloud at €99 a month.
Your MT5 backtests, queued, running and compared in one place
Testing an Expert Advisor properly means many runs: every symbol it trades, several timeframes, a few set files, more than one broker’s data. In the MetaTrader Strategy Tester that is one run at a time, by hand. Backtest Manager turns it into a queue. You describe the tests once, it builds every combination and runs them while you do something else.
Nothing is simulated. Every test runs in a real MT5 terminal with the real Strategy Tester, the same engine you would use yourself, and the report it writes is read deal by deal. On top of that you get what the tester does not have: batch mode across symbols and timeframes, optimizations you can filter and promote to backtests, a library for your EAs and set files, combined backtests, a Portfolio Builder and a Robustness Suite.
We built it for our own research and have run more than 14,000 backtests with it. The desktop app runs on your Windows PC with your own MT5 terminals; Backtest Manager Cloud adds our servers and keeps the two in sync.
What Backtest Manager does
Everything the Strategy Tester does, for many tests at once, plus the tools to make sense of the results.
Batch mode: one setup, every combination
Pick an EA and a set file, then choose several symbols and timeframes.
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Pick an EA and a set file, then choose several symbols and timeframes. Backtest Manager creates one test per combination, with the modelling, latency, deposit and leverage you set once. Something the Strategy Tester cannot do: a multi-symbol run without setting each test up by hand.
Optimizations, also across many symbols
Set start, step and stop for any input, choose fast genetic or complete search and the criterion to rank by.
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Set start, step and stop for any input, choose fast genetic or complete search and the criterion to rank by. In batch mode the same optimization runs on every symbol and timeframe you choose, each as its own run.
Find the passes that matter
Optimization results open as a table you can filter: profit factor above 1.2, more than 500 trades, sorted by recovery factor.
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Optimization results open as a table you can filter: profit factor above 1.2, more than 500 trades, sorted by recovery factor. Each pass shows which inputs it changed from the defaults, and one click promotes it to a full backtest. You can also import an MT5 optimization cache (.opt) and work through it the same way.
A library for your EAs and set files
Upload Expert Advisors (.ex5) and set files once, link each set file to its robot and start a test straight from the library.
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Upload Expert Advisors (.ex5) and set files once, link each set file to its robot and start a test straight from the library. License keys for robots that need one are kept with the robot.
Set-file versions and variations
Edit a set file inside the app, save it as a new version (one per broker, say) or create variations to test side by side.
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Edit a set file inside the app, save it as a new version (one per broker, say) or create variations to test side by side. Every test records which version it ran, so you can always tell what changed.
Results you can filter, sort and compare
Every completed test lands in Results with its return, drawdown, return-to-drawdown, win rate, profit factor and Sharpe ratio.
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Every completed test lands in Results with its return, drawdown, return-to-drawdown, win rate, profit factor and Sharpe ratio. Filter by any of them, search by name or tag, and open the full report: equity, deals, trade analysis by symbol, hour and weekday.
Combine backtests on one account
Select up to ten results and combine them.
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Select up to ten results and combine them. Their trades are replayed together on one account, so you see the real combined drawdown and growth, not a sum of separate curves, and how much each strategy contributes month by month.
Portfolio Builder
Build a portfolio from the robots you have backtested: match strategies, set goals such as a monthly target and a maximum drawdown, and compare the variants it builds, from the lowest drawdown to the most aggressive.
Queue to a spreadsheet and back
Export the queue to CSV, edit or extend it in Excel or Google Sheets, and import it again.
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Export the queue to CSV, edit or extend it in Excel or Google Sheets, and import it again. A template file gets you started, and filters choose which tests go out.
Who it suits
You develop Expert Advisors
You need hundreds of parameter variations and set files tested before a robot is worth publishing.
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You need hundreds of parameter variations and set files tested before a robot is worth publishing. Batch mode, optimizations you can filter and promote, and set-file versions are where you will spend your time.
You run a portfolio of robots
You want to know how your EAs behave together, not one by one.
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You want to know how your EAs behave together, not one by one. Combined backtests and the Portfolio Builder show the drawdown of the whole account and what each robot adds to it.
You buy robots and want proof
Before you trust an EA with money, you test it on your symbols, timeframes and broker data.
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Before you trust an EA with money, you test it on your symbols, timeframes and broker data. Backtest Manager runs the full grid while you do something else, then lets you filter out what does not hold up.
Built on the real Strategy Tester
The figures are MetaTrader’s own, read from the reports, and everything around them is there to help you check them.
The real MT5 engine
Every test runs in a MetaTrader 5 terminal with the Strategy Tester, every tick based on real ticks if you choose it.
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Every test runs in a MetaTrader 5 terminal with the Strategy Tester, every tick based on real ticks if you choose it. No simulation, no approximation.
Every deal, analysed
Symbol performance, win and loss streaks, long against short, risk-to-reward and execution costs: the trade analysis works from the report’s deals.
Equity, not just balance
The equity curve is rebuilt from the deals and price bars, so floating drawdown shows, and a combined test shows each source on the same chart.
Backtests that stay current
Results are available through an API.
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Results are available through an API. We use it to publish backtests on this site that rerun every week, like the ATS Origin Portfolio.
Get started in four steps
From download to your first batch of results, all in the desktop app.
Download the free app
Backtest Manager Free installs on Windows and includes 14 days of Pro, so you can try optimizations, the Portfolio Builder and the Robustness Suite without limits.
Sign in and add your MT5 terminal
Sign in with your Algo Trading Space account and add a MetaTrader 5 installation from your PC.
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Sign in with your Algo Trading Space account and add a MetaTrader 5 installation from your PC. The app makes its own copies of it to run tests in, so your trading terminal stays untouched.
