23. Backtesting Your Strategy with TradingView
With the strategy added to your chart, you can now backtest it.
Open the Strategy Tester
At the bottom, next to the Pine Editor tab, click “Strategy Tester”.
Key parts of the Strategy Tester
Overview tab:
Net Profit – total profit/loss over the backtest period.
Max Drawdown – the largest % drop from a peak in your equity curve.
Lower drawdown = smoother, less painful strategy.
Profit Factor – gross profit divided by gross loss.
1.0 is profitable, > 1.5 is decent, > 2.0 is strong.
Percent Profitable – win rate.
High win rate with tiny wins isn’t always better than lower win rate with big wins.
Performance Summary / List of Trades:
Shows each trade, PnL, duration, etc.
Equity Curve:
Graph of your account curve over time. You want it to generally trend up, with drawdowns you can emotionally tolerate.
Deep Backtesting (Premium/paid plans)
On free plans, TradingView limits how far back you can test on lower timeframes.
With paid plans, especially Premium, you can:
Backtest further back in time, especially on 1m / 5m / 15m charts.
This gives you a better idea how the strategy behaves across different market cycles.
Test different pairs and timeframes with strategy
backtest a variety of different pairs and timeframes to find the right combination for your strategy!
TradingView plans & alerts
Each plan has:
A maximum number of simultaneous alerts.
A maximum backtest depth.
If you’re not on Premium, remember:
Alerts will expire after a period (Between 1–2 months).
You must periodically extend/reactivate your alerts:
Go to Alerts → edit your strategy alerts → extend expiration date.
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