ChristTrade vs FX Replay
FX Replay has far more markets built in and imports trades from your broker. ChristTrade has crypto built in and lets you bring any other market through your own data provider. It goes deeper on what it covers: its free tier includes the full journal, Monte Carlo simulation, dozens of performance metrics and up to 8 charts at once, which FX Replay reserves for its $17.99 and $35 monthly plans. Pro here is $7 a month.
Written by the person who builds ChristTrade, so read it with that in mind. The parts where FX Replay wins are first, and they are not softened.
FX Replay details taken from their public pricing and product pages, checked October 2026. If something here is out of date or wrong, email hi@christtrade.com and it gets fixed.
Where each one is better
Instrument coverage, by a mile
Forex, futures, stocks, indices, metals and bonds built in, against our crypto. You can bring your own data here, but most traders do not have a data subscription, and theirs works the moment you sign up. If you trade anything other than crypto and do not already pay for a feed, this is not a close call.
An AI review layer
Mentor AI reviews your trading behaviour and gives feedback on it. There is no equivalent here and none is being built.
Trades come in on their own
Their journal auto-logs backtest trades and syncs live ones from MetaTrader, cTrader, TradeLocker, Tradovate and NinjaTrader, plus CSV import. Ours records more about each trade, but you type it in.
A chart you already know
Their charts are TradingView. If that is the interface your muscle memory is built on, there is a real switching cost to learning ours, and a familiar chart is worth something.
More road behind them
A longer track record, a bigger team and a support function to match. This is one person. If you want a vendor rather than a project, that is a fair thing to want.
Deeper analytics
Monte Carlo across resampled trade sequences reporting CAGR, Sharpe, Sortino, volatility, percentile outcomes and probability of ruin. Plus expectancy in R, Kelly fraction, payoff ratio, an expected-value curve, initial-versus-realised RR, and an hourly-by-weekday heatmap. This is the part of the product that is furthest ahead and it is the part nobody mentions.
The chart is ours
Every other replay tool in this category rents TradingView and inherits its ceiling. ChristTrade Depth is built here and open source, which is why level 3 order-by-order flow, footprint charts and heatmaps are even possible - they are not things you can bolt onto a licensed widget. Worth being precise: built-in data is candles, and order flow comes through a data plugin on your own feed.
You can ship code into it
A documented plugin system that takes TypeScript, scripted and WebAssembly plugins, with lifecycle hooks, scoped permissions, storage and a service registry. Plus a public data adapter interface, so you can point it at your own feed.
Multi-chart layouts, free
Up to eight charts at once across 37 layouts, side by side or stacked, on the free tier with no account. FX Replay gives you none of that on Free, two charts on Intermediate at $17.99 a month, and unlimited only on Pro at $35. Watching several symbols or timeframes at once is the thing most people ask for first, and it is behind their paywall and not behind ours.
Five times cheaper, and the free tier is real
$7 a month against $35, and our free tier is the product rather than a sampler. You can open the backtester without an account at all.
Line by line
Accent marks the stronger side
| Feature | FX Replay | ChristTrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, $17.99/mo, or $35/mo | Free, or $7/mo for Pro |
| What the free tier is | 2 backtesting sessions, 1 week of data retention, limited analytics, 1 screenshot and 1 checklist. Email required | The whole product. No session cap, no card, no account needed to start |
| Markets with built-in data | Forex, futures, stocks, crypto, indices, metals, bonds | Crypto. Futures and forex in progress |
| Charting engine | TradingView, licensed in | In-house and open source (ChristTrade Depth) |
| Order flow data | Candles | Candles built in. The engine renders L3 order-by-order flow, footprint and heatmaps, fed through a bring-your-own-data plugin |
| Order fills | Yes | Yes |
| Seconds timeframes | Yes, plus custom intervals (Pro tier) | Yes, plus custom intervals (Pro) |
| Multi-chart layouts | None on Free, capped at 2 charts on Intermediate ($17.99/mo), unlimited on Pro ($35/mo) | Up to 8 charts across 37 layouts. Free, no account needed |
| Custom indicators | FXR Script, in beta | Yes |
| Plugin system | None advertised | Yes: TypeScript and WebAssembly plugins |
| Bring your own data | Their data only | Any market your data provider covers, via your own API key. Ready-made Massive plugin included, and runs on Free. Same chart, replay and order entry as built-in data |
| Prop firm challenge mode | Prop Firm Simulator | Unbounded phases, live breach evaluation, pass/breach verdict |
| Journal: what each trade records | Tags with an AI tag engine, AND/OR filters, screenshots and checklists (1 each on Free, unlimited on Pro) | Scaled entries and exits, commission, slippage and fees, net vs gross P&L, tags, checklists, emotions, confidence, playbook adherence, a 1-5 rating, multiple journals. Free. Image and file attachments on Pro, since files need server storage |
| Journal: getting trades in | Auto-logged from backtests, broker sync (MetaTrader, cTrader, TradeLocker, Tradovate, NinjaTrader), CSV import | Entered by hand. Backtest trades get their notes inside the session, not the journal |
| Performance analytics | Yes - performance analytics, P&L tracker. "Limited" dashboard on Free, full from $17.99/mo | Yes - Win rate, profit factor, expectancy in R, payoff ratio, median R, Kelly fraction, drawdown and EV curves + dozens more metrics. All for free |
| Time-sliced analytics | Time-based analytics, performance calendar | Win rate by weekday, monthly long/short splits, streaks, hourly-by-weekday heatmap |
| Monte Carlo simulation | Yes, from $17.99/mo (Intermediate) | Yes + everything that can be extracted from it, provided for free |
| AI assistant | Mentor AI | None |
| Economic calendar | Yes | Yes |
Why it costs $7, not $35
A lower price here is not a smaller product. The table above is the evidence; this is the reason.
No chart licence
The engine is built here and open source, so there is no charting vendor sitting between the product and the price.
Free runs in your browser
Free sessions and journals are stored on your device. A free user costs very little to serve, so the free tier does not need to be a sampler to stay affordable. Pro gates what needs a server: cloud sync, journal image and file uploads, market data.
One person, no investors
No sales team, no growth targets, nobody to repay. The price only has to cover running costs.
Seven, on purpose
Seven is the biblical number of completion, and $7 a month is about 23 cents a day. Cheap enough that price is not what stops anyone.
So which one
Pick FX Replay if
You trade forex, futures, stocks or anything else that is not crypto, and you want that data included rather than bringing your own. That is the whole argument and it is a good one. Also pick them if you want live trades synced from your broker into the journal, an AI review layer, or if leaving the TradingView interface is a cost you would rather not pay.
Pick ChristTrade if
You trade crypto, you want your review to go deeper than a win rate, or you want to extend the tool instead of waiting for someone to build your feature. And if $35 a month for practice is money you would rather have in the account you are practising for.
The honest summary
FX Replay is broader. ChristTrade is deeper where it reaches. They have more built-in markets, more years and more people; we have better analytics and we own the engine, which means the ceiling here is code rather than a licence agreement. Both replay the market honestly. Try both, they are both free to start.