Upload your EA and set files
Add the robot and its set files to the library, link them, and add a license key if the robot needs one.
Queue your first batch
Choose symbols, timeframes and the period, add the tests to the queue and start it.
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Choose symbols, timeframes and the period, add the tests to the queue and start it. Results appear as each test finishes; filter, compare and combine them from there.
By the numbers
14,000+
backtests run
Run with Backtest Manager for our own research and for the backtests on this site.
10
guaranteed slots
With Backtest Manager Cloud, ten tests run at once on our servers, besides those on your PC.
3
plans
Free, Pro at €29 a month and Cloud at €99 a month.
Backtest Manager Pricing
| What you get | Free €0 · 14 days of Pro included | Pro €29 a month | Cloud €99 a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop app Windows app that runs MetaTrader 5’s own Strategy Tester in your terminals. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backtests The queue, batch mode across symbols and timeframes, results, reports and trade analysis. | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Optimizations Parameter ranges, genetic or complete search, filter the passes and promote them to backtests. | 3 a month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Portfolio Builder Combine your backtested robots into portfolios and compare the variants it builds. | 3 runs a month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Robustness Suite Check whether a result holds up on other data and under Monte Carlo variation. | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Workflows (Beta) Chain backtests, optimizations and reviews into one run that goes on by itself. | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud backtesting Tests run on our servers as well as on your PC, with guaranteed parallel slots. | — | — | 10 slots |
| Bi-directional sync Your desktop backtests in your cloud account, and the cloud’s backtests on your PC. | — | — | ✓ |
| Join early access | Join early access | Join early access |
No card is needed for the free plan. After the 14 days of Pro the app moves to Free by itself and nothing is deleted. Pro and Cloud are monthly subscriptions you can cancel at any time. Backtest Manager opens soon: join the early-access list and we will email you when your access opens.
Why traders pick Backtest Manager
It saves the hours you spend in the Strategy Tester
One setup becomes dozens of tests, and they run while you work on something else.
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One setup becomes dozens of tests, and they run while you work on something else. That time goes into deciding, not clicking.
The results are MetaTrader’s
Because it drives the real tester, a result you find here is one you can reproduce in your own terminal.
It goes further than one backtest
Combined backtests, the Portfolio Builder and the Robustness Suite answer the question that matters before you go live: how the robots behave together and whether a result holds up.
Who should look elsewhere
It is built for MetaTrader 5 on Windows.
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It is built for MetaTrader 5 on Windows. If you trade only on MT4, on a Mac without Windows, or by hand without Expert Advisors, Backtest Manager will not help you. And no backtest predicts future results: trading involves risk of loss.
Backtest Manager: common questions
Everything you need to know about the technical requirements and operational capacity of the Backtest Manager, a specialized tool for backtesting and strategy development.
Which platforms does it support?
MetaTrader 5 on Windows. The desktop app runs MT5 terminals installed on your PC; it does not run MT4, and it needs Windows. With Cloud you can also open your results in the browser.
Is it a simulation?
No. Every test runs in a real MetaTrader 5 terminal with the Strategy Tester, and Backtest Manager reads the report MT5 writes. You can reproduce any result in your own terminal with the same settings and data.
Which historical data does it use?
The desktop app tests on the data of the MT5 terminals you add, so on your broker’s history. Cloud tests run on our servers’ terminals, with years of real tick data from brokers such as Darwinex and MetaQuotes.
How many tests run at once?
Free runs one test at a time. Pro runs several MT5 terminals side by side, as many as your PC’s cores and memory allow. Cloud adds 10 guaranteed parallel slots on our servers.
What is included in the free plan?
Unlimited backtests, 3 optimizations and 3 Portfolio Builder runs a month, and 14 days of Pro when you start, so you can try everything before you decide.
What does Pro add?
Unlimited optimizations and Portfolio Builder runs, the Robustness Suite, and Workflows, which is in Beta. Pro costs €29 a month.
What does Cloud add?
Everything in Pro, plus backtesting on our servers with 10 guaranteed parallel slots, and two-way sync: upload the backtests from your PC to your cloud account and download the cloud’s to your PC. Cloud costs €99 a month.
Can I use my own robots and set files?
Yes. Upload any MT5 Expert Advisor (.ex5) and its set files to the library. Robots that need a license key can keep it with them, and set files can have versions and variations.
Can I import tests I ran in MetaTrader?
Yes. Import an MT5 report and it joins your results with its trade analysis, and import an MT5 optimization cache to filter its passes and promote the best to backtests.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Pro and Cloud are monthly subscriptions that you can cancel at any time; you keep the plan until the end of the month you paid for, then return to Free.
Test more, guess less
Backtest Manager is for anyone who tests MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisors and has run out of patience with one Strategy Tester run at a time.
Best suited for:
- EA developers who test hundreds of inputs and set files before they publish.
- Portfolio traders who want to see the combined drawdown of their robots.
- Robot buyers who test an EA on their own symbols and broker data before they trust it.
- Prop-firm traders who need to know how a strategy behaves against a drawdown limit.
Not recommended for:
- MT4-only traders: the app runs MetaTrader 5.
- Mac or Linux users without Windows: the desktop app needs Windows.
- Manual traders who do not use Expert Advisors.
Backtest Manager opens soon. Join the early-access list and we will email you when your access opens; you start on Free with 14 days of Pro, and upgrade to Pro or Cloud from the app whenever you need more.
Backtest, demo, then a small live account.
That is the order we test our own robots in, and the Account Tracker records every trade along the way. Backtest Manager is one step of it; the other tools cover the rest.